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O2 boosts 4G, 5G network capacity

Ahead of the forthcoming holiday rush this summer, leading UK operator announces mobile upgrades in over 13,000 Scottish postcodes
Boost for Euro space sovereignty as Open Cosmos gets Connected

Open Cosmos acquires Portuguese startup Connected to offer affordable, standardised IoT services from space, with the firm claiming a 100% mission success rate in orbit across all its satellite missions
Dassault Systèmes accelerates virtual twin offer with Ascon Qube

Leading engineering technology provider acquires core technology to advance its virtual twin strategy for factories, with AI-powered, SaaS-ready tech set to enable software-defined automation at the machine level
NHS to be ‘digital by default’

Single Patient Records, a digitally enabled neighbourhood health service, and the NHS App becoming a ‘doctor in your pocket’ are all part of the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS
Orange France, Samsung establish vRAN, Open RAN first pilot

Samsung and Orange France partner to progress open radio access network tech from lab to field, further exploring the performance maturity and operational effectiveness of open, virtualised RAN
Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore

The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters

NetApp: Not just NAS filers, and a comprehensive cloud strategy

NetApp market share has slipped, but it has built out storage across file, block and object, plus capex purchasing, Kubernetes storage management and hybrid cloud
Precision-bred veg from Phytoform Labs: Meet the AI startup looking to boost the UK’s food security

Phytoform Labs is on a mission to shore up the nation’s food supplies using artificial intelligence-backed biotechnology – and the humble tomato
Clouded judgement: Resilience, risk and the rise of repatriation

Geopolitics, data sovereignty and rising costs are driving a change in cloud thinking, but it’s slow progress

OpenUK Public Good AI report 2025, good (could do better)- Open Source Insider

A balmy summer evening in London and a need to champion open source software, open platforms, open data and open computing at large can only mean one thing. That thing is a chance to celebrate the ... Continue Reading
Cycloid on AI in platform engineering: acceleration, or technical debt on fast forward?- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Benjamin Brial, founder, Cycloid. Brial writes in full as follows... As AI continues to infiltrate every corner of the ... Continue Reading
Why the Gov.uk App could (maybe, possibly...) be a turning point for digital government- Computer Weekly Editors Blog

Twelve years ago, the Government Digital Service (GDS) told us that it was “not ‘appy at all”. The March 2013 blog post that announced GDS would not develop a government mobile app and would ... Continue Reading
Sysdig delivers integrated cloud security AI analyst- CW Developer Network

The time has come for AI-driven precision across prevention, detection, investigation and response. This is the message from real-time cloud security company Sysdig. Sysdig Sage is said to equip ... Continue Reading

FBI to F&A: lessons learnt in safeguarding systems and data

One chief information security officer shares her experience of marshalling what she learned at the FBI for business security, with a particular focus on finance and accounting
Can technology serve people, society, economy, and the planet?

The TechUK President's Awards reflect the ambitions that everyone in technology should be striving for - to improve, not simply transform, the world in which we live
Shared services in the public sector – is bigger really better?

CIO Sean Green discusses the role of shared services in the UK public sector today