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• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  Interpol obliterates cyber criminal infrastructure

  A major Interpol operation has resulted in the seizure of thousands of malicious cyber criminal IP addresses and servers, and multiple arrests.

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  Shared Rural Network expansion removes Islay not-spots

  Latest development in £1.3bn mobile expansion scheme sees mobile not-spots reduced on Scottish island as 4G site goes live, providing coverage from all mobile operators for the first time

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  UK falls behind on supercomputing amid slow investment, NAO warns

  While UKRI has improved its oversight of research and innovation, funding remains fragmented and has been too slow to replace supercomputers

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  Openreach trials ‘pioneering’ fibre-optic water leak detection

  UK’s leading broadband provider embarks on test of fibre‑optic leak‑detection system designed to turn cables into thousands of virtual sensors, claiming over two million litres of water saved each day

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  MTN launches click-to-deploy satellite service on AWS Marketplace

  Global network operator’s StarEdge Horizon launched on global online platform, claiming to be the first satellite connectivity service of its kind available for one-click deployment

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  Unreliable fleet connectivity driving employee exodus

  Study finds fleets experience an average downtime of 25%, equating to three to four days of downtime per month, while a third of fleet operators still rely on hotspots from mobile devices to provide connectivity on the move

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  Altnets ‘force to be reckoned with’ in UK broadband

  Research shows peers reaching around 19.7 million premises, with more than 3.5 million live connections, outperforming the major providers on customer satisfaction and value

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  CityFibre, AllPoints Fibre introduce multi-gigabit FTTP

  Partnership aims to bring together leading networks to simplify wholesale consumption to enable ISPs and MSPs to meet the demands of high-value customers with access to 1.7Gbps and 2.3Gbps FTTP speeds

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI

  Moving AI from experiment to production requires high-quality, real-time data streaming. Australia tech leaders from Confluent, Bendigo Bank, Telstra, and Coles share how they are turning systems of record into systems of action

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions

  Report from MPs warns of unknown number of unsafe subpostmasters convictions based on multiple pre-Horizon systems

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  UK government ‘flying blind’ with poor data in charting regional growth

  The government is being impeded in its bid to stoke economic growth across the regions, according to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  Zoom expands enterprise agentic AI platform

  AI-first work platform provider introduces new workflow capabilities across Workplace, phone and customer experience products, expanding its enterprise agentic AI platform

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  Lloyds banking app ‘glitch’ shows transactions of strangers

  Customers of Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank experienced a glitch this morning, where details of other customers’ transactions were displayed in their online banking apps

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  The UK government’s digital identity scheme: Dystopian nightmare or modernised public services?

  Critics and supporters of digital ID are honing their arguments for the government’s consultation – but it’s the public that will decide. How should you choose?

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  Enormous AI growth zone datacentre gets planning approval

  North Lincolnshire Council approves 1GW datacentre with nearby electricity generation, but environmental campaigners say the developers did their sums wrong

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  What it takes to succeed with AI

  With research showing the use of AI may temporarily reduce productivity, Cloudera’s Vini Cardoso urges businesses to adopt an organisation-wide platform approach driven by measurable value and trusted data

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Met Office ‘supercomputing as a service’ one year old

  Artificial intelligence is not key to the weather picture, as the forecasting and climate prediction agency lauds the benefits of moving from on-site supercomputers to cloud computing for scientific modelling

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  UK government announces package to get more women in tech

  The UK government aims to add billions of pounds to the economy through getting more women into the tech sector

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Ford accelerates fleet data capability with Pro AI

  Auto manufacturing giant introduces fleet management software aiming to help organisations manage their fleet operations more effectively and get daily tasks done

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Wayve gears up with end-to-end AI for autonomous vehicles

  Mobile technology platform firm teams with UK self-driving company to advance production-ready end-to-end artificial intelligence for assisted and automated driving

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Mastercard bots target C-suite roles

  Card giant offers SMEs a virtual chief financial officer through artificial intelligence technology, with other C-suite roles to follow

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Iran war a melting pot for other cyber threats

  State-backed cyber threat actors from non-combatant states are taking advantage of the Israeli-US war on Iran to fulfil their own goals, according to Proofpoint analysts

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  UK government reforms could see datacentres jump grid connection queue

  With electricity grid demand ballooning, the UK government plans for consultation and reform to ensure feasible and prioritised projects get the thumbs up

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  O2 makes major 5G expansion, deploys small cells to boost Bath capacity

  Leading UK mobile operator makes significant expansion of 5G standalone to hundreds of towns and cities across the UK, while leading west of England visitor hub to gain more capacity through small cells

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Cyber industry welcomes women, but challenges persist

  Three-quarters of women working in security say they feel comfortable in the field, but women are still much more likely to be laid off and face persistent challenges around career advancement, according to a report

