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• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Chilling effects of surveillance threaten democracy, UN finds

  United Nations study finds the chilling effects of pervasive digital surveillance in modern life undermines an entire web of interconnected and interdependent human rights, representing a systemic threat to democratic norms and political ...

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Google Cloud boosts for enterprise agentic at London Summit

  Hyperscaler prioritises process automation in UK showcase, with frontier models, agent platforms and development tools to the fore, with customers such as Unilever in the spotlight

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Everpure aims to bridge AI data gap with Universal Data Intelligence

  Storage-to-data-management firm expands Enterprise Data Cloud at Accelerate 2026 with OneTouch integration and AI pipeline automation to combat enterprise data sprawl

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  NHS trusts operating on fewer patients with Palantir FDP, warns Foxglove

  Around 30% of English hospitals that use Palantir’s FDP tools for scheduling are carrying out fewer procedures than before adoption, according to data from campaign group Foxglove

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  Ineffable Intelligence strikes Google Cloud deal for Vera Rubin GPU power

  London-based ‘anti-LLM’ developer led by AlphaGo founder David Silver selects Google Cloud Vera Rubin GPU infrastructure to build reinforcement learning ‘superlearners’

• June 12, 2026 12 Jun'26

  The digital pivot: How HSS transformed hire with agentic AI

  HSS ProService underwent a profound transformation from asset-heavy hire business to digital marketplace set to deploy agentic AI. CEO Tom Shorten tells us how it did it

• June 12, 2026 12 Jun'26

  Labour MP Jess Asato launches legal action over Grok deepfakes

  After xAI’s Grok chatbot was used to create sexualised images and videos of her, Labour MP Jess Asato is taking legal action against the company in a bid to hold the firm accountable for the harms associated with its design choices

• June 10, 2026 10 Jun'26

  UK minister for AI calls for more attractive datacentre builds

  Speaking at the AI Summit in London, Kanishka Narayan launches a competition to encourage UK datacentre designs people can be proud of

• June 10, 2026 10 Jun'26

  Interview: Pegasystems’ Don Schuerman on how to keep the lid on skyrocketing AI costs

  Pegasystems offers an alternative take on how enterprises can use artificial intelligence to automate their business processes without burning through their budgets

• June 09, 2026 09 Jun'26

  Brace for cloud price hikes and AI failures amid pressure to modernise

  Organisations risk losing control of their IT infrastructure unless they embrace platform-centric models, modernise procurement and cut through the agentic AI hype, Gartner analysts warn

• June 08, 2026 08 Jun'26

  SKT teams up with Nvidia on gigawatt-scale AI cloud

  The Korean telco continues its push to become a global artificial intelligence powerhouse, leveraging Nvidia’s DSX architecture to build an AI factory for sovereign workloads and token generation

• June 08, 2026 08 Jun'26

  Councils exit 10-year Capita deal to boost decision and project velocity

  Two councils that were once part of a five-council group outsourced to Capita take back control of their IT to allow for decision-making and IT projects that aren’t bound by the slowest member

• June 04, 2026 04 Jun'26

  EU unveils full-stack sovereignty package to build Euro tech muscle

  European Commission launches package spanning chips, cloud and energy to reduce dependency on US and Chinese supply chains and to foster a sovereign vertical domestic stack

• June 03, 2026 03 Jun'26

  SIT Committee urges Palantir exit in push to end US cloud grip

  A Science, Innovation and Technology Committee report contains recommendations that would radically alter UK public sector IT, procurement and relationship with hyperscalers if adopted

• June 02, 2026 02 Jun'26

  Data dive: Mapping the UK public sector’s hyperscale dependence

  UK government and local authorities have built critical infrastructure amid a web of US hyperscaler cloud and other providers, which brings risks of exposure to a narrow set of non-UK suppliers

• May 29, 2026 29 May'26

  Agentic AI is driving rethink of enterprise architecture and tokenomics

  The growing adoption of agentic AI will require IT leaders to rebalance their CPU and GPU estates, tightly integrate data layers, and redesign human workflows, according to Dell Technologies CTO John Roese

• May 28, 2026 28 May'26

  Challenging AI hype narratives with director Valerie Veatch

  Computer Weekly speaks with Valerie Veatch, the director of a documentary charting the historical development of artificial intelligence, about the difficulties of challenging hype narratives and the pressing need to build a culture of technological...

