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• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans

  The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Metropolitan Police needs effective constraints on live facial recognition use, court hears

  The Metropolitan Police has defended its use of live facial recognition against a legal challenge that claims there are no effective constraints on where it can deploy the technology

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Interview: ManageEngine doubles down on data sovereignty with UAE datacentre launch

  ManageEngine CEO Rajesh Ganesan explains why owning the cloud stack matters to CIOs in the Middle East, and how automation, AI and end-to-end IT management are reshaping enterprise priorities

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Landmark legal challenge against police facial recognition begins

  The High Court will examine whether the Metropolitan Police is acting lawfully with its deployments of live facial recognition, in the UK’s first judicial review of how the technology is being used

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  Dell Technologies Forum Dubai highlights AI as the next great economic accelerator

  At its flagship regional event, Dell Technologies set out how AI leadership, data readiness and skills development are shaping digital transformation across the UAE and the wider Middle East

• January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26

  E& enterprise brings agentic AI to MENAT

  A strategic partnership introduces autonomous, governance-by-design artificial intelligence as enterprises in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey move from experimentation to real-world impact

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  Google Cloud opens Bangkok region to support Thailand’s AI economy

  The hyperscaler’s Thai cloud region is part of a $1bn investment to meet the growing demand for cloud services in the kingdom

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  Met claims success for permanent facial recognition in Croydon

  Met Police boasts that its permanent deployment of live facial recognition cameras in Croydon has led to more than 100 arrests and prompted a double-digit reduction in local crime, ahead of an upcoming judicial review assessing the technology’s ...

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  G42 introduces Digital Embassies framework for sovereign AI

  The framework enables governments to deploy artificial intelligence securely and at scale, while maintaining full legal authority over data and systems, regardless of the location of the infrastructure

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  UK copyright law unfit for protecting creative workers from AI

  As the UK government considers its approach to artificial intelligence and copyright, Computer Weekly explores the dynamics at play in copyright markets, and what measures can be taken to ensure that creatives are protected

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  Liverpool FC signs WasabiAiR for fast video tagging and search

  Reds can tag video frame-by-frame with AI-based ML-as-a-service to get rapid search and ‘hyper-personalisation’ of footage for fan engagement and partner content

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  UAE signs Pax Silica declaration to advance AI-era security

  The United Arab Emirates becomes the ninth signatory to Pax Silica, an economic security coalition for the AI age, reinforcing its leadership in trusted technology, energy and digital infrastructure

• January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

  Zoho opens its first UAE datacentres to boost cloud adoption

  New Dubai and Abu Dhabi facilities support data sovereignty, providing CIOs with local access to more than 100 Zoho and ManageEngine cloud services

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Berlin anarchists cite AI in attack on key energy infrastructure

  Berlin anarchists have sabotaged key energy infrastructure in the city, claiming it as an act of ‘self-defence’ against the planet’s destruction by ‘energy-guzzling’ technologies and the wider fossil fuel economy that underpins their development

• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Intersec Dubai highlights why AI has become critical in the race against cyber attackers

  Cigna Healthcare’s Jean Wiles warns that healthcare security teams must act faster without sacrificing accuracy or compliance as threats driven by artificial intelligence scale

• January 08, 2026 08 Jan'26

  Campaigners urge UK to develop digital sovereignty strategy

  UK digital rights campaigners have urged UK parliamentarians to implement a digital sovereignty strategy as part of the forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to reduce reliance on technology subject to foreign interference

• January 07, 2026 07 Jan'26

  Home Office digital-only eVisa system could be ruled unlawful

  The Home Office is facing a judicial review over refusing to allow alternative proof of immigration status outside of the electronic visa system, despite data quality and integrity issues plaguing the system

• 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

• January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

  How Bahrain is building a region-leading digital economy

  From hyperscale cloud and fintech regulation to AI skills and smart manufacturing, Bahrain is positioning technology at the heart of its economic diversification strategy, says Bahrain EDB’s Musab Abdullah

• December 31, 2025 31 Dec'25

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2025

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Top 10 technology ethics stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025

• December 28, 2025 28 Dec'25

  Middle East tech trends 2026: AI, cyber security and sovereign infrastructure take centre stage

  As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to production and cyber threats escalate, the Middle East is entering a decisive phase of digital transformation, says Omdia chief analyst Trevor Clarke

