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• January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26

  Interview: Barry Panayi, group chief data officer, Howden

  The fast-growing insurance firm wants data insights and artificial intelligence to give customer-facing employees all the information they need at their fingertips through data-powered conversational interfaces

• January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26

  AI slop pushes data governance towards zero-trust models

  Organisations are implementing zero-trust models for data governance thanks to the proliferation of poor quality AI-generated data, often known as AI slop

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  Met claims success for permanent facial recognition in Croydon

  Met Police boasts that its permanent deployment of live facial recognition cameras in Croydon has led to more than 100 arrests and prompted a double-digit reduction in local crime, ahead of an upcoming judicial review assessing the technology’s ...

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  Davos 2026 attendees can navigate event with Salesforce AI ’concierge’

  Visitors to the World Economic Forum will be able to use an AI personal assistant, EVA, built by Salesforce on WEF data, to navigate the event and get recommended actions

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  UK copyright law unfit for protecting creative workers from AI

  As the UK government considers its approach to artificial intelligence and copyright, Computer Weekly explores the dynamics at play in copyright markets, and what measures can be taken to ensure that creatives are protected

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Berlin anarchists cite AI in attack on key energy infrastructure

  Berlin anarchists have sabotaged key energy infrastructure in the city, claiming it as an act of ‘self-defence’ against the planet’s destruction by ‘energy-guzzling’ technologies and the wider fossil fuel economy that underpins their development

• January 09, 2026 09 Jan'26

  Salesforce advocates AI fluency framework alongside customers

  Salesforce has launched an ‘AI fluency playbook’ based on its own workforce’s experience, aimed at guiding customers on AI adoption, stressing what it sees as human-AI synergies

• January 08, 2026 08 Jan'26

  Campaigners urge UK to develop digital sovereignty strategy

  UK digital rights campaigners have urged UK parliamentarians to implement a digital sovereignty strategy as part of the forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to reduce reliance on technology subject to foreign interference

• January 07, 2026 07 Jan'26

  Interview: Diana Schildhouse, chief data and analytics officer, Colgate-Palmolive

  The consumer goods giant is taking its advanced analytics approach and adding AI for greater value, but its data leader stresses the importance of getting the data foundations in place first

• January 07, 2026 07 Jan'26

  Accenture acquires UK AI firm linked to Vote Leave campaign

  Faculty, the company that powered the data strategy of Boris Johnson’s former chief of staff, Dominic Cummings, is now part of Accenture

• January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

  Lenovo taps AI and digital twins to power World Cup 2026

  Technology partner for upcoming football tournament has built an artificial intelligence knowledge assistant for coaches, digital avatars to assist VAR decisions, and smart infrastructure for venue management

• December 31, 2025 31 Dec'25

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2025

• December 31, 2025 31 Dec'25

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2025

  There is no doubt what took centre stage in the theatre of business applications in 25: agentic AI, surpassing pre-2022 AI, and generative AI. C-level executives bang the AI drum while enterprises find value

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Oldest victim of Post Office scandal awarded OBE in New Year Honours 2026

  The New Year Honours List 2026 conferred an OBE on the oldest living victim of the Post Office scandal, as well as hailing members of the UK technology community

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Top 10 information management stories of 2025

  Artificial intelligence continued to have a big impact on information management in 2025. Also selected are case studies and interviews with data chiefs that show the enduring value of good data management

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Top 10 technology ethics stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025

• December 23, 2025 23 Dec'25

  Top 10 ANZ stories of 2025

  The 2025 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with major data breaches even as organisations continue to press on with their digital transformation efforts in areas such as AI and automation

• 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 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

  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

  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 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

  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

  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 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion

  A growing body of research suggests that the use of live facial recognition is reshaping police perceptions of suspicion in ways that undermine supposed human-in-the-loop protections

• December 05, 2025 05 Dec'25

  Interview: Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology, The Pensions Regulator

  Data, automation and artificial intelligence are driving the regulator to take new approaches to its work and how it supports the pensions industry, leading to improved experiences for everyone in the UK who has a pension