• May 27, 2026 27 May'26

  Glassworm botnet that targeted OS devs smashed to pieces

  CrowdStrike, Google and the Shadowserver Foundation worked together to take down a botnet that poisoned over 300 GitHub repositories, risking widespread supply chain compromise

• May 27, 2026 27 May'26

  Datacentre dive: From rust belt to megawatt AI factory

  We visited Terawulf’s Lake Ontario 750MW datacentre development. Photos and recordings weren't allowed, so we took notes and wrote them up in more traditional ways

• May 27, 2026 27 May'26

  Datacentre dive: AI factory power draw changes the grid calculus

  We look at energy as the key driver – and bottleneck – in development, and why water use is less of an issue now datacentres use liquid cooling over air cooling

• May 27, 2026 27 May'26

  Datacentre dive: Do AI datacentre physics make on-premise unviable?

  Does substantial GPU power draw and liquid cooling mean the end of the on-premise datacentre? We look at the AI factory revolution and find that a hybrid path for enterprises will likely still exist

• May 27, 2026 27 May'26

  The Gentlemen emerging as key ransomware player

  An emerging ransomware crew known as The Gentlemen is becoming a force to be reckoned with, according to NCC’s latest monthly threat data

• May 25, 2026 25 May'26

  How APAC companies are rewiring their tech for the AI era

  At Dell Technologies World, APAC tech leaders reveal how they are relying on hyperconverged infrastructure and digital sovereignty to shield themselves from supply chain shocks

• May 20, 2026 20 May'26

  Bulgaria fires up Google Cloud for national cyber security

  The Bulgarian national systems integrator, BIS, has deployed Google Cloud’s Cybershield government security service as part of a national federated SOC deployment

• May 20, 2026 20 May'26

  Vodafone hails Nokia and AWS-based IoT services trial

  Mobile operator validates cloud infrastructure provider to run internet of things voice and data network applications on Nokia core systems in push to add capacity faster and extend coverage

• May 20, 2026 20 May'26

  Why business process reinvention is needed for agentic AI workflows

  Business processes were developed before AI, which makes them legacy. Camunda offers an agentic AI platform provider aiming to tackle this legacy

• May 20, 2026 20 May'26

  Avoid expensive AI agents with these five design imperatives

  Dell Technologies’ chief operating officer Jeff Clarke offers a blueprint for the AI-native enterprise, warning that failing to integrate data and control tokenomics will result in high cloud bills and fragmented tools

• May 19, 2026 19 May'26

  Home Office sitting on data about scale of eVisa errors

  The Home Office holds data on the scale of errors and software issues with its electronic visa system, but is yet to release the information

• May 18, 2026 18 May'26

  How geopolitical instability could reshape Gulf datacentre investments and sovereign AI strategies

  Rising tensions are forcing hyperscalers, governments and investors to reassess risk, resilience and infrastructure strategies as the Gulf positions itself as a global AI powerhouse

• May 14, 2026 14 May'26

  Bradford datacentre with heat reuse gains planning consent

  Deep Green’s 5.6MW AI datacentre will take 24 months to build and will link up to an energy centre to heat buildings across Bradford city centre via pre-laid pipes

• May 13, 2026 13 May'26

  Data dive: Power grid data shows birth of AI in UK datacentres

  Electricity supply utilisation ratios show datacentre developer ‘land grab’, capacity switch-ons, the coming of Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, and usage ramping during training runs

• May 12, 2026 12 May'26

  Celonis acquires MIT-linked decision intelligence firm Ikigai

  Celonis has acquired MIT-linked Ikigai to aid in its drive to eliminate artificial intelligence blind spots from enterprise IT, and launched a ‘context model’ digital twin, said to give AI operational clarity

