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AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’

The use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

How do green marketing and sustainable marketing differ?

Many organizations use green and sustainable marketing to build trust with consumers. Green marketing focuses on the environment, whereas sustainable marketing is broader. Continue Reading

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• Tim Murphy, Site editor

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

IT strategy implications of US tariffs

When is the best time to buy IT equipment? With tariffs in place that are set to increase, tech CEOs have signalled price rises ahead Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Wes Streeting launches digital qualification for social care leaders

As part of the government’s plan to create a digital national care service, social care leaders will be trained in adopting and using cutting-edge technology Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon

The Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community input – will further contribute the over-policing of Black communities Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Google bets on unifying security tools to ease CISO pain

At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google launches its Unified Security platform with the goal of bringing together disparate security solutions to help cyber leaders and practitioners address their most keenly felt pain points Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

GCHQ historian Dave Abrutat’s mission to preserve the UK’s forgotten signals intelligence history

Dave Abrutat, GCHQ’s official historian, is on a mission to preserve the UK’s historic signals intelligence sites and capture their stories before they disappear from folk memory. A new charity, NSIST, will raise funds and recruit volunteers Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

What are soft skills?

Soft skills are personal attributes that support situational awareness and enhance an individual's ability to get a job done. Continue Reading

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• Mary K. Pratt

What is digital disruption?

Digital disruption is the change that occurs when new digital technologies and business models affect the value proposition of existing goods and services. Continue Reading

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• Linda Tucci, Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy

What is a remote desktop and how does it work?

A remote desktop is a program or an operating system feature that allows a user to connect to a computer in another location, see that computer's desktop and interact with it as if it were local. Continue Reading

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• Rahul Awati
• Reda Chouffani, Biz Technology Solutions

Google offers open protocol for AI agent connectivity

The idea of having AI agents coordinate activities to achieve a task requires a standard protocol for sharing queries, answers and admin tasks Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

What is total cost of ownership (TCO)?

Total cost of ownership (TCO) is an estimation of the expenses associated with purchasing, deploying, managing, using and retiring IT assets, such as a product or piece of equipment. Continue Reading

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• Katie Terrell Hanna
• Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor

Companies House goes live with One Login ID verification

People can verify their identity with Companies House using Gov.uk One Login as the central government body becomes the 36th service to start using the digital identity system Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Spirit of openness helps banks get serious about stopping scams

Recent announcements show that banks, financial services firms and IT companies are increasing efforts to curb online scams Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

US tariffs drive PC sales boost

IT buyers appear to have spent the past few months refreshing PCs in preparation for the new US tariffs Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Post Office gets extra £136m towards tech transformation as clock ticks on Horizon

Latest handout means government has given the Post Office more than a quarter of a billion pounds in ‘further’ funding, with half destined to support its technology transformation Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Making America great, but at what cost?

It is highly unlikely any country facing US tariffs will want to curb the ability of their citizens and businesses to buy software and IT services from US firms. Yet the current tariffs affecting ... Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

NCSC issues warning over Chinese Moonshine and BadBazaar spyware

Two spyware variants are being used to target the mobile devices of persons of interest to Chinese intelligence, including individuals in the Taiwanese, Tibetan and Uyghur communities Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

DeepSeek will help evolve the conversation around privacy

The rise of DeepSeek has prompted the usual well-documented concerns around AI, but also raised worries about its potential links to the Chinese state. The Security Think Tank considers the steps security leaders can take to counter threats posed by nation state industrial espionage? Continue Reading

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• Nick New, Optalysys

What is sustainability risk management (SRM)?

Sustainability risk management (SRM) is a business strategy that aligns profit goals with a company's environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Labour MPs launch digital ID campaign

A large group of Labour MPs have called for the introduction of a digital ID system to crack down on illegal migration and benefits fraud Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Spoofing vuln threatens security of WhatsApp Windows users

Meta has disclosed and patched a potentially dangerous spoofing flaw in WhatsApp for Windows that could have caused big problems for unwitting users Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

IBM boosts AI mainframe capabilities with Z17

IBM continues to try to break out of the mindset that mainframes are just for transaction processing. The latest server offers greater AI capabilities Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

It’s time to stop the victim-blaming and insist on safer software

Businesses spend too much time and money protecting themselves against flaws and vulnerabilities in modern software products, when they ought to raise their expectations and insist on better solutions from providers Continue Reading

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• Mandy Andress, Elastic

Current funding models prevent health and social care integration, according to report

Whitepaper by telecare provider Tunstall calls for government to develop a national strategy to resolve fragmentation between health and social care Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

What is the impact of US tariffs on datacentre equipment costs?

