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Burnham government to drop digital ID and tech department

Controversial ID Scheme and government technology department to be tossed on scrap heap as new prime minister enters 10 Downing Street Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Dutch Surf tests practical route out of Big Tech dependency

The Netherlands’ education and research IT cooperative is running pilots with open source tools, placing working alternatives alongside existing Big Tech services Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

Viva la devolution – rebalancing power through technology

A note for Andy Burnham - on how digital operating models and infrastructure can improve UK devolution and strengthen democratic accountability Continue Reading

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• James Findlay & Jerry Fishenden

Where AI fits in modern supply chains

We find out how businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI), GenAI and agentic AI to streamline supply chain operations Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

CW@60: The real promise of technology is human

The next chapter of technology will not be judged merely by the speed of its systems, but by its capacity to build trust, bridge societal divides and unlock human potential, says Dell's Asia-Pacific chief Continue Reading

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• Richard McLaughlin, Dell Technologies

Singapore spells out how personal data can be used in GenAI

Advisory guidelines clarifying when organisations can scrape and reuse personal data to build GenAI models are among a raft of announcements at the inaugural Singapore Data Festival Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Interview: Dan Cherowbrier, CTO, Formula E

For the tech chief at the electric vehicle racing organisation, innovation extends from everything digital to all the technology elements that make the growing motorsport operation a success Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Frustration as Post Office Horizon replacement contract signing delayed again

If signed off, cloud-based EPOS system will replace controversial Horizon software from Fujitsu Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

NatWest signs up to quantum trial for fraud detection

The retail bank is one of 11 organisations testing quantum technologies as part of Digital Catapult’s quantum technology access programme Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Interview: Reflections on tech revolutions and silos

David Minahan, director of digital at Young Lives vs Cancer, discusses data silos and how new tech is offering a more natural user experience Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

The modern CIO role is almost overwhelming – here’s how to survive and thrive

Responsible for everything from keeping the IT lights on, to digital transformation, AI strategy, fostering cross-organisation relations and managing complexity, the modern CIO has their plate full. Top CIOs share their tips for success Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Does the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill make you feel secure?

The UK government's latest cyber security regulations are hugely important but remain riddled with inconsistencies and vagaries - substantial changes are needed before it becomes law Continue Reading

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• Lord Chris Holmes, House of Lords

CW@60: Creating connections through technology and empathy

Everywoman founders Maxine Benson and Karen Gill highlight the importance of diversity and why women's voices need to be heard more widely in tech Continue Reading

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• Maxine Benson and Karen Gill, Everywoman

Check Point builds homegrown AI model as attack barriers collapse

The company is training a security-only small language model as AI hands attackers industrial-scale capabilities and pushes cyber defence towards full automation Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

VodafoneThree calls for policy changes to drive UK mobile growth

Mobile network operators in the UK are battling with energy costs, planning red tape and regulations, all of which are impacting their investment plans Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Palantir: Can anyone else do what it does?

Palantir is a US defence-intelligence company, born from the CIA's venture arm that now operates inside the UK public sector. We examine the claim that its technology does what no other supplier can Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

CW EMEA: Mission chips

In this quarter’s CW EMEA, we detail the European Commission’s plans to ensure the European Union (EU) has self-sufficiency in terms of technology. With IT embedded through society, the EU wants to reduce its dependency on tech from outside and at the same time boost its economy. Continue Reading

Scattered Spider hackers sentenced over TfL attack

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, the hackers behind the 2024 TfL cyber attack, have been sentenced to five-year prison terms at Woolwich Crown Court Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

A fifth of PC devices still on Windows 10

While support ended in October 2025, community-driven insights from Lansweeper has found that smaller businesses are still using Windows 10 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Has Microsoft overstretched its cloud elasticity?

Microsoft promised "infinite" cloud scalability, but signs of capacity strain and regional rollbacks suggest it may be overstretched, forcing customers to rethink vendor lock-in Continue Reading

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• Owen Sayers, Secon Solutions

Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders

Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Are UAE enterprises ready for agentic AI?

