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EU broadband challengers warn of fixed connectivity monopolies

Non-incumbent EU fixed broadband providers raise alarm at proposed legislation, insisting that regulatory certainty is needed to drive investment in connectivity
MoD supply chain cyber scheme gets up and running

The Ministry of Defence and IASME have launched a certification scheme for organisations working in the UK defence supply chain, with construction firm Morgan Sindall the first business to achieve compliance.
Pobl Group builds on managed SD-WAN for housing development

Three-year contract for managed software-defined wide area network service follows merger creating Wales’s largest housing association
ACM president Yannis Ioannidis sees a more humane role for AI

Panel brought together academic, industry and policy leaders to discuss how AI can support climate goals, financial inclusion and infrastructure development
Schools using AI to personalise learning, finds Ofsted

When looking into how some education providers in the UK are using AI, Ofsted found many have hit the ground running
Meta and Alan Turing Institute back open source AI fellowship

Labour’s AI fellowship will see experts use open source AI tools in a bid deliver better public services at lower cost

What’s the latest with retail mobile apps?

Mamas and Papas, MandM and Ocado are among the retailers launching or relaunching mobile apps this year, but what digital experiences are consumers looking for in 2025 and how best can they be enabled by tech?
Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the private sector

In the second of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil and how private sector customers have at least some flexibility in how to absorb their impacts
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

Ambient ERP – breaking free of the enterprise software triad- Data Matters

This is a guest blogpost by Claus Jepsen, Chief Technology Officer, Unit4. Imagine a future where your back-office applications are context-aware, operating in the background, only surfacing what ... Continue Reading
How to lay solid data foundations for AI- Data Matters

This is a guest blogpost by Jamie Hutton, CTO of Quantexa. A Salesforce study has that around 33% of executives view AI as overhyped. But this scepticism may be misdirected. As Quantexa we are ... Continue Reading
Platform engineering - Mirantis: A route to resilience & compliance as-a-Service- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by William Rizzo in his capacity as strategy lead for Mirantis. Mirantis is known for its approach designed to simplify cloud ... Continue Reading
Sysdig launches open source cloud security community - Open Source Insider

Sysdig is on a mission. That mission is one designed to unite millions of cloud security professionals and “builders” (spanning software application development practitioners, data science gurus, ... Continue Reading

Why proactive asset management is mission-critical

The Asia-Pacific region is leading a global datacentre expansion, but surging energy demands and the risk of outages will require datacentre operators to adopt proactive strategies to ensure a resilient and sustainable digital future
FBI to F&A: lessons learnt in safeguarding systems and data

One chief information security officer shares her experience of marshalling what she learned at the FBI for business security, with a particular focus on finance and accounting
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