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• February 12, 2026 12 Feb'26

  College of Policing accounts ‘disclaimed’ by auditor for second year in wake of IT failure

  Government auditors have refused to endorse the financial accounts of the professional body for policing in England and Wales for a second year, following IT project blunders

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  Peer ‘disappointed’ that DWP review of subpostmaster prosecutions is still months away

  Government indicates that there are 108 DWP prosecutions of subpostmasters that will be reviewed so far, but little progress has been made

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  The Security Interviews: Mick Baccio, Splunk

  Mick Baccio, global security advisor at Splunk SURGe and Cisco Foundation AI, reveals how the experience of running cyber on a dime for a US presidential campaign has informed how he does security, and why the basics still matter

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  APAC firms ditch Oracle Java to cut costs amid AI demands

  Rising Oracle Java licensing fees and the massive infrastructure requirements of AI workloads are driving the region’s businesses to migrate to OpenJDK distributions

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  CIOs discuss friction between legacy IT and innovation

  While it may not be something IT leaders want to talk about, managing technical debt is critical to moving forward with IT innovation

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  Lack of resources greatest hurdle for regulating AI, MPs told

  Regulators warned that statutory powers alone cannot address the ethical harms of artificial intelligence

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  Fujitsu will be out by next summer, says Post Office CTO

  Post Office’s project to replace its controversial core system will contract suppliers by the summer of this year, with the aim to remove Fujitsu by summer 2027, according to its chief technology officer

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  Cisco shapes up for delivery of critical infrastructure in the AI era

  Annual European expo reveals what IT and networking behemoth claims will be a leap forward in AI adoption, with new products encompassing switches, optics, agentic operations and SASE

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  February Patch Tuesday: Microsoft drops six zero-days

  Microsoft releases patches for six zero-day flaws in its latest monthly update, many of them related to security feature bypass issues

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  Apple and Google pledge to improve app fairness

  The CMA is seeking views on Apple and Google’s commitments to ensure fair app store practices to stoke the UK’s app economy, fintech and improve developer confidence

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  Second ever international AI safety report published

  More than 100 artificial intelligence experts have produced the second international AI safety report ahead of a summit in India, outlining a high degree of uncertainty about the development and risks of AI

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  Artificial intelligence now finance sector’s ‘connective tissue’

  Major study finds debate over AI adoption is over as almost every finance firm in the world is already using the technology

• February 09, 2026 09 Feb'26

  Fractile expansion demonstrates UK growth opportunity

  AI chip firm’s £100m expansion and facility in Bristol is being used to showcase the government’s AI opportunity plan in action

• February 09, 2026 09 Feb'26

  UAE’s TII challenges big tech dominance with open source Falcon AI models

  Through its Falcon models and an open, efficiency-driven research strategy, the Technology Innovation Institute is positioning the UAE as a producer of foundational AI, not merely a consumer of global platforms

• February 09, 2026 09 Feb'26

  US bid for Dutch ID infrastructure raises sovereignty concerns

  Kyndryl’s proposed takeover shows how critical systems become exposed to foreign control without an overarching policy decision

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  NHS publishes tech-laden cancer plan

  The 10-year plan promises to transform cancer care through use of artificial intelligence, robotic surgeries and access to genomic testing, all wrapped up in the NHS App as the front door

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  Australia’s CommBank partners business school to research artificial intelligence

  CommBank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence, as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  Minister responds to criticism of Post Office Capture redress scheme

  Redress claim on ‘pause’ as UK government agrees to look at complaints about scheme for those who suffered hardship from using the Post Office Capture system

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  ANZ rolls out AI agents for business bankers

  Australian lender claims to be the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Salesforce Agentforce at scale, following a national roll-out of a CRM platform that consolidates data from different systems to ease administrative toil

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Why traditional automation is key to avoid the AI solution trap

  Boards are pushing for AI, but Nintex CTO Niranjan Vijayaragavan warns that AI projects are destined to fail without a foundation of traditional automation and clean data

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Governance lags agentic AI adoption in the UK, says Salesforce

  Salesforce's ‘2026 Connectivity benchmark report’ points to an increase in enterprise agentic AI deployment, but highlights governance gaps and a siloed system that requires better orchestration

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  ISE 2026: Maxhub unveils partnerships, products to enrich unified collaboration

  Provider of integrated commercial display and unified communications takes advantage of enterprise AV expo to announce further collaborations with tech leaders to create enhanced multimedia experiences

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Why sovereign and agentic AI will define next phase of Middle East’s digital transformation

  Organisations shift from artificial intelligence pilots to operational deployment as governments prioritise digital sovereignty and infrastructure control