Enterprise leaders must hit the ground running by aligning their company’s processes, governance, talent pool and technology to keep up with the fast-evolving agentic AI operations or risk lagging in the global digital race Continue Reading

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• Jonathan Vikram

Prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham takes aim at outsourcing

Soon-to-be-appointed prime minister adds weight to government’s existing plan to ‘end era of outsourcing’ Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Home Office proposes AI tooling to accelerate digital disclosure

PoliceAI will be used to pilot artificial intelligence tools that are capable of automatically generating summaries of digital material, saving ‘countless’ admin hours Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI

The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Australia launches Office of AI to drive world-first national framework

Prime minister Anthony Albanese establishes Office of AI to coordinate binding standards for the technology, promising the world's first single national AI framework Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

ICO ‘less effective as a regulator’ due to toxic culture

Staff of the UK’s data protection watchdog say it was ‘less effective’ due to a toxic workplace culture upheld by senior leadership team Continue Reading

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• Larissa Steel, Computer Weekly

Out of sight, out of work: Creating opportunity for blind and partially sighted people

Billions of pounds are being lost - and hundreds of thousands of people excluded from the economy - because so much of our technology and working lives are not inclusive by design Continue Reading

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• Lord Chris Holmes, House of Lords

An IT alignment reality check

People in IT are unlikely ever to say they are misaligned with business. For decades IT advisory services have presented the business savvy IT chief as a cornerstone and a facilitator, to enable ... Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Inside AWS’s $1bn forward-deployed engineering initiative

The cloud giant is embedding cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists and strategists with customers, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia among those already seeing results Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

Made in Spain: Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in India

India is rolling out facial-recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens, with much of the software coming from a Spanish company – but critics argue the government promise of public safety is not the main aim Continue Reading

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• Nico Schmidt, Mayank Aggarwal & Ignacio Carrascón  

PAC raises more questions over Capita’s role in government

Report demands answers on Capita’s suitability to run HR and payroll services to 250,000 civil servants Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

PAC worried shared services strategy set to fail

The committee says Cabinet Office has no clear plan or timeline for achieving its predicted £4.3bn in savings from the strategy, as it continues to be delayed and suffers from lack of departmental buy-in Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

AI impacting stress levels among cyber professionals

AI is affecting the day-to-day careers of cyber security pros in regard to stress levels, but respondents to an ISC2 data-gathering exercise are split over whether or not their stress levels are going up or down Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Dear Andy Burnham, a word about the government AI strategy...

Can our new Prime Minister bring a new approach to AI that treats the voracious Big Tech companies with less deference? Continue Reading

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• Emer Coleman

Study reveals Microsoft tactics to lure Windows users

The Edge browser may have a small market share, but research commissioned by Firefox shows how Microsoft muscles in Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Modern datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) is crucial

AI workloads are pushing traditional datacentre management to its limits. Modern DCIM is now essential, using predictive analytics to ensure resilience, efficiency, and sustainability Continue Reading

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• Mark Jaggers, Gartner

Mass automation: A vision for nearly automated companies

Nearly automated companies may sound like science fiction, but author Nick Pogrebnyakov argues business leaders should prepare now. Read an excerpt from his book Mass Automation. Continue Reading

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• Tim Murphy, Site editor

Pure DC launches €7.5bn Finland AI datacentre campus

550MW AI datacentre project – with Microsoft reportedly signed up – reflects shift as European market moves north to bypass power constraints in traditional Flap-D hubs Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

AI skills fund launches in Barnsley

The government is looking for ideas on how to deliver AI training to Barnsley residents as part of the government’s AI Upskilling Challenge Fund Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Interview: Lucie Audibert, solicitor in MP Jess Asato’s Grok case

