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Inquest confirms issues with police ControlWorks system

An inquest heard today that there were major issues with the system used to by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to record information reported by the public
Pascal Brier, Capgemini: AI to prove its enterprise truth in 2026

Capgemini’s chief innovation officer says the 2025 rise and deployment of artificial intelligence agents put enterprise AI progress on hold, but laid the ground for acceleration to come
Interview: Richard Corbridge, CIO, Segro

With a varied IT leadership career across healthcare, retail and central government, property development brought fresh challenges for the CIO – and a chance to share his experience in an industry not renowned for digital transformation
NatWest hails tech progress after £1.2bn spend last year

NatWest Bank describes the past 12 months of its tech transformation as ‘the year of [AI] deployment at scale’
Government Capture response ‘perpetuating’ Post Office injustice

Peers question government’s approach to wrongful conviction appeals from former users of Capture software
Oracle readies AI note-taker for NHS

The AI tool drafts structured notes from patient-clinician interactions, helping to reduce administrative work

Making sense of AI’s role in cyber security

Cyber security companies have jumped on the AI bandwagon. We look at where artificial intelligence is a useful add-on and where it poses potential risks
Urban digital twins – missing pieces and emerging divides

The versatility of digital twins is substantial, but hurdles exist that prevent them to reach their full potential – and while AI can reduce existing limitations, its deployment can create its own problematic issues
AI enters its ‘grassroots backlash’ era

As artificial intelligence permeates aspects of the economy and society, individuals and civic groups are devising creative ways to rebel - but any impact on AI’s development, adoption and regulation is unclear

Automat-it LLM selection optimiser saves trial-and-error tax- CW Developer Network

With AI adoption being something of a headache for some of the enterprise software application development teams now tasked with is urgent implementation, those migration migraines are arguably ... Continue Reading
Virtue AI: New programming paradigms command AI-native security - CW Developer Network

Software application development is code-native, cloud-native… sometimes mobile-native and now AI-native, especially given the fact that code assistants and agentic programming functions have been ... Continue Reading
Clockwork VP: Neocloud revolution, what AI/ML engineers need to know - CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anita Pandey, vice president of growth at Clockwork. Clockwork is known for its software-driven fabric service designed to ... Continue Reading
Legacy IT? No problem- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Maybe it’s time to press the pause button on artificial intelligence (AI). While the industry is dead set on promoting the benefits of multi-agent AI systems, the CIOs in many organisations ... Continue Reading

Microsoft Office is becoming a national security liability

The rapid exploitation of a bug in Office by Russian cyber attackers shows that the current system of patching - for a software application that is practically ubiquitous in enterprise IT - has become a security risk for everyone
Without governance, agentic AI could destroy social media

If organisations using agentic and generative AI don’t codify ethics and oversight now, the future may be filled with AI agents using generative AI to communicate with other agents, destroying trust in social media
How GenAI is breaking cyber security awareness tactics

With threat actors exploiting the growing use of generative AI tools and the prevalence of shadow AI, organisations must strengthen their security programmes and culture to manage the rising risk