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The £1,100 lock-in: CMA Microsoft probe exposes ecosystem
A parish council, a £60m public sector bill, and the AI question that could define UK digital competition for a generation in responses to the CMA’s Strategic Market Status investigation
UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC
The UK’s national museums and galleries have failed to heed the lessons of high-profile cyber attacks and remain highly vulnerable. The Public Accounts Committee is calling on DCMS to do more to help.
Met pushes ahead with major facial-recognition expansion
Metropolitan Police set to roll out live facial recognition (LFR) in the West End and Soho, but critics say police are ‘rushing ahead’ without regulation
CW@60: Fighting for justice - twice
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
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UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC
The UK’s national museums and galleries have failed to heed the lessons of high-profile cyber attacks and remain highly vulnerable. The Public Accounts Committee is calling on DCMS to do more to help.
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WEI intros Starlink-powered managed enterprise connectivity
Managed connectivity solution pairs leading satellite network with enterprise integration and field technicians to deliver resilient primary and backup internet across every site
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Digital surveillance tech facilitates ‘arbitrary’ border abuses
Outsourcing migration processes to third countries via the transfer of powerful digital surveillance technologies is entrenching an ‘arbitrary and deterrent’ approach to border management that is hard to scrutinise and ultimately undermines the ...
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Met pushes ahead with major facial-recognition expansion
Metropolitan Police set to roll out live facial recognition (LFR) in the West End and Soho, but critics say police are ‘rushing ahead’ without regulation
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Cost the major barrier in AI’s race to space
Space-based datacentres are becoming technically feasible in the next decade, with one in eight AI workloads running in space by 2040, according to Boston Consulting Group – but costs will pose a major barrier to its adoption
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Truecaller rings up Telna to power in-app travel eSIM service
Caller ID and spam call-blocking service selects multi-network infrastructure to power its recently launched travel eSIM service, allowing users to buy and activate a global eSIM directly in app
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Navigating the AI access control minefield
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Blogs
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Shure: In an AI-code world, communication becomes a system dependency- CW Developer Network
A lot is written right now on the subject of developer productivity; everybody wants to know whether programmers will experience the boosts that AI-coding tools promise… and they want to know what ... Continue Reading
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Why cloud-native applications need deep command-line observability- CW Developer Network
Virtue AI has announced “Shadow AI,” a new extension of the AgentSuite-Blue platform that gives enterprises comprehensive visibility into AI and agentic systems operating across their environments. ... Continue Reading
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How Apprenticeships Are Powering the Next Generation of Skills- ITWorks
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Rhodri Arrowsmith, managing partner of IBM Consulting in the UK and Ireland, discusses the use of apprenticeships to develop a workforce with the ... Continue Reading
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The Business and IT partnership of the future- Data Matters
This is a guest blogpost by Andy MacMillan, CEO of Alteryx. 64% of UK organisations now use AI, up from 52% in 2025. This widespread and growing adoption reflects how quickly AI has moved to ... Continue Reading
Opinion
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Inclusion in engineering needs rigour like other systems
Engineering needs rigour to fix gender imbalances. By treating inclusion as a design challenge with intent and accountability, firms build better teams and more resilient system
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Delivering better government after decades of disappointment
For three decades, governments have promised that technology would transform and improve the state - yet the same failures keep recurring. The missing ingredient is to find a better way to prove that a policy works
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Achievable sustainability targets in the age of AI infrastructure
AI demands high-density compute, challenging sustainability goals. CIOs must shift from vague targets to operational, audited metrics and responsible hardware lifecycle management
Videos
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Diversity in tech 2023: Bev White, Nash Squared
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Diversity in tech 2022: Explaining employee resource groups
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Diversity in tech 2022: Mehdi Mobayen-Rahni, Tyl by NatWest
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Diversity in tech 2022: Kerensa Jennings, BT
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