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• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  Tata Communications unveils self-healing network

  Platform from digital ecosystem enabler aims to provide greater than 99.99% service availability to help enterprises reduce data centre operational costs by up to 30%

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  HSBC gets its first artificial intelligence chief

  UK bank appoints its first executive position dedicated to artificial intelligence as the technology embeds across the sector

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  US government bans imported routers, raising tough questions

  The US communications regulator has enacted a ban on all router hardware made outside America citing security concerns, but experts say the move may risk creating more issues than it solves

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  More tech funding is coming, promises NHS England’s chief clinical information officer

  NHS England’s CCIO says details on funding for NHS tech will be announced in a month’s time, and will shift focus to community and primary care

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  BT boosts connectivity, security for Northern Ireland Electricity Networks

  UK’s comms provider inks deal worth up to £200m to help modernise infrastructure, strengthen resilience against cyber threats, and support delivery of electricity to around a million homes, farms and businesses

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  AI infrastructure investment in the Middle East enters a new geopolitical reality

  As the region builds large-scale compute capacity, technology leaders are focusing on resilience, supply chains and semiconductor dependencies

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  Oracle endows Fusion applications with more AI autonomy

  At its London AI World Tour event, Oracle unveils Fusion Agentic Apps, said to enable more autonomous decision-making and execution across ERP, HCM, SCM and CX

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  QuikBot and EFGH bring real-time insurance to physical AI

  The two companies will embed insurance directly into the infrastructure governing autonomous robots, reducing claims processing and creating a trust layer for smart cities

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Avaya finds louder voice for mission-critical comms platform

  Enterprise software provider unveils mission-critical platform to deliver secure, zero-downtime voice communications for environments including government, healthcare, financial and emergency services

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Zayo provides critical connectivity infrastructure for AI, cloud datacentres  

  Enterprise network provider deploys connectivity infrastructure to one of the UK’s largest AI cloud datacentre campuses to support up to 720 MW of AI-ready infrastructure

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Irish government launches CNI resilience plan

  Ireland’s National Strategy on the Resilience of Critical Entities sets out a pathway to improved cyber resilience for the nation’s critical infrastructure, and establishes compliance with an EU directive

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  SWISSto12 opens Switzerland’s largest GEO satellite production site

  Aerospace and satellite technology manufacturer opens domestic territory’s first domestic end-to end GEO satellite production site including 1,000m² cleanroom assembly facility

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  DWP finally seeks reviewer of its subpostmaster prosecutions

  Months after announcing review, the government has advertised for a reviewer to look over more than 100 prosecutions of subpostmasters by the Department of Work and Pensions

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Trade-ins returned $6.4bn to US mobile consumers in 2025

  Quarterly study of US mobile trade-in arena finds that strong interest in new features – paired with clear, competitive promotions – drove record trade-in value in full‑year 2025 data

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Bucks landfill datacentre first to get Nationally Significant status

  300MW proposed project is the first to be allowed to benefit from streamlined national-level planning process after being given Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project status by ministers

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Starlink launches services in UAE and Kuwait, expanding Middle East satellite internet

  Starlink now provides satellite-based internet in the UAE and Kuwait, joining Oman, Qatar, Israel and Yemen in the Middle East

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Fire and rescue services implement shared comms command centre

  Control room technology rolled out across three emergency services to make it possible to jointly manage emergency call handling, crew dispatch and incident coordination in mutual aid scenarios

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  CUDA at 20: From billion-dollar gamble to agentic AI

  As Nvidia marks two decades of CUDA, its head of high-performance computing and hyperscale reflects on the platform’s journey, the power of software optimisation, and how the fusion of GPUs and LPUs will shape the future of AI

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Essex Police halts live facial recognition over bias and accuracy risks

  LFR deployments by Essex Police will not continue until risks associated with bias and inaccuracy have been reduced

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Scotland launches five-year AI strategy

  Scottish deputy first minister says the country aims to become a leader in AI through responsibly harnessing the economic and social benefits of the technology

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Interview: Jem Walters, CTO, Vanquis

  Having come into the company through the acquisition of his money-saving app, the IT chief is bringing an agile and startup culture to the 146-year-old financial services firm

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Agentic AI to make data uplink the next mobile bottleneck

  Report shows that as distributed intelligence systems scale, they will reshape mobile network traffic patterns and accelerate the need for advanced AI operations for the comms industry

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  UK Cyber Monitoring Centre plans expansion in US amid risk of Category 5 attack

  Organisations lulled into a false sense of security after Russian invasion of Ukraine are still at risk of a Category 5 attack in 2026

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Everywoman announces 2026 Women in Technology Awards winners

  Network for women in business, Everywoman, has announced the winners of this year’s technology awards, in partnership with Salesforce

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  O2 brings 5G+ connectivity to communities across Scotland

  UK operator extends standalone 5G footprint across 66 large towns and cities, 175 smaller towns, and 1,120 villages in Scotland as part of its UK-wide roll-out of advanced 5G services

