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• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits

  In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Aston University partners Capgemini for AI centre of excellence

  University works with IT services giant to open artificial intelligence centre of excellence in London campus

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Regional booster programme aims to drive UK tech growth

  The government has launched a £1m programme with 14 projects aimed at supporting startups

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  E-commerce platform eBay offers free ChatGPT training and tools

  Through eBay Activate, small businesses selling on the online marketplace will gain access to GPT-powered productivity and e-commerce tools

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Bank of America builds GenAI assistant for instant answers for customers

  Queries that would take an employee an hour to answer are completed almost instantaneously with the Bank of America’s generative AI assistant

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  ‘Our worst day’: The untold story of the Electoral Commission cyber attack

  As head of digital at The Electoral Commission, Andrew Simpson’s mettle was tested when threat actors gained access to the regulator’s email systems and accessed sensitive voter data. Three years on, he tells his story to Computer Weekly

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  UK cyber action plan lays out path to resilience

  A report produced for the government by academics at Imperial College London and the University of Bristol sets out nine recommendations to strengthen the UK’s cyber sector

• September 18, 2025 18 Sep'25

  UK banks still run software code written more than 60 years ago

  More than half of UK banks still rely on computer code written in or before the 1970s, and which is understood by only a few of their staff

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Vote: Who should be crowned the 2025 most influential woman in UK tech?

  Each year, we ask our audience who should be named the most influential woman in UK technology. Tell us what you think – the deadline for voting is 8 October

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  The digital forensics crisis in policing: What’s going wrong?

  Forensics experts say that most crime has a digital footprint, but the police are unable to keep up with the soaring number of devices that require analysis

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Most Influential Women in UK Tech: Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame

  Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame showcases the great women who have made a lifetime contribution to the technology sector

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Most Influential Women in UK Tech: The 2025 longlist

  In Computer Weekly’s search for this year’s top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, hundreds of women have been put forward for consideration. Here, we look at a list of everyone nominated in 2025

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Meet the IT leader In Lebanon who became an IT entrepreneur

  Nassib Chamoun says CIOs could follow his lead in swapping IT management for life as a startup, but they must be prepared to make sacrifices

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  Zopa Bank seeks partners to form AI skills coalition

  Survey by Juniper Research and Zopa Bank reveals full return on investment in artificial intelligence over next five years

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Number of girls taking GCSE computer science drops amid fall in overall candidates

  The number of students taking GCSE computing has fallen this year, with fewer girls and boys choosing the subject compared with 2024

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  ISACA launches AI security management certification

  ISACA accredited security professionals can now pursue a new AI security management credential

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  L’Oréal to promote cyber resilience for Britain’s beauty salons

  L’Oréal UK and Ireland will work with law enforcement, cyber educators and students, and other large organisations to help thousands of small salons across the UK improve their cyber resilience practice

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Vodafone Greece automates deals for customers, saves 500 staff-days of work

  Vodafone Greece hired an implementation partner for a business process management project while its own staff observed and learned how to use the technology

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  More girls take A-level computing despite overall dip in numbers

  While there was an overall dip in the number of people taking computing A-levels this year, the number of girls taking the subject is still on the up

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  Santander will make AI training mandatory for all staff in 2026

  Spanish banking giant announces mandatory AI training for staff, and collaborates with OpenAI on a ‘data and AI-first transformation’

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Obituary: Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley, founder, entrepreneur and philanthropist

  Dame Stephanie Shirley, a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist known in the technology sector as Steve, has passed away

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Investing in diverse business could boost UK equity market

  It’s difficult for female-led businesses to find investment, but if more funds were made available, it could boost UK equity, according to research

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2025

  Tell us who you think should be included in Computer Weekly’s 2025 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology

• August 03, 2025 03 Aug'25

  NUS and Google team up on AI research centre

  The National University of Singapore and Google will set up a joint research centre focused on applied AI in education, law, and public health while also building a talent pipeline for the city-state

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  AI’s uneven distribution widening diversity divide

