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June 02, 2026 02 Jun'26
Over half a trillion dollars generated by global fintechs last year

Fintech sector has emerged from a “reset year” as a more mature industry, according to report
May 29, 2026 29 May'26
Also-ran Sweden bids for AI world leadership

Not satisfied with applying US AI systems, Nordic giant Sweden is hoping to change the rules of the game
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
NatWest inks AI deal for trade finance

NatWest bank wants to streamline trade finance while improving compliance through the use of artificial intelligence

May 26, 2026 26 May'26
Sir Alan Bates questions UK government commitment to Post Office criminal investigation

The UK government needs to increase funding for police investigation of Post Office scandal crimes, or face a five-year delay
May 26, 2026 26 May'26
Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.7 Max at inaugural Singapore conference

Chinese tech giant debuts AI model capable of extended autonomous tasks, alongside a major upskilling initiative backed by the Singapore government to ensure no jobless growth in the age of AI
May 20, 2026 20 May'26
Avoid expensive AI agents with these five design imperatives

Dell Technologies’ chief operating officer Jeff Clarke offers a blueprint for the AI-native enterprise, warning that failing to integrate data and control tokenomics will result in high cloud bills and fragmented tools
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
Post Office chair defends ‘inappropriate and harmful’ position on Capture appeals

Post Office chairman defends its position on contesting subpostmaster appeals against Capture-based convictions
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 12, 2026 12 May'26
Executive interview: Pros and cons of AI in academic research

We speak to Jill Luber, chief technology officer at academic publisher Elsevier, about how large language models can support researchers
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
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 05, 2026 05 May'26
Google’s Agentic Data Cloud to power ‘systems of action’

As enterprises move from reactive analytics to AI agents, Google Cloud’s data chief details new metadata, cross-cloud and database tools to help them govern and scale AI agents
May 04, 2026 04 May'26
UK’s NCSC warns of ‘wave of patches’

Vulnerability discovery and mitigation continues to exercise the top minds at Britain’s NCSC as cyber experts continue to debate the impact of frontier AI models such as Mythos
April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26
Global study reveals biggest risks of AI in finance sector

University of Cambridge study reveals the risks facing the finance sector as it adopts artificial intelligence
April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26
MPs call on UK government to learn from central bank’s IT project success story

Members of a parliamentary committee want the wider government to learn from success of Bank of England project
April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26
HSBC collaborates on noisy qubit real-world application

Researchers have demonstrated that usable results for financial modelling are achievable even on current noisy quantum computers
April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26
DP World Tour Europe selects HCLTech for ‘total shop window rebuild’

Sports association signs up Indian IT firm as global partner as it rebuilds its website and fan app in the ‘era of AI’
April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26
Court of Appeal rejects Post Office Capture case delay request

Three convictions based on the Capture system have reached the Court of Appeal, which has rejected the Post Office’s request to delay its response, advancing long-awaited justice for affected subpostmasters
April 24, 2026 24 Apr'26
Wiz founder: Hack yourself with AI, before the bad guys do

At Google Cloud Next, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica called on security defenders to use AI to steal a march on threat actors, and launched agentic capabilities for cyber teams
April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26
Agentic AI speeds up mainframe modernisation, but human experts remain key

Agentic AI tools are helping organisations overcome Cobol skills shortages and untangle legacy infrastructure, but successful modernisation still requires an expert in the loop to manage complexity
April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26
AI adoption is rapid but many stuck at basic levels, says AWS

The UK could unlock £35bn of productivity – equivalent to the economy of Manchester – if organisations can move from basic use of AI to productive, often agentic, modes of working
April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26
Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs

With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows
April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26
‘Platitudes’ hide struggle as Post Office scandal redress scheme closing date announced

Scheme for group that took the Post Office to court and exposed the widest miscarriage of justice in history to be completed by the year’s end
April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26
Danish logistics giant under pressure to rush world’s largest IT integration

The emergence of AI-driven competition has lit a fire beneath global logistics firm DSV, while it is distracted with integrating the global IT systems of a €14bn merger and trying to get its finances back to full health
April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26
Singapore pushes for global standard to test generative AI

The proposed standard aims to ensure trustworthy AI by standardising benchmarking and red teaming methodologies, as IMDA’s chief urges faster action on global rules
April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26
Bank cyber teams on red alert as Anthropic promises them Mythos next week

Artificial intelligence supplier promises UK banks opportunity to review AI model, which has already revealed thousands of security flaws
April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26
Finance regulators to address AI risks after MPs say they are ‘not doing enough’

After a Treasury committee stated that public and finance systems are ‘exposed to potential serious harm’ from AI because regulators are ‘not doing enough’ to manage risks, finance regulators say they will take action to address concerns
April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26
European Union deep tech plan too late for quantum champions IQM and Pasqal

European quantum computing firms hurry to get US stock exchange listings so they can be predator not prey in a coming wave of consolidation
April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26
Interview: Researching quantum algorithms for today’s devices

The world of quantum computing is a noisy place, where error correction is needed to ensure quantum devices run correctly. Lucy Robson, a quantum algorithm scientist at Universal Quantum, tells Computer Weekly all about it
April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26
Keir Starmer was warned about Post Office prosecution practices as director of public prosecutions

A Horizon scandal victim wrote to Keir Starmer in 2011, when he was director of public prosecutions for the CPS, alerting him to the Post Office’s controversial prosecution practices
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