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• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  VMware vSphere 8 end-of-support challenges

  IT leaders need to assess the cost implications of migrating from vSphere 8 to the latest supported VMware product offering

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  5G and Wi-Fi battle for dominance in APAC

  Analysis from Opensignal reveals that the Asia-Pacific region is no longer converging on a single connectivity model, with some markets pivoting to Wi-Fi while others double down on mobile

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Banks on the hook for £173m in APP fraud reimbursement

  Banks paid 88% losses claimed by customers that fell victim to authorised push payment fraud last year

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  AI agents, human judgement and the future of work in the UAE

  As organisations across the UAE move to AI orchestration, leaders are being forced to rethink skills, governance and accountability in an emerging hybrid workforce

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  EE, Three claim UK’s best mobile internet performance in 2025

  Analysis of mobile internet connection data in the UK shows traditional market dominance by BT-owned mobile company challenged by new rival set for infrastructure boost after recent merger

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Kendall names Barnsley as UK’s first tech town

  The UK government has named Barnsley as the nation’s first ‘tech town’, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Canva uses 1Password to secure ID during growth phase

  As it underwent a growth spurt in the early 2020s, graphic design platform Canva turned to 1Password to manage identity across its expanding organisation

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  HMRC chooses cloud SAP S/4Hana for tax system overhaul

  HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Birmingham Oracle project: Data cleansing and resourcing issues

  Councillors at audit committee urged to ensure strong project governance, adequate tech staffing levels and change management procedures

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Vodafone IoT, Skylo bring NTN NB-IoT connectivity to global users

  In a ‘notable’ step in enabling the next wave of internet of things solutions, the IoT division of telco teams with non-terrestrial network provider to deliver satellite-based narrowband connectivity

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Police intercept evidence from Sky ECC cryptophone network ‘unreliable’, Antwerp court told

  Intercepted communications data used to prosecute drug crime gangs is unreliable and does not conform to international standards of evidence, according to an expert report presented to a court in Antwerp

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Interview: Why identity is the nucleus for cyber security

  Amid a wave of market consolidation, Computer Weekly speaks to Keeper Security’s leadership on how identity and access management systems are becoming unified identity platforms capable of securing both human and machine identities

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  History repeats itself in Post Office Capture redress scheme with low-ball offers made

  Early signs show that former Post Office Capture users face derisory initial compensation offers and face impossible appeals process

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Police Digital Service future remains uncertain as ‘radical’ Home Office policing reform unveiled

  The UK government’s long-awaited ‘radical’ policing reform whitepaper has finally dropped, but there is a distinct lack of detail in it about how exactly the Police Digital Service will fit into its vision for a nationally led policing sector

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans

  The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Sir Alan Bates slams ‘nonsense’ reported about his financial redress settlement

  Campaigning subpostmaster speaks out about the highly inaccurate claims about the compensation he received

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Microsoft has already contracted GPUs to balance costs

  The company claims that thanks to software optimisation and hardware asset management, it can make datacentre kit last six years, and has already contracted GPUs for most of their useful life to customers

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Ex-directors of firm linked to Satoshi Nakamoto imposter sue over whistleblowing retaliation claims

  Two former directors of London tech company nChain, associated with a computer scientist who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, have told an employment tribunal they were dismissed in retaliation for whistleblowing

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  South Korea debuts foundation model in sovereign AI push

  A consortium led by SK Telecom has built a sovereign AI model designed to reduce reliance on foreign tech, lower costs for local industry and propel South Korea into the top ranks of AI powers

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  RAMP ransomware forum goes dark in probable FBI sting

  RAMP, an infamous Russian-speaking cyber crime forum, has gone off the air after an apparent US operation

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Forward Networks claims first network digital twin for enterprises

  Network operations platform capability pairs agentic AI operations with network digital twin to enable NetOps and SecOps teams to ask complex questions, understand network behaviour and validate outcomes

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Metropolitan Police needs effective constraints on live facial recognition use, court hears

  The Metropolitan Police has defended its use of live facial recognition against a legal challenge that claims there are no effective constraints on where it can deploy the technology

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Skills key to successful AI adoption, says IBM

  Research from IBM states that employees will need AI skills in the near future for organisations to benefit from the technology

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  SAP overcomes rough start to post 8% growth

  SAP reports €36.8bn for 2025, up 8%, despite what CEO Christian Klein called a ‘rough start to the year’ due to geopolitical unrest from tariff conflict between the US and the EU

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Security now one of the UK’s fastest-growing career paths

  The number of people working in the cyber security field has almost trebled in the 2020s, with one cyber professional for every 68 businesses in the UK