  Access to AI depends in many cases on salary, gender and company size, according to research

• July 18, 2025 18 Jul'25

  Charities struggle to find the skills to adopt AI

  Charities are building pace with digital adoption, but in many cases a lack of skills stands in the way of properly utilising tech

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  Thousands of women in tech leave their roles each year

  At the launch of the Lovelace Report, experts state that women in the tech workplace aren’t being promoted, which in turn is pushing them out of the industry

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Interview: Philip Colligan, CEO, Raspberry Pi Foundation

  With the trend of ‘vibe coding’ growing, Raspberry Pi Foundation’s CEO warns schools should not be complacent about continued coding education

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  Schools using AI to personalise learning, finds Ofsted

  When looking into how some education providers in the UK are using AI, Ofsted found many have hit the ground running

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  More than 70% of parents say kids aren’t taught coding at school

  Despite a growing need for tech skills, many parents claim coding isn’t taught in schools, research from the Raspberry Pi Foundation has found

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  Zopa to embed into Manchester’s tech ecosystem

  Challenger bank Zopa plans to eventually have 500 staff in its Manchester office, which will launch next month

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Bias and lack of flexibility hindering diversity, finds DSIT

  A diversity and inclusion report compiled for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology outlines the many barriers to diversity in the UK’s tech sector

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Digital workers at US bank to get their own email accounts

  The financial services sector is leading the way when it comes to using AI across operations – and it’s not afraid to talk about it

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Silicon Valley execs sworn in to US Army reserves specialist unit

  Four technology executives are brought into the military to make the armed forces ‘more lethal’, reflecting softening attitudes throughout the sector towards ‘the business of inflicting violence’

• June 23, 2025 23 Jun'25

  Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations

  Labour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  UKtech50 2025: the longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders

  Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2025

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  NHS IT the big winner in Reeves’ Spending Review

  The chancellor of the exchequer has significantly upped spending on digital and technology initiatives in the current Spending Review period, with the NHS receiving a 50% tech funding increase

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy

  The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  Citigroup cuts thousands of staff at China-based tech centres

  Financial services giant Citigroup is drastically reducing headcount in its Chinese tech delivery centres as it restructures its technology operation

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  NCSC sets out how to build cyber safe cultures

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has published guidance for security teams and leaders on how to foster accessible and appropriate cyber security cultures in their organisations

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  Analysis of job vacancies shows earnings boost for AI skills

  Even when parts of a job are being automated, those who know how to work with artificial intelligence tools can expect higher salaries

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Cyber and digital get over £1bn to enhance UK’s national security

  The government has set out plans to spend over a billion pounds on digital and cyber warfare capabilities to enhance the UK’s ability to defend itself and fight offensive wars

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  CEOs and IT chiefs misaligned on AI readiness

  A report from Kyndryl shows a significant gap in how business leaders perceive the AI infrastructure of their organisations compared with IT chiefs

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Maturing UK fintechs increase tech and cyber security hiring

  Increased hiring reflects that fintechs are maturing and now require more cyber security and compliance experts

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Armed forces charity steps in to address cyber mental health crisis

  CIISec and military charity PTSD Resolution hope to address a gathering mental health crisis among frontline cyber professionals

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment

  An equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Lack of practical learning bad for STEM careers

  A lack of hands-on learning could prevent children from being interested in science and tech careers in the future

• May 16, 2025 16 May'25

  Mid-career professionals must learn to understand and use AI as GenAI tips balance

  Whether in the finance, IT or legal sectors, artificial intelligence will change the way businesses operate and how their people work

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Why we must reform the Computer Misuse Act: A cyber pro speaks out

  Britain’s outdated hacking laws are leaving the UK’s cyber practitioners hamstrung and afraid. Security professional Simon Whittaker reveals how he nearly ran afoul of the Computer Misuse Act, and why he’s speaking out for reform

• May 09, 2025 09 May'25

  Government launches £8.2m plan to encourage girls into AI

  The government is investing in teacher training and student support to get more girls into maths classes, ultimately leading to AI careers