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Bahrain denied sovereign immunity over spyware attack in UK

The UK’s Supreme Court rules that Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for infecting the computers of two UK-based dissidents with German-made FinFisher spyware.
Nvidia pushes ahead with security alliance for AI openness

Nvidia and several businesses have formed a cross-industry alliance to promote open, secure AI to improve cyber defences
AT&T unveils telco open AI model

US comms giant reveals open AI model built specifically for the telco industry, claimed to be able to reduce the cost of deploying AI at scale
HSBC chooses Singapore for global AI centre of excellence

UK-headquartered bank will develop artificial intelligence in Singapore-based centre of excellence
Hyperoptic delivers record performance, reaches two million homes

UK altnet claims record revenue growth and EBITDA improvement for 2025 and first half of 2026, with investment in network expansion said to drive continued business
AI agents move from experiment to operations in UAE retail

As the UAE’s retail sector expands and operations become more complex, AI agents are being deployed across pricing, inventory and merchandising, but fragmented data and the rise of shadow AI could create risks for businesses

CW@60: Being there at the start of business computing

Former LEO programmer Peter Byford reflects on working with the world's first business computer
From knowing to doing: embodied AI gets to work

At Hyundai’s smart factory in Singapore, robots handle two-thirds of the assembly work, offering a glimpse of AI that can sense, decide and act in the physical world
Journalist Richard Medhurst had his mobile phone seized. Did using a secure phone protect his data?

How can journalists protect confidential data and sources on their phones when crossing borders?

Where does the rewiring of Central Government leave Cyber/Digital Skills?- When IT Meets Politics

Will the moving digital skills to DCMS and AI skills to Number 10 make it easier or harder to build bridges and addressing shortages (quality and relevance as well as numbers) across the divide ... Continue Reading
AWS bets big on Lean programming language to bring mathematical guarantees to agentic AI- CW Developer Network

As we know, AI agents are now engineered to be capable of taking on higher-stakes decisions, so there needs to be a commensurately higher-stakes shift in the way we handle and manage agentic code. ... Continue Reading
Domino Data Lab: Agentic AI is scaling faster than governance - the split explained- CW Developer Network

Domino Data Lab this week released its Fifth Annual Domino Enterprise AI Report, a study that finds the share of enterprises whose ROI fails to outpace their investment has held at 57% since 2025, ... Continue Reading
Forget Flash Gordon - Tech Trailblazers Really Can Save The Earth (in less than 14 hours)- Networks Generation

It’s Friday – it’s five to five (well five to 11 actually) and it’s Crackerj… Well, no, it’s not – but that does spare us the Peter Glaze school of acting (for those of a certain age and ... Continue Reading

Why some VMware customers pay for upgrades they never use

The sheer complexity of migrating off VMware is one of the reaons some organisations continue their VCF subscriptions
Why every SaaS platform needs a sanctions kill switch

The legal question is whether software has become an economic resource. The practical question is whether your platform has a sanctions kill switch.
Stop debating frontier AI – start defending against it

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers if Anthropic’s Claude Mythos frontier AI model is a benefit or barrier to achieving resilient enterprise IT security, and how security leaders need to adapt.