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February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

Forrester: AI and cyber security drive up IT spending

Despite artificial intelligence and cyber security increasing investment, technical debt remains a significant drain on IT budgets Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement

The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

MongoDB expands Sydney operations to support local growth

MongoDB is doubling down on its Australian presence with a new Sydney office, housing engineering, support and go-to-market teams focused on R&D and tackling the region’s legacy technology challenges Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

CCRC reviewing 17 Post Office convictions with potential Capture software involvement

Statutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

AI at Leap 2025: Huge potential but a threat to the fabric of society?

Thought leaders in artificial intelligence gathered at Saudi Arabia’s Leap 2025 tech show to set out the next steps for enterprise AI and agentic AI, but also AI’s potential danger to human society Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 Blog Post

A road-warrior kit: Dell Pro keyboard, mouse, briefcase & backpack

It’s always interesting to see if a new keyboard option can make a difference to working life. After all, it’s hard to beat what is (arguably) the gold standard in the form of the MX Keys from ... Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 Blog Post

SLM series: NTT DATA - Cost-effective solutions for real-time industrial AI

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Shahid Ahmed in his role as EVP for Edge Services at NTT Data. Part of the wider NTT conglomerate family, NTT Data ... Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore

Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 Opinion

Entrepreneurship with a conscience - the new mandate for tech leaders

Technology leaders are entrepreneurs too - innovating to transform their organisations. But the nature of entrepreneurial leadership has changed, with ethics and social responsibility now taking centre stage Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

Cisco: We will get better on AI power consumption

At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco execs shared their thoughts on the developing issues around how artificial intelligence is affecting datacentre power consumption Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace

At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs

A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 Blog Post

Rethinking AI’s place in the software stack

This is a guest blogpost by Bobby Blumofe, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Akamai. DeepSeek's recent developments have ignited significant discussion in the AI community. ... Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

MPs demand bank bosses come clean over IT outages following Barclays crash

Treasury committee wants banks to provide details of how IT failures have affected their businesses over the past two years Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal

Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape

The focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 Blog Post

The journey to Agentic AI impact in 2025

This is a guest blogpost by Paul O’Sullivan, SVP Solution Engineering and Salesforce UKI CTO. Artificial Intelligence has undergone an extraordinary evolution — from predicting trends and ... Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 In Depth

How Kingsland Drinks is raising a glass to industrial gains from Wi-Fi

Discover how one of the UK’s premier independent suppliers of bulk wine and spirits goes about its business – from its origins in 1895 to its running of modern wireless networks Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up

A number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

F1’s Red Bull charges 1Password to protect its 2025 season

For the upcoming 2025 Formula 1 season, Oracle Red Bull Racing adds cyber security partner 1Password to its roster of team suppliers and sponsors Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage

One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

Elon Musk capitalises on DeepSeek confusion to bid for OpenAI

The market disruption resulting from DeepSeek has reset artificial intelligence, and now Elon Musk and a consortium of investors want to grab OpenAI Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

AI projects get £85m funding to improve NHS diagnostics and drugs

The funding pot is being distributed between three projects, aiming to establish new ways of researching how artificial intelligence can be used to target hard-to-treat diseases and develop medicines Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

Saudi puts $15bn into AI as experts debate next steps

The kingdom’s Leap 2025 tech show is the backdrop for huge investment, plus debate over the future of artificial intelligence as a productivity tool but which can also potentially undermine human society Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 E-Zine

A two-horse race? Competition concerns cloud AWS and Microsoft

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Microsoft and AWS don’t like it, but the UK competition watchdog says their hold on the cloud market is cause for concern. We talk to AutoTrader’s CEO about how to become a digital business. And we go behind the ... Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 Opinion

Technology is changing and so should the civil service

The government has promised that AI will change policy making - but that means policy makers in the civil service will need to change too Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab

A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out of the UK Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 Blog Post

Your three point plan for Safer Internet Day

The world of your childs smart phone combines the thrills and spills of the circus, fairground, playground, wild west and forest sauvage . It can be a very scary place without you to hold their hand. Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 Blog Post

"Just throw more bandwidth at it" - Yeah right... Some people never learn!

