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• December 17, 2025 17 Dec'25

  Jilted Fujitsu replaced by Netcompany in HMRC relationship

  Troubled Fujitsu replaced by Netcompany on trading service as HMRC begins to move its outsourcing away from scandal-hit firm

• December 17, 2025 17 Dec'25

  ClickFix attacks that bypass cyber controls on the rise

  NCC’s monthly threat report details the growing prevalence of ClickFix attacks in the wild

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  Singlife taps Salesforce Agentforce to drive agentic AI strategy

  The Singapore insurer has begun rolling out Salesforce Agentforce to assist customer service teams, with plans to extend the use of the technology to financial advisers and direct customer interactions

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  Port of Tyne charts successful course with private 5G

  One of the UK’s most dynamic and key deep-sea gateways reports strong operational gains after several years using private 5G across its 620-acre estate using sensor-driven processes

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  Zoom launches AI Companion 3.0 with agentic workflows

  AI-first work platform provider unveils next evolution of its agentic AI product, including beta version of AI-first capabilities for personal workflows, agentic AI features for Docs product and new web interface with expanded context

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  Abra launches in-flight connectivity through SES multi-orbit craft

  Latin American airline strikes deal to be leading provider of satellite-powered broadband inflight service in region

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  Number of women in tech roles up by 1%, says BCS

  Research by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has found that the number of women working in the technology sector has continued to rise at a snail’s pace over the past five years

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  2025 a ‘transformative year’ for private connectivity

  Research finds standalone private 5G networks well-positioned to become predominant wireless connectivity medium for Industry 4.0 applications in manufacturing and process industries, as well as critical communications

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  Keysight and KT SAT claim satellite first with GEO to LEO link

  Keysight Technologies and KT SAT complete successful handover from a live GEO connection to an emulated LEO link, creating a dependable way to study real NTN behaviour before constellations are deployed

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026

  Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  UK government launches Women in Tech Taskforce

  To help increase the number of women in technology, and prevent those already in the industry from leaving, the UK government has launched a Women in Tech Taskforce

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Finance regulator wants mortgage brokers to use artificial intelligence

  UK regulator is to encourage mortgage brokers to use artificial intelligence and other technology

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  GMV advances satellite navigation to boost autonomous transport and logistics

  UK technology business group looks to advance resilient satellite navigation with new beamforming capability and resilient C-band navigation capabilities, improving performance in challenging and interference-prone environments

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Starlink broadband skyrockets as internet gets fundamentally rewired

  Research from leading connectivity cloud company finds several internet milestones throughout the year

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Reinventing the Arabic newsroom: How Al-Masry Al-Youm is harnessing AI, data, and cloud to transform

  Al-Masry Al-Youm CIO Omar Badr reveals how Egypt’s leading independent daily has navigated a decade of digital disruption, balancing editorial freedom with cutting-edge technology

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  UK flat owners to get rights to faster, more reliable broadband

  Proposals designed to enable UK flats to gain access to gigabit-capable broadband access empower leasehold owners with right to request a connection

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Microsoft taps Indian IT giants for agentic AI rollout

  The partnership with Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and Wipro follows a $17.5bn pledge by the tech giant to bolster India’s cloud and AI infrastructure

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Streisand effect: Businesses that pay ransomware gangs are more likely to hit the headlines

  Research by ransomware expert Max Smeets suggests companies that pay up to criminal gangs are more likely to attract press attention

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Trump plans bonfire of US state-level AI regulation

  US president’s executive order targets state-level AI regulatory frameworks across the country, saying they are too onerous and endangering leadership in the field

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  National Audit Office praises Bank of England after complex mega-project

  Public spending watchdog says the Bank of England’s core system replacement project offers lessons to other government departments

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  US nears universal adoption as North America leads 5G

  Study finds over 99% 5G penetration in US, almost three times more than global average, with global 5G connections reaching 2.8 billion and global cellular IoT subscriptions surpassing four billion

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  ESA promises smarter flights for ITA Airways through sat comms

  Italian airline deploys comms system designed to enable digital, real-time connectivity and offload current ground systems for air traffic management, showing how satellites can complement terrestrial infrastructure

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  University of York plumps for Workday to spruce up HR and finance

  The University of York is replacing 57 HR and finance systems with a Workday platform, supported by KPMG, aiming for real-time insights and simpler processes

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Interview: Erik Mayer, transformation chief clinical information officer, Imperial College

  With both a clinical and a digital background, the healthcare tech leader is using data to improve collaboration across an NHS trust for the benefit of medical staff and patients

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Three in five businesses more confident in Wi-Fi investment

  Research finds 60% of businesses see converged Wi-Fi and 5G as key to enterprise flexibility, with 38% planning to roll out Wi-Fi 7 in 2025/2026, while 65% say 6 GHz availability is important to their Wi-Fi business

