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UK government confirms Foreign Office cyber attack

Reports blame Chinese hacking group but minister insists the source of the attack is unclear
UK mobile improves but digital divides persist

Mobile network analyst finds UK-wide median mobile download speed rose 15% year-on-year to 63.03Mbps in 2025, while upload speeds improved from 7.80 to 8.21Mbps
Court date set in early 2026 for Iver datacentre legal challenge

A court date has been assigned for a legal action being brought against the government over its decision to grant planning permission for a datacentre in Iver
Virgin Media O2 reveals record-breaking year of UK data use

UK operator releases data exploring how British people lived online in 2025, finding record-levels of data consumption including a rise in both broadband usage and mobile traffic
Post Office six years late to warn subpostmasters about defect

Following pressure from Computer Weekly and forensic investigator, the Post Office has warned subpostmasters about Horizon defect potentially at large for over 20 years
The AI regulation gap: Is the UK’s pro-innovation approach enough

As AI advances, the UK’s pro-innovation regulatory stance faces growing scrutiny. With non-statutory principles at its core, can the framework maintain public trust and provide effective oversight?

UK government’s G-Cloud 15 framework: Everything you need to know

The 15th iteration of the UK government’s flagship cloud computing procurement framework is due to go live in 2026, and looks set to be very different compared with previous versions of the purchasing agreement
Court rule that fuelled Post Office’s prosecution rampage: Everything you need to know

This guide contains essential information about the legal rule that enabled the Post Office to wrongly prosecute subpostmasters
SAN vs NAS: For AI, virtual machines and containers

We look at block vs file storage for contemporary workloads, and find it’s largely a case of trade-offs between cost, complexity and the level of performance you can settle for

Hud details post-deployment live production analytics- CW Developer Network

Software application development, architectural planning procedures and deployment-time analysis (as well as post-deployment live production analytics) all need observability and insight. In short, ... Continue Reading
CraftStory developers expand & extend AI video generation services- CW Developer Network

Companies, both small and large, are starting to adopt AI videos not only for ads, but for marketing content, comms and education. As production costs drop thanks to AI, it becomes much easier for ... Continue Reading
Stack Overflow: The invisible platform engineer: why developers still need human interaction- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter O'Connor, Senior Director, Engineering, Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow is known for its developer question and answer ... Continue Reading
Patronus AI generative simulators are ‘practice worlds’ for agents- CW Developer Network

Agents have gone to work. Software application development in the artificial intelligence space has delivered a new cohort of digital workers for in the form of agentic AI services, which now ... Continue Reading

Unlocking the value of multi-agent systems

Enterprises are likely to shift from single-task AI to multi-agent systems, enabling autonomous, adaptive operations, but trust and orchestration remain problematic
Think Tank: How IT sustainability entered the mandate era in 2025

A year is a long time in tech, and the same is true of IT sustainability. So here are some reflections on how the green IT conversation changed during 2025
Passwords to prompts: Identity and AI redefined cyber in 2025

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026.