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January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 News

Funksec gang turned up ransomware heat in December

The criminal ransomware fraternity was hard at work over the festive period, with attack volumes rising and a new threat actor emerging on the scene Continue Reading

January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 In Depth

Clubcard at 30 – the evolution of retail loyalty

When Tesco Clubcard was developed 30 years ago, using the technology of the time to analyse data was a long shot, but it grew into a scheme that birthed retail loyalty as we know it today Continue Reading

January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 News

Elon Musk distances himself from Trump’s Stargate AI mission

Just a few days into the Donald Trump presidency and there appears to be a disagreement brewing around funding of OpenAI and the Stargate Project Continue Reading

January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 News

E&, DE-CIX create Middle East SmartHub internet exchange

Middle East telco partners with internet exchange operator to boost regional datacentre connectivity, with Fujairah hosting largest submarine cable landing station and new locations for Dubai Continue Reading

January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 News

Telxius enhances global Ethernet service with next-gen optics

Global connectivity provider deploys advanced optical pluggables to power the Carrier Ethernet service upgrade, allowing businesses to scale bandwidth between 50Mbps and 100Gbps-plus Continue Reading

January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 Blog Post

Data engineering - Alteryx: Investing for scale with an eye on value

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alan Jacobson in his role as chief data & analytics officer at Alteryx. Bata engineering is a crucial aspect of a ... Continue Reading

January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 In Depth

EdgeNebula: The UK startup turning disused office spaces into micro-datacentres

With the government committed to growing the number of UK datacentres, despite long-standing concerns about suitable sites and power availability, EdgeNebula thinks it might have the answer Continue Reading

January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 News

How smartphones are transforming global health

Shyam Gollakota, winner of the 2024 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, is bringing medical care to underserved communities through with smartphone-based diagnostic tools Continue Reading

January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 News

Europol seeks evidence of encryption on crime enforcement as it steps-up pressure on Big Tech

Europol wants examples of police investigations hampered by end-to-end encryption as it pressures tech companies to provide law enforcement access to encrypted messages Continue Reading

January 22, 2025 22Jan2025 News

APAC businesses face surge in email attacks

Sophisticated phishing and business email compromise campaigns are increasingly targeting organisations across the Asia-Pacific region, research reveals Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 News

Kearney, Futurum: Big enterprise CEOs make AI core to future

According to research from management consultancy Kearney and analyst firm Futurum, big company CEOs are buying into AI hopes and dreams, with a dash of prudence Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 News

DriveNets, Fujitsu, UfiSpace join forces to support optical net development

Consortium of optical technology providers come together to accelerate open network roll-outs and support NTT-driven next-generation optical network infrastructure programme, testing and certification of multiple products Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 News

Telstra International unveils network of the future vision

Progress revealed in creating next-gen infrastructure including simplification of architecture, cloudifying infrastructure layer, implementing autonomous operation and removal of legacy platforms Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 News

Government to launch Gov.uk Wallet

The digital wallet will allow citizens to have government-issued documents, including a digital driver’s licence, on their phone, alongside a new Gov.uk app Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 News

Weak supplier management hinders digital government

Procurement, legacy systems, data fragmentation and the changing IT market are among the issues highlighted in a review of digital services Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 Blog Post

Data engineering - Nutanix: All engineering starts with infrastructure

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock, in his capacity as director of systems engineering for the UK & I region at Nutanix. Nutanix is of ... Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 News

Openreach nears million mark in copper stop sell scheme

UK’s largest telco reveals extent of progress in network transformation programme to make full-fibre network available to more than 14 million homes and businesses by the end of 2027 Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 News

Ascentae, Utelogy unite to enhance collaboration and productivity

Strategic partnership looks to create ‘innovative’ workplace services that enhance collaboration and productivity, providing a unified platform for managing AV and UC environments Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 News

Hyperscalers to spend a trillion dollars on AI optimised hardware

The market for AI optimised servers is growing, driven by hyperscalers and IT services firms developing AI-enabled services Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 E-Zine

Will the UK become an AI powerhouse?

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we analyse the UK government’s new AI strategy and ask if the ambitious plans are achievable. The latest EU regulation affecting cyber security, called DORA, will affect digital resilience plans for many businesses – ... Continue Reading

January 21, 2025 21Jan2025 News

Greek authorities subject refugees to invasive surveillance

Greek border authorities are subjecting asylum seekers to invasive phone confiscations and artificial intelligence-powered surveillance, in another potential violation of European data protection laws Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

Government calls for expert views on computer evidence to learn lesson from Post Office scandal

The government is calling for evidence from experts in computing and law to help it ensure no repeat of the miscarriages of justice in the Post Office scandal Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

Labour announces plans to overhaul digital government

The Government Digital Service will be expanded along with changes to the way technology is funded, built and delivered across the public sector, as Labour aims for improvements previous administrations struggled to achieve Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

UK’s altnets further fibre roll-out

UK’s leading and second-leading alternative broadband providers report strong end of year for fibre network deployment Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

Freshwave seeds 5G agritech innovation at National Robotarium

Centre for robotics, AI and automated technologies teams with connectivity firm to investigate and test robotics on private 5G networks for tomorrow’s agriculture industry Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 Blog Post

Data engineering - SAS: The install & rise of the citizen data engineer

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Gordon Robinson in his capacity as senior director of data management at SAS. Robinson writes in full as follows… Over the ... Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 Blog Post

