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December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 Blog Post

AWS launches Kiro IDE for real agentic development at scale

AWS used its re: Invent conference to announce Kiro, an AI IDE that helps software engineers move from concept to production through a simplified developer experience for working with AI agents. ... Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 Blog Post

AWS simplifies model customisation

AWS used its re: Invent 2025 conference to detail its work focused on simplifying model customisation to help developers build faster, more efficient AI agents. The company says that, now, Amazon ... Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 News

Constrained budgets left security teams short-handed in 2025

With 2024 seeing surges in security funding cuts, lay-offs and hiring freezes, 2025 brought some relief for cyber pros, but constrained budgets are leaving security teams short-staffed Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 News

Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation

The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 In Depth

In an AI-first world, the future of cyber security is its workforce

The cyber security industry will experience immense change due to AI by 2030, so both employers and professionals need to grasp the nettle, and quickly, if they are to have the right skills and experience in place to succeed Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 News

UK Space Agency pumps £17m into tech projects

The agency is funding 17 different projects through its National Space Innovation Programme, including the design of an AI-powered satellite radar Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 News

Western coalition supplying tech to Ukraine prepared for long war

Russia is deploying hybrid warfare against Europe as western nations supply critical IT and telecoms equipment to Ukraine’s front line Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 News

Fujitsu police contract ‘complicates’ Post Office investigation

National Police investigation into Post Office scandal uses IT infrastructure provided by Fujitsu Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 Blog Post

Don’t be a Scrooge when it comes to AI’s role in enterprise software

Let’s assume that artificial intelligence (AI) delivers everything that is being promised. How will it alter the world of corporate IT, IT service providers and the deployment of commercial ... Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 Blog Post

AWS data & analytics VP: Charting new oceans, the evolution of data lakes

Data lakes represent an ocean of information resources… and much like our blue planet’s waters, many of the depths remain uncharted and occasionally mysterious. Our notion of data lakes has ... Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 Opinion

In 2026, collaboration, honesty and humility in cyber are key

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026. Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

UK government pledges to rewrite Computer Misuse Act

Campaigners celebrate as security minister Dan Jarvis commits to amending the outdated Computer Misuse Act to protect security professionals from prosecution Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

NCSC and BT block a billion dangerous clicks

A protective service jointly developed by the NCSC and BT has disrupted over a billion potential cyber incidents by stopping members of the public from clicking through to dangerous websites Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

HPE expands AMD collaboration to advance open rack-scale AI

IT and networking provider to adopt open, full-stack AI platform engineered for large-scale AI workloads looking to deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity across massive AI clusters Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

Ericsson teams with LotusFlare to accelerate network API adoption

Partnership complements comms tech provider’s offering to expose and monetise advanced capabilities via APIs, providing common solution blueprints that describe typical integration scenarios Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

UK national security strategy failing to account for online world

The UK government’s national security strategy is falling short on online matters, according to the independent reviewer of terrorism Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

Interview: Florence Mottay, global CISO, Zalando

Florence Mottay moved from mathematics to software engineering, and is now leading security at Zalando, a high-tech online fashion retailer Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 Blog Post

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore tools-up for agentic AI software development

AWS used its re: Invent 2025 conference to announce new developments in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, its platform for building and deploying agents. In a world where we all want to know where AI ... Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 Podcast

Low-code challenges: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

We speak to Conor Riordan, chair of the UK & Ireland SAP user group about how IT needs a new way to work with the business Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

Post Office avoids £1m fine over botched website upgrade data breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office considered fining the Post Office £1m for a 2024 data breach that let subpostmasters down again Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

General availability for IoT-focused Myriota HyperPulse 5G NTN

Internet of things connectivity specialist announces general availability of what it calls the world’s first commercial 5G non-terrestrial network engineered for IoT Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 Blog Post

Digital ID providers are placated (again) as anticipation builds towards government consultation

Yesterday (2 December 2025) was the second time this year that a confused and – in some quarters – angry digital identity sector was given the opportunity to sit down with the government and ask: ... Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

British space comms tech heads into orbit

Successful launch of constellation seen as increasing the availability of advanced information from space, to help meet the fast-growing global demand from civil, national security and defence customers Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

Post Office finally investigates Horizon defect, but investigator slams comms strategy

Subpostmaster and investigator met the Post Office over Horizon defect raised six years earlier Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

Women in Cybersecurity Middle East marks five years of impact at Black Hat MEA

As AI reshapes the regional cyber security landscape, diversity and skills development remain at the heart of building a resilient digital workforce Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

AWS CEO Garman pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future

At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data Continue Reading

December 03, 2025 03Dec2025 News

Black Hat MEA: Saudi Vision 2030 fuels surge in cyber security innovation

Global cyber firms are racing to support the Kingdom’s mega-projects, but building trusted partnerships remains key, says Exabeam CEO Pete Harteveld Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 News

