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• January 17, 2025 17 Jan'25

  Takeda opens innovation centre in Bengaluru

  Global biopharmaceutical giant Takeda opens its first Asian Innovation Capability Centre in Bengaluru to speed up drug discovery and development

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Biden signs new cyber order days before Trump inauguration

  With days left in the White House, outgoing US president Joe Biden has signed a wide-ranging cyber security executive order with far-reaching implications

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  L’Oréal: Making AI worth it

  No stranger to advanced technologies, the cosmetics firm is partnering with IBM on GenAI capabilities to support its sustainability goals

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Global IT spending to soar in 2025

  S&P Global Ratings expects a 9% surge in global IT spending for 2025, fuelled by demand for AI and cloud technologies, despite potential trade headwinds and a slowing global economy

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Government, Nesta and ODI issue £600k smart data challenge to technologists

  Department for Business and Trade, Challenge Works and the Open Data Institute have issued a Smart Data Challenge to app developers and entrepreneurs with a total prize fund of £600,000

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Cyber security dovetails with AI to lead 2025 corporate IT investment

  Cyber security and GenAI top enterprise IT investment plans for 2025, whether singly or together, according to research from Enterprise Strategy Group

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Larger businesses spend, spend, spend on AI

  Companies earning over $500m are spending 5% of their revenue on artificial intelligence initiatives

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Biggest Patch Tuesday in years sees Microsoft address 159 vulnerabilities

  The largest Patch Tuesday of the 2020s so far brings fixes for more than 150 CVEs ranging widely in their scope and severity – including eight zero-day flaws

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  UK’s female fintech leaders hit harder by investment collapse

  UK fintechs led by women suffered disproportionately as a result of the fall in investment in the sector

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Cohesity CEO on Veritas integration and IPO plans

  Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen shares his vision for integrating Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, uniting 12,000 customers, driving AI-powered innovation and building a public-ready company

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Barings Law enleagues 15,000 claimants against Google and Microsoft

  Barings Law has signed up 15,000 claimants in a data breach suit against Microsoft and Google. The firm says the tech giants use personal data without proper consent to train AI models

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  CMA kicks off investigation into Google search engine dominance

  The Competition and Markets Authority is using powers that came into force at the start of the year to assess Google’s reach

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Subpostmasters won’t get financial redress until mid-2027 at current rate of progress

  Campaigning former subpostmaster warns that some members of the group that took the Post Office to court might not receive financial redress until mid-2027

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Government funding to help businesses discover AI value

  The government is betting the bank on the power of artificial intelligence to fix the public sector, mend roads and boost the UK economy

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Ericsson enhances enterprise 5G portfolio with generative AI virtual expert

  Comms tech provider looks to simplify network operations through launch of generative AI-based virtual expert designed to enhance enterprise 5G network administration

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Metro mayors face similar digitisation challenges to banks, but lack their resources

  UK regional leaders want to be independent of central government when it comes to digital transformation decision-making, but don’t fully understand what’s ahead

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Experts say ‘something has to break’ before banks slow IT-driven cost-cutting measures

  Banks will cut costs until something breaks and they are forced to scale back, according to industry experts

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Can UK government achieve ambition to become AI powerhouse?

  The artificial intelligence opportunities action plan has been largely well received, but there are plenty of questions about how it will be achieved

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  UK government unveils AI-fuelled industrial strategy

  Labour plans to implement the 50 recommendations set out by entrepreneur Matt Clifford to boost the use of AI in the UK

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Gramedia speeds up inventory checks with RFID

  Indonesian bookstore giant has sped up inventory checks, minimised shrinkage and improved customer experience with RFID-powered checkout kiosks and exit gates

• January 10, 2025 10 Jan'25

  UK Defence Committee urges MoD to embrace AI

  Defence Committee outlines changes it thinks the Ministry of Defence should make to realise the battlefield advantages of artificial intelligence

• January 10, 2025 10 Jan'25

  UK fintech investment drops by almost double global average

  Global fintech investments fell 20% compared to 37% in the UK, according to latest Innovate Finance figures

• January 09, 2025 09 Jan'25

  PC makers use CES to showcase AI PC efforts

  A range of AMD, Intel and ARM-powered PCs with neural processing units are aiming to boost office productivity

• January 09, 2025 09 Jan'25

  CES 2025: Intel gears up for automotive drive

  IT giants eye up opportunities in software-defined vehicle sector with offering designed to drive down total cost of development and deployment while empowering automakers to build the future of mobility faster

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  AWS plants flag in Thailand with new cloud region

  Amazon Web Services’ latest regional expansion brings its cloud services to Thailand, promising a $10bn boost to the nation's GDP and support for more than 11,000 jobs per year

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Custom software and silicon set to define next-gen chips

