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Scottish social enterprise supports national cyber efforts

Cyber and Fraud Centre has supported community cyber resilience in Scotland to the tune of £3m in its first year operating as a social enterprise.
Glassworm botnet that targeted OS devs smashed to pieces

CrowdStrike, Google and the Shadowserver Foundation worked together to take down a botnet that poisoned over 300 GitHub repositories, risking widespread supply chain compromise
NatWest inks AI deal for trade finance

NatWest bank wants to streamline trade finance while improving compliance through the use of artificial intelligence
Motive offers vision of new era of physical AI operations

New products aim to shift operational burden from people to technology, automating ‘busy work’ so fleets can prioritise strategic safety, productivity and profitability
UK has ‘narrowing window’ to stay ahead of threats

UK needs to treat cyber security 10 times more urgently in the wake of threats from Russia, China and other adversaries, says GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler
Datacentre dive: AI factory power draw changes the grid calculus

We look at energy as the key driver – and bottleneck – in development, and why water use is less of an issue now datacentres use liquid cooling over air cooling

What VTEX’s AI push really means for European retailers

Brazilian platform provider VTEX is pushing hard into Europe with bold claims around artificial intelligence, but how relevant is that pitch for European CIOs?
Kazakhstan: The Freedom to tap into data reserves

Continuing our round-up of the IT communications industry in Kazakhstan, we look at who could be the country’s and the region’s main player in driving digital transformation
Putting AI to work in network management

We explore how artificial intelligence is being integrated into network management tools, and the challenges it presents

OurSQL Foundation launches to support MySQL developers- Open Source Insider

A new community initiative aims to support MySQL users around best practices, future developments and knowledge sharing. The OurSQL Foundation is a vendor-neutral MySQL community initiative aimed ... Continue Reading
Cogent zeroes in on zero-day response for rapid remediation- CW Developer Network

AI-native enterprise security company Cogent has driven forward a new pair of tools, which it hopes will capture the hearts and minds of software application developers working with cybersecurity ... Continue Reading
How simplifying IT helps teams perform at racing speed- Data Matters

This is a guest blogpost by Musidora Jorgensen, UK & Ireland Country Leader, Freshworks In Formula 1, performance is measured in milliseconds. Every system, every process and every decision has ... Continue Reading
Panther pounces on push to position agents as primary workers in the SOC- CW Developer Network

CEO and founder of closed-loop AI security architecture Panther Jack Naglieri thinks that security teams should be reorganising themselves around AI agents in the security operations centre (SOC). ... Continue Reading

When your biggest security risk has never signed a contract

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers the intersection of AI and IAM. In this article we explore how the frontiers of identity are expanding in the agentic era, and why this requires new approaches to governance.
Agentic AI: Trading one lock-in for another

IT and business execs are being encouraged to move quickly to benefit from what IT providers are offering in terms of agentic AI
The Isle of Wight can settle more than the digital ID argument

The unique circumstances of the island and its residents offer a compelling location for testing out digital government initiatives in the real world - and to help avoid future IT failures