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Half of Google’s software development now AI-generated

  In a bid to free up budget to spend on artificial intelligence infrastructure, Google parent Alphabet is using AI to improve operational efficiency

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  DWP rejigs operating model for data transformation by 2030

  The Department for Work and Pensions’ 2023-2030 data strategy aims to modernise systems, slash costs by 20%, promote data sharing, and embed a data culture in a hub and spoke model

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  LinkedIn touts agentic AI to slash recruitment time

  LinkedIn’s head of engineering for talent solutions explains how fine-tuned LLMs and agentic AI architectures are replacing traditional search methods to save recruiters four hours per role

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  Banks reduce reliance on OpenAI as strategies mature

  Banks are increasingly using alternative AI providers as Anthropic and Google eat into OpenAI’s dominance

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Gartner: AI and datacentre spending ramps up

  Hyperscalers are increasing AI capacity but IT buyers are now looking at their return on investment for this much-hyped technology

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Infosecurity Europe launches cyber security startups stream

  Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support, in conjunction with the UK Cyber Flywheel organisation

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  CGI’s artificial intelligence boss knows his job title won’t exist for long

  IT service provider is using AI to increase throughput while applying it to ‘big ticket’ challenges externally

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  VMware vSphere 8 end-of-support challenges

  IT leaders need to assess the cost implications of migrating from vSphere 8 to the latest supported VMware product offering

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Kendall names Barnsley as UK’s first tech town

  The UK government has named Barnsley as the nation’s first ‘tech town’, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Canva uses 1Password to secure ID during growth phase

  As it underwent a growth spurt in the early 2020s, graphic design platform Canva turned to 1Password to manage identity across its expanding organisation

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  HMRC chooses cloud SAP S/4Hana for tax system overhaul

  HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Birmingham Oracle project: Data cleansing and resourcing issues

  Councillors at audit committee urged to ensure strong project governance, adequate tech staffing levels and change management procedures

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Interview: Why identity is the nucleus for cyber security

  Amid a wave of market consolidation, Computer Weekly speaks to Keeper Security’s leadership on how identity and access management systems are becoming unified identity platforms capable of securing both human and machine identities

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  History repeats itself in Post Office Capture redress scheme with low-ball offers made

  Early signs show that former Post Office Capture users face derisory initial compensation offers and face impossible appeals process

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans

  The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Sir Alan Bates slams ‘nonsense’ reported about his financial redress settlement

  Campaigning subpostmaster speaks out about the highly inaccurate claims about the compensation he received

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  South Korea debuts foundation model in sovereign AI push

  A consortium led by SK Telecom has built a sovereign AI model designed to reduce reliance on foreign tech, lower costs for local industry and propel South Korea into the top ranks of AI powers

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Forward Networks claims first network digital twin for enterprises

  Network operations platform capability pairs agentic AI operations with network digital twin to enable NetOps and SecOps teams to ask complex questions, understand network behaviour and validate outcomes

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Metropolitan Police needs effective constraints on live facial recognition use, court hears

  The Metropolitan Police has defended its use of live facial recognition against a legal challenge that claims there are no effective constraints on where it can deploy the technology

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Skills key to successful AI adoption, says IBM

  Research from IBM states that employees will need AI skills in the near future for organisations to benefit from the technology

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  SAP overcomes rough start to post 8% growth

  SAP reports €36.8bn for 2025, up 8%, despite what CEO Christian Klein called a ‘rough start to the year’ due to geopolitical unrest from tariff conflict between the US and the EU

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  UK government signs more partners to boost AI skills across the country

  The government is seeking to educate 10 million adults in the UK on how to use artificial intelligence tools to streamline their work

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Meta’s latest results show diversification of datacentre capacity strategy

  The social media giant is facing increased datacentre costs due to rising server, memory and storage prices

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Nvidia releases synthetic dataset to support Singapore’s AI ambitions

  The AI chip giant has developed a synthetic dataset of personas to help developers build AI models that understand Singapore’s demographic and cultural nuances without using personally identifiable information

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Scotland gets AI growth zone boost in Lanarkshire

  CoreWeave is building a 500MW AI cloud, providing the region with 800 high-paid jobs in artificial intelligence

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  UK government to develop AI tutoring tools

  Schools will soon have access to free AI tools to help provide 1:1 tutoring to students, potentially levelling the playing field for those from disadvantaged backgrounds

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  FCA launches review as ‘non-human intelligence’ surpassing human reasoning is plausible

  The Financial Conduct Authority will consider the impact of emerging artificial intelligence adoption in the financial services sector