  The global chip supply crisis is not improving, but manufacturers are integrating new software and hardware techniques to stay ahead

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Software AG shrinks with sale of Alfabet and Cumulocity

  Software AG, Germany’s number two business software company, after SAP, has announced the latest turn in its shrinkage under the umbrella of private equity group Silver Lake

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Black mothers seek ‘total agency’ over perinatal healthcare data

  Black mothers from Birmingham have organised a community-led data initiative that aims to ensure their perinatal healthcare concerns are taken seriously by medical professionals

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Post Office scandal-stained Fujitsu orders staff to cut costs amid widening UK losses

  Japanese supplier reports a loss of £170m in the UK in its latest financial statement and orders UK staff to cut costs

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Indian public cloud market set to hit over $25bn by 2028

  India’s public cloud services market is expected to surpass $25bn in the next three years, driven by digital transformation, generative AI and multicloud strategies

• January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25

  Former subpostmasters invited to take part in Post Office Capture compensation scheme development

  Government will look at a selection of cases where subpostmasters experienced unexplained losses while using the Post Office’s pre-Horizon accounting system

• January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25

  Saudi Arabia calls for humanitarian AI after tightening screws on rights protesters

  Oppressive state wants global digital identity system at the heart of all AI, to make it trustworthy and prevent it being used for ‘unauthorised surveillance’

• January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25

  How StarHub is tapping OpenShift in its cloud strategy

  StarHub is harnessing Red Hat OpenShift to power its hybrid multi-cloud platform, balancing control over critical infrastructure with the scalability and flexibility of public cloud

• January 06, 2025 06 Jan'25

  How Toyota is transforming its digital employee experience

  The traditional way of handling IT issues through helpdesk tickets generally delivers an unsatisfactory user experience – something Toyota is looking to rectify in its business this year

• January 05, 2025 05 Jan'25

  Digital Edge secures $1.6bn to fuel regional expansion

  Singapore-based datacentre provider has raised over $1.6bn in equity and debt financing to meet growing demand for cloud and AI infrastructure across Asia

• January 03, 2025 03 Jan'25

  Post Office staff list 14 scandal-stained individuals who should have honours stripped

  Staff of the Post Office and Royal Mail from the past and present have written to the Forfeiture Committee requesting honours to be stripped from 14 people with links to the Horizon scandal

• January 02, 2025 02 Jan'25

  Sir Alan Bates has ‘serious concerns’ over Post Office scandal compensation budget

  Campaigning former subpostmaster welcomed ‘positive’ select committee report but voiced concern over inclusion of legal costs in compensation pot

• January 02, 2025 02 Jan'25

  Government boosts Horizon R&D campaign

  As part of its Plan for Change, Labour is ramping up efforts to get more UK businesses to apply for Horizon funding

• December 30, 2024 30 Dec'24

  Post Office scandal campaigners awarded OBEs in New Year Honours List

  Former subpostmasters and campaigners Jo Hamilton, Lee Castleton, Seema Misra and Christopher Head honoured for their part in 20-year fight against the Post Office – along with former Computer Weekly reporter Rebecca Thomson

• December 30, 2024 30 Dec'24

  Top 10 financial services stories of 2024

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services stories of 2024

• December 27, 2024 27 Dec'24

  Top 10 ANZ stories of 2024

  The 2024 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with developments spanning cloud migrations and AI adoption to heightened data security and real-time data streaming

• December 27, 2024 27 Dec'24

  Top 10 India stories of 2024

  India embraced AI in 2024, developing its own large language models, boosting supercomputing capabilities and applying the technology across sectors from healthcare to governance

• December 24, 2024 24 Dec'24

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2024

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2024

• December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24

  Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans

  Post Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on

• December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24

  Interview: Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer, NatWest Retail Bank

  The retail bank is moving at pace to introduce generative AI into key customer-facing services as part of a wider digital transformation across the organisation

• December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24

  Top 10 data and ethics stories of 2024

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 data and ethics stories of 2024

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2024

  Southeast Asia’s 2024 tech landscape saw major companies embracing AI, shifts in open source and the emergence of local large language models to address the needs of a diverse region

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Verizon, Nvidia launch 5G-powered AI service for enterprises

  Telco combines secure private next-gen mobile network and private mobile edge compute with leading AI processor firm’s technology to deliver real-time AI services at the edge

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Post Office IT department fired and rehired ‘friends’ at ‘exorbitant’ rates, says former HR chief

  The Post Office got rid of permanent roles, including IT, and rehired the holders on over double the pay

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Axon still in possession of Police Scotland encryption keys

  Supplier’s possession of encryption keys for Police Scotland data sharing system opens potential for access and transfer of sensitive data without the knowledge or consent of the force