AWO solicitor Lucie Audibert speaks with Computer Weekly about representing Labour MP Jess Asato’s legal claim against xAI’s chatbot Grok, its nudification capabilities and how this case may define what liability for developers of AI tools look like Continue Reading

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• Larissa Steel, Computer Weekly

Scottish Building Society subscribes to embedded AI to begin a new journey

Oldest remaining building society becomes first customer to sign up to embedded AI offering from current supplier SBS Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Couchbase eyes APAC growth as enterprises confront data problem

Having been taken private by private equity firm Haveli Investments, the NoSQL database supplier is pitching its newly launched AI data plane as the fix for the fragmented data layers Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

The Met Police and Palantir – more questions than answers

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the controversial Palantir project at the Metropolitan Police and reveal significant data protection concerns. We also look at the challenges of keeping up with emerging technologies in retail, and Volvo explains how it’s leading the way on developing software-defined cars. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

MPs heard Manchester is better than FDP. It seems they were misled

Tom Bartlett explains why Greater Manchester's integrated care record cannot match the Federated Data Platform (FDP), and why cancelling the FDP contract would be a mistake Continue Reading

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• Tom Bartlett, Bartlett Data

Cyber body Crest launches AI security charter

Crest’s industry-backed AI charter commits signatories to supporting responsible AI adoption and aims to foster trust in AI-enabled security services. Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Datacentres need to consider alternatives to grid connection

UK datacentre growth is stalled by National Grid delays. Operators are increasingly using "behind-the-meter" private energy deals to secure reliable, cost-effective power faster Continue Reading

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• Peter Dilks, Shakespeare Martineau

Microsoft admits datacentre greenhouse gas emissions hike

Growth in carbon emissions for 2024-25 matches total emissions over the previous four years, as Microsoft focuses on datacentre power Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

European Commission accepts SAP’s on-premise ERP commitment

The ERP provider has accepted that it will no longer charge admin fees for returning maintenance customers, and has stated it will offer on-premise flexibility Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Tech giants come under watch of UK finance regulators

IT suppliers critical to the UK finance sector are now within the remit of the UK’s financial services regulators Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

The quiet rise of digital identity: Convenience, control and the new social contract

Governments are rapidly expanding digital identity systems, promising greater convenience and faster access to services, but concerns around privacy, trust, surveillance and inclusion continue to grow Continue Reading

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• David Howell

Why legal control beats location in data sovereignty

US law can access global data via providers, making local data residency insufficient. Businesses must prioritise true jurisdictional control over "sovereignty washing" marketing Continue Reading

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• Jake Madders, Hyve Managed Hosting

CW@60 - How technology has changed our lives over 60 years

On 22 September 1966, the launch issue of the world’s first weekly technology newspaper was published – today Computer Weekly is the UK’s oldest business IT title Continue Reading

Digital devolution and taking back control

Why Andy Burnham's vision needs data cooperatives to deliver a transformation in digital public services Continue Reading

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• David Crack & Julian Tait

Forrester: Managing supply chain volatility with agentic AI

As well as churning through mundane tasks, artificial intelligence agents promise to transform supply chain management Continue Reading

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• George Lawrie, Forrester

CW@60: Preserving the wonder of a life in tech

Mozilla's Linda Griffin shares how a life-changing experience taught her how life in tech ought to be Continue Reading

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• Linda Griffin, Mozilla

Singapore investors embrace AI but still lean on human advisers

Singapore’s affluent investors are among the world’s keenest adopters of AI for investment research, but most still want a professional adviser to validate machine-generated insights Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Fully automated companies: What CIOs need to know

Fully automated companies might not be as futuristic as they seem. CIOs should consider how AI, robotics and sensing will work together to shape the future of automation. Continue Reading

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• Tim Murphy, Site editor

AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier

Once dismissed as legacy tech on the way out, the mainframe is being reframed as the trusted anchor of hybrid, AI-era architectures Continue Reading

