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April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26
How ANZ firms are driving automation and AIOps

Tech leaders from Westpac, NAB, Telstra and ACC New Zealand share their automation journeys, from overcoming cultural resistance to the cautious adoption of AI
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 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
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
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 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 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
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 23, 2026 23 Mar'26
DWP finally seeks reviewer of its subpostmaster prosecutions

Months after announcing review, the government has advertised for a reviewer to look over more than 100 prosecutions of subpostmasters by the Department of Work and Pensions
March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26
CUDA at 20: From billion-dollar gamble to agentic AI

As Nvidia marks two decades of CUDA, its head of high-performance computing and hyperscale reflects on the platform’s journey, the power of software optimisation, and how the fusion of GPUs and LPUs will shape the future of AI
March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26
Government announces redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims

Government offers two routes to financial redress for the families of victims of the Post Office scandal
March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26
Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade

Jensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem
March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26
Alibaba joins AI agent race with Wukong launch

Following the viral success of OpenClaw and product launches from Nvidia and Tencent, Alibaba has unveiled an agentic AI platform that integrates with DingTalk to orchestrate business workflows
March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26
Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform
March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26
Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI

Moving AI from experiment to production requires high-quality, real-time data streaming. Australia tech leaders from Confluent, Bendigo Bank, Telstra, and Coles share how they are turning systems of record into systems of action
March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26
MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions

Report from MPs warns of unknown number of unsafe subpostmasters convictions based on multiple pre-Horizon systems
March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26
UK government announces package to get more women in tech

The UK government aims to add billions of pounds to the economy through getting more women into the tech sector
March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26
Nordics ally with Baltics to accelerate digital wallet roll-out

Baltic and Nordic countries work together on a common certification system to support digital wallet applications
March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26
Scandal victim gets leave to appeal decision to split case against Post Office and Fujitsu

Prominent scandal victim given leave to appeal High Court decision in his legal action against the Post Office and Fujitsu
March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26
Demand necessitates digital twin and data visualisation at National Grid

In-house project replaces spreadsheet-based planning for future electricity network
February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26
Santander pins €1bn business value gain on AI

Bank said artificial intelligence will be fully embedded into the business, personalising customer experiences
February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26
How AI code generation is pushing DevSecOps to machine speed

Organisations should adopt shared platforms and automated governance to keep pace with the growing use of generative AI tools that are helping developers produce code at unprecedented volumes
February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26
Institutionalised AI puts Visa top of ranking

The payment card services giant leads the way in applying artificial intelligence in its sector, according to research
February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26
Nvidia backs India’s sovereign AI push with gigawatt-scale infrastructure

Chip giant unveils compute expansion with L&T, Yotta and E2E Networks at the India AI Impact Summit, paving the way for domestic heavyweights to build AI agents and physical AI applications
February 16, 2026 16 Feb'26
NatWest hails progress after £1.2bn spent on tech last year, but true AI transformation to come

NatWest Bank describes the past 12 months of its tech transformation as ‘the year of [AI] deployment at scale’
February 16, 2026 16 Feb'26
UK government risks ‘perpetuating’ Post Office injustice through response to Capture appeals

Peers question government’s approach to wrongful conviction appeals from former users of Capture software
February 12, 2026 12 Feb'26
UK fintech investment slumped in 2025

Investment in the UK fintech sector fell to its lowest level since 2020, but it is still the European destination attracting the most money
February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26
Peer ‘disappointed’ that DWP review of subpostmaster prosecutions is still months away

Government indicates that there are 108 DWP prosecutions of subpostmasters that will be reviewed so far, but little progress has been made
February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26
APAC firms ditch Oracle Java to cut costs amid AI demands

Rising Oracle Java licensing fees and the massive infrastructure requirements of AI workloads are driving the region’s businesses to migrate to OpenJDK distributions
February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26
CIOs discuss friction between legacy IT and innovation

While it may not be something IT leaders want to talk about, managing technical debt is critical to moving forward with IT innovation
February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26
Apple and Google pledge to improve app fairness

The CMA is seeking views on Apple and Google’s commitments to ensure fair app store practices to stoke the UK’s app economy, fintech and improve developer confidence
February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26
Australia’s CommBank partners business school to research artificial intelligence

CommBank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence, as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector
February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26
Half of Google’s software development now AI-generated

In a bid to free up budget to spend on artificial intelligence infrastructure, Google parent Alphabet is using AI to improve operational efficiency
February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26
Canva uses 1Password to secure ID during growth phase

As it underwent a growth spurt in the early 2020s, graphic design platform Canva turned to 1Password to manage identity across its expanding organisation
January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26
Sir Alan Bates slams ‘nonsense’ reported about his financial redress settlement

Campaigning subpostmaster speaks out about the highly inaccurate claims about the compensation he received
January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26
South Korea debuts foundation model in sovereign AI push

A consortium led by SK Telecom has built a sovereign AI model designed to reduce reliance on foreign tech, lower costs for local industry and propel South Korea into the top ranks of AI powers
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 27, 2026 27 Jan'26
Peer demands independent investigation into DWP’s prosecution of subpostmasters

The DWP’s promised review of subpostmaster prosecutions doesn’t satisfy the demands of politicians and campaigners
January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26
UK government appoints banking tech bosses as AI champions

Appointment of artificial intelligence champions from banking sector comes as MPs make stern warning about AI risks in financial services
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
NatWest Boxed tech team drives business on embedded finance wave

NatWest Boxed tech team doubles up as the force behind NatWest’s challenger bank, as well as its white-label banking service
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
Swedish government software developer counters poor health apps claim

As national election season approaches, political opponents of Sweden’s lead coalition party make hay of survey that claims unsatisfactory health apps deter doctor visits
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
Sovereign and edge AI drive return to on-premise Kubernetes

While public cloud services remain popular, the need to control sensitive data and maximise GPU performance is pushing enterprises to deploy Kubernetes in their own datacentres
January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26
AI governance provides guardrails for faster innovation

Dataiku’s field chief data officer for Asia-Pacific and Japan discusses how implementing AI governance can accelerate innovation while mitigating the risks of shadow AI
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 14, 2026 14 Jan'26
Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage

A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by CrowdStrike shareholders over the July 2024 outage that caused widespread disruption around the world
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 18, 2025 18 Dec'25
Post Office six years late to warn subpostmasters about Horizon defect

Following pressure from Computer Weekly and forensic investigator, the Post Office has warned subpostmasters about Horizon defect potentially at large for over 20 years
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