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• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Workday research: 75% of employees will work with artificial intelligence, but not for it

  Workday research finds 75% of workers like AI as a teammate, but only 30% want AI to be the boss. Trust in the technology may grow with use, but human focus, clear roles and governance are key

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  UK state-owned bank goes cloud-native

  State-owned National Savings and Investments bank used contract renewal as an opportunity to keep pace with changes in the market

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  MX Fiber extends gigabit access across south-east Mexico with optical network

  New photonic net in region traditionally underserved by digital infrastructure set to transform connectivity for datacentres, industrial zones and subsea hubs, while laying groundwork for smarter commerce, transportation and public services

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Norway fixing Big Bang e-health botch with fintech security

  Experts call for Europe’s health sector to protect medical APIs with security originated from UK open banking as officials take urgent measures against unprecedented attacks

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Salesforce research: CFOs zealous for agentic AI

  A Salesforce study says chief financial officers have shifted from agentic artificial intelligence caution to putting the technology front and centre of their business strategies

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Obituary: Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley, founder, entrepreneur and philanthropist

  Dame Stephanie Shirley, a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist known in the technology sector as Steve, has passed away

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  600 VodafoneThree UK sites now offer integrated coverage

  Newly formed operator releases details on key element of merger, claiming hundreds of sites now offer ‘seamless’ integration with aim of unlocking greater capacity, eliminating 4G notspots and expanding 5G coverage across the UK

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India

  Krutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  F&W Networks, Fusion Fibre team to accelerate gigabit broadband

  Strategic partnership designed to reinforce broadband wholesaler’s position as a enabler of digital transformation across the UK and deliver on shared commitment to building a more connected future for homes and businesses in south of England

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  Overlooking IoT TCO risks millions in hidden costs

  Research finds concentrating on cheap connectivity while overlooking the total cost of internet of things ownership risks millions in hidden costs, but accurate TCO assessments can identify multimillions in net savings

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  Why Intel’s woes shows the fragility of the European Chips Act

  Intel is facing political pressure and stress across its business, with its 2022 plans to manufacture in the EU one of the casualties

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  McCullough Review into PSNI spying on journalists and lawyers delayed

  Angus McCullough KC is to present findings of an independent review of police spying on phone data of lawyers, journalists and NGOs in Northern Ireland in October  

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  EDGX closes €2.3m funding to boost AI compute for satellites

  Belgian space tech company gains funding to aid its mission to deliver the world’s fastest edge computing service for satellite constellations, enabling fast and efficient data processing from space

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  Arqit to join Vodafone network and ecosystem innovation centre

  Innovation centre for leading-edge technologies welcomes encryption software service to scale its quantum-safe technology across operator’s ecosystem

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  Watching the watchers: Is the Technical Advisory Panel a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ?

  Dame Muffy Calder is chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a small group of experts that advises the Investigatory Powers Commissioner on surveillance technology. Do they have what it takes to oversee the intelligence community?

• August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

  O2 deploys small cells to boost mobile in Cornwall

  Equipment upgrade will see customers in St Ives and Newquay benefit from better mobile connectivity after deployment of 13 small cells, with sites now live ahead of the peak summer season

• August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

  Interview: How PXP shifted off VMware

  When a business begins to see less and less value from an incumbent IT provider, especially as its software becomes more expensive, it might be time to switch. Here’s how one company did just that

• August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

  The UK government’s AI Growth Zones strategy: Everything you need to know

  Plans to make the UK an AI superpower imply pervasive use of the technology. Ramping up adoption of AI will require more datacentres to host compute-intensive workloads, which is where the AI Growth Zone strategy comes in

• August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

  OpenAI closes gap to artificial general intelligence with GPT-5

  As OpenAI’s latest large language model delivers smarter AI, experts are wary of the risks GPT-5 poses to human creativity

• August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

  Cloudera touts hybrid data platform to power enterprise AI boom

  At its Evolve APAC 2025 conference in Singapore, Cloudera promises to end the compromise between on-premise data control and public cloud convenience with its hybrid data platform

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  Interview: Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer, Thomson Reuters

  As a technologist who also runs corporate operations, Thomson Reuters’ CTO believes her tech background gives her a unique edge as the business information group looks to transform its products with AI

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  Trump slaps 100% tariffs on chips to get tech onshore

  The chip sector is being shaken up by the US administration’s plans to levy a tariff on semiconductors imported into the United States

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  DeepSeek shows enterprises model distillation opportunity