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• Pratima Harigunani

MPs call on NHS to scrap Palantir and its Federated Data Platform

Health and Social Care Committee urges health minister to get rid of US firm Palantir and its Federated Data Platform amid ‘mistrust’ and ‘contested benefits’ Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Cyber field doubts promise of Cyber Shield

The NCSC has shared more details of its national AI Cyber Shield initiative, but experts say the project faces serious delivery challenges Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

UK Court of Appeal gives Microsoft complaint the green light

The path is now clear for preowned software reseller ValueLicensing’s market abuse case against Microsoft to go ahead Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2026

Tell us who you think should be included in Computer Weekly’s 2026 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology Continue Reading

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• Clare McDonald, Business Editor

Treat AI like electricity, not a killer app

Pilot failure and costs are maddening, but real impact is also being delivered. Learn that AI isn’t an app but a power source Continue Reading

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• Paul Roehrig

Capita to lose money on pension debacle but ‘has government’s private parts in its grip’

Joint select committee grilling reveals that the tech Capita planned to use to increase process automation did not work Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

The FDP debate is looking in the rear-view mirror – what’s around the next bend?

The question is no longer whether the Federated Data Platform has delivered enough, but whether the NHS will have the data infrastructure to deploy AI before the workforce crisis forces the issue Continue Reading

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• Tom Bartlett, Bartlett Data

UK’s largest businesses dangerously exposed to cloud outages

British businesses, particularly those in the FTSE 100, are dangerously dependent on large cloud providers, with hypothetical large-scale outages at AWS or Azure regions likely to cause major economic damage, according to the Cyber Monitoring Centre Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Post Office Horizon replacement contract delayed further

The Post Office has once more extended the standstill period before putting pen to paper on EPOS system Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

The public deserves socially beneficial technology in return for its AI investment

The public is in all but name a shareholder of AI companies - it is time that the public receives socially beneficial technology in return for its investment Continue Reading

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• Sandra Wachter, University of Oxford at the Oxford Internet Institute

European Central Bank demands AI security ‘action plan’

European Central Bank gives banks deadline to outline their plans to defend against artificial intelligence-based security threats Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

AI won't break your security, but your governance might

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers if Anthropic’s Claude Mythos frontier AI model is a benefit or barrier to achieving resilient enterprise IT security, and how security leaders need to adapt. Continue Reading

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• Chris Atkinson, PA Consulting

The cyber law that could change everything

The aim of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is to target critical infrastructure operators and essential service providers. Midmarket businesses need to be aware that they may be part of a critical supply chain and open to scrutiny as a result. Continue Reading

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• Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Softwerx

Capita civil service pension contract ‘prime candidate’ for insourcing, says government minister

Minister said the government will make Capita pay for the government resources used to support it on pension administration scheme Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Can Oman become the Gulf’s third AI infrastructure hub?

The Sultanate is leveraging subsea cables, lower costs and regulatory stability to position itself alongside regional AI giants, but a large ecosystem scale gap remains Continue Reading

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• Mastufa Ahmed

Tesco VMware migration shows backup incompatibilities

VMware integration with third-party backup software improves performance and reduces admin. Alternative hypervisors are often less well-integrated Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Singtel’s AI push could lift its digital business to a third of earnings

Singtel’s group CEO, Yuen Kuan Moon, says the telco is investing in datacentres, GPUs and AI services while staying focused on shareholder returns Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Rethinking the consulting pyramid

Why the modern technology era demands a flatter, networked approach to business evolution  Continue Reading

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• Frank O’Dea

M&S among first businesses to sign UK government’s resilience pledge

Marks & Spencer joins the likes of Accenture, Microsoft and Vodafone by committing to take practical steps to improve cyber standards through the government’s voluntary Cyber Resilience Pledge Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

UKtech50 2026: The most influential people in UK IT

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we announce the 16th annual UKtech50 list of the most influential people in UK technology. We examine how this year’s winner – Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis – has helped establish the UK’s AI reputation worldwide. And our latest buyer’s guide looks at the role of AI in supply chain management. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Complaint urges ban on ‘unlawful’ Europol processing of personal data

