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April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26
Using AI to manage insider risk amid Middle East conflict

As geopolitical tensions reshape the cyber threat landscape across the region, organisations are turning to artificial intelligence-driven behaviour analytics, investigative automation and monitoring of AI agents to detect insider risk faster and ...
April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26
Bunnings shows off AI shopping agent at Google showcase

The Australian hardware chain has gone from digital laggard to e-commerce pioneer, teaming up with Google Cloud to launch a conversational AI assistant that turns simple queries into DIY project plans
April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26
Government terminates Capita’s Royal Mail pension contract

Contract termination comes as Capita’s failings in a separate government pension scheme hit the headlines
April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26
UK government beats drum for fintech industry at Fintech Week

UK government announces open banking strategies during London Fintech Week, including regulation and £1m investment

April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26
A tsunami of flaws: When frontier AI and Patch Tuesday collide

Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday drop was the second-largest in history, falling just shy of an October 2025 record. What is behind the spike in vulnerability disclosures, and is there a connection to Anthropic’s bug-hunting Claude Mythos AI model?
April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26
More finance firms join FCA’s AI testing initiative

Barclays, Experian and UBS join the FCA’s live AI testing initiative, exploring cutting-edge technologies like agentic AI and SLMs to ensure safe, responsible innovation in UK financial markets
April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26
Sans Institute preps live systems for Nato cyber exercise

Cyber training body the Sans Institute is preparing live power generation IT and OT systems for Nato’s annual Locked Shields blue team exercise, which this year appears more relevant than ever
April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26
Scottish Labour’s 2026 manifesto vows to upskill and invest in tech

Ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament Election, Labour promises digital and tech NHS funding worth £680m, ‘digital playgrounds’ and to create a digital skills passport
April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26
Scientists map coral reefs off northern Australia

Researchers have mapped a previously uncharted network of coral and rocky reefs hidden in the murky coastal waters of Australia’s north, without ever setting foot on a boat
April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26
Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows

NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, which are set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation

April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26
North Korean social engineering campaign targets MacOS users

A MacOS-focused social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korea-based threat actor Sapphire Sleet has been exposed by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Unit
April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26
CyberUK 2026: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber pros

Ahead of next week’s CyberUK conference, the CyberUp Campaign for reform of the UK’s hacking laws urges the government to keep focus and proposes a four-pillar framework that would protect cyber professionals from prosecution
April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26
Interview: Bernhard Seiser, vice-president of digital, data and IT, AOP Health

With long experience of tech in the life sciences sector, AOP’s digital leader is building a foundation for further data insights in all areas of the business
April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26
How the AI boom is reshaping tech cost management

FinOps practitioners are stepping up to manage AI expenses, optimise token usage and align cost-saving measures with sustainability goals to improve returns from AI investments
April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26
UAE education builds digital resilience as regional tensions accelerate shift to remote learning

Ankabut CEO Tarek Jundi outlines how national infrastructure, AI-driven platforms and distance-learning capabilities are helping schools and universities maintain continuity amid geopolitical uncertainty
April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26
UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says government

Technology secretary Liz Kendall urges Britain’s business community to sit up and pay attention to emerging AI threats, following the debut of Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos
April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26
Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk

AI-based tool developed with Snowflake improves policymakers’ understanding of properties at risk of flooding
April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26
Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline?

Looking at datacentre development internationally, we see how the UK faces apparent relative decline, how countries are responding to the AI age, and what MW vs GDP can tell us
April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26
OCBC rolls out generative AI training for wealth advisors

First programme of its kind allows wealth advisors to hone their pitches through realistic AI role play, resulting in double the client appointments and a 50% growth in revenue in three months
April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26
SMRT taps AI and analytics to predict rail faults and speed up maintenance

The Singapore rail operator has developed an intelligent analytics platform to support predictive maintenance and pinpoint track issues, maximising its three-hour nightly maintenance window
April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26
April Patch Tuesday brings zero-days in Defender, SharePoint Server

Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update may be one of the largest in history, with more than 160 issues in scope
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 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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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
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’