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UK government datacentre planning decisions queried over EIA

The UK government’s admission that it made a mistake granting permission for a hyperscale datacentre to be built in Iver, Buckinghamshire, has raised questions about the validity of similar approved projects
CIOs discuss friction between legacy IT and innovation

While it may not be something IT leaders want to talk about, managing technical debt is critical to moving forward with IT innovation
Lack of resources greatest hurdle for regulating AI, MPs told

Regulators warned that statutory powers alone cannot address the ethical harms of artificial intelligence
Fujitsu will be out by next summer, says Post Office CTO

Post Office’s project to replace its controversial core system will contract suppliers by the summer of this year, with the aim to remove Fujitsu by summer 2027, according to its chief technology officer
Cisco shapes up for delivery of critical infrastructure in AI era

Annual European expo reveals what IT and networking behemoth claims will be a leap forward in AI adoption, with new products encompassing switches, optics, agentic operations and SASE
February Patch Tuesday: Microsoft drops six zero-days

Microsoft releases patches for six zero-day flaws in its latest monthly update, many of them related to security feature bypass issues

AI enters its ‘grassroots backlash’ era

As artificial intelligence permeats aspects of the economy and society, individuals and civic groups are devising creative ways to rebel. Although what impact this will have on AI’s development, adoption and regulation is unclear
From chaos to clarity: How AI is redefining construction at scale

Klemensas Mecejus from ai71 explains why predictive, agent-based AI could finally crack construction’s productivity and cost overrun problem, and why the Middle East is poised to leap ahead
Why the UK needs to rethink the Investigatory Powers Act and allow intercept evidence in court

The UK needs clear and unambiguous laws around the use of digital evidence in court. The law has become tangled following rulings in the country’s EncroChat prosecutions. It’s time to allow intercept data to be used as evidence in legal cases

Kubernetes infrastructure now saved from 'minor repair bulldozer'- Open Source Insider

The Kubernetes community has released the latest version of Cluster API at version number 1.12 and it is described as a "significant update" for developers. A Kubernetes “sub-project” focused on ... Continue Reading
Cloudera offers AI inferencing progression & unified data access - CW Developer Network

Cloudera has this month developed its expansion to Cloudera AI Inference and Cloudera Data Warehouse with Trino to on-premises environments. The company says this move will empower customers to ... Continue Reading
Salience Labs goes all-in on all-optical networking with photonics switches for AI infrastructure- CW Developer Network

Oxfordshire-headquartered Salience Labs is hoping to tap into a market that some analysts say could represent as much of a leap in computing power as the emerging field of quantum itself does. The ... Continue Reading
Salesforce analysis: the road to multi-agents is paved with connected orchestration- CW Developer Network

Developers are set for acceleration… the new wave of agentic AI services will, in and of themselves, create a supercharged programming landscape that sees software engineers propelled forward into ... 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