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July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Blog Post

Ambient ERP – breaking free of the enterprise software triad

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

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

Government funding to help SMEs protect their IP

Scheme will see SMEs and innovative startups working in sensitive sectors receive advice on enhancing cyber and physical security measures to protect their valuable intellectual property Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Blog Post

How to lay solid data foundations for AI

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

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties

The navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff

Following exploration of artificial intelligence’s potential in conjunction with staff, AIB is rolling the tools out across the company Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

Four arrested in M&S cyber attack investigation

Police have made four arrests in connection with a trio of cyber attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Podcast

Podcast: HDDs performance metrics and the workloads they excel at

We talk to Toshiba’s Rainer Kaese about spinning disk performance, why HDDs are good at what they do and how hard disk drives still come out top in workloads that suit them Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

Oxfordshire County Council completes GigaHubs project

Partnership between business-dedicated network provider and local authority brings to fruition vision of a ‘smart county’ that will see gigabit-capable connectivity deployed at rural public buildings, such as schools, GP surgeries and libraries Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

AI-RAN Alliance draws more than 100 members in first year

Global consortium aiming to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence into radio access networks passes milestone over the course of first 12 months and adds leading European telco to its ranks Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Blog Post

Platform engineering - Mirantis: A route to resilience & compliance as-a-Service

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

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Opinion

SAP’s Christian Klein – cloud, data, AI: How to harness new engines of progress

SAP’s chief executive outlines the triadic philosophy behind the company’s approach to business AI Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Blog Post

Sysdig launches open source cloud security community

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

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Opinion

Why proactive asset management is mission-critical for APAC datacentres

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 Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Fleet-wide Starlink Wi-Fi takes off at Virgin Atlantic

Elon Musk-led satellite operator engaged to provide leading UK airline with ‘the fastest, most reliable connectivity in the sky’ with ‘no-charge’ streaming quality and gate-to-gate connectivity in all cabins Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Mini gets into gear with Transatel to drive connected car services

NTT subsidiary teams up with BMW Group division to enable connected car services for vehicles across 27 countries in Europe and deliver a more connected automotive ecosystem Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Ofcom: use comms regulation to drive innovation

As it looks to boost British business by achieving its ambitions in connectivity, UK comms regulator outlines three key areas to prioritise Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 Blog Post

Enterprise IT risks of AI and agentic AI

Everyone involved in IT needs to be focused on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on enterprise cybersecurity. Yet precious little energy is being expended on making sure AI is ... Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

NAO says government should employ data analytics to tackle fraud

The National Audit Office recommends public bodies share and manage data in a way that prevents fraud and saves taxpayers’ money Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures

The professional body for policing in England and Wales failed to properly manage its transition to new accounting and payroll systems Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

UK government signs deal with Google Cloud to upskill 100,000 civil servants in AI by 2030

Technology secretary Peter Kyle announces deal with Google Cloud as part of a push to loosen the grip of legacy tech on the UK public sector, while also committing to growing the amount of money government spends with homegrown tech suppliers Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Three-quarters of UK champion continued broadband infrastructure investment

Study from trade association for organisations building and delivering UK’s internet services finds almost half of Brits would sooner give up the gym than lose web access, but also highlights a need for real partnership and bolder action to bridge ... Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 Podcast

Podcast: Container storage challenges and how to overcome them

We talk to Pure Storage about the challenges of increased complexity, ‘technical debt’, skills needs of container deployments and why strategic thinking trumps tactical solutions Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl

Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Qantas details impact of data breach on 5.7 million customers

Australian flag carrier begins notifying millions of individuals after a cyber attack on a call centre, confirming that while financial and passport details are safe, a significant volume of other personal information was compromised Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

July Patch Tuesday brings over 130 new flaws to address

Microsoft patched well over 100 new common vulnerabilities and exposures on the second Tuesday of the month, but its latest update is mercifully light on zero-days Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

M&S calls for mandatory ransomware reporting

The government should extend ransomware reporting mandates to businesses to help gather more intelligence and better support victims, says M&S chairman Archie Norman Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

UK among worst performers in Europe for fundamental 5G metrics

Study from mobile network testing firm uncovers gaps in UK 5G performance compared with European leaders, with ‘significant’ disparity between theoretical population coverage and the daily reality for millions of users Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

