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• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment

  An equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Data embassies and US embargo halt give Saudi AI hope

  Gulf autocracy gets access to powerful AI chips subject to export ban and pursues legal reforms to make foreign computing firms feel comfortable about putting their data there

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Three UK doubles Glasgow mobile speeds in UK-first Open RAN trial

  UK mobile operator claims successful completion of landmark trial of open radio access network in the UK’s first deployment of the technology in a dense urban environment, with 4G and 5G speeds doubled at peak times

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Labour puts Humphrey AI to work for council admin

  A tool built on the government’s Humphrey AI toolset is being piloted by 25 councils to take notes during meetings

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Police Digital Service board director quits several months after CISO departs

  The Police Digital Service has confirmed it’s in the process of recruiting a new CISO, as Companies House documents confirm one of its board members left the organisation earlier this month

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Enterprise to the fore as Zoom claims strong Q1

  First quarter of 2026 financial year sees AI-first work platform provider break $1bn revenue barrier, with especially strong rise in enterprise business and AI Companion usage, up nearly 40%

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI

  Southeast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  HMRC’s hunt for hyperscaler to lead £500m datacentre exit project deemed ‘anti-competitive’

  HMRC is seeking a hyperscaler to manage a decade-long migration of its server workloads to the cloud, but the proposed deal is raising eyebrows among UK IT market experts

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Virgin Media O2 Business offers Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile

  UK operator’s business division looks to offer companies seamless, secure collaboration to support flexible working and gain enhanced productivity

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  BT returns to capital spending for full-fibre expansion

  UK’s leading communications group lifts investment in order to beat previous build target and connect customers faster as part of mass transformation of UK’s Digital Infrastructure

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  European Wi-Fi firms make their call for 6GHz spectrum

  Trade body for Wi-Fi community calls on European Commission to grant access to coveted wireless spectrum band to ensure digital society objectives and support Europe’s Digital Decade

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Microsoft raises posse to target dangerous Lumma malware

  Microsoft, along with a consortium of partners, has seized and disrupted a significant part of the Lumma malware-as-a-service network used to steal data and funds

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  DSIT makes £5.5m of funding available to new projects

  The government is focusing on easing the regulatory burden that can often hamper the introduction of innovative technologies in the public sector

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Lloyds and Nationwide to use UK finance sector LLM

  Industry-specific large language models could improve customer services, strengthen security and support regulatory compliance

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Former ICAEW operations chief heads up BCS

  BCS CEO Sharon Gunn wants to open up membership to broadest range of people to promote professional and ethical practices

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Lack of practical learning bad for STEM careers

  A lack of hands-on learning could prevent children from being interested in science and tech careers in the future

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  HMRC begins escape from Fujitsu’s grip through £500m contract

  HMRC looking for a supplier to support its planned exit from three Fujitsu datacentre contracts

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt

  Gartner analysts explain how infrastructure and operations teams can address the accumulation of outdated systems and make a compelling business case for upgrades

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Google gets in gear with Volvo to drive connected vehicle AI

  Swedish car giant and IT behemoth expand partnership with integration of Gemini artificial intelligence to accelerate automotive innovation

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands

  As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July

  M&S says it has moved into recovery mode after a ransomware attack, but expects some disruption to persist throughout the coming weeks

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Sapphire 2025: SAP mints business AI flywheel with Palantir on board

  SAP CEO Christian Klein put economic and geopolitical uncertainty at the centre of the opening keynote at the supplier’s global Sapphire event in Orlando

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  NCSC: Russia’s Fancy Bear targeting logistics, tech organisations

  The NCSC and its partner agencies have blown the whistle on an extensive campaign of malicious cyber attacks orchestrated by the Russian state Fancy Bear operation

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Google I/O: LLM capabilities power agentic AI search

  As Google strives to make AI universal, it is starting to integrate agentic AI into Google Search to fast-track purchasing on websites

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Interview: Rom Kosla, CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  The IT chief of one of the world's biggest tech companies still has to get the technology right - and he's building on cloud, application consolidation and data to bring new capabilities in AI to his users

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Fujitsu raked in £80m from HMRC in March alone, despite Post Office scandal

  HM Revenue & Customs described as a UK ‘cash cow’ for the Japanese IT giant at the centre of the Post Office Horizon scandal

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine

  Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Nokia trials 5G during Norway military exercise, gains award for private wireless

  Global comms tech provider reveals its part in test of 5G technology in a defence scenario during a Norwegian military exercise and scoops top rating for private 5G by leading analyst

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Capital One pushes out data tokenisation

  Organisations using the Databricks and Snowflake platforms will be able to use Capital One’s Databolt tool to secure their data

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Extreme Networks ups networking AI ante with Platform One

  Leading cloud networking provider announces limited availability of next-gen networking platform attributed with reducing manual tasks by up to 90%

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum

  Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Strong fintech security posture at risk via third-party weak links

  Despite having a strong security posture, the financial technology sector could be open to attack via third parties

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Ransomware attacks dropped by a third last month

  Reported ransomware attacks eased off during April following a dramatic spike in the first quarter of 2025

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy

  Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Hacking contest exposes VMware security

  In what has been described as a historical first, hackers in Berlin have been able to demo successful attacks on the ESXi hypervisor

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Botched Post Office IT projects continue to drain public purse

  Millions more pounds of public money spent by the Post Office as a result of an IT error that exposed the personal details of Horizon victims

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Retail cyber attacks hit food distributor Peter Green Chilled

  Cold chain services provider Peter Green Chilled, which supplies the likes of Aldi, Sainsbury’s and Tesco, has been forced to halt operations after succumbing to a ransomware attack

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Ireland sets out chip plan

  Ireland has a long history of attracting high-tech firms. Building on the EU Chip Act, it now aims to be a leader in semiconductors

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Interview: Driving tech innovation at the BBC

  Computer Weekly speaks to Jatin Aythora, director of BBC Research and Development, about self-belief and learning from different industries

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning

  Windows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  DigiCert and Panasonic team to accelerate adoption of Matter smart home devices

  Partnership between industrial arm of technology giant and digital trust security firm aims to embed security into the DNA of metering devices during manufacturing for ‘swift’ and ‘seamless’ certification

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Qualcomm boosts UAE presence with AI, IoT, Edge development

  AI-first platform provider bolsters UAE activity in collaboration with leading operator for AI at the edge, and expands global engineering centres to Abu Dhabi to spearhead technological innovation in AI, datacentres and industrial IoT

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Rio Tinto overhauls IT operations with platform model

  Rio Tinto’s head of technology platforms outlines the mining giant’s move to an IT platform model designed to escape a reactive cycle of critical incidents and improve service quality for internal and external customers

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Chinese cyber spooks lure laid-off US government workers

  A Washington DC-based think tank has published evidence that Chinese intelligence services have been running a network of digital ‘front’ companies targeting laid-off government workers as recruits

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Trump visit bolsters Saudi AI

  A new AI datacentre is among the initiatives the White House announced during the president’s Middle East visits

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Legal Aid Agency breach may encompass millions of people

  Legal Aid Agency says the data of anybody who applied for legal aid over the past 15 years has been compromised in a cyber attack

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Dutch universities call for reduced dependence on Big Tech

  Dutch universities are calling for greater digital autonomy as more research and educational data is stored in American clouds, posing risks to academic freedom, privacy and accessibility

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Government sets up guidance for 10-year R&D commitment

  Research and development is one of the main areas of focus for Labour’s Plan for Change as it readies its Industrial Strategy

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation

  Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential

  Organisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive