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Cloudflare contrite after worst outage since 2019

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince apologises for the firm’s worst outage in years and shares details of how a change to database system permissions caused a cascading effect that brought down some of the web’s biggest names
EU sets out plans to cut red tape on digital

Changes have been proposed to simplify AI Act compliance for smaller businesses, easier cyber security reporting and tweaks to GDPR
Apple denies ‘locking in’ iCloud users in £3bn legal claim

Consumer tech giant Apple has dismissed a legal claim brought by Which? that alleges the pricing strategy for its iCloud service has ‘locked in’ 41 million users in the UK
Workday sets out to reinvent ERP with agentic AI

At Workday Rising EMEA, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier signalled a new phase of development as an agentic AI platform provider that might disrupt traditional ERP
UK government unveils essential signals safeguarding scheme

Funding intended to boost national security, deliver national renewal and better safeguard critical services
Management reboot essential for agentic AI strategy

Agentic AI is not just an investment in technology with a fixed term replacement cycle, it can also be an employee that improves over time, says report

Data retention in the UK: How long should you keep data?

We look at data retention periods, what the key laws and regulations say, how long they recommend to keep different kinds of data, and the software tools that can help
Getting started with agentic AI

We find out how organisations can take automation to the next level using agentic artificial intelligence
Interview: EcoOnline’s David Picton on finding a business case for IT sustainability

EcoOnline’s senior vice-president for ESG and sustainability explains why sustainability practices should not be seen as a burden, but as a driver of business growth and long-term resilience in an unstable environment

Software syncopation: Rhythm & news in NTT's next LLM ‘tsuzumi 2’- CW Developer Network

As the march (let’s not say race) towards building, implementing and interconnecting intelligence functions into enterprise software stacks deepens, the palpable (but largely friendly) division ... Continue Reading
Self-service tools - PagerDuty: The shift from ‘we deploy’ to ‘you deploy, we observe'- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mandi Walls, DevOps advocate at PagerDuty. Walls, in her inimitable style, writes in full as follows… Organisations are ... Continue Reading
NTT & OptQC build 1-million qubit optical quantum computer- CW Developer Network

NTT and OptQC aim to build a 1-million qubit quantum computer built on light-based photonics principles (rather than electricity) to enhance the reliability, scalability and practicality of the ... Continue Reading
NTT R&D Forum 2025: Live keynote report- CW Developer Network

NTT Inc. CEO Akira Shimada kicked off the NTT R&D Forum 2025 conference this year, with the event itself billed as a “Quantum Leap Into The Future”, this gathering was designed to clarify and ... Continue Reading

How Australian governments can advance AI innovation

To overcome AI adoption challenges, every government department must now develop a formal strategy that puts governance, trust and measurable value at its core
Save money and carbon: The rise of the minimalist CIO

With the link between IT over-consumption and carbon emissions now firmly established, analyst house Gartner sets out how CIOs can counter this trend by taking a more "minimalist" stance on IT projects and spend
Gartner Symposium 2025: VMware NSX migration tips

How should organisations approach migrating off VMware NSX