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• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Interview: Critical local infrastructure is missing link in UK cyber resilience

  Jonathan Lee, director of cyber strategy at Trend AI, argues for more focus on local and municipal cyber resilience

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Government terminates Capita’s Royal Mail pension contract

  Contract termination comes as Capita’s failings in a separate government pension scheme hit the headlines

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  UK to build ‘national cyber shield’ to protect against AI cyber threats

  Security minister Dan Jarvis calls for artificial intelligence companies to work with government to develop AI-driven cyber defences

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Lloyds Register evaluates AI-based nautical navigation

  Lloyds Register assessment used a computer vision system to identify and categorise complex navigation scenarios, working in conjunction with human crew

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Microsoft faces court battle in £2bn Windows Server class action

  The Competition Appeal Tribunal has allowed the unfair licensing case against Microsoft to go ahead

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  A&K Travel journeys with Colt for global quantum-safe network

  Travel giant chooses services arm of digital infrastructure provider to build out its global connectivity network based on quantum-safe encryption systems that operate without distance limitations

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs

  With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  UK government beats drum for fintech industry at Fintech Week

  UK government announces open banking strategies during London Fintech Week, including regulation and £1m investment

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Egypt targets nearshore IT outsourcing market as global demand shifts

  Talent scale, cost advantage and AI capability position Egypt as an alternative to Eastern Europe in evolving sourcing strategies

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  A tsunami of flaws: When frontier AI and Patch Tuesday collide

  Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday drop was the second-largest in history, falling just shy of an October 2025 record. What is behind the spike in vulnerability disclosures, and is there a connection to Anthropic’s bug-hunting Claude Mythos AI model?

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Blackbox replaces two racks of HPE storage with 8U of Everpure

  UK-based IaaS ‘sovereign’ provider, with multiple public sector-facing clients, replaced end-of-life 3PAR arrays with FlashArray storage that saw it reduce power consumption by 85%

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Three-quarters of UK IT leaders without strong AI governance plans

  Almost one in nine British IT leaders say their organisations use agentic AI, but with few putting in place strong governance plans, according to a Red Hat survey

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  Nation states responsible for ‘nationally significant’ cyber attacks against UK, says NCSC chief

  The UK is facing four nationally significant cyber attacks a week, the majority from hostile states, NCSC chief, Richard Horne, will warn at the CyberUK conference

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  More finance firms join FCA’s AI testing initiative

  Barclays, Experian and UBS join the FCA’s live AI testing initiative, exploring cutting-edge technologies like agentic AI and SLMs to ensure safe, responsible innovation in UK financial markets

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  Sans Institute preps live systems for Nato cyber exercise

  Cyber training body the Sans Institute is preparing live power generation IT and OT systems for Nato’s annual Locked Shields blue team exercise, which this year appears more relevant than ever

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  ‘Platitudes’ hide struggle as Post Office scandal redress scheme closing date announced

  Scheme for group that took the Post Office to court and exposed the widest miscarriage of justice in history to be completed by the year’s end

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  Danish logistics giant under pressure to rush world’s largest IT integration

  The emergence of AI-driven competition has lit a fire beneath global logistics firm DSV, while it is distracted with integrating the global IT systems of a €14bn merger and trying to get its finances back to full health

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  Middle East CIOs move from cloud-first to sovereign-first in a high-risk digital era

  As artificial intelligence scales and regulatory pressure intensifies, resilience – not cost – is becoming the defining metric of enterprise technology strategy, says Nischal Kapoor, chief revenue officer at e& enterprise

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Singapore pushes for global standard to test generative AI

  The proposed standard aims to ensure trustworthy AI by standardising benchmarking and red teaming methodologies, as IMDA’s chief urges faster action on global rules

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Business leaders marked down on AI workforce strategy

  Research from Accenture has found that while workers feel their jobs will change, employers are less likely to invest in workforce transition

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Scottish Labour’s 2026 manifesto vows to upskill and invest in tech

  Ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament Election, Labour promises digital and tech NHS funding worth £680m, ‘digital playgrounds’ and to create a digital skills passport

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Scientists map coral reefs off northern Australia

  Researchers have mapped a previously uncharted network of coral and rocky reefs hidden in the murky coastal waters of Australia’s north, without ever setting foot on a boat

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows

  NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, which are set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  North Korean social engineering campaign targets MacOS users

  A MacOS-focused social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korea-based threat actor Sapphire Sleet has been exposed by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Unit

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Bank cyber teams on red alert as Anthropic promises them Mythos next week

  Artificial intelligence supplier promises UK banks opportunity to review AI model, which has already revealed thousands of security flaws

