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• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Artificial intelligence to initiate and manage litigations after ‘landmark’ approval

  The Garfield Project created an artificial intelligence-based litigation service for small claims, but how far can the technology reach in the legal sector

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Interview: Pega’s ‘Blueprint’ for breaking the curse of legacy IT

  Legacy IT is a drag on profits and innovation, but AI agents will help companies rebuild their processes better than before, claims Pegasystems CTO Don Schuerman

• 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 28, 2025 28 May'25

  VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives

  With so much Java code running enterprise IT, we consider the benefits of adapting existing systems to make them more cloud-native

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Norway’s autonomous bus moves into the fast lane

  In a small but ambitious project in Stavanger, Norway, autonomous buses are proving they might one day solve a critical problem: the chronic shortage of bus drivers

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI

  Southeast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Google I/O: LLM capabilities power agentic AI search

  As Google strives to make AI universal, it is starting to integrate agentic AI into Google Search to fast-track purchasing on websites

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning

  Windows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Post Office performs costly 30-year U-turn on Horizon

  Post Office Horizon replacement magnifies missed opportunity as move from the controversial Horizon system to an off-the-shelf alternative is going back to a plan it rejected in the 1990s

• May 16, 2025 16 May'25

  Kissflow finds its place in low-code market

  The supplier of low-code software development tools that cater to both citizen developers and IT professionals is experiencing rapid growth in Southeast Asia where it has been doubling its revenue over the past four years

• May 09, 2025 09 May'25

  Interview: Amanda Stent, head of AI strategy and research, Bloomberg

  Hallucinating AI, which lies through its teeth, keeps Amanda Stent busy at data analytics and intelligence giant Bloomberg

• May 06, 2025 06 May'25

  EU acts to mend ailing AI competitiveness

  Lack of private investors, malformed markets and over-regulation present a big challenge for European officials trying to turn the continent into a global AI superpower

• May 01, 2025 01 May'25

  Tariffs could cost Meta $8bn in extra datacentre costs

  The owner of Facebook and WhatsApp has forecast an increase in CapEx due to higher IT infrastructure costs to power its AI strategy

• 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 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  FCA wants ‘safe place’ for finance firms to test artificial intelligence

  Financial services regulator proposes artificial intelligence testing environment as part of its AI Lab

• April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

  Fujitsu UK staff will get bonus despite Post Office scandal fallout

  Employees will receive bonuses as Fujitsu UK reaches sales target - suggesting that its pause on bidding for public sector business has had limited impact

• 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

  Fujitsu targets private AI with Japanese LLM on Nutanix

  Fujitsu’s Takane large language model, optimised for Japanese language and business use, is aimed at supporting private AI deployments

• 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 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

  Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards

  Citic Telecom, CapitaLand Investment and DBS Bank were among the region’s top industry innovators recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025

• April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

  CW Innovation Awards: M1 aims to become digital-native telco

  The digital-first telco is running all its back-end systems on the cloud, enabling it to speed up decision-making and enhance customer service

• April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

  CW Innovation Awards: Transforming cyber security with AI

  Facing rising cyber threats and a shortage of experts, Citic Telecom International CPC developed an AI-powered penetration testing tool to automate security audits and reduce costs

• April 15, 2025 15 Apr'25

  Roadmap for commercial adoption of quantum computing gains clarity

  There has been plenty going on in the world of quantum computing, suggesting that commercial systems are on the horizon

• April 14, 2025 14 Apr'25

  Computer and law experts respond to call for opinions on computer evidence

  IT and legal experts have made submissions to a government consultation on the use of computer evidence in court

• 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 11, 2025 11 Apr'25

  More than 100 Horizon victims are challenging Post Office offers on complex claims

  Calls for advanced dispute resolution meetings by victims of the Post Office Horizon system have been ignored by the Department of Business and Trade

• April 10, 2025 10 Apr'25

  Lloyds Bank moves AI work onto Google Cloud platform

  Banking group is cutting its emissions and accelerating the development of AI platforms by moving work onto Google Cloud

• April 07, 2025 07 Apr'25

  Post Office can’t find evidence for over 1,000 Horizon scandal redress claimants

  The Post Office has no evidence of errors for more than 1,000 subpostmasters applying for compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme

• 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

• April 03, 2025 03 Apr'25

  Virtual reality enterprise journey a marathon, not a sprint

  IT supplier is using virtual reality in not-for-profit projects that demonstrate its wider potential

• April 01, 2025 01 Apr'25

  Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging

  People may try to lock up GPU resources even if they don’t need them all day – but not anymore, thanks to Nvidia KAI Scheduler

• March 31, 2025 31 Mar'25

  Understanding of ‘black box’ IT systems will reduce Post Office scandal-like risk

  A Parliamentary committee has reported that leadership teams need to understand the ‘black box’ IT systems that underpin their organisations

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  Experts question court’s rejection of former Post Office manager’s Horizon appeal

  Experts on the use of computer evidence question why Court of Appeal rejected former Post Office branch manager’s appeal against conviction

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI

  The Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  Kroll reviewing Post Office Horizon’s current integrity and discrepancy identification

  The Post Office appoints third party to review Horizon following concerns about current version of the system

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  MPs demand government reconsider response to Post Office compensation report

  Select committee calls on government to ‘reflect and revise’ response to Post Office scandal compensation scheme

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft

  Most Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Novel encryption technology tests add value to Finland’s quantum computer project

  Tests carried out at Telia will support the building of a secure quantum network

• 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 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  Minister asks for evidence of Post Office ECCO+ system problems

  Subpostmaster federation is calling on former Post Office crown branch staff to come forward if they experienced problems with ECCO+

• 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

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Metropolitan Police concern puts brakes on Post Office Horizon data migration

  The Post Office has paused its project to migrate all Horizon data from Fujitsu systems to its own while in discussions with Metropolitan Police

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Post Office makes first official apology to Capture users

  The Post Office has written to former Capture user Ken Tooby to apologise for its failings which devastated his family’s lives

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  'Positive steps' in redress for Post Office Capture victims

  Lawyers say progress has been made in efforts to provide financial redress and justice for former users of the Post Office's flawed Capture system

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  Peer demands Fujitsu cough up £300m interim payment towards Post Office scandal bill

  Kevan Jones tells fellow peers in the House of Lords that Fujitsu should also be barred from bidding for public sector contracts

• 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 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  IoT and SaaS will underpin government legislation introduced to protect rivers

  Tech platform will enable water companies, regulators and the public to monitor pollution levels in rivers