AI for Good: Signal president warns of agentic AI security flaw

Secure by design is a mantra of the tech sector, but not if it’s agentic AI, which wants ‘root’ access to everything Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

SEC and SolarWinds to settle lawsuit over 2020 breach

The US SEC and SolarWinds have reached a settlement in principle to resolve litigation over alleged security failings that led to the 2020 compromise of the supplier’s Orion platform by Russian cyber spies Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

Interview: Steve Riley, head of IT operations and service management, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1

As the British Grand Prix rolled into Silverstone for the annual jamboree of Formula One motor racing, we caught up with the Mercedes F1 team to find out how technology has advanced in the year since the last race Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

Liverpool launches community AI charter

The charter, which was created by a residents’ assembly, outlines public data sharing principles and supports the use of AI for public benefit Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

Interview: Vivek Bharadwaj, CIO, Happy Socks

The clothing manufacturer’s IT chief has a foot in every aspect of the tech stack – and is placing data and AI at the centre of future digital strategy Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

Google slams claims it’s ‘misleading’ the public with its GHG emissions data

Internet search giant Google stands accused of “cherry-picking” data from its environmental sustainability report to portray itself as a “good climate actor”, after campaigners from Kairos Fellowship picked holes in the publication Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 In Depth

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? Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

Vodafone sees Glastonbury mobile data traffic usage rise 25%

Official connectivity partner of the UK’s leading music festival reveals massive year-on-year uptick in mobile data traffic, and strong demand for official app and embedded subscriber identity module offer Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

Post Office inquiry chair 'cannot rule out' scandal caused 13 suicides

Post Office scandal public inquiry publishes its first report after three years of gathering and analysing evidence, examining the human impact on victims and the compensation process Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

NHS trust accused of ‘at best cavalier, at worst deceitful’ behaviour after deleting emails

A London hospital trust faces allegations it withheld key evidence from a tribunal hearing after one of its directors attempted to destroy more than 90,000 emails Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 In Depth

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 Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 E-Zine

Do tech executives in US Army present conflict of interest?

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we take a deep dive into the controversial news that four technology executives have been sworn into the US military to make the armed forces ‘more lethal’. In other US-centric news, we look at how President Trump’s ... Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 News

Proofpoint bets on APAC growth amid spike in AI-driven threats

With cyber attacks spiking in non-English-speaking markets such as Japan, the security firm is boosting its regional presence to combat a wave of AI-generated threats Continue Reading

July 08, 2025 08Jul2025 Blog Post

Platform engineering - Composio: Agent connectivity is the new infrastructure challenge

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Soham Ganatra, founder of Composio – the company provides infrastructure for connecting AI agents to external tools, APIs ... Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 News

Interview: Antony Hausdoerfer, group CIO, The AA

The vehicle recovery specialist is looking to artificial intelligence and connected vehicle technology to enhance customer experience and get drivers back on the road in the shortest possible time Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 News

Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur

A UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘... Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 News

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Nokia reduce energy demand and support AI comms

Comms tech provider’s autonomous networks portfolio deployed to enable Asian operator to shut idle and unused radio equipment automatically during low network demand periods Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 News

More than 70% of parents say kids aren’t taught coding at school

Despite a growing need for tech skills, many parents claim coding isn’t taught in schools, research from the Raspberry Pi Foundation has found Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 News

Zopa to embed into Manchester’s tech ecosystem

Challenger bank Zopa plans to eventually have 500 staff in its Manchester office, which will launch next month Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 Podcast

Gartner’s view on AI security: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

We speaker to Gartner's Nader Heinen about why access control should be built into enterprise AI Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 News

Altnet calls on UK comms regulator to prevent rural broadband stagnation

Northern Ireland broadband supplier calls on Ofcom to cut charges applied by market leader regarding use of communications poles. Meanwhile, leading English altnet is hit by fine for its installed comms apparatus in Birmingham City area Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 News

Boldyn Networks accelerates vision with new CEO, Smart Mobile Labs rebrand

Leading neutral host provider bolsters European presence with new European leadership structure including CEO and CTO, as well as integration of Smart Mobile Labs under core banner Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 News

Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern

We speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 News

Digital warfare is blurring civilian front lines

Singapore’s defence cyber chief warns that the traditional lines between military conflict and civilian life are blurring, with adversaries now targeting civilian systems and using AI to put the threat landscape on steroids Continue Reading

July 07, 2025 07Jul2025 Blog Post

Platform engineering - BairesDev: Maturity is redefining talent

This is a guest post written by Justice Erolin in his role, Chief Technology Officer, BairesDev, a nearshore software development and staff augmentation company. Erolin writes in full as follows… ... Continue Reading

July 04, 2025 04Jul2025 Opinion

From the 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 Continue Reading

July 04, 2025 04Jul2025 News

O2 boosts 4G, 5G network capacity

Ahead of the forthcoming holiday rush this summer, leading UK operator announces mobile upgrades in over 13,000 Scottish postcodes Continue Reading

July 04, 2025 04Jul2025 News

Boost for European space sovereignty as Open Cosmos gets Connected

Open Cosmos acquires Portuguese startup Connected to offer affordable, standardised IoT services from space, with the firm claiming a 100% mission success rate in orbit across all its satellite missions Continue Reading

July 04, 2025 04Jul2025 News

Dassault Systèmes accelerates virtual twin offer with Ascon Qube acquisition

Leading engineering technology provider acquires core technology to advance its virtual twin strategy for factories, with AI-powered, SaaS-ready tech set to enable software-defined automation at the machine level Continue Reading

July 04, 2025 04Jul2025 News

NHS to be ‘digital by default’

Single Patient Records, a digitally enabled neighbourhood health service, and the NHS App becoming a ‘doctor in your pocket’ are all part of the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS Continue Reading

July 04, 2025 04Jul2025 News

Orange France, Samsung establish vRAN, Open RAN first pilot

Samsung and Orange France partner to progress open radio access network tech from lab to field, further exploring the performance maturity and operational effectiveness of open, virtualised RAN Continue Reading

July 04, 2025 04Jul2025 News

Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore

The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters Continue Reading

July 03, 2025 03Jul2025 Blog Post

OpenUK Public Good AI report 2025, good (could do better)

A balmy summer evening in London and a need to champion open source software, open platforms, open data and open computing at large can only mean one thing. That thing is a chance to celebrate the ... Continue Reading

July 03, 2025 03Jul2025 News

Glastonbury hits higher note for mobile performance

Data from mobile network performance analyst shows mobile quality at UK’s leading music festival rising across the board each year, but with much variance between individual operators Continue Reading

July 03, 2025 03Jul2025 News

Air France-KLM to increase intelligence of bots that have saved 200,000 hours

Airline group will now use agentic AI technology to make existing bots ‘more intelligent’ Continue Reading

July 03, 2025 03Jul2025 News

VodafoneThree and Currys ink exclusive multiyear partnership

Newly merged telco seals exclusive multiyear partnership with UK omnichannel retailer of technology products and services to become its sole mobile network operator and expand mobile broadband Continue Reading

July 03, 2025 03Jul2025 News

Space comms reaches commercialisation inflection point

Study finds satellite communications industry gaining altitude with commercialisation increasing apace, especially in enterprise IoT Continue Reading

July 03, 2025 03Jul2025 News

Fine-tuning to deliver business AI value

Foundation AI models offer knowledge that spans the internet, but they generally lack an understanding of proprietary business data and processes Continue Reading

July 03, 2025 03Jul2025 Blog Post

Cycloid on AI in platform engineering: acceleration, or technical debt on fast forward?

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Benjamin Brial, founder, Cycloid. Brial writes in full as follows... As AI continues to infiltrate every corner of the ... Continue Reading

July 03, 2025 03Jul2025 News

How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future

The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

US CISA agency extends Iran cyber alert, warns of CNI threat

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reiterates guidance for operators of critical national infrastructure as it eyes the possibility of cyber attacks from Iran Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Google fixes type confusion flaw in Chrome browser

An actively exploited type confusion vulnerability in the Google Chrome web browser needs immediate attention from users Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Scattered Spider link to Qantas hack is likely, say experts

A developing cyber attack at Australian airline Qantas that started at a third-party call centre is already being tentatively attributed to Scattered Spider. Find out more and learn about the next steps for those affected Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 Blog Post