Get set for interfaces that know what you’re doing before you do

This is a guest blogpost by John Bates, CEO of SER Group, a European-based enterprise content management vendor. User interfaces have come a long way from the days of green screens — but the way we ... Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

Power grid constraints threaten Dutch digital innovation ambitions

The Netherlands risks falling behind in crucial digital innovations such as artificial intelligence as power grid congestion reaches critical levels across the country Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

Government plans to revamp digital services to save £45bn

Legacy IT and the use of tech contractors is costing taxpayers billions. The government aims to fix the public sector with AI and new digital services Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

Three UK sets out to build largest mobile packet core in Europe

Soon-to-merge operator announces major technology roll-out across Europe with next-generation cloud-native core network – claimed to be largest in Europe – more than tripling its core capacity to 9Tbps Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

Telehouse research highlights UK knowledge gap about what datacentres do

Despite the government’s efforts to champion the datacentre sector as a critical component of the country’s future growth, research shows the general public is largely unaware of what server farms are and what they do Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

The death of the piggy bank marks coming of age of a fintech

Fintech is a broad church that can be applied to high finance and child savings alike, as the team at startup Those Beyond have demonstrated Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

EXA enters into agreement to acquire Aqua Comms

Dedicated digital infrastructure provider acquires subsea service provider Aqua Comms Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 Blog Post

Data engineering - DataStax: Building the Gen-AI stack, how to plan ahead

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dom Couldwell, head of field engineering for EMEA at DataStax. Couldwell writes in full as follows… In certain circles - ... Continue Reading

January 20, 2025 20Jan2025 News

Singtel’s 5G network slicing to boost Singapore’s defence and security

Singapore’s defence and security technology agencies will leverage Singtel’s 5G network slicing technology nationwide to combat evolving security threats and enhance national security Continue Reading

January 19, 2025 19Jan2025 News

ST Logistics teams up with Lenovo on smart warehouses

The Singapore logistics firm is partnering with Lenovo to integrate AI and automation into its warehouse operations Continue Reading

January 19, 2025 19Jan2025 Blog Post

Riverlane points to 2025 as ‘year of quantum’

Could 2025 be the year of quantum? Can we think about the next 12-months as a period of solid progression and (not just innovation, but also…) actual tangible developments in quantum computing such ... Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

The US Supreme Court has upheld a legal ban on TikTok, meaning that the video-sharing application will be shut down from midnight on Sunday 19 January Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

Smart metering reaches 20 million premises across Britain

UK-wide smart metering network is now connected to more than 20 million homes and small businesses, reaching more than 33 million smart meters, as part of a plan to deliver meaningful benefits to Britain and its energy consumers Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

£150m AI framework agreement set to drive NHS forward

NHS Shared Business Services is looking to deploy artificial intelligence across the NHS Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

LightSpeed, Neos expand connectivity across Midlands, East of England

Critical network infrastructure firm teams with high-speed broadband provider to bolster FTTH and wholesale services Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

Researchers say AI fails to describe complexities of Holocaust

Using AI in Holocaust education will require the responsible digitisation of historical assets, as well as collaboration between system providers and domain-specific experts, to ensure effective guardrails that protect against misuse Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

Zoom enhances Team Chat to streamline collaboration

Zoom updates productivity tool to include a sidebar to organise and streamline chat communication, support for code blocks and in-line code, and AI Companion integrations to help users improve productivity Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

TenneT deploys optical network offshore in North Sea to boost output

Leading European offshore transmission systems operator deploys critical optical networking technology for eight new 2-gigawatt platforms in the Dutch North Sea to deliver green energy to land Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

Lords debate government approach to automated decision-making

During the second reading debate of a Lords private members’ bill seeking to better regulate public sector algorithms, the government argued existing measures were sufficient to protect the public Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 Opinion

Cyber innovation to address rising regulatory, threat burden

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers how security leaders should best navigate the multitude of new national and multinational regulations affecting their work, and ensure their organisations remain compliant and protected Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

Enterprises need to make better choices to reduce GenAI emissions

Capgemini says the high environmental costs of generative artificial intelligence systems mean organisations need to develop roadmaps to make their use more sustainable Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

Why CIO tenures are getting shorter ... and why it matters

While the CIO role often has a strong focus on delivering technology change many now have a wider business-focused role Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 Opinion

Can AI rescue the public sector and deliver its long-promised digital transformation?

The UK government sees artificial intelligence as a tool for 'national renewal' - but unless it overhauls its approach to policymaking and delivery for the AI age, its plans are doomed to fail Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

Comms, tech providers drive cross-border 5G highway in France, Germany

5G Autobahn to Autoroute project to connect the cities of Metz in France to Saarbrücken in Germany with advanced mobility Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 In Depth

A guide to DORA compliance

We look at the new EU regulation for cyber resiliency, the role of IT asset management in auditing and third-party risks Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 Opinion

Post Office’s military culture and the “infallible computers illusion” destroyed lives

Rupert Lloyd Thomas joined the Post Office in 1974, where he spent the best part of 30 years. He reveals the inner working of the organisation which contributed to the widest miscarriage of justice in history. Continue Reading

January 17, 2025 17Jan2025 News

Takeda opens innovation centre in Bengaluru

Global biopharmaceutical giant Takeda opens its first Asian Innovation Capability Centre in Bengaluru to speed up drug discovery and development Continue Reading