One of my classic mantras of the past, ooh er, 30+ years has been “throwing bandwidth at a problem doesn’t solve the problem”. So, you would think all those decades later that the penny had dropped ... Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

Natural England clears clouds with machine learning

Earth observation images from satellites can be blotted by cloud cover, but Natural England has cleared the sky using artificial intelligence Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons

Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

Unionised drivers to stage ride-hailing app strike

Drivers employed by Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are set to log off for six hours on 14 February 2025 in long-running disputes over poor pay, work conditions and algorithmic transparency Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 In Depth

The story behind Alps, Europe’s second largest computer

The director of CSCS and professor of computational physics at ETH, Thomas Schulthess, explains the development of one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, Alps, in Switzerland Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

UK government under fire over public sector guidance on using overseas clouds

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s recently published guidance on supporting public sector bodies with adopting a multi-region cloud strategy is facing criticism Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 In Depth

UAE eyes quantum computing for financial services

Middle East financial firms are investing heavily in quantum computing, with one of the world’s top quantum research centres in Abu Dhabi Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 Opinion

Courting global talent: How can Web3 startups attract the best developers in the world?

James Strudwick, executive director at Web3 tech startup Starknet Foundation, on how to attract the best talent in the Web3 space Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

UK broadband majors, altnets accelerate gigabit in non-metro areas

Premises in Shropshire and Devon to gain access to gigabit services as part of £5bn government scheme and planned expansion by major comms provider Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 In Depth

Skills required for data engineering success

We look at what IT leaders can do to help untangle the numerous structured and unstructured data sources that exist in a modern enterprise Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 Opinion

Why the UK must lead on data to unlock AI’s full potential

Unless the data silos in government are addressed, the UK risks falling short of the Action Plan’s ambitious goals to lead in AI adoption Continue Reading

February 09, 2025 09Feb2025 News

Allianz PNB Life modernises insurance operations with cloud

Philippine insurer implements a cloud-based health insurance policy management system from DXC Technology to reduce policy issuance times and speed up product launches Continue Reading

February 09, 2025 09Feb2025 News

Government opens up bidding for AI growth zones

As part of its AI opportunities action plan, the government is encouraging local authorities to put in bids for AI growth zones Continue Reading

February 09, 2025 09Feb2025 News

HMRC spends £785m a year on running digital tax systems

Beyond £785m spend, HMRC also spent £482m on upgrading legacy systems and introducing new digital systems, as it continues to fall behind its plans to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world Continue Reading

February 09, 2025 09Feb2025 Blog Post

SLM series: Editorial brief & scope

There are language models and there are language models. While, at the time of writing at least, there is little talk of medium language models (Ed: give it a month, it’s bound to happen) we ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 News

Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud

The UK has served a notice on Apple demanding back door access to encrypted data stored by users anywhere in the world on Apple’s cloud service Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 Opinion

Secure software procurement in 2025: A call for accountability

Outgoing CISA chief Jen Easterly called on buyers to demand better security standards from their software suppliers. The Security Think Tank considers what better means, and what best practice for secure software procurement looks like in 2025. Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 News

US lawmakers move to ban DeepSeek AI tool

US politicians have introduced a bill seeking to ban the use of the DeepSeek AI tool on government-owned devices, citing national security concerns due to its alleged links to the Chinese state Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 News

Ransomware payment value fell over 30% in 2024

Several factors, including the impact of law enforcement operations disrupting cyber criminal gangs and better preparedness among users, may be behind a significant drop in the total value of ransomware payments Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 In Depth

Self-healing networks: The next evolution in network management

The age of AI is highlighting the security risks and pitfalls of traditional network management techniques. Self-healing networks may offer a solution that not only bolsters security, but makes IT and network teams more efficient Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 In Depth

NRF review: no escaping AI for retail in 2025

What themes will be seen in the retail tech space over the next year, according to the 2025 National Retail Federation’s Big Show? Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 News

Vietnam Air Traffic Management modernises comms for improved safety

Southeast Asian country’s national aviation body to deploy multi-service network offering to upgrade its legacy network systems, and enhance the performance and flexibility of its air traffic network Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 In Depth

DACH’s venture capital prominence: an outlier, or the start of a golden age?

