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Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur

A UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘...
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Nokia reduce energy demand

Comms tech provider’s autonomous networks portfolio deployed to enable Asian operator to shut idle and unused radio equipment automatically during low network demand periods
More than 70% of parents say kids aren’t taught coding at school

Despite a growing need for tech skills, many parents claim coding isn’t taught in schools, research from the Raspberry Pi Foundation has found
Zopa to embed into Manchester’s tech ecosystem

Challenger bank Zopa plans to eventually have 500 staff in its Manchester office, which will launch next month
Altnet calls on UK regulator to halt rural broadband stagnation

Northern Ireland broadband supplier calls on Ofcom to cut charges applied by market leader regarding use of communications poles. Meanwhile, leading English altnet is hit by fine for its installed comms apparatus in Birmingham City area
Boldyn accelerates vision with new CEO, Smart Mobile Lab rebrand

Leading neutral host provider bolsters European presence with new European leadership structure including CEO and CTO, as well as integration of Smart Mobile Labs under core banner

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

Platform engineering - Composio: Agent connectivity is the new infrastructure challenge- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Soham Ganatra, founder of Composio – the company provides infrastructure for connecting AI agents to external tools, APIs ... Continue Reading
Platform engineering - BairesDev: Maturity is redefining talent- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post written by Justice Erolin in his role, Chief Technology Officer, BairesDev, a nearshore software development and staff augmentation company. Erolin writes in full as follows… ... Continue Reading
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

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
Better governance is required for AI agents

The Security Think Tank considers how CISOs can best plan to facilitate the secure running of AI and Gen AI-based initiatives and ensure employees do not inadvertently leak data or make bad decisions