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  UK government seeks collaborators for AI tutoring tools for schools

  To build on plans to introduce AI tutoring tools in schools, the UK government is searching for companies to develop educational resources

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Capita lacked ‘detail and thoroughness’ in planning botched Civil Service Pension Scheme takeover

  CEO of former civil service pension administrator claims Capita’s pre-takeover processes were inadequate

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups

  The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of startups backed to boost economic growth and national security

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  CYBERUK ’26: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber pros

  Ahead of next week's CYBERUK conference, the CyberUp Campaign for reform of the UK's hacking laws urges the government to keep focus, and proposes a four-pillar framework that would protect cyber professionals from prosecution

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  Interview: Bernhard Seiser, vice-president of digital, data and IT, AOP Health

  With long experience of tech in the life sciences sector, AOP’s digital leader is building a foundation for further data insights in all areas of the business

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  Finance regulators to address AI risks after MPs say they are ‘not doing enough’

  After a Treasury committee stated that public and finance systems are ‘exposed to potential serious harm’ from AI because regulators are ‘not doing enough’ to manage risks, finance regulators say they will take action to address concerns

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  Dubai rolls out AI training for 50,000 government staff

  An initiative under Digital Dubai, in partnership with government HR and AI bodies, reflects the wider UAE strategy to embed artificial intelligence across public services, workforce development and economic diversification plans

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  UK government’s £500m sovereign AI fund bids to commercialise research

  The UK government is launching a £500m Sovereign AI Unit to boost artificial intelligence startups and drive economic growth through strategic and long-term investments

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  How the AI boom is reshaping tech cost management

  FinOps practitioners are stepping up to manage AI expenses, optimise token usage and align cost-saving measures with sustainability goals to improve returns from AI investments

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  UAE education builds digital resilience as regional tensions accelerate shift to remote learning

  Ankabut CEO Tarek Jundi outlines how national infrastructure, AI-driven platforms and distance-learning capabilities are helping schools and universities maintain continuity amid geopolitical uncertainty

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says government

  Technology secretary Liz Kendall urges Britain’s business community to sit up and pay attention to emerging AI threats, following the debut of Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk

  AI-based tool developed with Snowflake improves policymakers’ understanding of properties at risk of flooding

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Danske Bank upgrade error exposed 20,000 customer addresses

  Danish bank revealed details of a customer data leak last year which affected thousands of customers

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline?

  Looking at datacentre development internationally, we see how the UK faces apparent relative decline, how countries are responding to the AI age, and what MW vs GDP can tell us

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  TDX 2026: Salesforce depicts SaaS as an agentic evolution

  Salesforce paints a picture of software as a service evolving in an agentic direction, at its developer conference in San Francisco, with AgentExchange as an ecosystem lubricant

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  England Rugby chooses Capgemini as it targets half a million new fans

  French supplier will support the Rugby Football Union’s four-year plan to ensure the sport thrives in England

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Amazon acquires Globalstar to expand satellite comms business

  Strategic purchase to see satellites, radio frequency spectrum and operational expertise to enable existing Leo business to add direct-to-device services to future generations of its low Earth orbit satellite network

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  OCBC rolls out generative AI training for wealth advisors

  First programme of its kind allows wealth advisors to hone their pitches through realistic AI role play, resulting in double the client appointments and a 50% growth in revenue in three months

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Cintegral taps Taara connectivity for real-time live media production

  Networking service from Google Moonshot allows directors and crew members to digitally collaborate in real time during a shoot using light-based connectivity instead of relying on cable-based infrastructure

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  SMRT taps AI and analytics to predict rail faults and speed up maintenance

  The Singapore rail operator has developed an intelligent analytics platform to support predictive maintenance and pinpoint track issues, maximising its three-hour nightly maintenance window

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  April Patch Tuesday brings zero-days in Defender, SharePoint Server

  Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update may be one of the largest in history, with more than 160 issues in scope

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  UK government accelerates autonomous vehicle development funding

  Projects exploring how autonomous vehicles could benefit businesses and communities across the UK receive government backing as part of £150m CAM Pathfinder programme

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  Department for Transport shows how its AI system avoids bias

  A report looking at a system to extract themes from public consultations highlights human and LLM-based checks

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  SES gains altitude for in-flight connectivity with Boeing, Japan Airlines

  Satellite operator claims milestone towards line-fit offer for multi-orbit connectivity, with streamlined factory installation on Boeing craft and deal with Japanese carrier

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  Turkey launches nationwide 5G services with ambitious domestic production targets

  Country’s three mobile operators go live across all 81 provinces following $2.95bn spectrum auction, with government mandating 60% local content requirements