• December 04, 2025 04 Dec'25

  Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation

  The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  AWS CEO Garman pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future

  At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear

  It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working

• November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  Databricks predicts AI tipping point as ANZ firms fix data issues

  As AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  London councils endure wave of cyber attacks, shared IT services hit

  Four London councils – Kensington and Chelsea; Hackney; Westminster; and Hammersmith and Fulham – have suffered cyber attacks, disrupting services and prompting NCSC-supported investigation

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Antwerp court adjourns high-profile drugs case amid questions over Sky ECC intercept

  Defence lawyers ask court to adjourn after unexplained changes found in evidence files containing intercepted messages from Sky ECC encrypted phone network infiltrated by French and Dutch police

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Interview: Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight, RAC

  Real-time data insights and artificial intelligence are central to supporting the RAC’s motoring services and to getting drivers back on the road as quickly as possible

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Swedish welfare authority suspends ‘discriminatory’ AI model

  A machine learning model used by Sweden’s social security agency to flag benefit fraud has been discontinued following investigations by media outlets and the country’s data protection watchdog

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Workday sets out to reinvent ERP with agentic AI platform

  At Workday Rising EMEA, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier signalled a new phase of development as an agentic AI platform provider that might disrupt traditional ERP

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Inside the Middle East tech ambition: How A2RL is shaping the future of AI-driven mobility

  Driverless cars push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, real-time decision-making and data-driven mobility at Yas Marina Circuit

• November 17, 2025 17 Nov'25

  Salesforce: CIOs closer to the bridge than ever due to agentic AI

  Salesforce research finds CIOs closer than ever to steering the business, acting as strategic partners to their CEOs, thanks to the growth of agentic AI

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack costs firm £485m in the quarter

  Jaguar Land Rover’s quarterly financial statement discloses a £485m loss due to the late August cyber attack that halted production for six weeks, damaging the UK economy

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  MI5 made multiple applications for phone data to identify BBC journalist’s sources

  MI5 discloses it made and authorised unlawful ‘sequential applications’ for Vincent Kearney’s phone data during his time at the BBC, but will neither confirm nor deny whether it undertook further ‘lawful’ surveillance of BBC journalists

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme

  The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for people across the bloc

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  How Japanese banking giant MUFG is using AI

  Japan’s largest bank aims to transform into an AI-native company by using agentic AI, changing how it handles data, and inking key partnerships with OpenAI and Sakana AI

• November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

  National Highways to get more out of its data through single platform

  Government-owned organisation National Highways will get more out of its data through extended working with IT service provider

• November 10, 2025 10 Nov'25

  Oxford launches Equinox to build innovation hub in region

  Oxford University and its host city have launched Equinox as a regional organisation uniting academia, business and government to establish Oxfordshire as a global innovation hub

• November 10, 2025 10 Nov'25

  UK’s ‘deregulatory’ AI approach won’t protect human rights

  Expert witnesses called before Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights have told MPs and Lords that the UK’s current approach to artificial intelligence regulation will fail to effectively protect people’s rights

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  SAP TechEd 2025: Make AI real, grind in data

  SAP TechEd in Berlin put an accent on building agentic and generative AI systems to create real business outcomes, beyond what its executives say is excessive hype

• November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

  CrowdStrike: Europe second only to North America for cyber attacks

  Europe faces rising cyber threats from criminals and nation-states, according to CrowdStrike. Ransomware attacks now take just 24 hours, with 22% of global victims being European

• October 31, 2025 31 Oct'25

  Capgemini and Siemens combine to make AI industrial tech

  Siemens and Capgemini are expanding their partnership to create AI-based industrial technologies, said to boost efficiency, sustainability and innovation in manufacturing sectors

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI

  E-commerce giant Amazon has cited artificial intelligence as a key driver of its decision to lay off thousands of its corporate employees

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide

  Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights ...

• October 17, 2025 17 Oct'25

  UK Salesforce execs: Agentforce begins to stoke new business forms

  Salesforce UK CEO Zahra Bahrololoumi and CTO Paul O’Sullivan put Dreamforce 2025 discourse about agentic AI into a UK context