UK prosecution of alleged Chinese spies was ‘shambolic’ says Parliamentary committee

The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy reports that China was engaged in malicious cyber attacks against UK Parliament and democratic institutions Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 News

AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent

At AWS re:Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 News

Strategic shift pays off as Okta bids to ease agentic AI risk

Nine months after restructuring its go-to-market, Okta is buoyed by a growing recognition of how crucial identity has become thanks to the spread of AI agents Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 Blog Post

AWS Frontier Agents saddle up to extend software development teams

Developers, developers, developers… right? Wrong, it’s now developers, developers, agentic service constructs designed to provide autonomous app design, code reviews and penetration testing that ... Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 Blog Post

AWS recalibrates data economics further with S3 Vectors, batch & Intelligent-Tiering

AI needs data, AI needs inter (and intra) data repository contextual linking and AI needs all of that with a whole menu of search types spanning contextual search, semantic search, SQL search and ... Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 News

Use of digital ID in UK achieves statutory status

A formal regime of certification and governance is now in place for digital identity services – just as the UK government presses ahead with its controversial plan for a national ID scheme Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 News

Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches after third system appeal

Post Office scandal campaigner reveals she had her suspicions over a third Post Office system, as review of convictions based on APS/APT looks likely to bring thousands more subpostmasters into scope Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 Opinion

UK's Cyber Bill should be just one part of a wider effort

New cyber legislation is necessary but a wider effort is needed to harden the UK's security and resilience. Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 Opinion

Cyber's defining lessons of 2025, and what comes next

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026. Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 News

CIO interview: Innovation in reworking business processes

David Holton, chief transformation officer at Cambridge and Counties Bank, talks IT modernisation and agentic AI Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 News

Former Post Office legal boss won’t escape police reach

Police say they will question those who evaded the public inquiry, naming former Post Office legal boss Jane MacLeod as an example Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 In Depth

Inserting AI into cyber awareness

As industry looks to grasp the use of AI and automated features, how are security suppliers facing the challenge of adding these capabilities to their products and services? We talked to one provider to find out Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 News

ASEAN enterprises moving from ‘AI-first’ to ‘AI-native’

Organisations across Southeast Asia are reimagining business processes, going beyond the experimentation phase of AI adoption, according to AWS’s head of the region Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 News

Spacecoin claims pivotal moment with decentralised satellite

Decentralised physical infrastructure network provider goes live with mission to deliver three satellites aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9, claiming major step in goal of reaching 2.6 billion people globally without affordable connectivity Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 Podcast

Clean up your data: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

How Imperial Brands put in place the right data management and governance to enable a smooth migration to SAP S/4Hana Continue Reading

December 02, 2025 02Dec2025 E-Zine

How the RAC offers a shorter road to recovery

In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, we take a look at how roadside recovery and car repair organisation, the RAC, is combining data analytics and AI to help speed up the time it takes to get motorists back on the road. We also dig into the ... Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 Opinion

What lies in store for the security world in 2026?

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026. Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 Opinion

How headlines can drive change in cyber security

Big news stories can shift attitudes. There’s no doubt that insurance vendors and brokers are using major cyber attacks to promote their products, but can security teams also use it to help their businesses be better prepared? Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 Opinion

How to build a data dream team

Why you need to get the right data team in place before you start to deploy AI in your organisation. Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 Blog Post

Pinecone blossoms on cost-performance for AI workloads

Because vector workloads aren’t one-size-fits, many applications, such as RAG systems, agents, prototypes and scheduled jobs, have “bursty workloads” meaning that they maintain low, steady traffic ... Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 News

Interview: Dominic Redmond, group CIO, PageGroup

The recruitment firm’s IT chief is looking to use data-enabled technologies, including automation and artificial intelligence, to enhance workplace activities and boost employee productivity Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 News

SAP user group chair warns of AI low-hanging fruit risks

UK and Ireland SAP User Group Connect 2025 conference kicks off with a warning about economic uncertainty and AI misselling Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 News

UK full-fibre overtakes FTTC for first time

Study finds FTTP connectivity in the UK now mainstream with competition intensifying, but with pricing and operational models facing increasing pressure, raising questions about business sustainability Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 News

Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear

It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 News

SASE, SD-WAN evolve as enterprises prioritise unified network security

Research confirms trend that software-defined wide-area network implementations are increasingly tied to security, with the continual rise of cyber security incidents worldwide only accelerating this dynamic Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 News

Hong Kong FWA services market set for 9.6% growth

Special administrative region sees increase in fixed wireless access market being driven by extensive 5G network coverage and local operators’ efforts to expand FWA services and position it as an alternative to traditional fibre broadband services Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 News