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Consumers trade up smartphones for AI

  Quarterly study of US mobile trade-in arena finds 46% growth year-on-year driven by accelerated adoption of AI-enabled devices and expansion of the secondary market, with the third consecutive record-breaking quarter for revenues

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Open sourcing and assuring AI

  Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Interview: Art Hu, global CIO, Lenovo

  The IT chief at the PC, servers and storage supplier is using his experience of rolling out tech internally to boost the growing services ambitions of the Chinese tech giant

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Harrow Council votes on Cellnex to advance borough connectivity

  North London council announces a partnership with telecoms infrastructure operator to deploy small cell technology and target connectivity blackspots around high streets and transport hubs

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Oracle expects to increase OCI margins by 30-40%

  Market analysts are concerned about the AI bubble bursting, but Oracle’s latest earnings call shows it is still expanding datacentre roll-outs

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Microsoft expands bug bounty scheme to include third-party software

  The company is to offer bug bounty awards for people who report security vulnerabilities in third-party and open source software impacting Microsoft services

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Qatar launches Qai to accelerate national and regional AI ambitions

  State-backed company Qai aims to build secure AI infrastructure and position Qatar as a leading Gulf innovation hub

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  UAE’s e& enterprise brings Amdocs and Nvidia AI into live telco operations

  The Emirati operator moves beyond pilots, using AI agents to streamline customer care and network operations

• December 10, 2025 10 Dec'25

  Google DeepMind partners with UK government to deliver AI

  The partnership promises to provide scientists with access to advanced AI models, as well as help the government become more streamlined

• December 10, 2025 10 Dec'25

  How digital twins are helping people with motor neurone disease speak

  Tech companies, a charity and academics have collaborated to create AI-powered avatars that are helping people with motor neurone disease hold natural conversations

• December 10, 2025 10 Dec'25

  IT spending bonanza biggest in 30 years

  Artificial intelligence is driving purchases of IT products and services at a level not seen since the web went mainstream

• December 10, 2025 10 Dec'25

  UK government funds 80 digital skills schemes

  The £11.7m Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund will support projects across the UK to help people gain digital skills and access to devices

• December 10, 2025 10 Dec'25

  Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID

  Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Microsoft patched over 1,100 CVEs in 2025

  The final Patch Tuesday update of the year brings 56 new CVEs, bringing the year-end total to more than 1,100

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Interview: Meet the competition lawyer taking Microsoft to task over its cloud licensing tactics

  Microsoft’s approach to cloud licensing has been labelled anti-competitive and cost-prohibitive to enterprises by regulators, and now Maria Luisa Stasi is the competition lawyer looking to take the company to task over its behaviour

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Airline set to launch with end-to-end AI workflows

  IBM has been working with Riyadh Air to develop a digital-first, AI native airline that uses its Watson technology on OpenShift running on Azure

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  How Chinese-owned Radisson Hotel Group split US enterprise resource planning

  During the UK and Ireland SAP user group conference in Birmingham, Computer Weekly met with the SAP platform lead at Radisson Hotel Group

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  MPs maul digital ID plans in Parliamentary debate

  MPs brand the government’s digital ID plans ‘un-British’ and ‘an attack on civil liberties’ during debate on the controversial policy

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  How Oracle Red Bull Racing is driving Formula 1 into the future with cloud, AI and data

  Access to the F1 team’s garage in Abu Dhabi reveals how Monte Carlo simulations, artificial intelligence and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure power split-second decisions, strategy and championship-winning performance

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Cloudera CEO on the Middle East’s hybrid AI future: ‘Workload portability is the foundation’

  Charles Sansbury explains how Gulf enterprises are driving demand for private AI, data sovereignty and hybrid architectures as hyperscalers compete for their workloads

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Why bug bounty schemes have not led to secure software

  Computer Weekly speaks to Katie Moussouris, security entrepreneur and bug bounty pioneer, about the life of security researchers, bug bounties and the artificial intelligence revolution

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Fujitsu underestimated Post Office scandal backlash

  Troubled IT supplier loses UK government megadeal despite internal confidence, as political pressure mounts

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia team to deliver end-to-end enterprise network services

  Enterprise secure networking services provider and global comms tech firm expand partnership to provide joint networking, driving digital transformation at deployment sites

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Tricentis looks to agentic AI as firms risk losses from untested code

  With 42% growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the software testing firm is pushing autonomous AI agents to help enterprises balance the pressure for speed against the high cost of software failures

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  OAIC to launch blitz on privacy compliance

  Australia’s privacy watchdog will begin the new year with a compliance sweep targeting businesses that run afoul of privacy rules, including the over-collection of personal information in-person, warning that non-compliance could trigger fines