The DACH region is attracting venture capital investment with startups in Austria and Switzerland benefiting, but will it be sustained? Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 News

AWS sees full-year profit and revenue growth as AI and public cloud demand soars

Amazon Web Services (AWS) reports full-year results and reveals capital expenditure toll the AI boom will take on its business in 2025 Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 Blog Post

Will Skills England be allowed to change the course of the Government's inherited policy Titanic?

Despite fine words the needs of employers and student appear set to come third, behind the requirements of funding and regulatory hierarchies dating back to 1917 and of the Mayoral Combined ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 Blog Post

What to expect from SUSECON 2025

It’s been a while - hey, there was a pandemic, right - but the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog is getting ready for SUSECON 2025. Since we last made it to SUSECON 2020, quite a bit has ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 News

Tech job postings dropped in 2024, according to research

Job postings for several IT roles returned to pre-pandemic levels last year, dropping when compared with 2023 Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 Blog Post

Sharp Europe's Bold Ambitions in the IT Services Sector

Building on a 113-year legacy, Sharp Europe is transforming itself into a leading European IT services provider. Strategic acquisitions are playing a key role in this growth which has enabled the ... Continue Reading

February 06, 2025 06Feb2025 News

Data maturity survey finds a quarter of organisations with no strategy

One quarter of organisations surveyed for the third Carruthers and Jackson Data Maturity Index found to have no data strategy as they increase artificial intelligence engagement Continue Reading

February 06, 2025 06Feb2025 News

UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre begins incident classification work

The Cyber Monitoring Centre will work to categorise major incidents against a newly developed scale to help organisations better understand the nature of systemic cyber attacks and learn from their impact Continue Reading

February 06, 2025 06Feb2025 Blog Post

Why are we waiting?

Consider the office laptop. It certainly may be used in the office, where its owner, a company employee, requires the best user experience for accessing the software needed to do their work when in ... Continue Reading

February 06, 2025 06Feb2025 News

As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK

James Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but Oracle Java is no longer the preferred choice Continue Reading

February 06, 2025 06Feb2025 News

Swedish commission delivers roadmap to drive artificial intelligence reforms

Sweden will invest in artificial intelligence in an effort to catch up with global leaders in the field Continue Reading

February 06, 2025 06Feb2025 Podcast

Samsung’s on-device AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

We speak to the co-founder of Oxford Semantic Technologies, which has developed the AI for the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Continue Reading

February 06, 2025 06Feb2025 News

Kyndryl expands SASE services with Palo Alto Networks

IT infrastructure services provider enhances end-to-end secure access service edge services to help customers accelerate adoption of cloud-first, zero-trust offering for network security Continue Reading

February 06, 2025 06Feb2025 Blog Post

Data Engineering - Patronus AI: Building robust evaluation frameworks for AI accuracy

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anand Kannappan, CEO and founder of model adversarial testing platform Patronus AI. Kannappan writes in full as follows... ... Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 E-Handbook

Malaysian public sector embraces generative AI

Nearly half a million civil servants set to get access to Google Workspace with Gemini to improve delivery of public services Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

Google Cloud revenue soars as Alphabet continues to ride AI wave

Alphabet’s fourth-quarter results revealed a 30% increase in revenue for the company’s cloud arm, fuelled by demand for its artificial intelligence offerings Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

Met Police spied on BBC journalists’ phone data for PSNI, MPs told

The Metropolitan Police monitored the phones of 16 BBC journalists on behalf of police in Northern Ireland, a cross-party group of MPs heard Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

Crowd-source testing helps drive Webex accessibility

Conferencing software Webex has a number of accessibility features built-in and has worked with Applause to test how well these work Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

State of Open Con 25: Why public sector needs an open approach

Openness, open source and open data were among the topics discussed at OpenUK’s State of Open Con 25 in London Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 Blog Post

Data engineering - Stack Overflow: Building the foundations of AI intelligence

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jody Bailey, chief product and technology officer at Stack Overflow. Bailey writes in full as follows… The demand for data ... Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 Blog Post

Amazfit T-Rex 3

Santa was good to me this year, I got an Amazfit T-Rex 3 and it was a gift worth waiting for. It’s taken me a while to write this up (I know the yuletide season has passed), but it takes a while to ... Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

