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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
Danske Bank extends AWS agreement for next phase of transformation

Danish multinational bank and cloud service giant will work together on GenAI initiatives as part of the bank’s transformation strategy
July 01, 2026 01 Jul'26
Union calls for insourcing of pension contract as Capita ‘shit show’ goes on

Outsourcer had until 30 June to fix issues with Civil Service Pension Scheme administration deal it took over in December 2025, but problems persist
June 30, 2026 30 Jun'26
Post Office delays signing Horizon replacement for third time

The Post Office has extended standstill period before formally signing contract for new EPOS system

June 29, 2026 29 Jun'26
Tencent Cloud powers cloud migration for Indonesian telco

Using AI agents to replace months of manual labour, Tencent Cloud consolidated XLSmart’s fragmented, multicloud IT estate into a unified platform and migrated over 15TB of core data assets in record time
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 25, 2026 25 Jun'26
Finland drives AI growth amid low take-up concerns

Survey reveals concerns over the take-up of artificial intelligence technology in Finland
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
Gartner: AI coding agents will cost more than real developers

As organisations ramp up the use of AI coding agents in software development, they may find costs increase significantly if such tools are overused

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 22, 2026 22 Jun'26
Artificial intelligence-based law firm wins in court

AI-based law firm received Solicitors Regulation Authority approval in June last year in a landmark decision
June 22, 2026 22 Jun'26
Santander extends staff access to AI as first quarter delivers €35m value

Spanish bank expects artificial intelligence use to add €200m in value this year through cost savings and extra revenues
June 22, 2026 22 Jun'26
Interview: How a startup mentality helps keep pace with AI

The pace of change in artificial intelligence can be overwhelming. We speak to Thomson Reuters CTO Joel Hron about how to innovate at pace
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
Emerging tech is top growth priority for UK finance firms

Increasing numbers of banks see emerging technology as a priority of growth with artificial intelligence top of the list
June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26
HSBC pens artificial intelligence deal with Google Cloud

HSBC and Google Cloud agree a multi-year contract to support UK bank’s adoption of artificial intelligence
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
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
US mortgage provider moves beyond ‘superficial AI integrations’

Pennymac Financial Services is using generative artificial intelligence tools from Amazon Web Services to bring borrowing up to date
June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26
UK data regulator slammed over lack of action on complaints

The UK data regulator is being threatened with legal action after it was accused of ‘ignoring’ thousands of data protection complaints, with critics describing its new approach to complaint triage and investigation as akin to a ‘digital bin’ for the...
June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26
Nordea Liv Norway migrates 58 million transactions to the cloud

Life and pensions provider migrates to the cloud as part of wider multi-year transformation project
June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26
Insurance industry AI recruitment correlates with success

Research shows that insurers have accelerated recruitment of artificial intelligence professionals
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
CIO interview: Damian Leach, Vistra

CIO Damian Leach discusses Vistra’s digital platform, which he says will harness artificial intelligence in its financial professional services offering
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
ING increases use of AI in mortgage application process

Bank using artificial intelligence to speed up mortgage applications as the company introduces the technology across its business
June 09, 2026 09 Jun'26
Microsoft smashes record for biggest ever Patch Tuesday update

Microsoft has obliterated the record for the largest ever Patch Tuesday drop, with its June 2026 update addressing approximately 200 flaws and three zero-days
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
May 28, 2026 28 May'26
Ministers refused to sign off £563m Capita contract amid civil service pension disaster

The ramifications of Capita’s botched Civil Service pension contract continue as politicians distance themselves.
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: 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 19, 2026 19 May'26
Interview: How Volvo built software for a two-and-a-half-tonne moving object

Volvo Cars is the only legacy carmaker in the world rated at the highest level of software-defined vehicle capability by S&P Global Mobility. Its chief engineering and technology officer, Anders Bell, tells us how it got there
May 15, 2026 15 May'26
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: Agentic AI propelled ‘from concept to a movement’

ServiceNow vice-president of CRM and industry workflows Terence Chesire recounts the platform’s journey towards harnessing ‘the power of AI’
May 14, 2026 14 May'26
Software developers shift to AI code reviewers

Using artificial intelligence to generate code is not necessarily a productivity boost, with programmers spending far more time reviewing AI-generated code
May 13, 2026 13 May'26
Computer Misuse Act reform to move forward in National Security Bill

Reform of the Computer Misuse Act is to be folded into a wider National Security Bill granting more powers for law enforcement to protect the UK against a wider spectrum of threats
May 12, 2026 12 May'26
Civil servants to protest at Capita general meeting amid pension crisis

Public and Commercial Services Union to hold a demonstration at outsourcing giant’s meeting in London
May 11, 2026 11 May'26
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: FedEx digital chief unpacks agentic AI’s potential

Speaking to Computer Weekly at ServiceNow Knowledge 2026, Vishal Talwar, FedEx’s executive vice-president and CDIO, lays out the company’s mission to scale artificial intelligence responsibly
May 11, 2026 11 May'26
Commerzbank to cut 3,000 jobs as it ‘leverages AI even more’

Part of the German bank’s transformation will see a total of 3,000 jobs cut across the business
May 06, 2026 06 May'26
UK financial security experts participate in sector-wide hackathon

Teams of security pros from UK financial services organisations came together at the end of April to participate in a hackathon exercise
May 06, 2026 06 May'26
UK High Court dismisses facial-recognition judicial review case

The Metropolitan Police has won a judicial review case that argued its live facial-recognition policy was unlawful
May 06, 2026 06 May'26
Netherlands moves GPT-NL from lab to live: first pilots under way

Dutch national language model enters real-world testing with a €13.5m public budget and a project-claimed world-first licensing deal with national news publishers
May 05, 2026 05 May'26
Post Office acknowledges ECCO+ user’s calls for help three decades ago

A former subpostmaster repeatedly asked the Post Office for help when unexplained shortfalls occurred in her branch while using ECCO+ software, with evidence of her requests still in the organisation’s possession
May 04, 2026 04 May'26
ANZ enterprises turn to AI for customer and employee insights

At Qualtrics Experience Live in Sydney, leaders from Zip Co, Fonterra, Swyftx and Commonwealth Bank shared how AI is accelerating research, breaking down data silos and turning feedback into measurable business value
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 30, 2026 30 Apr'26
Cloud revenues up 35% YoY in a hot market that’s accelerating

Synergy Research figures put Q1 cloud revenues at $129bn. Meanwhile, AWS, Microsoft and Google have 63% of the world market, which shows an acceleration delta of 13%