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  UK government signs more partners to boost AI skills across the country

  The government is seeking to educate 10 million adults in the UK on how to use artificial intelligence tools to streamline their work

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Troubleshooter steps in as Capita and civil service bosses apologise for pension scheme problems

  High volumes of customer calls, backlogs and complex requests blamed for shaky start to life on civil service pension scheme for Capita

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Interview: ManageEngine doubles down on data sovereignty with UAE datacentre launch

  ManageEngine CEO Rajesh Ganesan explains why owning the cloud stack matters to CIOs in the Middle East, and how automation, AI and end-to-end IT management are reshaping enterprise priorities

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Sonia Patel to become interim UK government chief technology officer

  NHS England’s chief technology officer has taken on the same role for government on an interim 12-month fixed-term contract

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Meta’s latest results show diversification of datacentre capacity strategy

  The social media giant is facing increased datacentre costs due to rising server, memory and storage prices

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Fujitsu boss ‘falls on his sword’ before settling with Post Office scandal victims

  Fujitsu's European chief Paul Patterson is stepping down from his role amid the troubles brought on by the supplier’s central role in the Post Office scandal

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Nvidia releases synthetic dataset to support Singapore’s AI ambitions

  The AI chip giant has developed a synthetic dataset of personas to help developers build AI models that understand Singapore’s demographic and cultural nuances without using personally identifiable information

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Scotland gets AI growth zone boost in Lanarkshire

  CoreWeave is building a 500MW AI cloud, providing the region with 800 high-paid jobs in artificial intelligence

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  UK government to develop AI tutoring tools

  Schools will soon have access to free AI tools to help provide 1:1 tutoring to students, potentially levelling the playing field for those from disadvantaged backgrounds

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  ENEC, TII and Aspire test autonomous aerial systems for critical infrastructure security

  Abu Dhabi proof-of-concept project evaluates whether drone-based patrols are mature enough for safety-critical environments

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  UK competition regulator looks into Google’s AI search

  The CMA has proposed a number of steps to ensure publishers are treated fairly by search engine giant Google in regards to its AI Overview function

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  FCA launches review as ‘non-human intelligence’ surpassing human reasoning is plausible

  The Financial Conduct Authority will consider the impact of emerging artificial intelligence adoption in the financial services sector

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Platforms must adapt to IoT demand to support eSim growth

  Research on embedded subscriber identity module markets reveal rapid growth and shifting consumer attitudes, with sustained growth especially in internet of things use cases

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Expect to use seven different providers for data management

  A poll of data leaders has found that many anticipate using multiple providers to help them achieve their 2026 data management strategy

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Nationwide expands Amazon Web Services partnership to delve deeper into AI

  Nationwide will have access to artificial intelligence-powered tools to help staff in their everyday interactions with its members

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Netmore claims Actility acquisition to herald transformation of Massive IoT

  Acquisition creates largest operator of long-range WAN technology standard to accelerate massive IoT adoption and add key US comms service provider to ecosystem supporting extended IoT connectivity using satellites

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Micron breaks ground on $24bn Singapore wafer fab

  Memory giant presses ahead with its global expansion strategy, adding new NAND flash capacity in Singapore to meet growing demand for memory chips fuelled by the global AI boom

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Transfer learning and governance help bridge healthcare AI divide

  Singapore researchers show how adapting pre-trained AI models can solve data scarcity issues in countries with limited resources. Separately, they have proposed forming an international consortium to build consensus on AI governance in medicine

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Wave of ShinyHunters vishing attacks spreading fast

  The ShinyHunters hacking collective that caused chaos in 2025 is ramping up a new voice phishing campaign, with several potential victims already identified

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  UK government’s National Data Library works up steam

  Department for Science, Innovation and Technology finishes ‘discovery phase’ of £100m National Data Library programme, including pilot projects

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  AO implements Mist AI-native wireless network

  Retailer’s wireless network looks to enable smarter, faster customer service and business operations to maintain competitive agility in a dynamic market

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Alan Turing Institute fellowship programme boosted by $1m from Meta

  The funding from Meta will be used to support experts in the development artificial intelligence to improve UK public services

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  GSMA transforms Formula E circuit into 5G testbed

  Global mobile trade association highlights initiative showcasing how mobile connectivity performs in real-world, high-pressure environments

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Peer demands independent investigation into DWP’s prosecution of subpostmasters

  The DWP’s promised review of subpostmaster prosecutions doesn’t satisfy the demands of politicians and campaigners

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to UK dissident targeted with Pegasus spyware

  A court has found that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia subjected a London-based human rights activist to abuse and physical violence after infecting his phone with Pegasus spyware