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• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Saudi Arabia launches AI health coach to transform preventive care

  Integrated into the national Sehaty app, the AI feature, developed with Lean Business Services and Google Cloud, marks a major step in Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 journey toward smarter, more personalised healthcare

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  E.ON taps Nokia for comms network modernisation

  Five-year deal sees energy supplier deploy network service across optical, IP and fibre domains, laying the foundations for future advancements, including support for sustainability goals in quantum-safe networks

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Monday.com eyes ASEAN growth with Singapore hub

  The work management specialist’s Collier Quay office will serve as its hub for Southeast Asia as it looks to build deeper relationships with a growing customer base

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Extreme lands enterprise Wi-Fi 7 wins

  AI-powered networking automation firm reveals number of significant deployments of services based on latest wireless comms standard

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI

  E-commerce giant Amazon has cited artificial intelligence as a key driver of its decision to lay off thousands of its corporate employees

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Alan Turing Institute refocuses on security following Peter Kyle intervention

  A letter by the former secretary of state at DSIT, Peter Kyle, has led to a major transformation, with 78 projects taken off its books

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  UK citizens raise red flags over environmental impacts of datacentres in poll

  A poll of 1,000 UK citizens reveals deep concerns about the energy and water usage habits of the nation’s growing footprint of datacentres

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Effective cyber sanctions require a joined-up approach, says Rusi

  Calling out and sanctioning cyber threat actors can be an effective tool, but is not a universal panacea, and needs to be considered as part of a wider, strategic approach, say Rusi think tank analysts

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  VodafoneThree network sharing unlocks ‘significant’ coverage improvements

  Network analyst finds recently merged company’s strategy to pool network resources is paying off for users from broader reach to faster, more reliable connectivity

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Qualcomm gears up for AI inference revolution

  Rack-based AI acceleration hardware is being positioned as a cost-effective and straightforward way to power AI inference workloads

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Government begins search for chief technology officer

  The government is looking for a chief technology officer to take charge of delivering its vision for digital public services

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey

  Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud

• October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

  Ericsson, Nokia, Fraunhofer HHI team to drive 6G-era video coding standard

  Comms tech giants and mobile and optical systems manufacturer form collaboration to drive the next generation of video coding standardisation, creating a proof of concept intended to power immersive and AI-driven media in the 6G era

• October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

  LockBit 5.0 expands targeting amid ransomware escalation

  The LockBit RaaS operation is back in action, with technical features and expanded targeting, and is contributing to a steadily growing number of ransomware attacks

• October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

  AT&T unveils Open RAN call milestone

  US communication giant pushes forward on evolution of wireless networks and the industry’s move towards open architectures with first Open RAN call using third-party radios over commercial network

• October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

  Hamas lawyer seeks appeal following police’s seizure of his phone at Welsh port

  Police say that solicitors cannot have a ‘cast iron defence’ to protect their electronic devices from ever being searched

• October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

  Requtech retrofit programme sees creation of Satcom hub

  Long-standing antenna design company that boasts deployments of parabolic, phased array and troposcatter antennas expands portfolio into the infrastructure side of the Satcom industry

• October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

  Post Office paid one law firm more for inquiry representation than cost of actual inquiry

  Public inquiry into one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history cost less to run than the Post Office paid one law firm for representation during the four-year process

• October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

  BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration

  Zscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  UK ramps up ransomware fightback with supply chain security guide

  Multinational guidance, developed by the UK and Singapore, is designed to help organisations reinforce their supply chain against ransomware attacks

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  Documentary to show women’s journey to becoming role models

  The challenges faced when learning to share and express one’s story are often unseen, but an upcoming documentary aims to highlight how 10 women built confidence in public speaking

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  Banks’ AI cost-cutting benefits won’t last, will ‘erode’ profits

  Banks are making significant cost savings through initial artificial intelligence implementations, but the technology will eventually hit their profits

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  Government awards Post Office £2m contract to search for its own Capture records

  Up to 1,500 claims expected from former users of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

  Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  Canva to save 30,000 work hours with agentic AI

  The graphic design giant is training hundreds of staff on a low-code AI platform and agentic AI tools that are set to save around 30,000 person-hours this year and generate financial returns

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  Interview: Inside Abu Dhabi’s fast-track formula for deep-tech startups

  With its integrated model for research, innovation, and commercialisation, VentureOne’s CEO says the incubator is helping turn the UAE’s bold tech ambitions into globally competitive companies.

