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• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Nvidia releases synthetic dataset to support Singapore’s AI ambitions

  The AI chip giant has developed a synthetic dataset of personas to help developers build AI models that understand Singapore’s demographic and cultural nuances without using personally identifiable information

• 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 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

  Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin architecture to power AI agents

  The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026

  Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends

• December 05, 2025 05 Dec'25

  Cyber teams on alert as React2Shell exploitation spreads

  Exploitation of an RCE flaw in a widely used open source library is spreading quickly, with China-backed threat actors in the driving seat

• November 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

  Sea-Lion powering AI tools for migrant workers, local businesses

  The inaugural Sea-Lion summit showcased real-world applications of Southeast Asia’s first homegrown large language model, which now supports multimodal inputs and can run on a standard laptop

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

  AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Interview: IBM on breaking hyperscaler lock-in

  Big Blue’s general manager for Asia-Pacific Hans Dekkers talks up why APAC enterprises are rethinking their reliance on public cloud, the resurgence of the mainframe via LinuxOne, and how it used its own AI tools to cut internal costs

• October 31, 2025 31 Oct'25

  OpenUK works with UKRI on open source guidance for public sector

  Collaboration aims to boost awareness of open source initiatives, community development and the procurement process

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Inspired by the EU: Sweden eyes open standard for encrypted chat services

  What if your messaging and collaboration app could talk to all the others? Swedish government agencies are investigating the possibility

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  OpenInfra Summit Europe: Migrating off VMware

  With Broadcom’s focus on VMware Cloud Foundation subscriptions, OpenStack is being positioned as the open source alternative

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  OpenInfra Summit Europe: Digital sovereignty in the face of political tension

  Attendees at the OpenInfra Summit in Paris were shown why open source IT infrastructure provides supplier flexibility and digital sovereignty

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Interview: GitLab CTO on freeing developers for innovation with AI

  Sabrina Farmer explains how GitLab’s platform for the software development lifecycle is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate developer toil and drive innovation

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Open source security and sustainability remain unsolved problem

  While software bills of materials offer some transparency over software components, they don’t solve the imbalance between corporate consumption of open source software and the lack of investment in its security and health

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  JFrog extends DevSecOps playbook to AI governance

  The software security specialist is leveraging its capabilities in DevSecOps to address security, data provenance and bias in AI models

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Autocratic UAE gets democratic artificial intelligence

  US-China rivalry has come to a head in authoritarian Gulf state UAE, where OpenAI is attempting to make a stand for democracy and free speech

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  OpenAI now offers open AI models, but CIOs need to assess the risk

  Open models offer enterprise IT a way to build tailored LLMs trained on corporate content. Open AI is now offering two open models

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Proliferation of on-premise GenAI platforms is widening security risks

  Research finds increased adoption of unsanctioned generative artificial intelligence platforms is magnifying risk and causing a headache for security teams

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Businesses say they are getting four Oracle Java audits a year

  Changes to Oracle Java licensing now means that IT leaders need to be wary of the footprint of this widely deployed enterprise platform

• June 18, 2025 18 Jun'25

  Execs shy away from open models and open source AI

  The Capgemini Research Institute has found that business executives prefer the support and security associated with commercial products

• June 16, 2025 16 Jun'25

  CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows

  Open source leaders highlight breakthroughs in projects like OpenTelemetry and discuss the open source community’s role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence workloads and fostering global collaboration amid geopolitical tensions

• 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 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation

  From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Open source adoption faces reality checks

  Industry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI

  Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum

  Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  Bill Gates hails ‘stunning’ AI progress, urges focus on global equality

  The Microsoft co-founder underscored AI’s transformative potential in healthcare, education and agriculture while highlighting the need to ensure its benefits reach lower-income nations

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  Current SaaS delivery model a risk management nightmare, says CISO

  JPMorgan Chase security chief Patrick Opet laments the state of SaaS security in an open letter to the industry and calls on software providers to do more to enhance resilience

• April 23, 2025 23 Apr'25

  Amid uncertainty, Armis becomes newest CVE numbering authority

  Amid an uncertain future for vulnerability research, exposure management company Armis has been given the authority to assign CVE IDs to newly discovered vulnerabilities

• April 22, 2025 22 Apr'25

  AI-powered APIs proving highly vulnerable to attack

  The growth of AI is proving a double-edged sword for API security, presenting opportunities for defenders to enhance their resilience, but also more risks from AI-powered attacks, according to report

• April 14, 2025 14 Apr'25

  SUSE CEO champions open source choice

  Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen warns against suppliers diluting open source to lock in customers, and touts SUSE’s commitment to providing choice and support across multiple Linux and Kubernetes distributions

• April 07, 2025 07 Apr'25

  KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up

  Developer overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address

• April 04, 2025 04 Apr'25

  Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

  On 4 April 1975, Paul Allen and Bill Gates formed Microsoft, a company that defined the PC era and opened up computing for all

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Formula 1 accelerates decision response with team content delivery

  AI services and digital transformation specialist claims to have halved crucial response times in Formula 1, redefining how teams analyse race data in real time

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society

  Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will...

• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play

  Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  CVE volumes head towards 50,000 in 2025, analysts claim

  Many trends, notably a big shift to open source tools, are behind an expected boom in the number of disclosed vulnerabilities

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models

  The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched

  Sustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK

  James Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but Oracle Java is no longer the preferred choice

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2024

  Southeast Asia’s 2024 tech landscape saw major companies embracing AI, shifts in open source and the emergence of local large language models to address the needs of a diverse region

• December 16, 2024 16 Dec'24

  Top 10 software development stories of 2024

  This year has seen large language models get significantly better at code generation

• December 01, 2024 01 Dec'24

  How SkyLab is democratising hybrid cloud management

  SkyLab is challenging the cloud status quo with its orchestration platform, which allows telcos and enterprises to seamlessly manage workloads across multiple cloud providers

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Scientists demonstrate Pixelator deepfake image verification tool

  With the age of deepfake imagery upon us, a team led by York St John University researchers has created a tool to help people ‘navigate the fine line between reality and fabrication’

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  GitLab doubles down on DevSecOps and AI in APAC

  The DevOps platform supplier is focused on providing deeper platform integration, enhanced security and artificial intelligence-powered tools to help APAC organisations speed up software delivery

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Conservative peer urges government not to limit open source AI

  The chair of the Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee calls for greater support for SMEs, competition and economic dynamism as artificial intelligence policies are developed

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  How Kong is driving the future of APIs

  From its open-source API gateway to a full platform play, Kong is orchestrating the future of APIs with a growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning

  The acquisition of Neural Magic by Red Hat is being positioned as a way to democratise machine learning and reduce the need for GPUs

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Why geopolitics risks global open source collaborations

  Linux Foundation’s decision to ban Russian maintainers has the potential to destroy open source’s global collaboration model

• October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

  Russian Linux kernel maintainers blocked

  To ensure compliance, the Linux kernel will no longer allow Russian software developers to work on maintaining the codebase