  DeepSeek showed how it is possible to run an AI model using far less compute than existing models. AI model distillation is now becoming mainstream

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Government looks at tech to tackle peak electricity demand

  Forecasting, AI, smart meters and electrical vehicle batteries are part of an ambitious project to reduce the use of fossil fuels on the UK's energy grid

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools

  Researchers at Cyata, an agentic identity specialist that has just emerged from stealth, found 14 CVEs in the widely used CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault enterprise secrets management platforms

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Cyber criminals would prefer businesses don’t use Okta

  Okta details a phishing campaign in which the threat actor demonstrated some unusually strong opinions on what authentication methods they would like their targets to use

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Companies House ID verification to start in November 2025

  Companies House plans to start vetting director identities from mid-November, but its reliance on the troubled One Login digital identity service may be cause for concern

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  NCSC updates CNI Cyber Assessment Framework

  Updates to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework are designed to help providers of critical services better manage their risk profiles

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  US comms on verge of tipping point

  Research from PwC finds that from fibre roll-outs to 5G breakthroughs, America’s broadband and mobile markets are undergoing major shifts, with cable’s grip slipping, the true 5G era beginning and mobile revenues set to surge

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  OpenAI now offers open AI models, but CIOs need to assess the risk

  Open models offer enterprise IT a way to build tailored LLMs trained on corporate content. Open AI is now offering two open models

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  AerFlex takes flight as first cloud-controlled AP-only private 5G platform

  ‘Breakthrough’ architecture claimed to be designed to eliminate deployment complexity without compromising security, performance or control

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft

  The five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Biglobe selects DE-CIX for faster Japan, Europe connectivity

  One of Japan’s leading IT companies connects to Frankfurt-based internet exchange for remote peering services, looking to optimise intercontinental data routing without needing a physical presence in Europe

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Australian scaleup to bring AI-led data protection to the MoD

  The UK’s Ministry of Defence is embracing AI-led data protection in the wake of a major privacy breach, enlisting Australian cyber firm Castlepoint Systems to oversee sensitive records

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel

  The Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  How Australian firms are using graph databases

  Banks, miners and police forces in Australia are among those using graph databases to provide the context and data relationships needed for more accurate and trustworthy AI, moving projects from experimentation to production

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Attacker could defeat Dell firmware flaws with a vegetable

  Cisco Talos discloses five vulnerabilities in cyber security firmware used on Dell Latitude and Precision devices, including one that could enable an attacker to log on with a spring onion

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Broadcom unveils Jericho4 for distributed AI networking across datacentres

  Global semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions provider scales over one million specialised processing unit clusters beyond single facility limits

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  ProRail modernises GSM-Railway core network in Netherlands

  Four-year project to upgrade railway comms designed to reduce downtime, cut long-term costs and improve service reliability, paving the way for on-premise, cloud-native control

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Investing in diverse business could boost UK equity market

  It’s difficult for female-led businesses to find investment, but if more funds were made available, it could boost UK equity, according to research

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Autonomous logistics project gets into gear at Port of Tyne

  Port-Connected and Automated Logistics project looks to address unique demands of quayside operations, where vehicles must coordinate precisely with cranes and navigate a constantly changing environment

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Xantaro joins Jisc Framework for next-gen education connectivity

  International service provider for carriers, service providers and enterprises awarded place on education and research sector framework, and will begin key procurement route for digital infrastructure across industry

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security

  Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Black Hat USA: Halcyon and Sophos tag-team ransomware fightback

  Ransomware experts Halcyon and Sophos are to pool their expertise in ransomware, working together to enhance data- and intelligence-sharing and bringing more comprehensive protection to customers

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Proliferation of on-premise GenAI platforms is widening security risks

  Research finds increased adoption of unsanctioned generative artificial intelligence platforms is magnifying risk and causing a headache for security teams

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2025

  Tell us who you think should be included in Computer Weekly’s 2025 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Agentic AI a target-rich zone for cyber attackers in 2025

  At Black Hat USA 2025, CrowdStrike warns that cyber criminals and nation-states are weaponising GenAI to scale attacks and target AI agents, turning autonomous systems against their makers

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  O2 Daisy opens for business  

  Doors open on joint venture between comms provider and IT services company to offer digital-first connectivity and managed services encompassing cloud-based comms, 5G private networks and IoT

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  North Yorkshire sees 4G coverage boost through SRN

  Latest expansion of £5bn UK mobile coverage scheme takes place in North Yorkshire to offer improved connectivity in and around market towns

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector

  A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures