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• July 24, 2026 24 Jul'26

  US government to consider AI Kill Switch law

  Two US congressmen have introduced a bill to give Washington the power to pull the plug on rogue AI models in an emergency.

• July 24, 2026 24 Jul'26

  Physical AI now mainstream as manufacturers scale AI implementation

  Study reveals how physical AI is set to transform industrial environments – from factories and warehouses to logistics networks, maintenance operations and quality management

• July 24, 2026 24 Jul'26

  Patrick Vallance returns as AI taskforce chair

  Following stepping down as science minister, Vallance’s return marks a rethink on AI, taking best practices from the UK’s Covid-19 Taskforce

• July 24, 2026 24 Jul'26

  OpenUK calls for a UK version of the Linux Foundation

  Tech sovereignty needs to be a part of the UK government’s reindustrialisation plans, and this requires an open source focus

• July 24, 2026 24 Jul'26

  ‘It beggars belief’ as DWP ‘drags its heels’ over subpostmaster prosecutions reviews

  Government department prosecuted around 100 subpostmasters in relation to benefits fraud, with support from the Post Office, and has made no advancement in the 18 months since its independent review of prosecutions was announced

• July 24, 2026 24 Jul'26

  Russian APT Laundry Bear perfects zero-click phishing attack

  A newly identified Russian state threat actor is using a novel zero-click phishing technique, likely developed with the help of an AI, to target Western users of Zimbra software products

• July 24, 2026 24 Jul'26

  Why embodied AI security extends beyond the robot

  As AI moves into robots, autonomous vehicles and industrial systems, attackers are likely to target the credentials, cloud services and update channels that control them

• July 23, 2026 23 Jul'26

  Will digital government recover from DSIT breakup?

  Computer Weekly looks at what Burnham’s decision to dismantle DSIT means for the UK tech sector, and how the department will be split up

• July 23, 2026 23 Jul'26

  Digital government services increase accessibility gap

  Many adults are unable to access digital government services in the UK, leading the digital divide to widen

• July 23, 2026 23 Jul'26

  Alphabet borrows $100bn to pay for AI investments

  The parent company of Google and YouTube has increased its debt portfolio from $16bn to $100bn to pay for AI infrastructure

• July 23, 2026 23 Jul'26

  Why AI coding agents won’t kill SaaS

  Investors may fear that AI coding agents will wipe billions off SaaS valuations, but SiteMinder CTO Tom Varsavsky thinks the technology will speed up software delivery, reduce tech debt and force IT leaders to master token economics

• July 22, 2026 22 Jul'26

  Hugging Face ‘hacker’ was rogue OpenAI model

  A hacker who broke into Hugging Face’s systems last week has been exposed as a pair of advanced OpenAI frontier models that were trying to cheat on an exam

• July 22, 2026 22 Jul'26

  House of Lords questions Andy Burnham’s AI plans

  An urgent question relating to the disbandment of DSIT has put the new administration under pressure to clarify funding and strategy for AI and science

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Singapore’s military to explore quantum computing for mission planning

  The Singapore Armed Forces’ Digital and Intelligence Service and the Defence Science and Technology Agency are working with IBM to test quantum optimisation for military logistics

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Scottish Water taps BT, Accenture to plot digital future

  Scottish utility firm inks strategic relationships with tech firms to continue digital journey, looking to deliver more resilient, secure and efficient services as well as strengthen technology foundations

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  AMD CTO: Europe’s AI opportunity lies beyond semiconductor manufacturing

  Mark Papermaster says Europe’s commitment to interoperability and diversity of supply could become a strategic advantage as AI infrastructure grows more heterogeneous

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Kanishka Narayan takes on AI sovereignty in Burnham cabinet

  AI minister will attend cabinet meetings held by UK prime minister Andy Burnham, with focus on ownership of UK tech

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder victim of mass Oracle breach

  Employee data at US-based cosmetics firm Estée Lauder was compromised through a vulnerability in Oracle’s software, likely orchestrated by the Cl0p ransomware gang

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  How Lithuania became a tech startup nation

  Lithuania has built a network of tech startup companies the hard way, through bootstrapping. Today, it claims six companies with valuations over a billion dollars

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Dutch Surf tests practical route out of Big Tech dependency

  The Netherlands’ education and research IT cooperative is running pilots with open source tools, placing working alternatives alongside existing Big Tech services

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Where AI fits in modern supply chains

  We find out how businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI), GenAI and agentic AI to streamline supply chain operations

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Singapore spells out how personal data can be used in GenAI

  Advisory guidelines clarifying when organisations can scrape and reuse personal data to build GenAI models are among a raft of announcements at the inaugural Singapore Data Festival

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  Interview: Dan Cherowbrier, CTO, Formula E

  For the tech chief at the electric vehicle racing organisation, innovation extends from everything digital to all the technology elements that make the growing motorsport operation a success

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  Frustration as Post Office Horizon replacement contract signing delayed again

  If signed off, cloud-based EPOS system will replace controversial Horizon software from Fujitsu

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  NatWest signs up to quantum trial for fraud detection

  The retail bank is one of 11 organisations testing quantum technologies as part of Digital Catapult’s quantum technology access programme

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  Interview: Reflections on tech revolutions and silos

  David Minahan, director of digital at Young Lives vs Cancer, discusses data silos and how new tech is offering a more natural user experience

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  Check Point builds homegrown AI model as attack barriers collapse

  The company is training a security-only small language model as AI hands attackers industrial-scale capabilities and pushes cyber defence towards full automation

• July 16, 2026 16 Jul'26

  Palantir: Can anyone else do what it does?

  Palantir is a US defence-intelligence company, born from the CIA's venture arm that now operates inside the UK public sector. We examine the claim that its technology does what no other supplier can

• July 16, 2026 16 Jul'26

  A fifth of PC devices still on Windows 10

  While support ended in October 2025, community-driven insights from Lansweeper has found that smaller businesses are still using Windows 10

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders

  Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Home Office proposes AI tooling to accelerate digital disclosure

  PoliceAI will be used to pilot artificial intelligence tools that are capable of automatically generating summaries of digital material, saving ‘countless’ admin hours

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI

  The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Digital Dubai and Emirates Group deepen collaboration on shared digital platforms

  Agreement will give Emirates Group access to Dubai’s expanding ecosystem of digital services, data capabilities and shared platforms as the emirate pushes towards a more integrated, AI-enabled digital economy

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Australia launches Office of AI to drive world-first national framework

  Prime minister Anthony Albanese establishes Office of AI to coordinate binding standards for the technology, promising the world's first single national AI framework

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Inside AWS’s $1bn forward-deployed engineering initiative

  The cloud giant is embedding cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists and strategists with customers, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia among those already seeing results

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  PAC worried shared services strategy set to fail

  The committee says Cabinet Office has no clear plan or timeline for achieving its predicted £4.3bn in savings from the strategy, as it continues to be delayed and suffers from lack of departmental buy-in

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  AI impacting stress levels among cyber professionals

  AI is affecting the day-to-day careers of cyber security pros in regard to stress levels, but respondents to an ISC2 data-gathering exercise are split over whether or not their stress levels are going up or down

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Study reveals Microsoft tactics to lure Windows users

  The Edge browser may have a small market share, but research commissioned by Firefox shows how Microsoft muscles in

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  AI skills fund launches in Barnsley

  The government is looking for ideas on how to deliver AI training to Barnsley residents as part of the government’s AI Upskilling Challenge Fund

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Interview: Lucie Audibert, solicitor in MP Jess Asato’s Grok case

  AWO solicitor Lucie Audibert speaks with Computer Weekly about representing Labour MP Jess Asato’s legal claim against xAI’s chatbot Grok, its nudification capabilities and how this case may define what liability for developers of AI tools look like

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Scottish Building Society subscribes to embedded AI to begin a new journey

  Oldest remaining building society becomes first customer to sign up to embedded AI offering from current supplier SBS

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Couchbase eyes APAC growth as enterprises confront data problem

  Having been taken private by private equity firm Haveli Investments, the NoSQL database supplier is pitching its newly launched AI data plane as the fix for the fragmented data layers

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Cyber body Crest launches AI security charter

  Crest’s industry-backed AI charter commits signatories to supporting responsible AI adoption and aims to foster trust in AI-enabled security services.

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Microsoft admits datacentre greenhouse gas emissions hike

  Growth in carbon emissions for 2024-25 matches total emissions over the previous four years, as Microsoft focuses on datacentre power

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  European Commission accepts SAP’s on-premise ERP commitment

  The ERP provider has accepted that it will no longer charge admin fees for returning maintenance customers, and has stated it will offer on-premise flexibility

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Tech giants come under watch of UK finance regulators

  IT suppliers critical to the UK finance sector are now within the remit of the UK’s financial services regulators

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Singtel and Thales launch multi-operator IoT eSIM network

  Bridge Alliance service will allow enterprises to provision and manage connected devices across four Asia-Pacific mobile operators through a single platform

• July 12, 2026 12 Jul'26

  Singapore investors embrace AI but still lean on human advisers

  Singapore’s affluent investors are among the world’s keenest adopters of AI for investment research, but most still want a professional adviser to validate machine-generated insights

• July 10, 2026 10 Jul'26

  AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier

  Once dismissed as legacy tech on the way out, the mainframe is being reframed as the trusted anchor of hybrid, AI-era architectures

• July 09, 2026 09 Jul'26

  MPs call on NHS to scrap Palantir and its Federated Data Platform

  Health and Social Care Committee urges health minister to get rid of US firm Palantir and its Federated Data Platform amid ‘mistrust’ and ‘contested benefits’