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• July 23, 2026 23 Jul'26

  Why AI coding agents won’t kill SaaS

  Investors may fear that AI coding agents will wipe billions off SaaS valuations, but SiteMinder CTO Tom Varsavsky thinks the technology will speed up software delivery, reduce tech debt and force IT leaders to master token economics

• July 22, 2026 22 Jul'26

  Hugging Face ‘hacker’ was rogue OpenAI model

  A hacker who broke into Hugging Face’s systems last week has been exposed as a pair of advanced OpenAI frontier models that were trying to cheat on an exam

• July 22, 2026 22 Jul'26

  Singapore to hold CII boards accountable as AI reshapes OT threat landscape

  The Cyber Security Agency’s first update to its critical infrastructure code of practice since 2022 will make boards directly answerable for cyber resilience

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Singapore’s military to explore quantum computing for mission planning

  The Singapore Armed Forces’ Digital and Intelligence Service and the Defence Science and Technology Agency are working with IBM to test quantum optimisation for military logistics

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Jisc recommits to academic cyber collaboration network

  Academic IT services network Jisc re-signs a collaborative MoU with partners from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder victim of mass Oracle breach

  Employee data at US-based cosmetics firm Estée Lauder was compromised through a vulnerability in Oracle’s software, likely orchestrated by the Cl0p ransomware gang

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Singapore spells out how personal data can be used in GenAI

  Advisory guidelines clarifying when organisations can scrape and reuse personal data to build GenAI models are among a raft of announcements at the inaugural Singapore Data Festival

• July 16, 2026 16 Jul'26

  A fifth of PC devices still on Windows 10

  While support ended in October 2025, community-driven insights from Lansweeper has found that smaller businesses are still using Windows 10

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders

  Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI

  The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Australia launches Office of AI to drive world-first national framework

  Prime minister Anthony Albanese establishes Office of AI to coordinate binding standards for the technology, promising the world's first single national AI framework

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  ICO ‘less effective as a regulator’ due to toxic culture

  Staff of the UK’s data protection watchdog say it was ‘less effective’ due to a toxic workplace culture upheld by senior leadership team

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Made in Spain: Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in India

  India is rolling out facial-recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens, with much of the software coming from a Spanish company – but critics argue the government promise of public safety is not the main aim

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  AI impacting stress levels among cyber professionals

  AI is affecting the day-to-day careers of cyber security pros in regard to stress levels, but respondents to an ISC2 data-gathering exercise are split over whether or not their stress levels are going up or down

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Study reveals Microsoft tactics to lure Windows users

  The Edge browser may have a small market share, but research commissioned by Firefox shows how Microsoft muscles in

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Scottish Building Society subscribes to embedded AI to begin a new journey

  Oldest remaining building society becomes first customer to sign up to embedded AI offering from current supplier SBS

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Cyber body Crest launches AI security charter

  Crest’s industry-backed AI charter commits signatories to supporting responsible AI adoption and aims to foster trust in AI-enabled security services.

• July 09, 2026 09 Jul'26

  Cyber field doubts promise of Cyber Shield

  The NCSC has shared more details of its national AI Cyber Shield initiative, but experts say the project faces serious delivery challenges

• July 09, 2026 09 Jul'26

  UK’s largest businesses dangerously exposed to cloud outages

  British businesses, particularly those in the FTSE 100, are dangerously dependent on large cloud providers, with hypothetical large-scale outages at AWS or Azure regions likely to cause major economic damage, according to the Cyber Monitoring Centre

• July 07, 2026 07 Jul'26

  M&S among first businesses to sign UK government’s resilience pledge

  Marks & Spencer joins the likes of Accenture, Microsoft and Vodafone by committing to take practical steps to improve cyber standards through the government’s voluntary Cyber Resilience Pledge

• July 07, 2026 07 Jul'26

  Complaint urges ban on ‘unlawful’ Europol processing of personal data

  Migration campaign group Front-Lex has filed a complaint to Europe’s data protection watchdog, calling for a ban on Europol’s data processing operations that do not comply with EU law, following an investigation by Computer Weekly, Solomon and ...

• July 03, 2026 03 Jul'26

  Europe’s sovereignty ambitions stall at the procurement desk

  Nextcloud Summit in Munich shows that Europe’s sovereignty ambitions meet their real test not in the technology, but in the procurement decisions that will determine whether EU legislation changes anything on the ground

• July 03, 2026 03 Jul'26

  Platforms must shoulder burden of proof for social media design

  Under-16s social media ban should be tied to design features, with the burden of proof towards safety placed on companies, says technology psychologist

• July 02, 2026 02 Jul'26

  US cyber agency warns over forgotten SharePoint flaw

  An RCE vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint that was mistakenly omitted from the May Patch Tuesday bulletin is being exploited in the wild, says Cisa

• July 02, 2026 02 Jul'26

  Data dive: Kill switch and catch-up – can Europe close the sovereignty gap?

  As the US demonstrates it can wield an AI ‘kill switch’, the EU and UK unleash a wave of sovereign tech measures. Can state-led industrial policy bridge a $2tn revenue chasm?

• July 01, 2026 01 Jul'26

  Japan revises AI strategy amid frontier AI threats

  Just six months after releasing its national AI framework, Tokyo is updating its guidelines to address the weaponisation of frontier AI models capable of finding and exploiting unknown vulnerabilities

• June 29, 2026 29 Jun'26

  British public won’t tolerate cyber disruption any more

  The British public’s tolerance for cyber disruption, particularly at high-profile organisations such as retailers, is wearing thin, according to a TalkTalk Business study

• June 29, 2026 29 Jun'26

  UK businesses fear stigma of ransomware

  Data from the UK’s Report Fraud service reveals the scope of ransomware attacks is going underreported, with few businesses confident enough to identify themselves as victims

• June 26, 2026 26 Jun'26

  Metropolitan Police chief warns against law updates amid substantial tech expansion

  The Metropolitan Police is to significantly expand use of AI, drones and facial recognition to ‘regain the advantage’ over criminals, but warns progress could be held back by legislation and data integration issues

• June 26, 2026 26 Jun'26

  Secure Code Warrior CEO on surviving the AI ‘vulnerability apocalypse’

  As enterprises embrace agentic AI and vibe coding, Secure Code Warrior CEO and co-founder Pieter Danhieux warns that code-generating models are still producing critical security flaws

• June 25, 2026 25 Jun'26

  Canvas breach hit 160 UK unis but caused limited damage

  The April 2026 ShinyHunters breach of the Canvas learning management system caused downstream impacts at more than 150 higher education institutions in the UK, but the damage appears to have been limited

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Gartner warns AI model advantage is shrinking

  As foundational artificial intelligence capabilities converge, Gartner analysts urge IT leaders to focus on data quality, AI literacy and process integration, among other areas, rather than chasing the latest models

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC

  The UK’s national museums and galleries have failed to heed the lessons of high-profile cyber attacks and remain highly vulnerable. The Public Accounts Committee is calling on DCMS to do more to help

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Digital surveillance tech facilitates ‘arbitrary’ border abuses

  Outsourcing migration processes to third countries via the transfer of powerful digital surveillance technologies is entrenching an ‘arbitrary and deterrent’ approach to border management that is hard to scrutinise and ultimately undermines the ...

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Met pushes ahead with major facial-recognition expansion

  Metropolitan Police set to roll out live facial recognition (LFR) in the West End and Soho, but critics say police are ‘rushing ahead’ without regulation

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  CFIT is ‘shaking up business models’ with UK government backing

  The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology received further government backing in April

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Overwhelming support for Microsoft SMS designation in CMA responses

  Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  The £1,100 lock-in: CMA Microsoft probe exposes software ecosystem at a crossroads

  A parish council, a £60m public sector bill, and the AI question that could define UK digital competition for a generation in responses to the CMA’s Strategic Market Status investigation

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Cisco: Legacy networks can no longer support the new AI workforce

  At Cisco Connect 2026 Singapore, tech leaders and policymakers warn that businesses must modernise their IT infrastructure and governance frameworks to pave the way for agentic AI

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Gartner: Prioritise governance to beat AI hype

  Gartner analysts call for IT leaders to prioritise foundational investments in governance, change management and talent to realise the benefits of AI

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Trump directs US government focus to quantum

  In an Executive Order, president Trump directed the US government to work to establish a cohesive, collaborative approach to the development of quantum technology

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management

  We talk to PHP pioneer and Google agentic data cloud vice-president about ensuring agentic quality, including having agents voting against each other, and the risk of LLM lock-in

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Australian government cloud mandate sparks migration warnings

  As Australia prepares to enforce its whole-of-government cloud policy, industry experts warn agencies against rushed migrations, supplier lock-in and treating AI readiness as an afterthought

• June 22, 2026 22 Jun'26

  GitLab CIO rejects ‘tokenmaxxing’ as it rebuilds work around agentic AI

  Manu Narayan tells Computer Weekly why he’s steering clear of vanity metrics such as ‘tokenmaxxing’, why reports of SaaS’s death are overblown, and why the biggest pressure is simply keeping pace

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Civil society: Police facial recognition must be strictly limited

  Digital rights groups map out ‘minimum, necessary’ human rights protections to be included in UK government’s upcoming legal framework for police facial recognition

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  UK government publishes guidelines to ‘end era of outsourcing’ – will IT be in scope?

  New strategy will see UK government apply Public Interest Test to outsourcing contracts worth £1m or more

• 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 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  US suspension of Anthropic models prompts AI sovereignty calls

  The US government’s control order to suspend access to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models raises concerns about the UK’s over-reliance on American tech

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  CMA puts in place fair ranking measures on Google Search

  Google will need to rank organic searches objectively and will be required under UK law to share data with third-party services

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Cabinet Office states Capita set to miss Civil Service Pension Scheme deadline

  Outsourcing firm’s botched takeover of civil service pension administration has seen scheme members experience financial hardship