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ASEAN’s first driverless bus service debuts in Singapore

The fully autonomous shuttle will operate at Resorts World Sentosa, marking a significant step in Singapore’s push to integrate autonomous vehicles into its public transport network Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Terrorist potential of generative AI ‘purely theoretical’

UK terror legislation advisor takes stock of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems to be adopted by terrorists, particularly for propaganda and attack planning purposes, but acknowledges the impact may be limited Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Podcast: How (agentic) AI can help with unstructured data

In this podcast, MongoDB CTO Boris Bialek discusses how artificial intelligence can bring together multiple levels of corporate data to better automate processes and how agentic AI can be a key part of that Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Co-op chief ‘incredibly sorry’ for theft of 6.5m members’ data

Co-op chief executive Shirine Khoury-Haq has revealed that all the personal data of all 6.5 million of its members was compromised in the April 2025 cyber attack on its systems Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Scattered Spider playbook evolving fast, says Microsoft

Microsoft warns users over notable evolutions in Scattered Spider’s attack playbook, and beefs up some of the defensive capabilities it offers to customers in response Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Meta AI training will be challenged at Europe’s highest court, says data protection chief

The data protection commissioner for Hamburg believes Meta’s AI training should be stopped Continue Reading

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• Mark Ballatd

BBC plans to outsource and offshore thousands of tech roles

The BBC is drawing up plans to outsource roles in its digital product group and finance, which could include some being carried out overseas Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Pure Storage profits from all-flash, as-a-service and cloud focus

Storage profile: Pure Storage evolves its all-flash offer across multiple workloads while embracing cloud models in data management, as-a-service and containerisation Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Forrester urges IT leaders to dump technical debt

IT needs to invest in innovative technologies and outsource legacy IT management to tackle volatile global markets, says Forrester Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform

As security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

UKtech50 2025 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind

From chess prodigy to AI visionary, this year’s most influential person in UK technology is far from ordinary. From using AI to win video games to discovering the structure of proteins, Demis Hassabis is a force to be reckoned with Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

UKtech50 2025: The most influential people in UK technology

Computer Weekly has announced the 15th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Current approaches to patching unsustainable, report says

Organisations are struggling to prioritise vulnerability patching appropriately, leading to situations where everything is a crisis, which helps nobody, according to a report Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

MoD cyber breach put thousands of Afghan lives at risk

More than 18,000 Afghan citizens eligible to relocate to the UK under a government programme to protect them from the Taliban were put at risk in a heretofore unreportable data breach Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

NCSC sets up Vulnerability Research Initiative

The NCSC is expanding its vulnerability research project to draw in external expertise Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Businesses say they are getting four Oracle Java audits a year

Changes to Oracle Java licensing now means that IT leaders need to be wary of the footprint of this widely deployed enterprise platform Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Ada Lovelace: using market forces to professionalise AI assurance

The Ada Lovelace Institute examines how ‘market forces’ can be used to drive the professionalisation of artificial intelligence assurance in the context of a wider political shift towards deregulation Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Data (Use and Access) Act: Reflections on an eight-month statute

It took a long time, but the government's new data legislation finally made it into the statute book - it holds a lot of promise, but also leaves a lot of unanswered questions Continue Reading

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• Lord Chris Holmes, House of Lords

The big lie of artificial intelligence

The companies promoting AI fail to mention it's often underpinned not by code but by humans tagging data and viewing unsavoury content - AI could not exist without cheap labour largely outsourced to the Global South Continue Reading

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• Emer Coleman

Interview: Daniele Tonella, CTO, ING

ING’s global CTO Daniele Tonella has been in the role for less than a year and in that time has been working his way through four layers of tech. Karl Flinders reports Continue Reading

Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth

The observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Brits clinging to Windows 10 face heightened risk, says NCSC

Businesses and consumers alike may not feel the need to upgrade to Windows 11 as its predecessor approaches end-of-life, but they are putting their own security at risk, says the NCSC Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Luxury retailer LVMH says UK customer data was stolen in cyber attack

French luxury goods retailer LVMH has disclosed multiple cyber attacks in 2025 so far, and their impact is now spreading to the UK as a new incident affecting Louis Vuitton comes to light Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Home Office dumps Fujitsu from IT services contract

