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• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  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

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  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 ‘...

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  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

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  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

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  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

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  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

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  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

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern

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

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  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

• July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

  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

• July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

  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

• July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

  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

• July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

  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

• July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

  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

• July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

  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

• July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

  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

• July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

  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’

• July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

  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

• July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

  Space comms reaches commercialisation inflection point

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

• July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

  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

• July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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.

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Dutch study uncovers cognitive biases undermining cyber security board decisions

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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  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

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  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.

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  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

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  ING Bank transforming operations through agentic AI

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

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  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

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Firms must adopt skills-based strategy for human-AI workforce

  To unlock the value of AI agents, organisations must shift to a skills-based strategy and manage their new digital employees with the same rigour as their human workforce, according to a senior Workday executive

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  Government launches Gov.uk App

  The public beta version of the app will allow users to access government services on their phones, based on their needs and interests

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  Second AI Energy Council meeting looks to forecast future demand

  Given Labour’s ambition to use AI to drive economic growth, questions need to be answered on how the nation’s energy grid will cope

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

  Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI

  At its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Citrix Bleed 2 under active attack, reports suggest

  Days after news emerged of a Citrix NetScaler flaw comparable in its scope and severity to 2023’s infamous Citrix Bleed, there are already clear indicators that threat actors are taking advantage of the critical vulnerability

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Scattered Spider cyber gang turns fire on aviation sector

  Multiple reports are emerging of cyber attacks on airlines – Google Cloud’s Mandiant believes them to be linked

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Over 2 million affected by US supermarket breach

  Belgian-Dutch supermarket operator Ahold Delhaize reveals that more than two million people, including employees, had their data compromised following a November 2024 ransomware attack

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Interview: Developing a CIO strategy for artificial intelligence

  We speak to Chris Loake, group CIO at Hiscox, about the roll-out of Microsoft Copilot and how to succeed with AI projects