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January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26
Landmark legal challenge against police facial recognition begins

The High Court will examine whether the Metropolitan Police is acting lawfully with its deployments of live facial recognition, in the UK’s first judicial review of how the technology is being used
January 26, 2026 26 Jan'26
STT GDC launches HVDC testbed to address AI’s power demands

The FutureGrid Accelerator on Jurong Island will test the use of high-voltage direct current power systems, as traditional alternating current power systems can no longer address the growing energy needs of AI datacentres
January 26, 2026 26 Jan'26
Microsoft introduces AI accelerator for US Azure customers

The company has developed Maia 200, an AI accelerator that promises to boost inference workloads
January 26, 2026 26 Jan'26
Dawn supercomputer gets sixfold boost thanks to £36m funding injection

The government is ploughing in public money to build out one of the UK’s most powerful supercomputers

January 23, 2026 23 Jan'26
US punts renewal of threat data sharing law to September

US lawmakers have extended the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 for another nine months, buying time to enact a replacement for the legislation.
January 23, 2026 23 Jan'26
Singapore debuts world’s first governance framework for agentic AI

The Infocomm Media Development Authority has released a guide to help enterprises deploy artificial intelligence agents safely and address specific risks such as unauthorised actions and automation bias
January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26
Macquarie Bank rolls out AI agent to personalise customer support

Australian bank launches a 24/7 intelligent assistant capable of asynchronous human hand-off, joining the country’s major financial institutions in the race to deploy AI-powered services
January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26
JPMorgan CEO urges slowdown of AI roll-out to ‘save society’

The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence will prompt ‘civil unrest’ if governments and companies fail to protect workers from its displacing effects, says JPMorgan boss
January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26
DWP review of Post Office worker prosecutions yet to start, months after announcement

The DWP said in August that it would carry out an independent review of prosecutions of subpostmasters, but it has yet to appoint a reviewer
January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26
Sportswear firm Under Armour falls victim to data breach

Details of over 70 million customers of US sportswear giant Under Armour were leaked following a supposed ransomware attack by the Everest gang

January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26
Davos 2026: Smart thinking needed for sovereign AI investment

Policy-makers need to figure out how they can carve a niche in a world dominated by China and the US
January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26
Dell Technologies Forum Dubai highlights AI as the next great economic accelerator

At its flagship regional event, Dell Technologies set out how AI leadership, data readiness and skills development are shaping digital transformation across the UAE and the wider Middle East
January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26
UK and China reach out across cyber no-man's land

London and Beijing have supposedly conducted high-level talks seeking to establish a joint security forum to help de-escalate potential cyber flashpoints, according to reports
January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26
Interview: Barry Panayi, group chief data officer, Howden

The fast-growing insurance firm wants data insights and artificial intelligence to give customer-facing employees all the information they need at their fingertips through data-powered conversational interfaces
January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26
UK government appoints banking tech bosses as AI champions

Appointment of artificial intelligence champions from banking sector comes as MPs make stern warning about AI risks in financial services
January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26
The impact of Tesco versus Broadcom lawsuit on software procurement

The lawsuit shows the challenges in dealing with a company that has stopped selling key products and the impact on the software supply chain
January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26
E& enterprise brings agentic AI to MENAT

A strategic partnership introduces autonomous, governance-by-design artificial intelligence as enterprises in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey move from experimentation to real-world impact
January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26
AI slop pushes data governance towards zero-trust models

Organisations are implementing zero-trust models for data governance thanks to the proliferation of poor quality AI-generated data, often known as AI slop
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
UK public sector, CNI in Russian hacktivist crosshairs

Hacktivists aligned to the Russian state are ramping up their targeting of UK organisations with denial of service attacks
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
Met claims success for permanent facial recognition in Croydon

Met Police boasts that its permanent deployment of live facial recognition cameras in Croydon has led to more than 100 arrests and prompted a double-digit reduction in local crime, ahead of an upcoming judicial review assessing the technology’s ...
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
Lloyds Bank to train all staff on artificial intelligence

UK high street bank is already training senior staff to get the most out of artificial intelligence
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
Openreach puts a stop to copper for another million UK premises

A year before PSTN deadline approaches, BT broadband provision division maintains momentum of national upgrade transition plan
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
Swedish government software developer counters poor health apps claim

As national election season approaches, political opponents of Sweden’s lead coalition party make hay of survey that claims unsatisfactory health apps deter doctor visits
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
Sovereign and edge AI drive return to on-premise Kubernetes

While public cloud services remain popular, the need to control sensitive data and maximise GPU performance is pushing enterprises to deploy Kubernetes in their own datacentres
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
Digital Realty enters Malaysia with acquisition of Cyberjaya datacentre

The datacentre provider expands Southeast Asian footprint beyond Singapore and Jakarta, acquiring a connectivity hub in Cyberjaya with plans for a 14MW campus to support regional AI and cloud workloads
January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26
UK financial regulators exposing public to ‘potential serious harm’ due to AI positions

MPs warn that action is needed to ensure artificial intelligence is adopted safely in the finance sector as companies capitalise on its opportunities
January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26
UK copyright law unfit for protecting creative workers from AI

As the UK government considers its approach to artificial intelligence and copyright, Computer Weekly explores the dynamics at play in copyright markets, and what measures can be taken to ensure that creatives are protected
January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26
Liverpool FC signs WasabiAiR for fast video tagging and search

Reds can tag video frame-by-frame with AI-based ML-as-a-service to get rapid search and ‘hyper-personalisation’ of footage for fan engagement and partner content
January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26
UAE signs Pax Silica declaration to advance AI-era security

The United Arab Emirates becomes the ninth signatory to Pax Silica, an economic security coalition for the AI age, reinforcing its leadership in trusted technology, energy and digital infrastructure
January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26
UK government kicks off plan to revamp citizen digital interaction

Labour has set out a roadmap for modernising digital government in a bid to streamline services and cut costs
January 18, 2026 18 Jan'26
APAC enterprises to boost AI spend by 15% in 2026

Lenovo’s CIO Playbook 2026 reveals that 96% of ASEAN organisations are planning to invest more in AI, with a growing reliance on hybrid infrastructure to manage rising inference costs
January 16, 2026 16 Jan'26
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan calls for urgent action to boost the capital’s AI workforce

Khan has launched a taskforce to tackle the risk of mass unemployment that could occur as artificial intelligence threatens London jobs
January 16, 2026 16 Jan'26
NSA urges continuous checks to achieve zero trust

The agency leading the US government’s cryptology and cyber security strategies has published its latest zero-trust guidance
January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26
AI governance provides guardrails for faster innovation

Dataiku’s field chief data officer for Asia-Pacific and Japan discusses how implementing AI governance can accelerate innovation while mitigating the risks of shadow AI
January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26
PSNI resorted to pen and paper after issues with ControlWorks command and control software

Northern Ireland’s Policing Board has asked the Police Service of Northern Ireland for clarification after it emerged the PSNI has not reported IT issues that affected its ability to record reports from the public to the oversight body
January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26
Cyber body ISC2 signs on as UK software security ambassador

Professional cyber association ISC2 pledges support to UK government’s Software Security Ambassador scheme, part of the recently unveiled Cyber Action Plan
January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26
CEOs are taking the lead on AI initiatives

A study from BCG shows that CEOs increasingly feel their job security depends on successful AI-enablement of business operations
January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26
Zoho opens its first UAE datacentres to boost cloud adoption

New Dubai and Abu Dhabi facilities support data sovereignty, providing CIOs with local access to more than 100 Zoho and ManageEngine cloud services
January 14, 2026 14 Jan'26
Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage

A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by CrowdStrike shareholders over the July 2024 outage that caused widespread disruption around the world
January 14, 2026 14 Jan'26
Microsoft DCU uses UK courts to hunt down cyber criminals

Microsoft has taken down the RedDVS cyber crime-as-a-service network after obtaining a UK court order, marking its first civil legal action outside of the US
January 14, 2026 14 Jan'26
Subsea cable worth $1bn to link Japan with Malaysia and Singapore

The Intra-Asia Marine Cable will deliver 320Tbps capacity across the region, complementing subsea cable investments by hyperscalers such as Google and Meta in recent years
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
Microsoft patches 112 CVEs on first Patch Tuesday of 2026

January brings a larger-than-of-late Patch Tuesday update out of Redmond, but an uptick in disclosures is often expected at this time of year
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
‘Dual-channel’ attacks are the new face of BEC in 2026

Business email compromise remains a significant threat as cyber fraudsters deploy a more diverse range of tactics against their potential victims, according to a report
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
Berlin anarchists cite AI in attack on key energy infrastructure

Berlin anarchists have sabotaged key energy infrastructure in the city, claiming it as an act of ‘self-defence’ against the planet’s destruction by ‘energy-guzzling’ technologies and the wider fossil fuel economy that underpins their development
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
Interview: How ING reaps benefits of centralising AI

ING bank is using generative AI-powered chatbots with a human in the loop to streamline mortgage applications. It is also testing speech-to-speech models
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
Post Office scandal’s oldest victim calls for total ban on Fujitsu

Betty Brown wants the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal banned from all government contracts
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
UK open banking is eight years old and ready to grow into the wider economy

The next phase of open banking will have a greater impact as it morphs into cross-sector open finance
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
How one IT chief shifted the needle on a reactive IT strategy

In spite of headlines that suggest every business should be ploughing vast sums of money into tech innovation, the reality remains that IT plays a supporting role for most firms
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
Execs see AI and automation as long-term strategic investments

Recent surveys point to business and IT leaders looking at five-year technology investment plans
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
AI to handle four in 10 customer queries in Singapore by 2027

As companies turn to AI agents to solve manpower constraints, more than nine in 10 APAC consumers say they want clear explanations for AI-driven decisions