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Ericsson, SK Telecom ink memorandum of understanding to strengthen AI-RAN, 5G to 6G innovation

  Global comms tech provider and Korean telco hold joint R&D to advance AI-powered RAN, 5G monetisation, open and autonomous networks, zero-trust security, and 6G standardisation

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Telenor IoT expands global connectivity with launch of global APN

  Internet of things division of leading Nordic telco aims to simplify global IoT deployments by enabling companies to use a single access point name across all regions

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Questions raised about Instagram memorialisation in Noah Donohoe inquest

  Court hears that a mother was frozen out of her son’s social media a day after he tragically died, potentially depriving a coroner investigating the case of a ‘huge’ amount of information

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Cisa tells US organisations to harden endpoint management after Stryker attack

  Last week’s cyber attack on the systems of a US medical services company by Iranian hacktivists has prompted an alert from Cisa, urging organisations to reinforce their defensive posture

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  UK government puts brakes on opt-out copyright exemption for AI

  The UK government has ruled out forcing creatives to opt out of their intellectual property being used by artificial intelligence developers as its preferred solution to the AI-copyright controversy, but may still implement copyright exemptions later

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Zenarmor extends distributed SASE architecture to mobile

  Secure access service edge architecture now supports mobile endpoints and containerised environments, while enabling sovereign deployments across partner-operated and customer-controlled infrastructure

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  HPE taps Nvidia to transform distributed AI factories into intelligent AI grid

  IT giant unveils slew of releases for Nvidia GTC 2026 based on scalable production-ready AI encompassing next-generation artificial intelligence factory, supercomputing and intelligent AI grid

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report

  Regulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  HSS ProService ‘Uber-ifies’ with functional programming and agentic AI

  HSS’s pivot from 130-depot hire business to a digital-only marketplace to handle messy transactions and old-school processes in the construction sector

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  NHS digital ambition needs reality check amid frontline work pressures

  The NHS 10-year plan is ambitious and brave. However, Cheshire and Merseyside GP Tom Micklewright says limited funding flexibility and pressure on primary care are among the issues hindering success

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Gartner: Ditch ‘big transformation’ cyber strategies for continuous improvement

  As artificial intelligence reshapes the enterprise, CISOs must abandon risky big bang security transformation initiatives in favour of incremental changes to build cyber resilience

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Government announces redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims

  Government offers two routes to financial redress for the families of victims of the Post Office scandal

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Interview: Sunrise, a supercomputer for nuclear fusion research

  We speak to Rob Akers, director for computing programmes at the UK Atomic Energy Institute, about its new artificial intelligence supercomputer

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Interview: Huy Dao, director of data and machine learning platform, Booking.com

  Effective use of technology has already delivered significant cost savings at the online travel giant, and greater use of AI and machine learning promises to bring even greater opportunities to improve

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Zopa Bank continues its transformation with further growth

  UK digital challenger bank has 1.7 million customers, five years after it completed its transformation from a peer-to-peer lender

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Infrastructure is back as Orange Business drives trusted agentic platforms

  Annual customer gathering of enterprise arm of global telco sees launch of four key applications taking advantage of agentic AI capabilities and emphasising the need for robust and secure infrastructure

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Hit the north! UK datacentre focus shifts to M62 and points north

  Barbour ABI data shows 8GW of total datacentre pipeline with most big projects in the north and Scotland, while London and the M4 corridor are about 25% of projected capacity

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Apple issues first Background patch for WebKit browser flaw

  Apple’s first ever Background Security Update fixes a WebKit browser engine bug that could enable threat actors to see and steal important data from their victims

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  US lawmakers quiz Meta over ‘dangerous’ facial recognition plans for smart glasses

  Democratic senators warn that Meta’s plans to introduce facial recognition technology into smart glasses could lead to normalisation of mass surveillance and breach citizens’ rights

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  UK MoD awards more than two dozen contracts for AI targeting systems

  The UK Ministry of Defence is ramping up its investment into military artificial intelligence in a bid to increase the ‘lethality’ of the British armed forces

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  Fast followers will fall behind in the AI race, warns ServiceNow

  ServiceNow experts and customers highlight why acting at pace, deploying cross-system AI agents and governance are key in AI adoption

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  Ofcom sets out regulation to push UK gigabit broadband to ‘final phase’

  UK communications regulator lays down regulation required to drive full-fibre roll-out through its end phase to universal access across the country, aiming to allow businesses to unlock economic gains

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade

  Jensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  AI tools offer ‘near-real-time’ analysis of data from seized mobile phones and computers

  Cellebrite demonstrates how AI tools are able to analyse the contents of mobile phones and computers during crime investigations

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Digital IDs edge closer to practical reality for UK businesses

  Industries and policymakers are strongly aligned on the need for digital company IDs for UK businesses, as progress is made towards the implementation of a practical standard