Home Office to take IT service desk contract in-house, with staff set to transfer from Fujitsu Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

UK sets sights on humanoid robot future

AI and robots are part of Labour’s plans to build out a high-tech economy, but a robot workforce is a long way off Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Assessing the risk of AI in enterprise IT

We speak to security experts about how IT departments and security leaders can ensure they run artificial intelligence systems safely and securely Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs

As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

EU broadband challengers warn of fixed connectivity monopolies

Non-incumbent EU fixed broadband providers raise alarm at proposed legislation, insisting that regulatory certainty is needed to drive investment in connectivity Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

MoD supply chain cyber scheme gets up and running

The Ministry of Defence and IASME have launched a certification scheme for organisations working in the UK defence supply chain, with construction firm Morgan Sindall the first business to achieve compliance Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

ACM president Yannis Ioannidis sees a more humane role for AI

Panel brought together academic, industry and policy leaders to discuss how AI can support climate goals, financial inclusion and infrastructure development Continue Reading

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• Pat Brans

Meta and Alan Turing Institute back open source AI fellowship

Labour’s AI fellowship will see experts use open source AI tools in a bid deliver better public services at lower cost Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Former Post Office staff in Horizon replacement bid team

Escher, which supplied middleware in the Post Office Horizon system, is eyeing up the contract to replace the controversial software Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

UK to create ‘governance framework’ for police facial recognition

Home secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed UK will regulate police facial recognition, citing police reticence to deploy systems without proper governance, but declined to say if any new framework will be statutory Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say

A report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

European Commission accused of rigging data watchdog appointment

The European Commission has been accused of rigging the selection process for the next European Data Protection supervisor Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor
• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

CO2 vs. CO2e: What is the difference and why does it matter?

Understanding the differences between CO2 and CO2e can help businesses more accurately understand the emissions they generate. Continue Reading

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• Carolyn Heinze
• Guilliean Pacheco, Associate Site Editor
• Diann Daniel, Executive Editor

How to reduce corporate e-waste and why it matters

As companies have ramped up their use of tech, the amount of e-waste has grown. Find out how to address this important problem. Continue Reading

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• Carolyn Heinze

Government funding to help SMEs protect their IP

Scheme will see SMEs and innovative startups working in sensitive sectors receive advice on enhancing cyber and physical security measures to protect their valuable intellectual property Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties

The navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff

Following exploration of artificial intelligence’s potential in conjunction with staff, AIB is rolling the tools out across the company Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Four arrested in M&S cyber attack investigation

Police have made four arrests in connection with a trio of cyber attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Podcast: HDDs performance metrics and the workloads they excel at

We talk to Toshiba’s Rainer Kaese about spinning disk performance, why HDDs are good at what they do and how hard disk drives still come out top in workloads that suit them Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Why proactive asset management is mission-critical for APAC datacentres

The Asia-Pacific region is leading a global datacentre expansion, but surging energy demands and the risk of outages will require datacentre operators to adopt proactive strategies to ensure a resilient and sustainable digital future Continue Reading

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• Pankaj Sharma

Ofcom: use comms regulation to drive innovation

As it looks to boost British business by achieving its ambitions in connectivity, UK comms regulator outlines three key areas to prioritise Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures

The professional body for policing in England and Wales failed to properly manage its transition to new accounting and payroll systems Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Three-quarters of UK champion continued broadband infrastructure investment

Study from trade association for organisations building and delivering UK’s internet services finds almost half of Brits would sooner give up the gym than lose web access, but also highlights a need for real partnership and bolder action to bridge the digital divide Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl

Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

July Patch Tuesday brings over 130 new flaws to address

Microsoft patched well over 100 new common vulnerabilities and exposures on the second Tuesday of the month, but its latest update is mercifully light on zero-days Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

M&S calls for mandatory ransomware reporting

The government should extend ransomware reporting mandates to businesses to help gather more intelligence and better support victims, says M&S chairman Archie Norman Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

AI for Good: Signal president warns of agentic AI security flaw

Secure by design is a mantra of the tech sector, but not if it’s agentic AI, which wants ‘root’ access to everything Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

SEC and SolarWinds to settle lawsuit over 2020 breach

The US SEC and SolarWinds have reached a settlement in principle to resolve litigation over alleged security failings that led to the 2020 compromise of the supplier’s Orion platform by Russian cyber spies Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Interview: Steve Riley, head of IT operations and service management, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1

As the British Grand Prix rolled into Silverstone for the annual jamboree of Formula One motor racing, we caught up with the Mercedes F1 team to find out how technology has advanced in the year since the last race Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Liverpool launches community AI charter

The charter, which was created by a residents’ assembly, outlines public data sharing principles and supports the use of AI for public benefit Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Interview: Vivek Bharadwaj, CIO, Happy Socks

The clothing manufacturer’s IT chief has a foot in every aspect of the tech stack – and is placing data and AI at the centre of future digital strategy Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Post Office inquiry chair 'cannot rule out' scandal caused 13 suicides

Post Office scandal public inquiry publishes its first report after three years of gathering and analysing evidence, examining the human impact on victims and the compensation process Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

NHS trust accused of ‘at best cavalier, at worst deceitful’ behaviour after deleting emails

A London hospital trust faces allegations it withheld key evidence from a tribunal hearing after one of its directors attempted to destroy more than 90,000 emails Continue Reading

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• Tommy Greene

Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the private sector

In the second of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil and how private sector customers have at least some flexibility in how to absorb their impacts Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Do tech executives in US Army present conflict of interest?

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we take a deep dive into the controversial news that four technology executives have been sworn into the US military to make the armed forces ‘more lethal’. In other US-centric news, we look at how President Trump’s downgrading of diversity and inclusion initiatives could be potentially rippling across the Atlantic and affecting tech hiring trends in the UK. We also hear about a UK startup that is using AI to pinpoint the genetic code that needs tweaking to increase tomato and potato yields, as part of a broader push to increase the nation’s food security in the face of climate change. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

What is an application support engineer (ASE)?

An application support engineer (ASE) is an IT professional who is responsible for troubleshooting the software applications a company uses and ensuring that help desk tickets are resolved in a timely fashion. Continue Reading

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• Rahul Awati

Interview: Antony Hausdoerfer, group CIO, The AA

The vehicle recovery specialist is looking to artificial intelligence and connected vehicle technology to enhance customer experience and get drivers back on the road in the shortest possible time Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur

A UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘crimes of apartheid and genocide’ Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

What is a procurement plan?

A procurement plan -- also called a procurement management plan -- is a document that is used to manage the process of finding and selecting a vendor. Continue Reading

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• Kate Brush

Gartner’s view on AI security: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

We speaker to Gartner's Nader Heinen about why access control should be built into enterprise AI Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern

We speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Digital warfare is blurring civilian front lines

Singapore’s defence cyber chief warns that the traditional lines between military conflict and civilian life are blurring, with adversaries now targeting civilian systems and using AI to put the threat landscape on steroids Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

NHS to be ‘digital by default’

Single Patient Records, a digitally enabled neighbourhood health service, and the NHS App becoming a ‘doctor in your pocket’ are all part of the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore

The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Air France-KLM to increase intelligence of bots that have saved 200,000 hours

Airline group will now use agentic AI technology to make existing bots ‘more intelligent’ Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Fine-tuning to deliver business AI value

Foundation AI models offer knowledge that spans the internet, but they generally lack an understanding of proprietary business data and processes Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future

The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

US CISA agency extends Iran cyber alert, warns of CNI threat

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reiterates guidance for operators of critical national infrastructure as it eyes the possibility of cyber attacks from Iran Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Scattered Spider link to Qantas hack is likely, say experts

A developing cyber attack at Australian airline Qantas that started at a third-party call centre is already being tentatively attributed to Scattered Spider. Find out more and learn about the next steps for those affected Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

TSB faces another risky IT migration as Santander eyes UK bank

TSB’s customers were moved to the in-house-developed platform of its parent, Sabadell, in a disastrous migration in 2018 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Technology’s true test - serving people, society, economy, and the planet

The TechUK President's Awards reflect the ambitions that everyone in technology should be striving for - to improve, not simply transform, the world in which we live Continue Reading

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• Julian David, TechUK

Dutch study uncovers cognitive biases undermining cyber security board decisions

Dutch research reveals how cognitive biases can lead to catastrophic security decisions Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

Digital workers at US bank to get their own email accounts

The financial services sector is leading the way when it comes to using AI across operations – and it’s not afraid to talk about it Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Shared services in the public sector – is bigger really better?