• 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 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Reinventing the Arabic newsroom: How Al-Masry Al-Youm is harnessing AI, data, and cloud to transform

  Al-Masry Al-Youm CIO Omar Badr reveals how Egypt’s leading independent daily has navigated a decade of digital disruption, balancing editorial freedom with cutting-edge technology

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Open sourcing and assuring AI

  Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power

• December 10, 2025 10 Dec'25

  Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID

  Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions

• December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion

  A growing body of research suggests that the use of live facial recognition is reshaping police perceptions of suspicion in ways that undermine supposed human-in-the-loop protections

• December 04, 2025 04 Dec'25

  Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation

  The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear

  It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  Chip makers warn of a looming shortage in DRAM and SSD

  Hyperscalers and server manufacturers are ordering too many memory components for their AI infrastructures - more than the market can produce. As a result, prices are rocketing, and a shortage could last until 2027

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Swedish welfare authority suspends ‘discriminatory’ AI model

  A machine learning model used by Sweden’s social security agency to flag benefit fraud has been discontinued following investigations by media outlets and the country’s data protection watchdog

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme

  The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for people across the bloc

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  IT services companies and datacentres face regulation as cyber security bill reaches Parliament

  The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will require large IT services companies, including datacentres, to report security incidents within 24 hours

• November 10, 2025 10 Nov'25

  UK’s ‘deregulatory’ AI approach won’t protect human rights

  Expert witnesses called before Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights have told MPs and Lords that the UK’s current approach to artificial intelligence regulation will fail to effectively protect people’s rights

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Scope of US state-level privacy laws expands rapidly in 2025

  Nine state-level data protection laws have come into force in the US this year, and three more are slated for January 2026. Navigating this complex landscape is becoming a challenge

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Saudi Arabia launches AI health coach to transform preventive care

  Integrated into the national Sehaty app, the AI feature, developed with Lean Business Services and Google Cloud, marks a major step in Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 journey toward smarter, more personalised healthcare

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Container storage: Five key things you need to know

  We look at container storage and backup, diving deep into how storage works in containers, container storage interface, container-native storage, and the management platforms storage suppliers offer

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide

  Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights ...

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO

  To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Cohesity CEO: ‘The Middle East is moving faster than any other region in data resilience’

  At Gitex in Dubai, Sanjay Poonen, CEO at Cohesity, highlights how the region’s rapid digital growth is shaping new priorities in cyber recovery, AI-driven backup and secure data platforms

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  UK police to upgrade illicit asset recovery system

  A new system is being developed by the Police Digital Service and NEC Software Solutions to help manage the recovery of criminal assets, replacing 20-year-old legacy infrastructure

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  UAE AI minister: ‘We’ll have 10,000 AI companies in five years’

  Gulf state AI minister sets out plans to encourage artificial intelligence companies with certification and ranking based on AI competence and UAE presence at startup event in Dubai this week

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Forget training, find your killer apps during AI inference

  Pure Storage executives talk about why most artificial intelligence projects are about inference, during production, and why that means storage must respond to capacity needs and help optimise data management

• 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 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Data sovereignty demand pushes Herabit to get S3 storage

  Italian service provider gets Cubbit DS3 distributed S3 storage to provide up to 2PB of cloud services to customers demanding data sovereignty, while cutting costs by up to 50%

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  UK government to consult on police live facial recognition use

  The UK’s policing minister has confirmed the government will consult on the use of live facial recognition by law enforcement before expanding its use throughout England, but so far, the technology has been deployed with minimal public debate or ...

• October 05, 2025 05 Oct'25

  Nakivo expands Proxmox backup and DR capabilities in v11.1

  Latest version of Backup & Replication adds MSP features, plus Proxmox VM backup functionality, while Nakivo responds to critical vulnerability it was tipped off about in February

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  How AI is driving a rethink of storage architecture

  Pure Storage’s head of AI infrastructure, Par Botes, argues that the growing use of artificial intelligence will require storage systems with audit trails and versioning to ensure trust and traceability

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK

  In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Infinidat doubles InfiniBox Hybrid array capacity

  Enterprise array maker boosts capacity by two times to 33PB, promises high-density QLC flash drives in the fourth quarter, and adds native object storage that can be set up as customers configure volumes