• May 12, 2026 12 May'26

  In video games of the future, your AI teammates will actually listen

  Ubisoft executives offer a glimpse into the engineering behind its generative AI middleware, including the use of small language models, prompt optimisation and on-device processing to bring virtual teammates to life

• May 11, 2026 11 May'26

  Core42 partners with Solutions+ on Mubadala sovereign AI

  Agreement announced at Make it in the Emirates will see Core42 provide sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure while Solutions+ delivers implementation services and enterprise AI applications across Mubadala portfolio companies and government entities

• May 08, 2026 08 May'26

  Node4: AI and agentic the future, but culture the key to unlock it

  UK mid-market supplier showcases the three stages of AI – assistance, co-work and orchestration – but faces a reality in which most users have yet to arrive at first base

• May 07, 2026 07 May'26

  Data residency becomes the GCC’s next AI battleground

  As sovereign AI strategies accelerate across the Gulf, organisations are shifting their focus from ‘how do we use AI?’ to ‘where does the data live?’, turning data residency into a strategic differentiator rather than a compliance exercise

• May 06, 2026 06 May'26

  Cloud and data sovereignty caught in a paradox

  We asked the hyperscalers how they would respond to US court-ordered eavesdropping on foreign citizen data – and got responses that highlight a paradoxical situation

• May 05, 2026 05 May'26

  Google AI workers vote to unionise over IDF and US military tech

  Unions send letter to management requesting recognition for Google DeepMind employees, in particular over the company’s involvement in hi-tech systems used in Gaza and Iran wars

• May 05, 2026 05 May'26

  IBM: Enterprise AI to shift from ‘light bulb’ to ‘electric motor’ era

  Enterprises are set to make productivity gains as business shifts from point use cases for artificial intelligence to orchestrated, policy-driven deployment of agentic AI, says IBM CEO

• May 01, 2026 01 May'26

  IAM tools help Oracle Red Bull Racing keep pace with strict F1 regulations

  Oracle Red Bull Racing massively improved the efficiency of its aerodynamics testing procedures after implementing new identity technology from 1Password. Learn more about this unlikely link

• April 24, 2026 24 Apr'26

  Government should drop Capita from civil service scheme after it loses Royal Mail role, says union

  Union representing civil servants said that when outsourcing suppliers fail, they should be dropped

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  Agentic AI speeds up mainframe modernisation, but human experts remain key

  Agentic AI tools are helping organisations overcome Cobol skills shortages and untangle legacy infrastructure, but successful modernisation still requires an expert in the loop to manage complexity

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  A tsunami of flaws: When frontier AI and Patch Tuesday collide

  Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday drop was the second-largest in history, falling just shy of an October 2025 record. What is behind the spike in vulnerability disclosures, and is there a connection to Anthropic’s bug-hunting Claude Mythos AI model?

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says government

  Technology secretary Liz Kendall urges Britain’s business community to sit up and pay attention to emerging AI threats, following the debut of Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline?

  Looking at datacentre development internationally, we see how the UK faces apparent relative decline, how countries are responding to the AI age, and what MW vs GDP can tell us

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Azure customers up in arms over ‘full’ UK South region

  Microsoft customers report being refused capacity, migration projects stuck halfway, and accusations that AI is being prioritised over ‘bread and butter’ offerings

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Data dive: UK government’s 2030 datacentre capacity targets look shaky

  We look at UK datacentre capacity – current and projected – and find DSIT’s 2030 target for 6GW of AI-capable capacity is currently out of reach, unless operators get a move on

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Arm works with IBM to deliver flexibility on mainframe

  The chipmaker has begun collaborating with IBM on a dual architecture for Z series machine

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  High Court dismisses judicial review against eVisa system

  The High Court rules that the Home Office is acting lawfully in refusing to issue alterative proof of immigration status outside of its electronic visa system, but both the judge and the department accepts that those affected by data quality and ...

• March 29, 2026 29 Mar'26

  Advancing to the next frontier of AI

  As AI agents move faster than software made for human users, both digital tooling and silicon architecture need to be redesigned to reduce latency and power bottlenecks, according to chief scientists of Nvidia and Google