CIO Sean Green discusses the role of shared services in the UK public sector today Continue Reading

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• Sean Green

DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer

Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025 Continue Reading

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• Stéphane Larcher, LeMagIT
• Yann Serra, LeMagIT
• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation

Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Cloudflare to let customers block AI web crawlers

Publishers and other providers of creative content now have the option to block AI crawlers from accessing and scraping their intellectual property with new tools from Cloudflare. Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

The road to quantum datacentres goes beyond logical qubits

Industry experts gathered in London to explore the missing pieces needed to deploy quantum computing at scale in datacentres Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

ING Bank transforming operations through agentic AI

Netherlands-headquartered international bank is using artificial intelligence throughout its operations Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

NetApp: Not just NAS filers, and a comprehensive cloud strategy

NetApp market share has slipped, but it has built out storage across file, block and object, plus capex purchasing, Kubernetes storage management and hybrid cloud Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Podcast: AIOps in storage management, security and sustainability

Dell’s Stewart Hunwick explains why AIOps – artificial intelligence for IT operations – is key to gaining efficiencies in storage management and sustainability, and discusses reactive and proactive data security Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Empowering professionals

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we put HMRC’s online IR35 status checker under the microscope, after an FOI response revealed usage of the tool has plummeted over the past three years. We also hear how GenAI is being put to the test to enhance the customer experience for users in the healthcare and financial services space, before turning our attention to how AI is changing the way LinkedIn meets its users’ needs. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Firms must adopt skills-based strategy for human-AI workforce

To unlock the value of AI agents, organisations must shift to a skills-based strategy and manage their new digital employees with the same rigour as their human workforce, according to a senior Workday executive Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Better governance is required for AI agents

The Security Think Tank considers how CISOs can best plan to facilitate the secure running of AI and Gen AI-based initiatives and ensure employees do not inadvertently leak data or make bad decisions Continue Reading

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• Mandy Andress, Elastic

Why AI reliability is the next frontier for technical industries

AI is no longer a futuristic idea — it’s embedded in the core operations of many of today’s industries. But can we trust its outputs? Continue Reading

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• Chris Bennett

Second AI Energy Council meeting looks to forecast future demand

Given Labour’s ambition to use AI to drive economic growth, questions need to be answered on how the nation’s energy grid will cope Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing Continue Reading

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• Pratima Harigunani

Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI

At its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

Citrix Bleed 2 under active attack, reports suggest

Days after news emerged of a Citrix NetScaler flaw comparable in its scope and severity to 2023’s infamous Citrix Bleed, there are already clear indicators that threat actors are taking advantage of the critical vulnerability Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Scattered Spider cyber gang turns fire on aviation sector

Multiple reports are emerging of cyber attacks on airlines – Google Cloud’s Mandiant believes them to be linked Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Over 2 million affected by US supermarket breach

Belgian-Dutch supermarket operator Ahold Delhaize reveals that more than two million people, including employees, had their data compromised following a November 2024 ransomware attack Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Interview: Developing a CIO strategy for artificial intelligence

We speak to Chris Loake, group CIO at Hiscox, about the roll-out of Microsoft Copilot and how to succeed with AI projects Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

MPs propose ban on predictive policing

MPs are attempting to amend the UK government’s forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill so that it prohibits the use of controversial predictive policing systems Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

UK joins global health regulator network for safe use of AI

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has become a founding member of the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network, aiming to get trustworthy artificial intelligence tools into the NHS Continue Reading

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• Lis Evenstad

Fujitsu’s grip on HMRC loosening but bags of taxpayer cash still to be made

The complicated and risky nature of replacing IT suppliers in major government contracts means Fujitsu will be cashing in for years to come Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Silicon Valley execs sworn in to US Army reserves specialist unit

Four technology executives are brought into the military to make the armed forces ‘more lethal’, reflecting softening attitudes throughout the sector towards ‘the business of inflicting violence’ Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Seven main suspects under police investigation in national Post Office probe

The national police investigation into crimes related to the Post Office scandal expects the number of suspects to continue to rise Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA