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• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Fujitsu underestimated Post Office scandal backlash

  Troubled IT supplier loses UK government megadeal despite internal confidence, as political pressure mounts

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Tricentis looks to agentic AI as firms risk losses from untested code

  With 42% growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the software testing firm is pushing autonomous AI agents to help enterprises balance the pressure for speed against the high cost of software failures

• December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection

  Malicious prompt injections to manipulate GenAI large language models are being wrongly compared to classical SQL injection attacks. In reality, prompt injection may be a far worse problem, says the UK’s NCSC

• 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 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer

  While AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

• December 05, 2025 05 Dec'25

  Cyber teams on alert as React2Shell exploitation spreads

  Exploitation of an RCE flaw in a widely used open source library is spreading quickly, with China-backed threat actors in the driving seat

• 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 04, 2025 04 Dec'25

  UK Space Agency pumps £17m into tech projects

  The agency is funding 17 different projects through its National Space Innovation Programme, including the design of an AI-powered satellite radar

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Interview: Florence Mottay, global CISO, Zalando

  Florence Mottay moved from mathematics to software engineering, and is now leading security at Zalando, a high-tech online fashion retailer

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Post Office finally investigates Horizon defect, but investigator slams comms strategy

  Subpostmaster and investigator met the Post Office over Horizon defect raised six years earlier

• 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 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Black Hat MEA: Saudi Vision 2030 fuels surge in cyber security innovation

  Global cyber firms are racing to support the Kingdom’s mega-projects, but building trusted partnerships remains key, says Exabeam CEO Pete Harteveld

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent

  At AWS re:Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Strategic shift pays off as Okta bids to ease agentic AI risk

  Nine months after restructuring its go-to-market, Okta is buoyed by a growing recognition of how crucial identity has become thanks to the spread of AI agents

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches after third system appeal

  Post Office scandal campaigner reveals she had her suspicions over a third Post Office system, as review of convictions based on APS/APT looks likely to bring thousands more subpostmasters into scope

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  CIO interview: Innovation in reworking business processes

  David Holton, chief transformation officer at Cambridge and Counties Bank, talks IT modernisation and agentic AI

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Former Post Office legal boss won’t escape police reach

  Police say they will question those who evaded the public inquiry, naming former Post Office legal boss Jane MacLeod as an example

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  ASEAN enterprises moving from ‘AI-first’ to ‘AI-native’

  Organisations across Southeast Asia are reimagining business processes, going beyond the experimentation phase of AI adoption, according to AWS’s head of the region

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Interview: Dominic Redmond, group CIO, PageGroup

  The recruitment firm’s IT chief is looking to use data-enabled technologies, including automation and artificial intelligence, to enhance workplace activities and boost employee productivity

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  SAP user group chair warns of AI low-hanging fruit risks

  UK and Ireland SAP User Group Connect 2025 conference kicks off with a warning about economic uncertainty and AI misselling

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO, Checkout.com

  Checkout.com’s chief technology officer has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry, and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it

• November 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

  CCRC refers case based on third faulty Post Office system

  The latest Post Office prosecution to be sent to the Court of Appeal involves a third IT system in a 2001 case, after previous referrals for people convicted due to flaws in Horizon and Capture software

• November 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

  Sea-Lion powering AI tools for migrant workers, local businesses

  The inaugural Sea-Lion summit showcased real-world applications of Southeast Asia’s first homegrown large language model, which now supports multimodal inputs and can run on a standard laptop

• 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 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  Google Cloud launches ‘PanyaThAI’ to spur AI adoption in Thailand

  The cloud supplier is offering training and its AI technology stack to unlock an estimated 730bn baht in economic value for Thai businesses such as Thai Wacoal and SE-Education

• November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 revs up testing with augmented reality

  Formula 1 team switches from paper guides to incorporate AR designs into its workflow and see quickly how parts form car assemblies resulting in gains in team’s operations that add up to improved performance on the racetrack

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  Organisations facing sustainability challenge amid AI ambitions

  Cisco and NTT Data executives warn that while business leaders drive AI adoption, both legacy infrastructure and rising energy costs are creating a sustainability bottleneck that requires urgent attention

• 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 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  Budget 2025: £300m extra for NHS IT and a £1.8bn budget for digital ID cards

  The Autumn Budget contained little by the way of new policies in digital and technology, but handed out some cash to help progress in digitising public services and to support growing tech businesses

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

  AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Paw Patrol: How AI and IoT are driving preventative pet care

  With vet bills skyrocketing, could preventative pet care using advances in AI and IoT help pet parents understand their furry friends better?

• 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 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Tech central to swingeing job cuts at ABN Amro

  Simplification enabled by the use of the latest technologies underpins Dutch bank’s plan to cut thousands of jobs

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Big tech backers put Nordic AI bid into perspective

  Nordic countries declare plan to become world leaders in artificial intelligence by joining forces

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Emirates Group partners with OpenAI to accelerate enterprise-wide AI transformation

  The airline will deploy ChatGPT Enterprise and build an AI Centre of Excellence as it accelerates digital transformation across operations, customer experience and future air mobility

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Oracle deploys the Middle East’s first AI supercluster to power sovereign AI in Abu Dhabi

  Oracle expands its Abu Dhabi cloud region with the Middle East’s first NVIDIA Blackwell–powered AI supercluster, accelerating sovereign AI and supporting the UAE’s ambition to build the world’s first fully AI-native government

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  AI Singapore taps Alibaba Cloud to power Sea-Lion model

  The fourth iteration of the regional LLM leverages Alibaba’s Qwen foundation model to improve multilingual accuracy and performance on consumer-grade hardware

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Interview: IBM on breaking hyperscaler lock-in

  Big Blue’s general manager for Asia-Pacific Hans Dekkers talks up why APAC enterprises are rethinking their reliance on public cloud, the resurgence of the mainframe via LinuxOne, and how it used its own AI tools to cut internal costs

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Monday.com touts AI as cure for productivity slump

  At its Elevate conference in Sydney, the workflow management supplier showed off new artificial intelligence capabilities to tackle burnout, while showcasing customer wins from Tennis Australia, Ray White and Freedom

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  UAE’s e& enterprise drives growth with AI and sovereign cloud

  Acting chief revenue officer Majd Coussa outlines how the digital transformation company is turning innovation into measurable business outcomes for 2025

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Chief data officers hire for tech innovation

  Once an organisation’s data maturity is sorted, CDOs need to show how strong data management can power tech initiatives

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  MWC25 Doha debut marks a new chapter for MENA mobile innovation

  GSMA’s Jawad Jalal Abbassi outlines how Qatar’s first Mobile World Congress will accelerate digital transformation, 5G adoption and AI integration across the region

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Scotland digital strategy promises government app in 2026

  Joint local and central government digital strategy includes plans for a personalised public services app, ethical AI framework and increased public sector data sharing

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  UK digital bank Revolut sees value jump £23bn in a year

  UK-headquartered fintech firm sees its valuation increase dramatically with its latest share sale

• 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 21, 2025 21 Nov'25

  Subpostmaster was told no jury would believe Post Office had ‘dodgy computer’

  Academic research says the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters casts doubt on ‘golden thread’ of British justice, that people are innocent until proven guilty

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Nvidia prepares for exponential growth in AI inference

  The company, famous for its datacentre AI acceleration, is focused on delivering better performance per watt to fuel the AI boom

• 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 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Fujitsu milks £110m from HMRC in six months with hardly a public stir

  IT giant Fujitsu pockets £110m from deals with HMRC in six months since the end of March this year