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• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  EU Data Act comes into force amid fears of regulation fatigue

  The EU Data Act will potentially give users control of device data, and boost data sharing, cloud switching and competition while raising compliance demands

• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  GDS publishes guidance on AI coding assistants

  Government software engineers are being encouraged to use tools such as GitHub Copilot to speed up software development

• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  Orange, Synamedia join forces to expand multi-CDN reach

  Video software provider teams with global telco to improve network performance for streaming providers to deliver content more smoothly and reach more viewers, especially in the Middle East and Africa

• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  TechUK report on datacentre water usage habits criticised

  Non-profit questions the reliability of TechUK’s study on water use, arguing that its anonymous, self-reported data may give a misleading picture of the sector’s environmental impact.

• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  Ministry of Defence signs £400m sovereign cloud deal with Google

  Google Cloud has signed a multimillion-pound deal with the Ministry of Defence that will see it provide the armed forces with access to sovereign cloud capabilities

• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  Post Office Horizon accounts are still a mess and replacement system is years away

  Sources say the Post Office doesn’t know whether millions of pounds of branch discrepancies are real or not

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  M&S parts ways with CTO after cyber attack

  M&S chief digital and technology officer Rachel Higham steps back from her role in the wake of the April 2025 cyber attack on the retailer’s systems

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  Students an increasing source of cyber threat in UK schools

  Insider threats arising from student activity now appears to be the chief cause of notifiable cyber or data breach incidents in Britain’s schools

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  Chat Control: EU to decide on requirement for tech firms to scan encrypted messages

  Law enforcement and police experts meet on Friday to decide on proposals to require technology companies to scan encrypted messages for possible child abuse images amid growing opposition from security experts

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  Zen, Neos carry out 400 Gbps upgrade between Manchester and London

  Strategic collaboration enables telecoms provider to undergo a wider core network upgrade as digital infrastructure demand surges

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  Nokia ups the ante in AI-optimised datacentre networking

  Strategic partnership designed to bring AI-optimised datacentre solutions to enterprises to reduce deployment time and operational costs and improve efficiency

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  IAA Mobility: Mercedes-Benz gears up AI-driven experiences in all-electric vehicles

  Digital Chassis powers the next-generation MBUX system in CLA and all-new electric GLC car range to deliver immersive, AI-driven in-cabin functionality, real-time assistance and 5G connectivity

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  EE claims 5G world-first with advanced RAN coordination

  UK’s leading operator becomes first company to launch Advanced RAN Coordination technology in distributed network to deliver more reliable 5G connectivity and 20% faster download speeds, with standalone network offering biggest boost

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Splunk.conf: Cisco and Splunk expand agentic SOC vision

  The arrival of agentic AI in the security operations centre heralds an era of simplification for security professionals, Splunk claims

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Jaguar Land Rover admits data has been compromised in cyber attack

  The car maker revealed that data was stolen in the cyber attack that began on 31 August, as its production line continues to be affected

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Vote: Who should be crowned the 2025 most influential woman in UK tech?

  Each year, we ask our audience who should be named the most influential woman in UK technology. Tell us what you think – the deadline for voting is 8 October

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Court to decide whether it is lawful for enterprises to sell unwanted software licences

  The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal is to decide whether businesses can lawfully sell second-hand software following a £250m suit brought by a reseller against Microsoft

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Could an environmental legal challenge derail government’s fast-tracked datacentre builds?

  The UK government is under fire after details emerged that it has waved through three large-scale datacentre planning applications without conducting an environmental impact assessment first

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  EU Data Act prompts Google to scrap data transfer fees for UK multicloud users

  With the EU Data Act coming into effect, Google has confirmed that users of its cloud services across the UK and Europe will no longer pay to transfer data between its platform and competitors’ clouds

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  UK contactless card payment limits could be unlimited

  The UK Financial Conduct Authority says contactless payment technology and fraud protections have advanced enough for firms to adjust the limit

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  IAA mobility: LG looks to accelerate in-vehicle experience with Xbox, Zoom

  CE giant continues its drive into automotive, claiming to redefine software-defined vehicle era through partnerships offering in-car gaming and meetings delivered over standard content platform

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Open source security and sustainability remain unsolved problem

  While software bills of materials offer some transparency over software components, they don’t solve the imbalance between corporate consumption of open source software and the lack of investment in its security and health

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  Splunk.conf: Splunk urges users to eat their ‘cyber veggies’

  The dawn of AI-enabled cyber attacks makes it even more important for defenders to bring their A-game, particularly when it comes to getting the basics right

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  Fujitsu braced for double-digit decline triggered by ‘foolish display of legal machismo’

  Internally, Fujitsu UK is braced for major revenue decline as Post Office scandal takes its toll

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  The digital forensics crisis in policing: What’s going wrong?