Moore’s Law predicts that every 18 months, IT buyers can get more for the same outlay. But US tariffs may mean they end up paying a higher price Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Interview: Sarah Hawkins, CEO, National Family Mediation

The CEO of the not-for-profit talks to Computer Weekly about how the organisation has finally automated referrals, after years of being told it was impossible, and launching its own mediation app Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Over £18m stolen from Santander UK customers in first three months of year

Bank’s latest quarterly report on scams said over £18m was stolen from its UK customers by scammers Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

UK authority’s search for answers over deleted Julian Assange emails comes too late to retrieve data

The Crown Prosecution Service has finally searched for information about the destruction of emails from the WikiLeaks founder’s lawyer – but too late to retrieve data about the deleted documents Continue Reading

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• Stefania Maurizi

Interview: The role of IT innovation at Royal Ballet and Opera

We speak to the Royal Ballet and Opera’s head of IT delivery, Keith Nolan, about how IT lowers costs and helps power stage innovations for world-class performances Continue Reading

Innovating for the arts at Royal Ballet and Opera

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how virtual reality and other tech innovations are helping Royal Ballet and Opera to stage world-class performances. After a spate of banking IT outages, we examine why further bank crashes are inevitable. And our new buyer’s guide looks at how to get started with small language models for AI. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

UK SMEs losing over £3bn a year to cyber incidents

A lack of access to technology, little to no staff training, and competing priorities are losing UK SMEs up to £3.4bn to cyber incidents every year Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

NIST calls time on older vulnerabilities amid surging disclosures

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is deferring future updates to thousands of cyber vulnerabilities discovered prior to 2018 amid surging volumes of new submissions Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Court rejects Home Office bid for blanket secrecy in hearings over Apple encryption case

Investigatory Powers Tribunal rejects Home Office arguments that identifying the ‘bare details’ of legal action by Apple would damage national security, leaving open possibility of future open court hearings Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Fintech body calls on government for national anti-fraud centre

Industry body says a national anti-fraud centre could be the vehicle required to effectively fight fraud through data sharing Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

India’s tech talent adapts to AI era

IT professionals in India need to unlearn old skills and embrace artificial intelligence, automation and specialised domains as the country cements its position as a global tech hub Continue Reading

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• Pratima Harigunani

Why SLMs could be a big deal for businesses looking for an edge

Sky-high infrastructure demands, rising operational expenses and data privacy concerns have left CIOs questioning whether bigger is always better when it comes to AI languages Continue Reading

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• Marc Ambasna-Jones

What is quantum as a service? Definition and top providers

Quantum as a service (QaaS), or quantum computing as a service, is a cloud-based way for organizations to access quantum computing technologies and capabilities more affordably through a third-party provider. Continue Reading

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• Jacob Roundy

Banks to share fraud data with tech firms in cross-sector collaboration

UK banks join tech firms in fraud data-sharing initiative to enable collaboration on action to stop online scams Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

UN warns of economic productivity crash due to AI job losses

Artificial intelligence can improve productivity, but a report from the United Nations warns of potential job losses disrupting economies Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

What is a center of excellence (CoE)?

A center of excellence (CoE) is a team of skilled knowledge workers whose mission is to provide the organization they work for with best practices around a particular area of interest. Continue Reading

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• Scott Robinson, New Era Technology

Danish supercomputer to drive innovation

Supercomputer project will add a competitive edge to drive innovation and growth among Denmark’s enterprises and research organisations Continue Reading

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• Gerard O'Dwyer

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Unlocking business benefits with sustainable IT infrastructure

To fully unlock the value of sustainable IT, infrastructure and operations leaders must go beyond meeting expectations and prove the business value of their sustainability efforts Continue Reading

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• Autumn Stanish

Apple’s appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK’s encryption ‘backdoor’ explained

Apple has appealed to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over an order by home secretary Yvette Cooper to give the UK access to customers’ data protected by Advanced Data Protection encryption. What happens next?  Continue Reading

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• Bernard Keenan, UCL

UKtech50 2025 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT

Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Tech sector still failing to rid supply chains of forced labour

KnowTheChain’s latest benchmark analysis of the IT sector’s efforts to address forced labour in supply chains shows there has been very little improvement in their due diligence practices over the last half decade Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Keysight introduces AI network architecture validation, optimisation tool

Tool designed to validate the network performance of AI workloads and system infrastructure by adjusting and optimising parameters Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Interview: Tomer Cohen, chief product officer, LinkedIn

The professional social network’s product chief is leading the introduction of artificial intelligence for the firm’s in-house development processes and to enhance services for users Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Bridging Borders: The rise of Ukrainian-British tech collaboration

The IT sectors of the UK and Ukraine have built strong relationships since Russia’s invasion of the latter, and there is more to come, writes the IT Ukraine Association’s ambassador in the UK Continue Reading

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• Alexandra Govorukha

StarHub trials first 5G cloud RAN network in Southeast Asia

Singapore telco trials cloud-based radio access network, unlocking new enterprise services and laying the groundwork for advanced 5G and 6G capabilities Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

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 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Gmail ‘bubble’ encryption may be an S/MIME killer, says Google

Marking the 21st anniversary of Gmail, Google is preparing to roll out an end-to-end encryption standard for its email service in hopes of democratising encryption and leaving old standards in the dust Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Post Office Capture and Ecco+ users asked to make contact with Scottish statutory body

Scottish statutory body attempting to contact people that might have been wrongly convicted of crimes based on the Post Office’s flawed systems Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Interview: Ray McCann, Loan Charge independent review lead

Former HMRC assistant director Ray McCann is leading the latest independent review into the UK government’s controversial Loan Charge policy, which has left thousands of IT contractors saddled with life-changing tax bills Continue Reading

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• Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK

Scottish support group for Post Office scandal victims launched

Support group calls on former subpostmasters in Scotland who have been affected by Horizon errors to come forward Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Apple devices are at ‘most risk’ in UK following government ‘backdoor’ order

Home Office refuses to answer questions from Lords over technical capability notice issued against Apple’s iCloud Advanced Data Protection encryption services Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Inside Amazon’s robot-powered warehouse

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at Amazon’s robot-powered Swindon warehouse to see how AI and humans are working together. We examine the state of open source licensing and find out how it’s affecting datacentre operators. And we visit a 130-year-old wine and drinks company to find out how technology has brought operations into the modern age. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Avoiding AI lock-in

One of the big problems with deploying a software as a service (SaaS) product across an entire organisation is that once it is widely used, swapping it out becomes an extremely costly exercise. In ... Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease

Singapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Top 1,000 IT service providers in scope of UK cyber bill

The government’s proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is set to include regulatory provisions covering both datacentre operators and larger IT service providers Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Reassessing UK law enforcement data adequacy

Computer Weekly takes stock of proposed changes to the UK’s law enforcement data protection rules and how it could affect data adequacy with the European Union Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk

The UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

15 sustainable office ideas that businesses should explore

Learn how to create a more sustainable workplace with these eco-friendly ideas everyone can support. Leaders, managers and employees can all play a role. Continue Reading

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• Jacob Roundy
• Molly Driscoll, Site Editor

What are the 4 different types of blockchain technology?

Each blockchain network has distinct pluses and minuses that largely drive its ideal uses. Continue Reading

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• Christine Campbell, The Alpha Content Company
• Guilliean Pacheco, Associate Site Editor

Podcast: HDD safe from flash for a decade or more

We talk to Toshiba’s Rainer Kaese, who argues flash cannot replace spinning disk because it’s too costly to consider for anything but limited, performance-hungry applications Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Meeting the UK’s compute capacity needs: Alternatives to hyperscale datacentre builds

Since coming to power, the Labour government has set out plans to accelerate new datacentre builds. We look at how this is evolving Continue Reading

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• Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK

Countering nation-state cyber espionage: A CISO field guide

The rise of DeepSeek has prompted the usual well-documented concerns around AI, but also raised worries about its potential links to the Chinese state. The Security Think Tank considers the steps security leaders can take to counter threats posed by nation state industrial espionage? Continue Reading

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• Andrew Hodges, Quorum Cyber

Understanding RAG architecture and its fundamentals

Now seen as the ideal way to infuse generative AI into a business context, RAG architecture involves the implementation of various technological building blocks and practices - all involve trade-offs Continue Reading

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• Gaétan Raoul, LeMagIT

Government sends data scientists to AI school

Public sector data scientists will learn how to become artificial intelligence (AI) engineers as part of government scheme to upskill civil servants Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

UK public expresses strong support for AI regulation

Most of the UK public have experienced an AI-related harm and say they want laws introduced to regulate the technology, according to national survey by the Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing Institutes Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Unleashing the power of data: redefining UK industrial growth

There’s a barrier stopping the use of AI to boost the economy. Government data that is essential to create game-changing LLMs is not yet AI-ready Continue Reading

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• Nigel Shadbolt, The Open Data Institute

Can regulatory oversight alone unlock cloud competition?

