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• 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

  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

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Ciaran Martin: AI might disturb attacker-defender security balance

  The founder of the National Cyber Security Centre spoke with Computer Weekly at Infosecurity Europe 2025 about how artificial intelligence might disturb the attacker-defender security equilibrium

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  MPs propose ban on predictive policing

  MPs are attempting to amend the UK government’s forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill so that it prohibits the use of controversial predictive policing systems

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  UK joins global health regulator network for safe use of AI

  The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has become a founding member of the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network, aiming to get trustworthy artificial intelligence tools into the NHS

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Fujitsu’s grip on HMRC loosening but bags of taxpayer cash still to be made

  The complicated and risky nature of replacing IT suppliers in major government contracts means Fujitsu will be cashing in for years to come

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Silicon Valley execs sworn in to US Army reserves specialist unit

  Four technology executives are brought into the military to make the armed forces ‘more lethal’, reflecting softening attitudes throughout the sector towards ‘the business of inflicting violence’

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Seven main suspects under police investigation in national Post Office probe

  The national police investigation into crimes related to the Post Office scandal expects the number of suspects to continue to rise

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Sky ECC distributor released from French custody pending trial

  Canadian businessman accused of distributing Sky ECC encrypted phones has been released on bail after over four years in custody without a trial

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  British hacker IntelBroker faces years in a US prison cell

  US authorities have unsealed charges against 25-year-old hacker Kai West, aka IntelBroker, accusing him of being behind multiple cyber attacks

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Next phase of fintech reflected in strong financials, says World Economic Forum

  Digital-powered finance firms might not be growing their customer base as fast as the immediate post-pandemic period, but revenue and profits are strong

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Glasgow Council services remain offline a week after cyber attack

  Disruption continues a week after core services at Glasgow City Council were forced offline following a cyber attack on a third-party IT services provider

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  UK rail network gets on track for enhanced connectivity

  Partnership between UK rail infrastructure provider and communications firm aims to boost 4G/5G connectivity on trains and in stations, tackle signal blackspots in tunnels, and pave the way for train performance improvements across Britain

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Aviva Stadium upgrades 5G infrastructure

  Ireland’s premier sporting venue upgrades communications infrastructure to offer 5G capability claiming to have improved significantly mobile performance, coverage and capacity

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Public sector spends £16.6bn directly with tech suppliers every year

  Government and public sector bodies spent big on technology last year, but the majority of the money went to large IT suppliers, with 84% of the total spend going to so-called ‘tech titans’, according to a report from Tussell

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years

  A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  AI competitiveness maxing out US bandwidth

  Research finds growing demand to bring compute and data closer to the edge for real-time performance. Hyperscalers and datacentres are securing dense metro networks to support AI inference and regional interconnects

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Swisscom claims world first with sovereign SASE connectivity service

  SASE applied at heart of leading Swiss telco’s converged networking and cyber security offering to deliver customised, advanced networking and security services directly from its own infrastructure

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Latest Citrix vulnerability could be every bit as bad as Citrix Bleed

  A Citrix NetScaler flaw that was quietly patched earlier in June is gathering widespread attention after experts noted strong similarities to the Citrix Bleed vulnerability that caused chaos in late 2023

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Satellite data to drive innovation in UK public services

  UK Space Agency announces £2.5m funding for research into applications for the use of satellite data to help transform the delivery of public services

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Thames Freeport lands multisite private 5G network

  Verizon Business and Nokia to deliver multiple dedicated infrastructures to enhance port operations with AI-driven data analytics, autonomous vehicle control and real-time logistics orchestration

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Brightspeed, Calix conclude ‘innovative, seamless’ 50G-PON test

  US broadband and telecommunications services provider’s technology advancement centre tests passive optical fibre network capabilities that it says will support rapid, scalable growth today and for years to come

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Arelion upgrades Scandinavian network to support AI ‘superhighway’

  IP backbone and diverse connectivity services provider deploys 1.6Tbps and scalable 400G coherent pluggable optics for network between Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen