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Post Office Horizon replacement contract signing delayed again

If signed off, cloud-based EPOS system will replace controversial Horizon software from Fujitsu
NatWest signs up to quantum trial for fraud detection

The retail bank is one of 11 organisations testing quantum technologies as part of Digital Catapult’s quantum technology access programme
Interview: Reflections on tech revolutions and silos

David Minahan, director of digital at Young Lives vs Cancer, discusses data silos and how new tech is offering a more natural user experience
VodafoneThree calls for policy changes to drive UK mobile growth

Mobile network operators in the UK are battling with energy costs, planning red tape and regulations, all of which are impacting their investment plans
Palantir: Can anyone else do what it does?

Palantir is a US defence-intelligence company, born from the CIA's venture arm that now operates inside the UK public sector. We examine the claim that its technology does what no other supplier can
Scattered Spider hackers sentenced over TfL attack

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, the hackers behind the 2024 TfL cyber attack, have been sentenced to five-year prison terms at Woolwich Crown Court

Datacentre dive: Through the looking glass at Telehouse South

We visit London’s Docklands datacentre cluster, where former docks now house windowless, aluminium-clad monoliths and Telehouse South is Thames-side fortress of edge connectivity
CW@60: Creating connections through technology and empathy

Everywoman founders Maxine Benson and Karen Gill highlight the importance of diversity and why women's voices need to be heard more widely in tech
CW@60: An adventure into cyber security

Cyber security expert Rik Ferguson charts an unlikely career from The Hobbit through childhood thespianism to the cutting edge of cyber defence

Chronosphere details mechanics of modern approach to observability- CW Developer Network

The observability platforms market is expanding. Dynatrace is still there, as is Datadog, Elastic and New Relic. All the while, Grafana is making more noise than your average Splunk, Honeycomb or ... Continue Reading
Cribl nibbles up CardinalOps to serve up no quibble AI detection engineering- CW Developer Network

AI telemetry company Cribl this week acquired CardinalOps, an agentic detection engineering company. The move is designed to add “detection engineering capabilities” to Crible that help users ... Continue Reading
An IT alignment reality check- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

People in IT are unlikely ever to say they are misaligned with business. For decades IT advisory services have presented the business savvy IT chief as a cornerstone and a facilitator, to enable ... Continue Reading
Alation AIOS: An AI intelligence operating system - CW Developer Network

As we know, bad AI (and even good AI) is increasingly good at producing confident but quiet failures. Known for its data intelligence platform that works to provide behavioural analysis, semantic ... Continue Reading

Does the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill make you feel secure?

The UK government's latest cyber security regulations are hugely important but remain riddled with inconsistencies and vagaries - substantial changes are needed before it becomes law
Has Microsoft overstretched its cloud elasticity?

Microsoft promised "infinite" cloud scalability, but signs of capacity strain and regional rollbacks suggest it may be overstretched, forcing customers to rethink vendor lock-in
Why bug bounty programmes are essential for cyber resilience

Periodic audits and one-off penetration tests offer only a snapshot of risk. Tapping a global community of security researchers through bug bounty programmes helps organisations find exploitable flaws before attackers do