Google Cloud withdraws complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing tactics

More than a year has passed since Google filed a complaint with the European Commission, outlining its concerns over Microsoft’s licensing tactics, and now the internet search giant has withdrawn it Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 In Depth

Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO Checkout.com

Checkout.com’s CTO has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry – and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it Continue Reading

December 01, 2025 01Dec2025 In Depth

A framework for software development self-service

Keeping software developers happy is an essential ingredient in IT project success. Developer self-service is the way forward, but with guardrails Continue Reading

November 30, 2025 30Nov2025 Blog Post

Adaptavist: Why culture is king for successful self-service developer tools

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Matt Saunders, VP DevOps, Adaptavist. It's becoming more widely accepted that any organisation with a large number of ... Continue Reading

November 28, 2025 28Nov2025 In Depth

Can business software empower rather than control workers?

Acclaim Autism is a US organisation that has increased employee task discretion, with an increase in insurance approvals by using AI – but worker autonomy is declining across the UK Continue Reading

November 28, 2025 28Nov2025 Blog Post

Digitate on AI Workflows: The next frontier in enterprise automation

How intelligent orchestration platforms are reshaping enterprise operations - and redefining the employee experience. Author: Efrain Ruh, regional CTO, Digitate... Workflow platforms have long ... Continue Reading

November 28, 2025 28Nov2025 Blog Post

Self-service tools - Sonatype: The unseen risks lurking inside the platform

Mitun Zavery, regional vice president at Sonatype says that there are "unseen risks" lurking inside self-service developer platforms. Zavery suggests that self-service platforms are now standard ... Continue Reading

November 28, 2025 28Nov2025 News

CCRC refers case based on third faulty Post Office system

The latest Post Office prosecution to be sent to the Court of Appeal involves a third IT system in a 2001 case, after previous referrals for people convicted due to flaws in Horizon and Capture software Continue Reading

November 28, 2025 28Nov2025 News

Budget 2025: Extra NHS IT cash welcome, but plan lacks clarity

Industry and healthcare leaders are concerned that NHS tech funding is too focused on already approved platforms, fails to tackle core issues and lacks a clear delivery plan Continue Reading

November 28, 2025 28Nov2025 News

UK government commits to Loan Charge settlement reforms in wake of independent review into policy

The UK government has agreed to follow through on recommendations made by an independent review of how to resolve the Loan Charge that could wipe thousands of pounds off tax bills for those affected Continue Reading

November 28, 2025 28Nov2025 News

Asia-Pacific 5G subscriptions set to reach 4.6 billion by 2030

APAC becomes centre of the technological race for 5G supremacy, with leaders going beyond the deployment of ‘standard’ networks to the development of a wider 5G ecosystem, driving IoT/M2M Continue Reading

November 28, 2025 28Nov2025 News

Sea-Lion powering AI tools for migrant workers, local businesses

The inaugural Sea-Lion summit showcased real-world applications of Southeast Asia’s first homegrown large language model, which now supports multimodal inputs and can run on a standard laptop Continue Reading

November 27, 2025 27Nov2025 News

Databricks predicts AI tipping point as ANZ firms fix data issues

As AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI Continue Reading

November 27, 2025 27Nov2025 News

Google Cloud launches ‘PanyaThAI’ to spur AI adoption in Thailand

The cloud supplier is offering training and its AI technology stack to unlock an estimated 730bn baht in economic value for Thai businesses such as Thai Wacoal and SE-Education Continue Reading

November 27, 2025 27Nov2025 News

UK partnership extends fibre optic tech for more reliable radio comms

Knowledge transfer partnership aims to make ‘radio-over-fibre’ technology available to new sectors, developing ways to amplify and extend radio signals through fibre optics for fewer delays and stronger signals Continue Reading

November 27, 2025 27Nov2025 News

RailTel modernises long-distance, metro optical networks across India

Strategic partnership allows tech provider to modernise Indian railway communications, using right-of-way assets to deliver cost efficiencies, vendor diversification and long-term investment protection Continue Reading

November 27, 2025 27Nov2025 News

SAP selects Tata Consultancy Services to transform its IT operations

Software firm agrees five-year IT transformation project with Indian outsourcing giant, taking relationship up to 20 years Continue Reading

November 27, 2025 27Nov2025 News

Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 revs up testing with augmented reality

Formula 1 team switches from paper guides to incorporate AR designs into its workflow and see quickly how parts form car assemblies resulting in gains in team’s operations that add up to improved performance on the racetrack Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

Organisations facing sustainability challenge amid AI ambitions

Cisco and NTT Data executives warn that while business leaders drive AI adoption, both legacy infrastructure and rising energy costs are creating a sustainability bottleneck that requires urgent attention Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 Blog Post