  Forensics experts say that most crime has a digital footprint, but the police are unable to keep up with the soaring number of devices that require analysis

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  IAA Mobility 2025: Qualcomm and Google Cloud team to enhance in-car experience

  So-called ‘landmark’ technical collaboration brings together Gemini models and Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions to help automakers create deeply personalised and advanced AI agents to redefine customer experience

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  UK AI sector balloons by 85% to 5,800 companies from 2023 to 2025

  A Perspective Economics study commissioned by DSIT sizes the UK AI sector at 5,800 companies, an increase of 85% over two years

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  IAA Mobility 2025: Cerence AI develops AI agent for working on the go

  Artificial intelligence-based conversational user experience firm develops voice AI agent for the car that integrates with Microsoft 365 Copilot to address the rise of mobile work and associated distracted driving risks

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  IAA Mobility: BMW drives to software-driven future with Snapdragon Ride Pilot

  AI-enabled automated driving system, powered by latest system-on-chips and an automated driving software stack, debuts in the BMW iX3

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  Rimini Street CEO sounds death knell on ERP software

  Believing monolithic ERP applications will become obsolete in a decade, Seth Ravin is positioning Rimini Street to help enterprises transition to agentic ERP processes

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  Nokia readies for comms AI super cycle with R&D facility

  Research centre in Oulu to address comms industry on verge of next generation of mobile, as well as global marketplace in flux

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Splunk.conf: Splunk and Cisco showcase unified platform

  With 18 months having elapsed since Cisco closed its acquisition of Splunk, joint platform capabilities and developments are being showcased at the annual Splunk.conf fair

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Northern Ireland police kept inspectors in dark over surveillance of journalists

  The Police Service of Northern Ireland failed to inform the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office about surveillance operations against journalists during annual inspections

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Dell AI server revenues leap but storage waits on Project Lightning

  During the past quarter, Dell’s datacentre sales went through the roof due to new server and networking products for AI – but storage has not shared the same dynamic

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Liz Kendall appointed tech secretary

  Former pensions secretary Liz Kendall replaces Peter Kyle as science, technology and innovation secretary in Keir Starmer’s cabinet reshuffle

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Most Influential Women in UK Tech: Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame

  Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame showcases the great women who have made a lifetime contribution to the technology sector

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Gibraltar government backs plans to build 250MW datacentre on island to tap into AI boom

  The government of Gibraltar is throwing its weight behind a plan to build a £1.8bn datacentre on the island

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  PCI council eyes wider data protection role beyond payments

  Hailed as the gold standard for securing credit card information, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) could be extended to protect other kinds of data following industry feedback

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Rising network outages are proving costly to businesses

  Research finds ongoing rise of network outages has cost over a third of organisations between $1m and $5m over the past year, putting datacentres at risk of significant disruption

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  IDTechEx: significant confusion surrounds SDV core meaning

  Research firm questions whether software-defined vehicles are built for those actually driving them or for the industry selling them

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  AI boom to push Australian IT spending past A$172bn

  Australian IT spending is set to grow by 8.9% in 2026, driven by growing investments in artificial intelligence, datacentre systems and cloud, according to Gartner

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Water efficiency of English datacentres scrutinised in TechUK report

  TechUK survey suggests English datacentres are consuming less water than perhaps expected, but concerns persist about how transparent the sector is being about its water usage

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Q2 2025 strongest second quarter on record for smartphone trade-ins

  Quarterly investigation of US phone trade-in market shows record value

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  US politicians ponder Wimwig cyber intel sharing law

  US cyber data sharing legislation is set to replace an Obama-era law, but time is running out to get it over the line, with global ramifications for the security industry, and intelligence and law enforcement communities

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack keeps workers at home

  The recent cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover is keeping workers out of the plants as possible attack group identity becomes public

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Lloyds Bank to use Workday software to help select staff for redundancy

  Lloyds Banking Group will analyse data on HR software to help it select staff for redundancy

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Neos Networks to deliver live broadcast connectivity for Premier League

  Provider of global connectivity services for broadcast and events taps dedicated B2B network provider to ensure high-quality delivery of Premier League football

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Most Influential Women in UK Tech: The 2025 longlist

  In Computer Weekly’s search for this year’s top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, hundreds of women have been put forward for consideration. Here, we look at a list of everyone nominated in 2025

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation

  The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings

• September 04, 2025 04 Sep'25

  AI in driver’s seat for real-time, in-vehicle experience

  Platform designed to help automakers bring AI-powered features to vehicles faster, without waiting for new chips or cloud connectivity