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Subpostmasters and their families left out of Post Office scandal redress schemes as deadlines pass... 👉 [read]

Luxembourg is rolling out a secure encrypted messaging service based on the open source Matrix protocol, for use by government, businesses and citizens, offering a sovereign alternative to WhatsApp and Signal... 👉 [read]

From a growing pool of software engineers and government-backed skills programmes to AI-driven product development, Egypt is positioning itself as a serious technology destination for international businesses... 👉 [read]

Warwickshire County Council approves a three-year Microsoft 365 renewal worth about £9m, up £375,000 a year, as the council’s former leader calls the licence model ‘blackmail’... 👉 [read]

Tech worker union says meaningful consultation over artificial intelligence deployments and new rights of refusal are needed to protect workers from the negative impacts of the technology’s proliferation in their workplaces... 👉 [read]

Home Office seeks technical fixes to immigration and asylum while invoking national security to avoid disclosing the growing use of AI in decision making, claims report  ... 👉 [read]

Five days into the PHP2Shell incident, and patch rates are creeping upwards, but the majority of publicly visible PHP hosts remain exposed... 👉 [read]

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we hear from multinational companies adopting AI to find out how they are proving the value of the technology, beyond the hype that surrounds it. Retailers are embracing AI and some are introducing a new role – chief AI officer. We examine why and what t... 👉 [read]

Minister says she will ‘hold Capita’s feet to the fire’ as MPs wade in with distressing stories from affected constituents... 👉 [read]

On the opening day of its annual AI World conference, Oracle brought a wide range of agentic innovations to bear on its Fusion Cloud application suite... 👉 [read]

With CVE volumes spiking amid AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, Oracle is responding with cyber initiatives and practices for its customers... 👉 [read]

The chancellor wants to boost UK tech sovereignty and has unveiled plans to support chip development, AI defence and biosecurity... 👉 [read]

KPMG survey reveals belief that artificial intelligence will shake up the finance sector more than the 1986 financial Big Bang... 👉 [read]

Subpostmasters and their families left out of Post Office scandal redress schemes as deadlines pass... 👉 [read]

Luxembourg is rolling out a secure encrypted messaging service based on the open source Matrix protocol, for use by government, businesses and citizens, offering a sovereign alternative to WhatsApp and Signal... 👉 [read]

Warwickshire County Council approves a three-year Microsoft 365 renewal worth about £9m, up £375,000 a year, as the council’s former leader calls the licence model ‘blackmail’... 👉 [read]

The Department for Business and Trade has announced its investigation of faulty software used in Post Office branches before the controversial Horizon system... 👉 [read]

Commercial AI has not invented new OT attacks, but it has sped up reconnaissance, compressing attackers time to understand targets. Process-specific engineering knowledge remains a barrier... 👉 [read]

Mohammed Retmi, vice-president of sovereign clouds at Core42, says organisations moving AI into production must address data classification, governance, integration and resilience, while balancing infrastructure costs with performance and regulatory requirements... 👉 [read]

Mounting power demands and grid bottlenecks are reshaping the geography of the UK’s digital infrastructure, pushing developers to wherever they can connect fastest... 👉 [read]

During the London event, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella outlined his view of how agentic AI needs to be managed as part of enterprise IT... 👉 [read]

Jennifer Nelson runs the international arm of an organisation that takes stakes in tech firms that secure US and allied interests... 👉 [read]

The UK bank is cutting thousands of jobs as it invests in the latest technologies, such as artificial intelligence... 👉 [read]

In the 20th century, totalitarian societies emerged at gunpoint. Going forward, they might arise from overwhelming deference to artificial intelligence... 👉 [read]

German carmaker has migrated to Red Hat’s agentless IT automation platform to manage an HPC cluster comprising 30,000 Linux and Windows servers... 👉 [read]

As security teams worldwide grapple with the deep impact of the PHP2Shell flaws, the PHP Foundation reveals how a carefully planned vulnerability disclosure process went horribly wrong... 👉 [read]

The Department for Business and Trade has announced its investigation of faulty software used in Post Office branches before the controversial Horizon system... 👉 [read]

Commercial AI has not invented new OT attacks, but it has sped up reconnaissance, compressing attackers time to understand targets. Process-specific engineering knowledge remains a barrier... 👉 [read]

Mohammed Retmi, vice-president of sovereign clouds at Core42, says organisations moving AI into production must address data classification, governance, integration and resilience, while balancing infrastructure costs with performance and regulatory requirements... 👉 [read]

Observers have noted a surge in so-called ClickFix scams targeting the UK's higher education sector as threat actors seek valuable personal and research data... 👉 [read]

Capita has pulled the plug on a planned event for investors, financial analysts and shareholders to prioritise addressing Civil Service Pension Scheme issues... 👉 [read]

The UK government will investigate Post Office software that predates Horizon and opens up new routes to financial redress for subpostmasters as claims of unfairness continue... 👉 [read]

UK public bodies awarded 7,994 IT contracts worth £91bn in the year to August 2026, a figure flattered by framework ceilings, while the typical award was worth £164,000... 👉 [read]

Clogged grid queues and speculative planning applications threaten the UK’s 2030 datacentre and clean energy targets. Is a national ‘superministry’ the only way out?... 👉 [read]

Patch or go offline, say UK, US and EU agencies as two AI-discovered flaws in PHP, the language behind most websites, allow unauthenticated remote code execution... 👉 [read]

Open Climate Fix says opening priority energy datasets could cut consumer bills, as a coalition of energy and data innovators urges ministers to act on the clean power mission... 👉 [read]

Jennifer Nelson runs the international arm of an organisation that takes stakes in tech firms that secure US and allied interests... 👉 [read]

The UK bank is cutting thousands of jobs as it invests in the latest technologies, such as artificial intelligence... 👉 [read]

The deep integration within the organisation makes it increasingly difficult for IT departments to select alternative enterprise IT systems, says survey... 👉 [read]

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we reveal our latest annual list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology – and we talk to the number one, Karen Blake, about the importance of changing the culture of the tech workforce. We also kick off our new buyer’s guide examining what’s n... 👉 [read]

The government is currently deciding what to do with two failed pension outsourcing contracts as members of a third brace for upcoming switchover... 👉 [read]

The financial services regulator is looking for senior staff to lead its agentic AI and data science operations... 👉 [read]

Pharmaceutical company is working with Oracle to advance the use of AI and data analytics in medicine... 👉 [read]

Google runs a single UK cloud region, so when one London zone lost power, there was nowhere to failover – most services recovered by late afternoon, but courts are still down... 👉 [read]

Intellectual property supported through funding from UK taxpayers via UKRI is not delivering a good return on investment... 👉 [read]

Observers have noted a surge in so-called ClickFix scams targeting the UK's higher education sector as threat actors seek valuable personal and research data... 👉 [read]

Capita has pulled the plug on a planned event for investors, financial analysts and shareholders to prioritise addressing Civil Service Pension Scheme issues... 👉 [read]

The UK government will investigate Post Office software that predates Horizon and opens up new routes to financial redress for subpostmasters as claims of unfairness continue... 👉 [read]

UK public bodies awarded 7,994 IT contracts worth £91bn in the year to August 2026, a figure flattered by framework ceilings, while the typical award was worth £164,000... 👉 [read]

High-velocity, high-volume data environments can increase the risks and potential impact of management mistakes, especially when running on-premise... 👉 [read]