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• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage

  S3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack

  Hitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have

• July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

  Darktrace buys network visibility specialist Mira

  AI cyber giant Darktrace buys network security firm Mira for an undisclosed sum, seeking to enhance the tech stack it offers to highly regulated sectors

• July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

  The Security Interviews: Jason Nurse, University of Kent

  Jason Nurse, reader in cyber security at the University of Kent, discusses the psychological side of cyber and online safety, why placing blame on users as ‘the weakest link’ is wrong – and why security pros should think about user needs more

• July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

  Government consults public on self-driving vehicles

  The consultation will inform the creation of laws and regulations for autonomous vehicles as the government aims to begin piloting self-driving taxis in spring 2026

• July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

  Interview: Alexandra Willis, director of digital media and audience development, The Premier League

  Digital media is core to engaging nearly two billion fans of Premier League football around the world, with data analytics and AI playing an ever-more important role

• July 18, 2025 18 Jul'25

  DWP accused of shielding AI deployments from public scrutiny

  Amnesty International and Big Brother Watch say Department for Work and Pensions’ ‘unchecked’ and opaque use of AI in the UK benefits system treats claimants as suspicious and is shielded from public scrutiny

• July 18, 2025 18 Jul'25

  Peer warns IT suppliers against partnering with Fujitsu in government contracts

  According to publicly available figures, Fujitsu has won over half a billion pounds in government business as prime contractor since January 2024, but there is more than what has been reported

• July 18, 2025 18 Jul'25

  Charities struggle to find the skills to adopt AI

  Charities are building pace with digital adoption, but in many cases a lack of skills stands in the way of properly utilising tech

• July 18, 2025 18 Jul'25

  First Post Office Capture conviction referred to Court of Appeal

  A former Capture software user’s 1998 theft conviction is the first to be referred to the Court of Appeal

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  Estimated 96% of EMEA financial services sector not ready for DORA

  Research from data backup provider Veeam indicates that vast majority of European financial services firms do not feel ready to meet the resiliency requirements of the EU’s DORA act

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity

  Isambard-AI and Dawn are two of the supercomputers that mark the beginning of the UK’s goal to deliver 420 Exaflops of computer by 2030

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  Fujitsu outage crashes Post Office Horizon system

  Japanese IT giant’s time serving the Post Office is due to end next year, but problems persist

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  Travelex replacing its software spine as part of cloud migration

  The foreign currency supplier is replacing its legacy supply chain backbone to enable its migration to the cloud

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  ASEAN’s first driverless bus service debuts in Singapore

  The fully autonomous shuttle will operate at Resorts World Sentosa, marking a significant step in Singapore’s push to integrate autonomous vehicles into its public transport network

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  Terrorist potential of generative AI ‘purely theoretical’

  UK terror legislation advisor takes stock of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems to be adopted by terrorists, particularly for propaganda and attack planning purposes, but acknowledges the impact may be limited

• July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

  Hackbots biggest cloud security risk, slashing attack times to minutes

  With cyber criminals using automated tools to steal data in minutes, organisations must focus on runtime protection and automated responses to combat the rising threat from AI and misconfigured cloud assets

• July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

  Meta AI training will be challenged at Europe’s highest court, says data protection chief

  The data protection commissioner for Hamburg believes Meta’s AI training should be stopped

• July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

  Forrester urges IT leaders to dump technical debt

  IT needs to invest in innovative technologies and outsource legacy IT management to tackle volatile global markets, says Forrester

• July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

  Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform

  As security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  UKtech50 2025 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind

  From chess prodigy to AI visionary, this year’s most influential person in UK technology is far from ordinary. From using AI to win video games to discovering the structure of proteins, Demis Hassabis is a force to be reckoned with

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  UKtech50 2025: The most influential people in UK technology

  Computer Weekly has announced the 15th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Businesses say they are getting four Oracle Java audits a year

  Changes to Oracle Java licensing now means that IT leaders need to be wary of the footprint of this widely deployed enterprise platform

