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By investing in independent AI literacy initiatives that are accessible to all and not just aimed at onboarding uncritical users and consumers, the UK can help to ensure that its AI future is shaped with the UK public’s benefit at the heart....
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This week’s edition of the Computer Weekly ezine digs into the latest twist in a long-running datacentre planning saga, concerning a server farm in Iver, Buckinghamshire, that the government has now admitted it was wrong to grant planning permission for. We also hear from the head of a...
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The UK government has named Barnsley as the nation’s first ‘tech town’, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses....
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The Investigatory Powers Act (IPA 2016), at 10 years old, is now becoming seriously out of date. It provides the main legal framework within which the police, the intelligence and security services, and the courts get access to and use evidence in electronic form. Digital evidence now ...
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As organisations across the UAE move to AI orchestration, leaders are being forced to rethink skills, governance and accountability in an emerging hybrid workforce....
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Banks paid 88% losses claimed by customers that fell victim to authorised push payment fraud last year...
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While the UK has the data assets and the expertise to deliver real public benefit with artificial intelligence, a lack of consistency, completeness and interoperability in its data foundations risks missing these opportunities...
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IT leaders need to assess the cost implications of migrating from vSphere 8 to the latest supported VMware product offering...
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ai71’s Klemensas Mecejus explains why predictive, agent-based AI could finally crack construction’s productivity and cost overrun problem, and why the Middle East is poised to leap ahead...
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Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support....
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Hyperscalers are increasing AI capacity but IT buyers are now looking at their return on investment for this much-hyped technology...
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Ransomware-as-a-service operations are increasingly seeking to forge connections with employees, contractors and trusted partners of their target organisations as an alternative to straight-up hacking, says NCC....
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We take a look at what chief information security officers and IT decision-makers should consider when looking at AI-enabled IT security....
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A court in Belgium has refused to allow defence lawyers in a high-profile drugs case extra time after a forensic expert found that digital evidence obtained by police in a hacking operation against the Sky ECC encrypted phone network and relied on by prosecutors was “unreliable”. The A...
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Councillors at audit committee urged to ensure strong project governance and adequate tech staffing levels and change management procedures...
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HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience....
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As it underwent a growth spurt in the early 2020s, graphic design platform Canva turned to 1Password to manage identity across its expanding organisation....
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Two former directors of London tech company nChain, associated with a computer scientist who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, have told an employment tribunal they were dismissed in retaliation for whistleblowing....
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Even without recent news in the US, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives were dialled back in UK businesses last year due to tight budgets and economic uncertainty. Is it the end of the DEI push as we know it, or just a momentary blip in the fight for a diverse tech workfo...
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The company claims that thanks to software optimisation and hardware asset management, it can make datacentre kit last six years...
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The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing...
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The UK government’s long-awaited ‘radical’ policing reform whitepaper has finally dropped, but there is a distinct lack of detail in it about how exactly the Police Digital Service will fit into its vision for a nationally led policing sector....
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Early signs show that former Post Office Capture users face derisory initial compensation offers and face impossible appeals process...
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Fujitsu European boss is stepping down from his role amid the troubles brought on by the supplier’s central role in the Post Office scandal...
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Social media giant Meta is facing increased datacentre costs due to rising server, memory and storage prices....
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ManageEngine CEO Rajesh Ganesan explains why owning the cloud stack matters to CIOs in the Middle East, and how automation, AI and end-to-end IT management are reshaping enterprise priorities....
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High volumes of customer calls, backlogs and complex requests blamed for shaky start to life on civil service pension scheme for Capita...
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The government is setting out to educate 10 million adults in the UK on how to use artificial intelligence tools to streamline their work....
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The number of people working in the cyber security field has almost trebled in the 2020s, with one cyber pro for every 68 businesses in the UK....
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SAP reports €36.8bn for 2025, up 8%, despite what CEO Christian Klein called a ‘rough start to the year’ due to geopolitical unrest from tariff conflict between the US and the EU...
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