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Can Oman become the Gulf’s third AI infrastructure hub?

The Sultanate is leveraging subsea cables, lower costs and regulatory stability to position itself alongside regional AI giants, but a large ecosystem scale gap remains
Tesco VMware migration shows backup incompatibilities

VMware integration with third-party backup software improves performance and reduces admin. Alternative hypervisors are often less well-integrated
Singtel’s AI push could lift digital business to a third of Ebita

Singtel’s group CEO Yuen Kuan Moon says the telco is investing in datacentres, GPUs and AI services while staying focused on shareholder returns
M&S among first businesses to sign UK’s resilience pledge

Marks & Spencer joins the likes of Accenture, Microsoft and Vodafone by committing to take practical steps to improve cyber standards through the government’s voluntary Cyber Resilience Pledge
Complaint urges ban on ‘unlawful’ Europol data processing

Migration campaign group Front-Lex has filed a complaint to Europe’s data protection watchdog, calling for a ban on Europol’s data processing operations that do not comply with EU law, following an investigation by Computer Weekly, Solomon and ...
Changi Airport’s 10-second border points to aviation’s AI future

As passenger volume heads towards 10 billion a year, airlines, airports and governments are leaning on AI, biometrics and real-time data to keep travellers moving

Datacentre dive: Inside nLighten’s Bristol edge datacentre

We visit nLighten’s BRS1 datacentre, and travel from gritty city centre fringe to a high-tech overhaul that makes the case for reusing legacy infrastructure over new construction
CW@60: A quarter-century as a CIO

On 22 September 2026, Computer Weekly turns 60. To mark the milestone, we asked some of our friends - experts, trusted contacts, IT leaders and suppliers - for their perspectives on how tech has changed their lives over six decades
CW@60: From the Medici to machines - banking’s next renaissance

On 22 September 2026, Computer Weekly turns 60. To mark the milestone, we asked some of our friends - experts, trusted contacts, IT leaders and suppliers - for their perspectives on how tech has changed their lives over six decades

Free utility tool stipulates how AI uses human name, image, likeness & identity attributes- Open Source Insider

Human Consent Registry is a new free-to-use public utility tool built around the principle that each user’s identity should remain their own intellectual property. That sounds obvious, except ... Continue Reading
Do one thing well: the case for small open source testing tools- Open Source Insider

This is a guest post by Mikhail Golikov, a Hove-based software engineer who works as the sole QA on a backend team at a high-load e-commerce platform. A software engineer, he drove regression ... Continue Reading
Cloud, controlled: Nutanix tightens agentic AI governance & cost mechanisms- CW Developer Network

Cloud computing is for everyone, but not everything - or so the cloud industry’s mantra has variously specified over the years in an attempt to balance the -as-a-Service based model of software and ... Continue Reading
Lorex X Series puts embedded code intelligence into AI-powered security- CW Developer Network

At the risk of starting this piece in the first person (a punishable crime in many areas of journalism), I remember moving house to an apartment in London (where I still am) and not having Internet ... Continue Reading

Can the UK become a digital maker instead of a service taker?

Not yet, but maybe. Home grown UK development is not in a digital dark age, but we are absolutely in need of digital re-development. The next government needs to tackle this
People behind the progress: preparing us for what comes next

The TechUK President’s Awards celebrate individuals across the tech sector who are helping to transform the world we live in for the better
Why frontier AI must be stress-tested before CISOs trust 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.