Migration campaign group Front-Lex has filed a complaint to Europe’s data protection watchdog, calling for a ban on Europol’s data processing operations that do not comply with EU law, following an investigation by Computer Weekly, Solomon and Correctiv Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Singapore Changi Airport’s 10-second border points to aviation’s AI future

As passenger volume heads towards 10 billion a year, airlines, airports and governments are leaning on AI, biometrics and real-time data to keep travellers moving Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

US Anthropic restrictions dent UK tech sovereignty ambition

The UK government cannot rely on allies. Instead, it must sort out startup funding and do more to build out a full tech stack Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Capita’s rush to hit civil service pension deadline risking errors, say staff

Staff working on Civil Service pension administration transition concerned over pressure forcing unnecessary risks Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Asda’s supply chain woes bring lessons for IT project planning

In spite of preparing for the deployment of a cloud-based ERP system, Asda’s financial results show it faced months of supply chain disruption Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Can the UK become a digital maker instead of a service taker?

Not yet, but maybe. Home grown UK development is not in a digital dark age, but we are absolutely in need of digital re-development. The next government needs to tackle this Continue Reading

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• Owen Sayers, Secon Solutions

UK regulator publishes ‘landmark’ AI review

FCA review of the use of artificial intelligence in retail finance follows MPs’ criticism of regulators Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Datacentre dive: Inside nLighten’s Bristol edge datacentre

We visit nLighten’s BRS1 datacentre, and travel from gritty city centre fringe to a high-tech overhaul that makes the case for reusing legacy infrastructure over new construction Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)

Tracking AI in the supply chain

Supply chains have become a key testing ground for AI as businesses manage vast data volumes and complex networks Continue Reading

UKtech50 2026 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind

Third-time UKtech50 winner Demis Hassabis has shown what homegrown UK tech talent can do, and the importance of tech for good Continue Reading

UKtech50 2026: The most influential people in UK technology

Computer Weekly has announced the 16th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector Continue Reading

Tracking AI in the supply chain

Supply chains have become a key testing ground for AI as businesses manage vast data volumes and complex networks Continue Reading

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• David Binning

CW@60: A career in data - it's all about the people that you meet

Former chief data officer Caroline Carruthers reflects on an unexpected life in data Continue Reading

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• Caroline Carruthers

How Zoho’s full-stack strategy keeps it in control of cost and sovereignty

Zoho’s ANZ lead Rakesh Prabhakar explains how building its own infrastructure keeps the SaaS firm in control of cost, pricing and data sovereignty Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

Europe’s sovereignty ambitions stall at the procurement desk

Nextcloud Summit in Munich shows that Europe’s sovereignty ambitions meet their real test not in the technology, but in the procurement decisions that will determine whether EU legislation changes anything on the ground Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

Platforms must shoulder burden of proof for social media design

Under-16s social media ban should be tied to design features, with the burden of proof towards safety placed on companies, says technology psychologist Continue Reading

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• Larissa Steel, Computer Weekly

CW@60: A quarter-century as a CIO

Veteran CIO Paul Coby looks back at the best and worst of decades of digital transformations  Continue Reading

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• Paul Coby, CIO

SAESL turbocharges aircraft engine maintenance with data and AI

The world’s largest supplier of Rolls-Royce engine maintenance services is working with Kyndryl to modernise its IT infrastructure, build a single source of truth for data, and scale up the use of AI across its business Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

UKtech50 2026: The most influential people in UK technology

Computer Weekly has announced the 16th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

UKtech50 2026 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind

Third-time UKtech50 winner Demis Hassabis has shown what homegrown UK tech talent can do, and the importance of tech for good Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

US cyber agency warns over forgotten SharePoint flaw

An RCE vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint that was mistakenly omitted from the May Patch Tuesday bulletin is being exploited in the wild, says Cisa Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor