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Interview: Ankur Anand, group CIO, Nash Squared

Recruitment is one of the industries that is supposedly most likely to be transformed by AI, but the CIO of one top firm is looking more to how the technology can help its team enhance their own jobs
Telefónica activates commercial Edge services in Spain

As part of its Edge Plan in Europe, Spain-based global telco begins marketing business-to-business services in five of the 17 nodes planned for this year supported by FTTH, 5G network and Open Gateway APIs
UK AI alignment project gets OpenAI and Microsoft boost

Altogether, £27m is now available to fund the AI Security Institute’s work to collaborate on safe, secure artificial intelligence
WBA publishes initial guidance on AI, ML for intelligent Wi-Fi

Report from wireless connectivity trade body outlines frameworks and priorities needed to scale intelligent Wi-Fi through artificial intelligence and machine learning without industry fragmentation
Telefónica accelerates its transformation to autonomous networks

Spain-based global telco reveals progress made in Autonomous Network Journey programme, closing last year with 12 Level 4 use cases driven by the joint work of Spain, Brazil and Germany
ICO wins appeal over data protection oibligations

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has won an important appeal relating to data protection obligations arising from a 2017-18 cyber attack at electronics retailer Currys PC World

Interview: Sarwar Khan on shaping BT’s green future and delivering sustainability at scale

How the sustainability practice enables BT to move on ‘tough topic’ targets that increase innovation, efficiency and success across its product portfolio
The ethical challenges of America’s social media vetting policy

The US government is incorporating social media vetting as part of its border control policy, leading to concerns about what data will be collected and how it will be protected
Interview: CyrusOne on the sustainable innovation that drives datacentre business outcomes

Sustainability initiatives continue to drive competitive advantage in addition to cutting costs, reveals Kyle Myers of colocation giant CyrusOne

FinOps Foundation on state of the FinOps nation: AI value & skills at the fore- Open Source Insider

The FinOps Foundation says it has extended and updated its mission to reflect the discipline's progression and evolution from reactive cloud cost management to a more proactive focus on technology ... Continue Reading
AI? Remember Automation…- Networks Generation

With the endless AI buzz dominating every technology headline and press release, it’s easy to forget the origins of “computer intelligence”; namely the likes of expert systems, macros and the “A” ... Continue Reading
Elastic developer advocate: Self-service tools & the end of blind production ownership- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Carly Richmond, developer advocate lead at Elastic. Elastic provides a search-powered platform for enterprise search, ... Continue Reading
Convergence - The Sequel (And How To Avoid Trade-Offs)- Networks Generation

I recently published a blog, post-conversation with Albert Estevez Polo (current leader in “Broadband-Testing name of the year 2026” competition) from Zero Networks about the importance of ... Continue Reading

Think Tank: Counting the cost of AI datacentres and energy use

When it comes to the environmental impacts of AI, should big tech firms or enterprises, and their IT departments, be expected to “do their bit” to limit the potential environmental fallout of the technology's growing usage?
The year that speed changed cyber security

At a time when threat actors are operating at machine speed, understanding which essential systems are needed to keep the lights on can be the difference between business continuity and existential crisis
Generative and agentic AI in security: What CISOs need to know

AI is introducing new risks that existing evaluation and governance approaches were never designed to manage, creating a widening gap between what AI-backed security tools promise and what can be realistically controlled.