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Interview: Philip Colligan, CEO, Raspberry Pi Foundation

  With the trend of ‘vibe coding’ growing, Raspberry Pi Foundation’s CEO warns schools should not be complacent about continued coding education

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Ada Lovelace: using market forces to professionalise AI assurance

  The Ada Lovelace Institute examines how ‘market forces’ can be used to drive the professionalisation of artificial intelligence assurance in the context of a wider political shift towards deregulation

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Soaring cloud costs force firms to curtail IT staff hiring and AI efforts, research shows

  Research from Akamai Technologies shines a light on how rising cloud costs are affecting business spending in other areas of IT

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth

  The observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share

• July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

  Brits clinging to Windows 10 face heightened risk, says NCSC

  Businesses and consumers alike may not feel the need to upgrade to Windows 11 as its predecessor approaches end-of-life, but they are putting their own security at risk, says the NCSC

• July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

  Technology fuels successful FCA fight against unauthorised financial services

  The UK finance regulator is using data and technology to identify websites and apps that could cause financial harm

• July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

  UK sets sights on humanoid robot future

  AI and robots are part of Labour’s plans to build out a high-tech economy, but a robot workforce is a long way off

• July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

  AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs

  As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  ACM president Yannis Ioannidis sees a more humane role for AI

  Panel brought together academic, industry and policy leaders to discuss how AI can support climate goals, financial inclusion and infrastructure development

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  Schools using AI to personalise learning, finds Ofsted

  When looking into how some education providers in the UK are using AI, Ofsted found many have hit the ground running

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  Meta and Alan Turing Institute back open source AI fellowship

  Labour’s AI fellowship will see experts use open source AI tools in a bid deliver better public services at lower cost

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  Former Post Office staff in Horizon replacement bid team

  Escher, which supplied middleware in the Post Office Horizon system, is eyeing up the contract to replace the controversial software

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  UK to create ‘governance framework’ for police facial recognition

  Home secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed UK will regulate police facial recognition, citing police reticence to deploy systems without proper governance, but declined to say if any new framework will be statutory

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say

  A report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  AWS bolsters security tools to help customers manage AI risks

  Amazon Web Services has unveiled new and updated security services, including container-level threat detection and a unified command centre, to help organisations build and secure artificial intelligence applications

• July 10, 2025 10 Jul'25

  UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties

  The navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing

• July 10, 2025 10 Jul'25

  Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff

  Following exploration of artificial intelligence’s potential in conjunction with staff, AIB is rolling the tools out across the company

• July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

  NAO says government should employ data analytics to tackle fraud

  The National Audit Office recommends public bodies share and manage data in a way that prevents fraud and saves taxpayers’ money

• July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

  Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures

  The professional body for policing in England and Wales failed to properly manage its transition to new accounting and payroll systems

• July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

  CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl

  Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  July Patch Tuesday brings over 130 new flaws to address

  Microsoft patched well over 100 new common vulnerabilities and exposures on the second Tuesday of the month, but its latest update is mercifully light on zero-days

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  AI for Good: Signal president warns of agentic AI security flaw

  Secure by design is a mantra of the tech sector, but not if it’s agentic AI, which wants ‘root’ access to everything

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  Liverpool launches community AI charter

  The charter, which was created by a residents’ assembly, outlines public data sharing principles and supports the use of AI for public benefit

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  Interview: Vivek Bharadwaj, CIO, Happy Socks

  The clothing manufacturer’s IT chief has a foot in every aspect of the tech stack – and is placing data and AI at the centre of future digital strategy

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  Post Office inquiry chair 'cannot rule out' scandal caused 13 suicides

  Post Office scandal public inquiry publishes its first report after three years of gathering and analysing evidence, examining the human impact on victims and the compensation process

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  Interview: Antony Hausdoerfer, group CIO, The AA

  The vehicle recovery specialist is looking to artificial intelligence and connected vehicle technology to enhance customer experience and get drivers back on the road in the shortest possible time

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur

  A UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘...