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May 13, 2026 13 May'26
Computer Misuse Act reform to move forward in National Security Bill

Reform of the Computer Misuse Act is to be folded into a wider National Security Bill granting more powers for law enforcement to protect the UK against a wider spectrum of threats.
May 13, 2026 13 May'26
Interview: Luke Gebb, head of global innovation, American Express

Amex is pioneering agentic commerce for its cardholders – just one of a series of digital innovations driving transformation at the company
May 13, 2026 13 May'26
Sovereign AI fund supports Hassabis startup, Isomorphic

Isomorphic, which is building a unified drug discovery product based on artificial intelligence, is the third company to receive Sovereign AI funding from the UK government
May 12, 2026 12 May'26
Interview: Alwin Bakkenes, head of software engineering, Volvo Cars

As cars become increasingly software-driven and AI-enabled, the Volvo software chief is at the cutting edge of connected vehicles and advanced mobility tools for drivers and passengers

May 12, 2026 12 May'26
Civil servants to protest at Capita general meeting amid pension crisis

Public and Commercial Services Union to hold a demonstration at outsourcing giant’s meeting in London
May 11, 2026 11 May'26
UK government renews calls to sign Cyber Resilience Pledge

Westminster renews calls for business leaders to sign up to its yet-to-be-launched Cyber Resilience Pledge, and highlights growth, and challenges, for the UK’s cyber economy
May 11, 2026 11 May'26
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: FedEx digital chief unpacks agentic AI’s potential

Speaking to Computer Weekly at ServiceNow Knowledge 2026, Vishal Talwar, FedEx’s executive vice-president and CDIO, lays out the company’s mission to scale artificial intelligence responsibly
May 11, 2026 11 May'26
Commerzbank to cut 3,000 jobs as it ‘leverages AI even more’

Part of the German bank’s transformation will see a total of 3,000 jobs cut across the business
May 11, 2026 11 May'26
The Netherlands leads in quantum technology but lags on quantum security

The Dutch government has invested €615m to build a world-class quantum technology ecosystem, but many institutions have not started any quantum-specific preparations to protect themselves against the security threat
May 06, 2026 06 May'26
Netherlands moves GPT-NL from lab to live: first pilots under way

Dutch national language model enters real-world testing with a €13.5m public budget and a project-claimed world-first licensing deal with national news publishers

May 06, 2026 06 May'26
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: McDermott proclaims fully automated cyber defence

Chief executive’s conference keynote launches agentic artificial intelligence cyber security features for enterprise software player’s centralised platform
May 05, 2026 05 May'26
EU finance firms urged to get on with anti-money laundering compliance

Two-thirds of finance firms in the European Union are at risk of missing next year’s deadline to comply with anti-money laundering regulations
May 05, 2026 05 May'26
Tech sector job losses show AI replacement in action

Tech leaders are making big changes to their labour force as artificial intelligence advances. Business leaders are following this trend. But are their businesses ready?
May 01, 2026 01 May'26
MHRA appoints CDTO

The regulator has hired Jason Bonander as its chief digital and technology officer (CDTO) to help deliver its five-year strategy
April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26
Meta ramps up AI spend as it pushes advanced models

The owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram needs to monetise its AI research and development. Expect breakthroughs later this year, it says
April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26
Global study reveals biggest risks of AI in finance sector

University of Cambridge study reveals the risks facing the finance sector as it adopts artificial intelligence
April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26
MPs call on UK government to learn from central bank’s IT project success story

Members of a parliamentary committee want the wider government to learn from success of Bank of England project
April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26
HSBC collaborates on noisy qubit real-world application

Researchers have demonstrated that usable results for financial modelling are achievable even on current noisy quantum computers
April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26
MP committees to double up on Capita’s civil service pension crisis

Parliamentary committees to hold joint hearing to investigate the problems experienced in Civil Service Pension Scheme
April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26
Vernon Building Society uses AI to amplify human touch

Century-old mutual society is using artificial intelligence to bring mortgage processing onto a single platform
April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26
DP World Tour Europe selects HCLTech for ‘total shop window rebuild’

Sports association signs up Indian IT firm as global partner as it rebuilds its website and fan app in the ‘era of AI’
April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26
Lloyds Bank compensates another 1,625 customers after ‘alarming’ data breach

Bank pays out compensation to more customers and reveals expansion of affected group
April 27, 2026 27 Apr'26
Was Capita’s Royal Mail pension contract a botch too far?

The Cabinet Office’s decision to end Capita’s contract to administer the Royal Mail pension follows heavy criticism of the supplier’s work on the civil service pension contract
April 26, 2026 26 Apr'26
UKtech50 2026 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT

Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK technology is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list
April 24, 2026 24 Apr'26
Government should drop Capita from civil service scheme after it loses Royal Mail role, says union

Union representing civil servants said that when outsourcing suppliers fail, they should be dropped
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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 14, 2026 14 Apr'26
Finance regulator outlines its open finance vision

Financial Conduct Authority wants small businesses and consumers to be able to use their data to get better finance deals
April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26
Keir Starmer was warned about Post Office prosecution practices as director of public prosecutions

A Horizon scandal victim wrote to Keir Starmer in 2011, when he was director of public prosecutions for the CPS, alerting him to the Post Office’s controversial prosecution practices
April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26
NHS digital drive hit by usability gaps despite progress, national survey finds

The shift from analogue to digital across the NHS is hindered by usability issues in electronic patient record (EPR), but the newly launched frontline productivity programme could be the answer
April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26
Fujitsu injects another £80m into UK arm amid Post Office scandal fallout

IT services provider’s UK arm has received a further £80m from parent company headquarters in Japan
April 01, 2026 01 Apr'26
AI driving changes in Nordic financial services

Traditional Nordic financial services businesses are reshaping to take on a new breed of competition
March 30, 2026 30 Mar'26
Interview: Thierry Martin, head of enterprise data and analytics, Toyota Motor Europe

A sketch artist by night, and a vehicle engineer by training, Toyota Europe’s data chief is bringing elements of both capabilities to bear in delivering better data insights and building a foundation for AI
March 30, 2026 30 Mar'26
Stop Scams steps up to online fraud challenge

After years of putting the building blocks in place, Stop Scams is ready and able to react quickly to fight emerging fraud threats
March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26
Second Post Office Capture conviction referred to appeal court

Conviction of 30 years has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26
Capita left to deal with 13,000 civil service pension cases over a year old

More details of the Civil Services Pension Scheme administration backlog left to Capita revealed in parliamentary committee hearing
March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26
Post Office still can’t find evidence for 1,400 scandal redress claimants, while people die waiting

Finding evidence for events that took place decades ago is a challenge for many subpostmasters seeking compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme
March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26
Bank of England IT project offers lessons for wider government

The UK central bank’s core IT system replacement project surprised MPs, who were unaccustomed to reviewing success stories – its achievement could potentially serve as a model for future government IT initiatives
March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26
Amazon Web Services bags Fujitsu’s HMRC loss

US tech giant wins contract to run three datacentres for the government department after cutting ties with Fujitsu
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 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 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