Giving ourselves the chance to lead the AI race, and stay ethical too

This is a guest blog post by Denas Grybauskas, Chief Governance and Strategy Officer at Oxylabs. Within the UK and Europe more broadly, many companies developing AI are having to balance an ... Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

Proximus Global, Starlink expand European direct-to-cell satellite connectivity

Collaboration enables satellite leader to expand its footprint in connecting more European operators with IPX network Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

London councils endure wave of cyber attacks, shared IT services hit

Four London councils – Kensington and Chelsea; Hackney; Westminster; and Hammersmith and Fulham – have suffered cyber attacks, disrupting services and prompting NCSC-supported investigation Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

Microsoft creates framework for secure optical network architecture

IT behemoth taps optical network provider to create ‘survivability by design’ architecture said to ensure operational continuity at all times, during both planned and unplanned outages Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

Budget 2025: £300m extra for NHS IT and a £1.8bn budget for digital ID cards

The Autumn Budget contained little by the way of new policies in digital and technology, but handed out some cash to help progress in digitising public services and to support growing tech businesses Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 Blog Post

Revolution in pet care shows tech innovation has no limits

We are a nation of dog and cat lovers. A study from PDSA, the vet charity for pets in need, has estimated that there are 11.1 million dogs in the UK and 10.5 million cats. In November 2024, ... Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

AI leads parents to change their careers advice to children

Artificial intelligence is increasingly changing the workplace, leaving children and their parents concerned about the potential future of work Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

AI, 5G bring UK sports fans closer to the action

UK technology consortium built on academia, industry and UK regions claims mobile connectivity technology will be a ‘game changer’ for stadiums integrating existing stadium infrastructure with 5G, cloud-based private telecom network Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

Chip makers warn of a looming shortage in DRAM and SSD

Hyperscalers and server manufacturers are ordering too many memory components for their AI infrastructures - more than the market can produce. As a result, prices are rocketing, and a shortage could last until 2027 Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

US breach reinforces need to plug third-party security weaknesses

Cyber breach at US financial sector tech provider highlights the risk of third-party vulnerabilities in finance ecosystems Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

Interview: Bridgette McAdoo of Genesys on steering sustainability goals to success

How resolving to ‘leave society better than you found it’ can open up solid opportunities at the intersection of science-based initiatives and business objectives Continue Reading

November 26, 2025 26Nov2025 News

AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 News

Paw Patrol: How AI and IoT are driving preventative pet care

With vet bills skyrocketing, could preventative pet care using advances in AI and IoT help pet parents understand their furry friends better? Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 News

Antwerp court adjourns high-profile drugs case amid questions over Sky ECC intercept

Defence lawyers ask court to adjourn after unexplained changes found in evidence files containing intercepted messages from Sky ECC encrypted phone network infiltrated by French and Dutch police Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 News

Tech central to swingeing job cuts at ABN Amro

Simplification enabled by the use of the latest technologies underpins Dutch bank’s plan to cut thousands of jobs Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 News

Big tech backers put Nordic AI bid into perspective

Nordic countries declare plan to become world leaders in artificial intelligence by joining forces Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 News

Emirates Group partners with OpenAI to accelerate enterprise-wide AI transformation

The airline will deploy ChatGPT Enterprise and build an AI Centre of Excellence as it accelerates digital transformation across operations, customer experience and future air mobility Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 News

Oracle deploys the Middle East’s first AI supercluster to power sovereign AI in Abu Dhabi

Oracle expands its Abu Dhabi cloud region with the Middle East’s first NVIDIA Blackwell–powered AI supercluster, accelerating sovereign AI and supporting the UAE’s ambition to build the world’s first fully AI-native government Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 News

EE claims 5G standalone coverage leadership

UK’s leading mobile provider reveals latest phase of its 5G standalone roll-out, confirming more than half a million customers have now been upgraded to what it markets as 5G+ at no extra cost Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 News

AI Singapore taps Alibaba Cloud to power Sea-Lion model

The fourth iteration of the regional LLM leverages Alibaba’s Qwen foundation model to improve multilingual accuracy and performance on consumer-grade hardware Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 E-Zine

Hacker for hire: A different approach to hiring talent

In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, we take a closer look at the knotty tale of MI5’s numerous attempts to identify a BBC journalist’s sources by obtaining phone data, and whether this led to further surveillance of its targets. Elsewhere in ... Continue Reading

November 25, 2025 25Nov2025 News

Interview: IBM on breaking hyperscaler lock-in

Big Blue’s general manager for Asia-Pacific Hans Dekkers talks up why APAC enterprises are rethinking their reliance on public cloud, the resurgence of the mainframe via LinuxOne, and how it used its own AI tools to cut internal costs Continue Reading

November 24, 2025 24Nov2025 News

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