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• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  DSIT permanent secretary says more AI transparency needed

  The government must improve transparency around the use of artificial intelligence systems throughout the public sector if it is going to gain and retain trust in how the technology is being deployed

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  DeepSeek-R1 more readily generates dangerous content than other large language models

  Research scientists at cyber firm Enkrypt AI publish concerning findings from a red team exercise conducted against DeepSeek, the hot new generative AI tool

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  AI jailbreaking techniques prove highly effective against DeepSeek

  Researchers at Palo Alto have shown how novel jailbreaking techniques were able to fool breakout GenAI model DeepSeek into helping to create keylogging tools, steal data, and make a Molotov cocktail

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  First international AI safety report published

  A global cohort of nearly 100 artificial intelligence experts publish first international AI safety report ahead of the third AI summit, outlining an array of challenges posed by the technology that will be used to inform upcoming discussions

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Transparency on public sector AI use fosters trust, says AI minister Feryal Clark

  The government’s decision to publish a batch of algorithmic transparency records signals its latest effort in showing potential opportunities AI and technology could provide

• January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

  How government hackers are trying to exploit Google Gemini AI

  Google’s threat intel squad has shared information on how nation state threat actors are attempting to exploit its Gemini AI tool for nefarious ends

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  DeepSeek: Welcome to US artificial intelligence’s Sputnik moment

  In spite of the US’s financial might, Russia’s Sputnik was the first satellite. Is something similar about to happen thanks to a new Chinese LLM?

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?

  Pure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an unnamed hyperscaler, be the first nails in the coffin for HDD?

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Interview: Feryal Clark, AI and digital government minister, DSIT

  Computer Weekly talks to the parliamentary under-secretary about digital identity, the importance of trust and utilising the power of artificial intelligence

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Oxford-Cambridge Arc gets government support

  Labour aims to capitalise on the growth potential of the cluster of businesses and academic institutes around Oxford, Cambridge and Milton Keynes

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  Elon Musk distances himself from Trump’s Stargate AI mission

  Just a few days into the Donald Trump presidency and there appears to be a disagreement brewing around funding of OpenAI and the Stargate Project

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  How smartphones are transforming global health

  Shyam Gollakota, winner of the 2024 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, is bringing medical care to underserved communities through with smartphone-based diagnostic tools

• January 20, 2025 20 Jan'25

  Labour announces plans to overhaul digital government

  The Government Digital Service will be expanded along with changes to the way technology is funded, built and delivered across the public sector, as Labour aims for improvements previous administrations struggled to achieve

• January 20, 2025 20 Jan'25

  Singtel’s 5G network slicing to boost Singapore’s defence and security

  Singapore’s defence and security technology agencies will leverage Singtel’s 5G network slicing technology nationwide to combat evolving security threats and enhance national security

• January 17, 2025 17 Jan'25

  Lords debate government approach to automated decision-making

  During the second reading debate of a Lords private members’ bill seeking to better regulate public sector algorithms, the government argued existing measures were sufficient to protect the public

• 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

  Fujitsu staff at HMRC to strike for two days over pay

  More public image woes for Fujitsu as hundreds of staff to strike after colleagues at HMRC get significantly bigger pay rise

• 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 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

  Davos 2025: Misinformation and disinformation are most pressing risks, says World Economic Forum

  World leaders, business chiefs and civil society organisations will discuss the risks posed by misinformation, disinformation and artificial intelligence at the World Economic Forum

• 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 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 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 02, 2025 02 Jan'25

  Foodora tests drone and robot deliveries in Sweden

  Food delivery firm tests out drone and robot deliveries in Swedish capital

• 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

  Top 10 government IT stories of 2024

  The past year has provided one of the biggest changes in government for 14 years, with Labour coming to power. With it, the new government has brought plenty of tech promises

• 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 24, 2024 24 Dec'24

  Top 10 EMEA stories of 2024

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Europe, Middle East and Africa stories of 2024

• December 23, 2024 23 Dec'24

  Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2024

  The past year has provided a marked change in the approach to technology in the National Health Service, which has struggled to cope under significant pressure. We look back at the stories that made the headlines in 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: How Green Cargo’s IT switched tracks to logistics success

  Green Cargo CIO Ingo Paas took a few turns to establish his company as a composable enterprise able to flex and react quickly

• 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

  Government introduces technology adoption review

  Whitehall has launched a call for evidence on barriers to adopting new technologies in the UK, wanting to know what needs to change for the country to stay at the forefront of technology adoption

• 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 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  The Security Interviews: Martin Lee, Cisco Talos

  Threat intel expert and author Martin Lee, EMEA technical lead for security research at Cisco Talos, joins Computer Weekly to mark the 35th anniversary of the first ever ransomware attack

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Top 10 Kubernetes and storage stories of 2024

  In this 2024 review, Computer Weekly looks at Kubernetes’ evolution from stateless application runtime to enterprise-ready environment for cloud-native with persistent storage and data protection

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Latest list of AI in government decision-making published

  The government wants to show it’s being transparent over the use of algorithms that directly impact citizens

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Digital Ethics Summit 2024: recognising AI’s socio-technical nature

  At trade association TechUK’s eighth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials and industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with the proliferation of artificial intelligence tools globally and ...

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Google demos next-gen error correction with Willow quantum tech

  Willow represents Google’s latest development in its goal to produce quantum computing that can scale beyond error limits

• December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24

  UK police continue to hold millions of custody images unlawfully

  Annual report from the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner of England and Wales highlights the ongoing and unlawful retention millions of custody images of innocent people never charged with a crime by police

• December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24

  Government launches £100m innovation fund for public service reform

  Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster calls on Whitehall to adopt a ‘test-and-learn’ culture and pledges to make government ‘more like a startup’

• December 09, 2024 09 Dec'24

  Inside Prudential’s AI strategy

  Prudential is leveraging AI across its operations, from enhancing customer interactions and streamlining internal processes to empowering its workforce through upskilling initiatives

• December 04, 2024 04 Dec'24

  Grab deepens AWS partnership to fuel AI ambitions and growth

  Southeast Asian super app Grab names AWS as its preferred cloud provider to optimise costs, enhance infrastructure and support its growing AI workloads

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  AWS unveils new generative AI models

  The Amazon Nova family of GenAI models boasts faster speeds and lower costs, and caters to needs from text and image generation to video creation and multimodal applications

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  Australian utilities explore potential of AI

  Australia’s utilities sector is exploring and implementing AI to enhance grid stability, manage rooftop solar and prepare for the influx of electric vehicles

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  F1 heightens fan experiences with the power of Salesforce

  Learn how the technical teams behind Formula One are using Salesforce’s tools to enhance fan activation and engagement at 24 races across the world, and how they are bringing AI into play with Agentforce capabilities

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  Nordic states launch ambitious AI centre regional plan

  Nordic states to increase cooperation on artificial intelligence to help region close gap on global leaders