StarHub upgrades fibre broadband network to deliver 10Gbps services

First deployment of StarHub’s 10Gbps XGS-PON technology across city-state to offer enhanced services as part of Digital Connectivity Blueprint to improve citizen well-being via next-generation digital infrastructure Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

MPs to scrutinise use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector

MPs launch inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the financial services sector Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

Youth activists protest Meta over mental health impacts

Protest outside Meta’s London offices marks launch of Mad Youth Campaign, an effort by activists to challenge the ways in which corporate power negatively shapes the conditions young people live under Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

Volkswagen optimises vehicle development through 3DExperience

Connected engineering platform provider’s core technology becomes foundational solution at auto manufacturer to advance vehicle development through virtual twin experiences, reducing engineering and manufacturing cycles Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

EE shines as 5G mobile availability improves for all UK operators

Review of UK mobile industry in second half of 2024 finds that 5G availability sees continued improvement, but fastest 5G speed experience remains undecided Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

APAC organisations to ramp up tech spending in 2025

Organisations across the region are prioritising cyber security, customer experience and application development, even as they navigate cloud repatriation and a growing skills gap in AI and security Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the Competition and Markets Authority’s suggestion that their dominant hold on the UK cloud market requires a targeted intervention Continue Reading

February 05, 2025 05Feb2025 News

MoD set to develop £50m data analytics platform with Kainos

The Ministry of Defence has chosen IT services provider Kainos to develop its £50m data analytics platform across all armed services, over a three-year programme Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 News

Starlink gains higher orbit in Europe

Leading space comms provider sees constellation investments boost performance, gaining a position in delivering LEO services over wide areas of Europe, even including UK capital Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 News

DSIT issues guidance to support public sector hosting of cloud workloads in overseas datacentres

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has issued guidance to support public sector organisations that want to host workloads and applications in overseas datacentres for cost and resilience reasons Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 In Depth

Quantum datacentre deployments: How they are supporting evolving compute projects

Quantum datacentre deployments are emerging worldwide, so what are they and where are the benefits? Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 In Depth

All change: Weighing up the options for enterprises as open source licences evolve

Software suppliers have been rowing back on open-source licensing. Will enterprises with datacentres have to change their software approach? Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 News

IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space

CGI is building on its decade-long relationship with the European Space Agency, and as more and more satellites entering orbit, its role in processing data is not set to diminish Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 Opinion

“Unsafe At Any Speed”. Comparing automobiles to code risk

Outgoing CISA chief Jen Easterly called on buyers to demand better security standards from their software suppliers. The Security Think Tank considers what better means, and what best practice for secure software procurement looks like in 2025. Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 News

Can AI identify financially vulnerable people better than humans?

Research from customer experience firm Nice finds that AI can identify financially vulnerable people better than humans and offer more comfortable channels for financial problem solving Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 News

DE-CIX upgrades New York’s largest internet exchange backbone

DE-CIX upgrades one of the US’s largest internet exchange backbones as staying resilient and offering scale become priorities Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 Blog Post

A driving licence in an app is a boost for digital identity - but not for angry suppliers

It’s rare that a digital government development attracts interest from mainstream media, but last month’s announcement of a digital driving licence brought widespread national coverage and a mass ... Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 In Depth

Addressing the legacy: Modernising creaky cloud infrastructures for data benefits

With so many enterprises reliant on outdated IT assets that lack resilience, where should organisations start with infrastructure modernisation projects? Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 Podcast

Podcast: AI to boost drive innovation in 2025

We talk to Jason Feist of Seagate about artificial intelligence and how it is driving drive innovation, the growth of data and how sustainability and energy efficiency is vital to meeting capacity needs Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 News

India Budget: Tech takes centre stage with AI and infrastructure boost

India has earmarked significant investments in artificial intelligence, global capability centres and digital public infrastructure while boosting training and education in its latest budget Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 E-Zine

The need for strong data engineering skills

In this week’s Computer Weekly, our latest buyer’s guide examines best practice in data engineering and the importance of data skills. Labour announced its first digital government strategy – but will it be more successful than years of failed plans... Continue Reading

February 04, 2025 04Feb2025 Blog Post

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