CCS Insight’s Bola Rotibi looks at the Competition and Markets Authority’s plans to regulate the public cloud Continue Reading

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• Bola Rotibi

What happened when a tech journalist experimented with AI on a PC?

Google Gemma, Meta Llama, Mistral and DeepSeek can all be downloaded free of charge for use on a personal machine without paying for online services or exposing your data to the cloud. But what are the results? Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

Research team demonstrates certified quantum randomness

A 56-qubit trapped ion quantum computer from Quantinuum has demonstrated quantum supremacy as a random number generator Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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 Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Advanced Software fined £3m over LockBit attack

The ICO has issued a £3m fine to software provider Advanced in the wake of security failings that led to significant disruption to NHS customers in a ransomware attack Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

5 steps to design an effective AI pilot project

Getting employee feedback on new technology can help mitigate risks before deployment. Learn key steps to follow when implementing an AI pilot project. Continue Reading

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• Eric St-Jean

Learn the benefits of an environmental management system

An environmental management system offers cost savings, sustainability efficiencies and other benefits. Learn about its advantages as well as limitations and how ISO 14001 relates. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

How to respond to digital regulation in 2025

A wave of UK and EU regulation to promote competition and consumer protection in digital markets and services has been introduced that requires a strategic response from companies in the year ahead Continue Reading

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• Suchitra Nair and Robert MacDougall, Deloitte

Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use AI to catch wealthy tax dodgers

HMRC’s use of artificial intelligence is one of many initiatives outlined in Chancellor’s Spring Statement Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

More than 200 Lloyds Bank bosses to receive artificial intelligence training

Lloyds Banking Group is running a six-month training programme with the aim of building AI skills among its senior leadership Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

4 Day Week Foundation launches tech sector pilot

UK tech firms are being invited to join a pilot programme run by the 4 Day Week Foundation, which aims to help prepare them for implementing shorter working weeks Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Deutsches Forschungsnetz accelerates research with green IP network

IP network upgrade designed to give German national research and education network enhanced access to critical resources and more efficient collaboration with interface speeds up to 800 Gbps, increased capacity and 75% reduced power consumption Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Podcast: AI data needs scalable flash, but also needs to be FAIR

We talk to Tim Sherbak of Quantum about the demands artificial intelligence puts on storage and the need for data management that can cope with large volumes of data that must be kept for long periods Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Military AI caught in tension between speed and control

The use of artificial intelligence in military contexts can unlock a range of benefits for defence organisations, but also highlights a clear tension between speed and control baked into the technology Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Gartner on agentic AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

We speak to Gartner’s Anushree Verma about the route from robotic process automation to agentic AI in corporate IT Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Oracle bets big on AI, drives Australian business transformation

At the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Sydney, Oracle executives talked up the company’s strategy to integrate AI across its entire technology stack, empowering Australian businesses to move beyond experimentation and into practical AI-driven solutions Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

Public Accounts Committee calls out legacy IT

Unsupported and out-of-date software and hardware are hindering the government’s artificial intelligence plans for the public sector Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

What is IT operations (IT ops)?

The term IT operations (IT ops) describes the many processes and services an IT department manages and maintains within an organization. Continue Reading

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• Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
• Paul Kirvan
• Kate Brush

Government needs to fix tech staff hiring process, says Whitehall’s AI boss

Giving evidence to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, tech experts highlighted the lack of clarity on data exchange, the need for the new Government Digital Service to execute, and a lack of actual tech experts Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

ETSI launches first post-quantum encryption standard

European telco standards body launches its first post-quantum cryptography cyber standard, covering the security of critical data and communications Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

UK internet trade bodies issue best practice guidance for telecoms poles

Trade associations for providers of internet services in the UK offer guidance outlines that encourage a community-conscious approach to telecoms infrastructure deployment Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly