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• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI to AI-power drug development

  The Danish pharmaceutical company has a strategic plan to use AI across its business. OpenAI is helping it to achieve this objective

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  ‘Grand Theft Auto’ publisher Rockstar hit by hackers again

  The notorious ShinyHunters hacking collective menaces video game publisher Rockstar and says it will leak data on 14 April

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  Go West! US datacentres head for available and cheap energy

  Texas the hotspot as US datacentres enter the GW age, Virginia set to hold its status as ‘datacentre alley’, while constrained west coast states set for market share decline

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  In the AI race, a global bank bets on the human touch

  Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, Alvaro Garrido, says AI will transform finance, but the industry’s biggest vulnerabilities lie outside its own walls

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  India’s push for sovereign AI to lift Asia’s tech ecosystem

  A landmark AI infrastructure deal between Yotta and Gorilla Technology aims to deploy up to 36,000 GPUs in India, creating a blueprint for commercially viable AI at scale across the region

• April 10, 2026 10 Apr'26

  OpenAI ‘pauses’ Stargate UK: Sudden setback or calculated move?

  OpenAI’s decision to pause Stargate UK, much vaunted and based on a memorandum of understanding with government, cites energy costs and regulation, but may be driven by wider uncertainties

• April 10, 2026 10 Apr'26

  Moscow champions digital sovereignty and AI-driven city management

  By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister

• April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26

  Singapore Cyber Security Agency chief: Cyber stability a necessity, not a luxury

  With state-linked attacks rising and international rules unravelling, Singapore’s cyber security commissioner calls for global cooperation to prevent catastrophic conflict in cyber space

• April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26

  European Union deep tech plan too late for quantum champions IQM and Pasqal

  European quantum computing firms hurry to get US stock exchange listings so they can be predator not prey in a coming wave of consolidation

• April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26

  Interview: Researching quantum algorithms for today’s devices

  The world of quantum computing is a noisy place, where error correction is needed to ensure quantum devices run correctly. Lucy Robson, a quantum algorithm scientist at Universal Quantum, tells Computer Weekly all about it

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Capita’s troubled Civil Service Pension Scheme hit by data breach

  A data breach affecting 138 members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme piles pressure on the service’s administrator, Capita, amid ongoing issues

• 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 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Keir Starmer was warned about Post Office prosecution practices as director of public prosecutions

  A Horizon scandal victim wrote to Keir Starmer in 2011, when he was director of public prosecutions for the CPS, alerting him to the Post Office’s controversial prosecution practices

• April 07, 2026 07 Apr'26

  Russian cyber spies targeting consumer, Soho routers

  The UK’s NCSC and Microsoft have shared details of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting vulnerable network routers, orchestrated by Russian state actor Fancy Bear

• April 06, 2026 06 Apr'26

  Digital Realty CTO on AI tokenomics and datacentre infrastructure

  Chris Sharp talks up the pace of AI silicon innovation, the growth of inferencing workloads, and why boasting about datacentre megawatts misses the point

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  NHS digital drive hit by usability gaps despite progress, national survey finds

  The shift from analogue to digital across the NHS is hindered by usability issues in electronic patient record (EPR), but the newly launched frontline productivity programme could be the answer

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Fujitsu injects another £80m into UK arm amid Post Office scandal fallout

  IT services provider’s UK arm has received a further £80m from parent company headquarters in Japan

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  What’s driving Oracle’s latest job cuts?

  Thousands of job losses have been reported, affecting many roles at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including those in software engineering and product compliance

• 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

• April 01, 2026 01 Apr'26

  AI driving changes in Nordic financial services

  Traditional Nordic financial services businesses are reshaping to take on a new breed of competition

• April 01, 2026 01 Apr'26

  Microsoft to invest $5.5b in Singapore’s AI and cloud infrastructure

  The tech giant is spending over $5bn through 2029 to bolster its footprint in the city-state while rolling out programmes to equip students, educators and non-profit leaders with AI skills

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  Aussie AI health-tech Heidi aims to cure clinical burnout

  Armed with over $100m in funding, Melbourne-based Heidi is building its own AI models and launching wearable hardware to automate documentation and reduce the administrative burden on doctors

• 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 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  Shrinking PQC timeline highlights immediate risk to data security

  Google’s decision to move up its timeline for migration to post-quantum cryptography highlights that some of the cyber security risks posed by quantum computing are already reality

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  Agoda scales AI strategy, opens new APAC tech hub

  The digital travel platform has set its sights on becoming an AI-powered travel companion as it changes how it builds software and moves its tech workforce into a new facility in Bangkok

• March 30, 2026 30 Mar'26

  Interview: Thierry Martin, head of enterprise data and analytics, Toyota Motor Europe

  A sketch artist by night, and a vehicle engineer by training, Toyota Europe’s data chief is bringing elements of both capabilities to bear in delivering better data insights and building a foundation for AI

• March 30, 2026 30 Mar'26

  Stop Scams steps up to online fraud challenge

  After years of putting the building blocks in place, Stop Scams is ready and able to react quickly to fight emerging fraud threats

• 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

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  UK government lacks ambition to fight tax fraud, says PAC

  The Public Accounts Committee says the UK government has dropped the ball on the use of data analytics to tackle tax fraud and error, as the public purse haemorrhages billions of pounds

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  Lloyds admits coding fault exposed customer transactions

  The bank has responded to the Treasury Committee’s request for information on a major data breach in its banking app

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  Virgin Media Business Wholesale accelerates high-capacity delivery in the UK

  Fixed wholesale connectivity arm of leading UK operator announces biggest ever upgrade to its wholesale network, delivering 32% Ethernet lead time reduction and 10G delivery accelerated by up to 40 days

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  Flaws in government procurement show in HMRC £473m AWS award

  After a rushed contract award with only one bidder and a tender notice ‘for hyperscalers only’, critics call for live oversight on government contracts, claiming the procurement is unfair and likely to be expensive

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  Second Post Office Capture conviction referred to appeal court

  Conviction of 30 years has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  Capita left to deal with 13,000 civil service pension cases over a year old

  More details of the Civil Services Pension Scheme administration backlog left to Capita revealed in parliamentary committee hearing

• March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26

  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: The bare metal facts

  The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appears to have more in common with datacentre hosting than with public infrastructure-as-a-service providers

• March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26

  Post Office still can’t find evidence for 1,400 scandal redress claimants, while people die waiting

  Finding evidence for events that took place decades ago is a challenge for many subpostmasters seeking compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme

• March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26

  Bank of England IT project offers lessons for wider government

  The UK central bank’s core IT system replacement project surprised MPs, who were unaccustomed to reviewing success stories – its achievement could potentially serve as a model for future government IT initiatives

• March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26

  Connectivity to the fore as Sunderland commits to 2035 digital strategy

  North eastern English city expands its smart city commitments with 2035 strategy to ensure every resident can “thrive in an increasingly digital world”

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  US government launches Bureau of Emerging Threats

  The US’ Bureau of Emerging Threats sits within the State Department and will supposedly help address national security threats arising from cyber attacks, the weaponisation of space and other emerging technologies

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Google targets 2029 for post-quantum cyber readiness

  Google sets out a timeline for its migration to post-quantum cryptography, saying it will complete its migration before the end of the 2020s

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Amazon Web Services bags Fujitsu’s HMRC loss

  US tech giant wins contract to run three datacentres for the government department after cutting ties with Fujitsu

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Emergency Microsoft, Oracle patches point to wider cyber issues

  Emergency out-of-band patches from Microsoft and Oracle signal underlying security issues around update cycles and patching, and identity security and zero-trust, says the community

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Oracle applications chief sees enterprise AI agents as task-specific helpers

  At Oracle AI Summit in London, Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle applications development, discussed Oracle’s Fusion Agentic Applications, including how should AI agents be used, how is it priced and what safeguards are being put in ...

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Google Cloud, Openreach expand connectivity collaboration

  UK’s largest broadband operator implements AI to accelerate high-speed internet access and cut carbon, in an expanded collaboration to accelerate Openreach’s sustainability and connectivity goals

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Cambridge MC boosts comms procurement with Carrier Club acquisition

  International consulting firm swoops for ’unique’ procurement-as-a-service organisation to offer greater value to its clients in challenging times for businesses

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Why OpenClaw agents are the next big enterprise challenge

  As users flock to deploy OpenClaw agents for everything from gig work to shopping, IT leaders warn that bringing these autonomous systems into the enterprise will require strict guardrails and a mix of AI models

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  Cyber pros must grasp the vibe coding nettle, says NCSC chief

  At RSA in San Francisco, NCSC chief exec Richard Horne says security professionals have an opportunity and a responsibility to get in front of the security issues raised by the popularity of ‘vibe coding’

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  HSBC gets its first artificial intelligence chief

  UK bank appoints its first executive position dedicated to artificial intelligence as the technology embeds across the sector

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  US government bans imported routers, raising tough questions

  The US communications regulator has enacted a ban on all router hardware made outside America citing security concerns, but experts say the move may risk creating more issues than it solves