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Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in India

From Delhi to Jaipur, India is rolling out facial-recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens. Investigate Europe has found that behind much of the software is Spanish company Herta Security – but critics argue that the government ...
IDCA warns of ‘delay tax’ as AI datacentre power surges 50%

Global datacentre electricity consumption reaches 1.9% of all generation, with ‘zombie workloads’ wasting 3GW of US capacity alone and a 100MW project delay costing up to $1bn
PAC raises more questions over Capita’s role in government

Report demands answers on Capita’s suitability to run HR and payroll services to 250,000 civil servants
PAC worried shared services strategy set to fail

The committee says Cabinet Office has no clear plan or timeline for achieving its predicted £4.3bn in savings from the strategy, as it continues to be delayed and suffers from lack of departmental buy-in
Pure DC launches €7.5bn Finland AI datacentre campus

550MW AI datacentre project – with Microsoft reportedly signed up – reflects shift as European market moves north to bypass power constraints in traditional Flap-D hubs
DMCC launches cyber security hub as UAE hones in on resilience

DMCC Cyber vertical brings together more than 200 cyber security firms under the DMCC Tech platform, reinforcing Dubai’s ambition to become a global technology and cyber innovation hub

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
How AI is pushing cyber resilience up GCC energy boardroom agendas

TXOne Networks CEO Terence Liu says AI is transforming both industrial operations and cyber threats, forcing GCC energy operators to prioritise visibility, operational control and resilience as critical infrastructure becomes increasingly ...
Forrester: Managing supply chain volatility with agentic AI

As well as churning through mundane tasks, artificial intelligence agents promise to transform supply chain management

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
Codenotary AgentMon 3: An adaptive runtime security tool with integrated organisational history- CW Developer Network

Codenotary has this month detailed its AgentMon 3 offering. This is an enterprise AI security offering with adaptive runtime security policies. What makes a runtime security policy adaptive? It’s ... Continue Reading
Iris AWS collaboration widens aperture to semantic-enriched agentic knowledge- CW Developer Network

Oslo-based Iris (stylised as Iris.ai) provides what it calls a “semantic-enriched knowledge foundation” for enterprise software stacks building agentic AI services. To clarify, Iris builds ... Continue Reading
The road to optical networking: IOWN & distributed infrastructures- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sean Lawrence, vice president, head of IOWN development office, research and development planning department at NTT, Inc. ... Continue Reading

Dear Andy Burnham, a word about the government AI strategy...

Can our new Prime Minister bring a new approach to AI that treats the voracious Big Tech companies with less deference?
Modern datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) is crucial

AI workloads are pushing traditional datacentre management to its limits. Modern DCIM is now essential, using predictive analytics to ensure resilience, efficiency, and sustainability
MPs told Manchester is better than FDP. It seems they were misled

Tom Bartlett explains why Greater Manchester's integrated care record cannot match the Federated Data Platform (FDP), and why cancelling the FDP contract would be a mistake