Why the Gov.uk App could (maybe, possibly...) be a turning point for digital government

Twelve years ago, the Government Digital Service (GDS) told us that it was “not ‘appy at all”. The March 2013 blog post that announced GDS would not develop a government mobile app and would ... Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

TSB faces another risky IT migration as Santander eyes UK bank

TSB’s customers were moved to the in-house-developed platform of its parent, Sabadell, in a disastrous migration in 2018 Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Network failures see third of UK businesses lose £4m a year

Research finds as many as half of UK businesses have been forced to urgently re-evaluate their tech infrastructure following a wave of high-profile IT outages Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Bias and lack of flexibility hindering diversity, finds DSIT

A diversity and inclusion report compiled for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology outlines the many barriers to diversity in the UK’s tech sector Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 Opinion

Technology’s true test - serving 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 Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Digital Catapult claims milestone in UK advanced connectivity landscape

Deep tech innovation organisation awarded accreditation as the UK’s only European Open Testing and Integration Centre. Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Law professor urges CMA to take swift and urgent action over Microsoft cloud licensing

University of Leeds law professor has published an academic paper calling on the UK Competition and Markets Authority not to drag its heels on correcting Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing habits Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Dutch study uncovers cognitive biases undermining cyber security board decisions

Dutch research reveals how cognitive biases can lead to catastrophic security decisions Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Digital workers at US bank to get their own email accounts

The financial services sector is leading the way when it comes to using AI across operations – and it’s not afraid to talk about it Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 Opinion

Shared services in the public sector – is bigger really better?

CIO Sean Green discusses the role of shared services in the UK public sector today Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Ericsson recommits to UK 6G research programme

Global tech provider offers commitment to UK government in driving research and playing an active role in shaping the technologies and standards that will define 6G Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 Blog Post

Sysdig delivers integrated cloud security AI analyst

The time has come for AI-driven precision across prevention, detection, investigation and response. This is the message from real-time cloud security company Sysdig. Sysdig Sage is said to equip ... Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer

Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025 Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

GlobalLogic, Volvo Cars drive future of automotive mobility

Partnership to take advantage of global delivery engine, deep industry expertise and scalable distributed model to design and build software-upgradable applications across connected vehicle’s entire lifecycle Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation

Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Virgin Media O2 boosts mobile network through Vodafone spectrum acquisition

Details released of spectrum transfer agreement between leading UK telcos, which is expected to materially enhance Virgin Media O2’s network position and improve connectivity experience of businesses across the country Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Qantas customer data exposed in contact centre breach

Australian flag carrier is investigating significant data theft of personal information for up to six million customers after a third-party platform used by its call centre was compromised Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

Cloudflare to let customers block AI web crawlers

Publishers and other providers of creative content now have the option to block AI crawlers from accessing and scraping their intellectual property with new tools from Cloudflare. Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 Blog Post

Nutanix CEO: Building the infrastructure to harness AI’s potential

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami is fond of a big picture wide-angle view… after all, he used his keynote at this year’s .NEXT user conference in Washington, D.C. to explain to attendees how and why ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

The road to quantum datacentres goes beyond logical qubits

Industry experts gathered in London to explore the missing pieces needed to deploy quantum computing at scale in datacentres Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

ING Bank transforming operations through agentic AI

Netherlands-headquartered international bank is using artificial intelligence throughout its operations Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

Openreach adds 21 locations in broadband upgrade footprint

UK’s largest broadband network provider makes significant addition to infrastructure, staying on track to make full-fibre gigabit available to 30 million premises in all corners of the UK by 2030 Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 In Depth

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 Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 Podcast

Podcast: AIOps in storage management, security and sustainability

Dell’s Stewart Hunwick explains why AIOps – artificial intelligence for IT operations – is key to gaining efficiencies in storage management and sustainability, and discusses reactive and proactive data security Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 Blog Post

OpenELA compatibility toolset helps Linux distros reduce testing costs

OpenELA has announced ELValidated, a verification and interoperability suite for Enterprise Linux operating systems. This gives developers the ability to verify the compatibility of their ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 E-Zine

Empowering professionals

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we put HMRC’s online IR35 status checker under the microscope, after an FOI response revealed usage of the tool has plummeted over the past three years. We also hear how GenAI is being put to the test to enhance the ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

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