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Salesforce tracks possible ShinyHunters campaign targeting its users

  Salesforce warns users of an uptick in malicious activity targeting Experience Cloud customers with misconfigured user settings via an open source tool

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Oracle cost-cutting points to AI infrastructure gamble

  Over the past few weeks, cracks have started to appear in the tech sector’s growth plans for artificial intelligence

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Child rapist could have profiled victims through unaudited access to NHS databases

  NHS analyst’s conviction for child sexual abuse offences raises concerns over unaudited access to patient data

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Zendesk to acquire Forethought in major agentic AI play

  Zendesk is acquiring Forethought to bolster its agentic AI chops with specialised and self-learning AI agents capable of managing complex customer service workflows

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  CISOs on alert: Strengthening cyber resilience amid geopolitical tensions in the Middle East

  As regional uncertainty rises, security leaders across the Gulf focus on resilience, faster incident response and deeper threat intelligence to protect critical systems and data

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Welsh government boosts funding for cyber education

  The Welsh government’s Tech Valleys programme is providing three-quarters of a million pounds to help reach thousands of primary school children with security education and careers guidance

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Neurons over silicon: Singapore plans first biological datacentre

  DayOne and Cortical Labs are bringing ‘wetware’ computing to the city-state, using living neurons grown from stem cells to support the demand for AI while addressing sustainability concerns

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server

  Zero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Ericsson, Future Technologies scale wireless infrastructure for industrial AI

  Connectivity transformation systems integrator and comms tech giant expand collaboration to accelerate deployment of private 5G and enterprise wireless networks across North America

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Neura Robotics accelerates next-generation physical AI

  Robotics firm inks strategic collaboration with chip giant to advance next-generation robotics and physical AI, and work jointly on reference architectures for full-stack robotics systems

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Whitehall launches digital ID consultation

  Eight-week consultation aims to get the public’s view on how the proposed digital ID system would work, and contemplates introducing a universal unique identifier linked to the ID

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Met Police to ‘trial’ handheld facial recognition tech

  London Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals in a scrutiny session with London Assembly members that the Met is set to trial a facial recognition phone app for police officers

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Shared Rural Network scheme hits mast upgrade milestone in Wales

  Latest expansion of government’s £1.3bn mobile coverage scheme sees significant expansion of mast construction in rural parts of Wales from all four UK operators

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Microsoft Cowork: One data store for all your M365 assets

  MIcrosoft has revealed the next stage of its plans to place its software at the heart of enterprise data, which is now powered by agentic AI

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Render Networks unveils synchronised agentic critical infrastructure architecture

  Critical infrastructure execution and intelligence software provider unveils agentic AI architecture designed for dynamic, scalable execution at infrastructure operators and constructors

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Open banking presents £43bn opportunity for UK economy if warnings are heeded

  Open banking has already delivered billions of pounds to the UK economy and has huge future potential, but industry leaders warn against complacency

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Huawei: agent-oriented mobile networks to define AgentVerse

  Comms tech giant paints picture of AI-led communications infrastructure as industry transitions towards a new world of agents

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  AI chooses nuclear escalation in 95% of simulated crises

  With artificial intelligence increasingly deployed in analysis and decision-making in armed conflict, research shows AI systems will not naturally default to ‘safe’ outcomes in nuclear crises

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  WA auditor general flags weak Microsoft 365 security controls across state entities

  Western Australia’s Office of the Auditor General has uncovered weaknesses in M365 configurations across seven government agencies, leading to compromised accounts and data breaches

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  UK to launch cyber fraud squad in April

  The UK’s Online Crime Centre, launching next month, will bring together government, police, intelligence agencies, banks, mobile networks and tech firms to take coordinated action against cyber fraud

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  Trump looks to power up post-quantum, AI security

  The US has unveiled a six-pillar national cyber security strategy, with developing technological areas such as post-quantum cryptography and artificial intelligence front and centre

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  IBM takes a second shot at Post Office contract to replace Horizon

  The US tech giant is bidding for a £323m contract to replace the Post Office’s flawed Horizon IT system, a decade after its previous attempt was abandoned due to complexities

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  Nvidia teams with global telecom leaders for 6G development

  AI behemoth and global operators and infrastructure providers team to build next-generation mobile infrastructure to advance AI-native 6G innovation based on open and trusted software-defined wireless platforms

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  Qualcomm plots out 6G, Wi-Fi 8 future with AI as the new user interface

  Leading comms tech platform provider unveils agentic radio access network management service and AI enhancements for commercial RAN platforms to accelerate value for telcos on the path to 6G

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  Interview: Nick Pearson, CIO, Ricoh Europe

  Working for a company undergoing a major pivot in its business model means variety and opportunity for the supplier’s tech chief