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Teen hackers charged over Scattered Spider attack on TfL

Two men have appeared in court in London in connection with the September 2024 cyber attack that disrupted online services at Transport for London
Oxa gains more mileage from Nvidia for autonomous vehicles

UK-based autonomous vehicle systems provider looks to speed up its commercial roll-out in the $2tn industrial mobility automation market with use of advanced AI technology, including Cosmos World Foundation Models
Techcombank wields data and AI to drive customer engagement

By unifying data on the Databricks platform, the Vietnam bank has built AI capabilities to deliver hyper-personalised offers to 15 million customers and expand its footprint beyond its traditional affluent base
Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy

Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer
Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty

Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust
Tech Prosperity Deal: Business spend in AI set to grow

The UK-US tech deal promises vast amounts of AI capacity and technology infrastructure, which will be needed as businesses ramp up their AI spend

Are AI agents a blessing or a curse for cyber security?

Agentic AI is touted as a helpful tool for managing tasks, and cyber criminals are already taking advantage. Should information security teams look to AI agents to keep up?
The UK government’s AI Growth Zones strategy: Everything you need to know

Plans to make the UK an AI superpower imply pervasive use of the technology. Ramping up adoption of AI will require more datacentres to host compute-intensive workloads, which is where the AI Growth Zone strategy comes in
Serving up tennis improvements through AI

Elite sports have long deployed artificial intelligence and computer vision to gather vital data to improve player performance and deliver marginal gains. Tennis is no exception - but now players can get data to ace performance

Workday Rising Day 3: Microsoft collaboration & Agent System of Record- CW Developer Network

Workday staged its Workday Rising 2025 conference and exhibition to showcase its work to extend its human resources and finance platform, tools and services for the age of agentic AI - and the ... Continue Reading
Workday acquires agentic AI-search & learning specialist Sana- CW Developer Network

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach spoke openly at Workday Rising 2025 to explain how his firm has developed some of its own talent pool organically (through internal skills and competency development) ... Continue Reading
Goldilocks moment for AI in British society- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

It is being described as a “Goldilocks moment” to encourage US investment in UK AI infrastructure, but Donald Trump’s state visit and the UK-US Tech Prosperity Deal that has been announced, come at ... Continue Reading
Workday expands Illuminate, introduces Workday Data Cloud- CW Developer Network

Workday Rising 2025 was busy for product announcements. The company (which now defines itself as the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money and agents) announced new Workday Illuminate ... Continue Reading

Plotting a path forward with VMware version 7

Version 7 reaches end of life at the start of October. But while version 8 is available, buying support may require a VCF subscription
Cyber leaders must make better use of risk experts

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers how security leaders can help assure access to the new and innovative cloud tech while minimising risk and ensuring they do not fall foul of regulators.
Lessons from Jaguar Land Rover – preparing for a cyber attack

A cyber attack at Jaguar Land Rover has halted production lines and caused widespread disruption. How can businesses protect themselves and mitigate the risks of such an attack?