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Capita rubbishes Public Accounts Committee report claims

  The outsourcing giant has missed IT deadlines, stoking fears it won’t be ready to take over the civil service pension contract

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Abu Dhabi bets on autonomous racing to accelerate AI and mobility innovation

  Through the Autonomous Racing League, Aspire and the Advanced Technology Research Council are using high-speed competition to test and advance real-world AI and robotics systems

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Bereaved families call for public inquiry over suicide forum

  The Molly Rose Foundation and families bereaved by suicide claim Ofcom and government departments have not taken effective action to deal with a forum promoting suicide

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Amid CISA cuts, US state launches first VDP

  Legislators in Annapolis, Maryland, have teamed up with Bugcrowd to launch a statewide vulnerability disclosure programme

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Ministry of Justice’s OpenAI deal paves way to sovereign AI

  OpenAI has been busy signing deals with the UK government to bolster UK artificial intelligence. It’s now launching data residency for UK customers

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Cabinet Office pinches digital ID responsibility from GDS

  Prime minister Keir Starmer announces Cabinet Office will take over responsibility for the government’s new digital identity scheme

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  NHS could save millions of hours a year using AI, pilot shows

  A Microsoft Copilot AI trial in 90 NHS organisations found that a national roll-out could save up to 400,000 hours per month

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  AWS apologises for 14-hour outage and sets out causes of US datacentre region downtime

  Days after its largest US datacentre region experienced a lengthy outage, causing service disruption to web users across the globe, Amazon Web Services issues an explanation and apology regarding what happened

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Business leaders raise concerns over public cloud data sovereignty

  The unpredictable geopolitical climate is having an impact on IT strategies, a report from Kyndryl has found

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  UAE’s datacentre boom powers AI ambitions and digital sovereignty

  Surging investments in cloud infrastructure and hyperscale capacity position the UAE as a regional digital powerhouse and a magnet for global tech giants

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Singapore unveils efforts to govern agentic AI, prepare for post-quantum era

  Guidelines and tools will help organisations in the city-state manage risks from AI agents and prepare for a future where quantum computers could break current encryption

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Jaguar Land Rover attack to cost UK £1.9bn, say cyber monitors

  The UK's Cyber Monitoring Centre calculates the overall cost of the Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack will be almost two billion pounds

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Render Networks unveils next-generation business intelligence platform

  Digitising network provider embeds advanced data and AI capabilities in bid to ‘redefine’ how entire broadband value chain anticipates risks, forecasts outcomes and uncovers opportunities across large-scale environments

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Government faces questions about why US AWS outage disrupted UK tax office and banking firms

  The government is facing questions about why a multi-hour outage originating in a US-based cloud region belonging to Amazon Web Services caused service disruption to UK banking giants and HM Revenue and Customs

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Nokia lands railway comms, optical networking wins across Asia

  Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company to deploy internet protocol/multi-protocol label switching technology, while GBI to build optical network for faster, more resilient connectivity across Middle East

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  More openness on the cards for Apple and Google’s mobile platforms

  Competition and Markets Authority will look closely at the openness of Google and Apple’s mobile platforms after designating both with strategic market status

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Atos boss ‘utterly determined’ not to allow GenAI to pull up career drawbridge

  AI is being used in all sectors of the economy and society, but adopters must ensure the next generation of professionals are not denied a first rung on the ladder because of it

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Container storage: Five key things you need to know

  We look at container storage and backup, diving deep into how storage works in containers, container storage interface, container-native storage, and the management platforms storage suppliers offer

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Inspired by the EU: Sweden eyes open standard for encrypted chat services

  What if your messaging and collaboration app could talk to all the others? Swedish government agencies are investigating the possibility

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Building security and trust in AI agents

  AI agents require standardised guidelines, clear human responsibility and a shared language between developers and policymakers to be secure and trusted, experts say

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  Do government services need a rethink for AI and automation?

  Evidence presented in a new Public Accounts Committee report covering smart public services delivery suggests a change in tack is needed

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  US healthcare providers tap Verizon for neutral host, private 5G combo nets

  Leading comms provider shows continued momentum in the healthcare space for neutral host network and private 5G network products

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  OpenInfra Summit Europe: Migrating off VMware

  With Broadcom’s focus on VMware Cloud Foundation subscriptions, OpenStack is being positioned as the open source alternative

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  Government to launch AI sandbox scheme

  The proposed AI Growth Lab aims to cut red tape and allow companies to test artificial intelligence products in a safe environment