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23 Oct 2026
Meta's $25B fine underscores risks of data privacy missteps
The fine imposed by a New Mexico judge shows how serious the consequences of misusing customer data can be for companies, as the risks of that grow in the AI era.
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23 Oct 2026
Siemens, Nvidia deploy industrial AI to reduce engineering effort
The partners are using digital twins and AI agents as part of a roadmap to create AI-powered manufacturing facilities.
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23 Oct 2026
AI cost controls lag as CFOs' influence grows, Deloitte finds
CFOs are taking a bigger role in AI investments, but spending controls aren't keeping pace. Deloitte found 53% still review AI usage costs after the fact.
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23 Oct 2026
Suspect Post Office systems that came before Horizon to be investigated by the government
The Department for Business and Trade has announced its investigation of faulty software used in Post Office branches before the controversial Horizon system
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22 Oct 2026
Botched PHP2Shell disclosure revealed as panic continues
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
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22 Oct 2026
Interview: IQT, the organisation with roots in the CIA
Jennifer Nelson runs the international arm of an organisation that takes stakes in tech firms that secure US and allied interests
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21 Oct 2026
What to do as critical PHP flaws puts millions of websites at risk
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
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21 Oct 2026
UK government adapts Post Office scandal redress schemes and investigates pre-Horizon software
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
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19 Oct 2026
Funding, people and patience: How the UK can become a deeptech leader
At an event run by the Global Tech Advocates group, female leaders working in the deeptech sector discussed the ways in which the UK can become a leader in the space, including a focus on funding, people and having patience
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19 Oct 2026
Interview: Jakob Freund, the quiet founder behind software that banks run on
Camunda’s co-founder and CEO on bootstrapping in a city without a startup scene, learning to lead without pleasing everyone, and the day he broke down after a layoff call
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19 Oct 2026
Santander slashes cost of generating AI responses
Working with Nvidia, Spanish bank is using smaller specialised AI models for specific banking tasks
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15 Oct 2026
Waste-to-energy firm picks Stackable on Ionos for sovereignty
Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act
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15 Oct 2026
Waste-to-energy firm picks Stackable on Ionos for sovereignty
Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act
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13 Oct 2026
Fast AI adoption needs ‘good brakes’, says former CSA chief
At his first Singapore International Cyber Week since leaving CSA, David Koh drew on the CrowdStrike outage and the UNC3886 attacks to make the case for building resilience into AI adoption from the start
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13 Oct 2026
Microsoft CVE volumes on relentless upward trajectory
Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday drop breaks yet another record, with over 1,400 flaws listed
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13 Oct 2026
Infosys boss describes AI job fears as ‘hogwash’
Artificial intelligence will fuel demand for new skills, says chairman of Indian IT outsourcing giant
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09 Oct 2026
Mastercard commits to offline payment capability in uncertain world
Payment card provider will enable offline payments to be accepted in Europe in the event of power and network outages
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08 Oct 2026
ING deliberately started AI journey the hard way
Dutch bank has kicked off its artificial intelligence journey with a complex mortgages product line
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07 Oct 2026
Atlassian Team ’26 Europe: move to AI as team sport with ‘multi-player’ agentic system
At its European customer event in Amsterdam, Atlassian unveiled AMP, a multi-player agentic AI system said to enable collaborative teamwork between humans and artificial intelligence agents
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07 Oct 2026
AI may be driving more software developers to freelance
The latest Stack Overflow survey shows that a growing number of software developers are working as sole traders
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06 Oct 2026
AI slop overwhelms Google’s OSS bug bounty programme
Google has closed its open source vulnerability reporting programme to new submissions while it recalibrates in the face of a surge in automated junk reports
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05 Oct 2026
Norwegian AI firm appeals to block Google gigacenter
Local councillors welcome the prospect of becoming one of the world’s largest centres for AI computing, but a spurned rival thinks they cheated and still got a bad deal
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30 Sep 2026
Trust Bank cuts incident triage time to two minutes with AI agents
The Singapore digital bank is running AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to work out the likely cause of an incident before engineers join the call, with humans still deciding on the fix
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30 Sep 2026
Sweden boosts cyber threat security defences amid AI advances
Sweden is strengthening its national security defences against cyber attacks
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30 Sep 2026
Token bills to push most enterprise AI workloads onto open-weight models
With AI agents consuming tokens at an alarming rate, most enterprises have blown their AI budgets – and McKinsey expects cheaper open-weight models to handle the bulk of routine work
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29 Sep 2026
Cyber authorities issue alerts over exploitation of Citrix vulns
The latest vulnerabilities to be uncovered in the frequently targeted Citrix NetScaler product lines were being exploited well before disclosure, prompting disquiet
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27 Sep 2026
Vast Data pitches confidential AI to APAC’s regulated industries
DataEnclave, due in the coming months, protects artificial intelligence models and sensitive data while they are processed on GPUs, with Australian neocloud Sharon AI among the cloud providers lined up to offer it
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25 Sep 2026
Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI
Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks
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25 Sep 2026
Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox
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24 Sep 2026
Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination
Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users
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24 Sep 2026
Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath
With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365
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23 Sep 2026
Law firm paid £200m to support Post Office, while police investigating scandal are forced to beg
There are concerns that a lack of funds for the police investigation could prevent the full Post Office scandal truth getting out
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23 Sep 2026
Former subpostmaster demands extension to Post Office scandal claims deadline
Subpostmasters can only make claims for losses through Post Office Process Review until September 30, but a former subpostmaster says there is a necessity to extend the deadline
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22 Sep 2026
Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch
In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles
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17 Sep 2026
Microsoft showcases AI-powered cyber defence tools at GISEC
The company highlights new security capabilities as businesses across the UAE look to secure growing artificial intelligence deployments
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15 Sep 2026
Zopa Bank launches voice-controlled banking
Digital challenger bank is removing more manual tasks by offering customers the ability to bank through natural speech
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15 Sep 2026
Splunk Conf 26: Splunk hopes to build confidence in agentic AI
With trust in AI agents close to rock bottom in the popular imagination, Splunk and Cisco unveiled a series of platform enhancements designed to enhance observability and confidence in agentic AI
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11 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must shape AI, use open source
As frontier models outpace cyber defences, two public sector voices set out different answers to the same security question – transparency and procurement leverage
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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: TeenTech alumni call for AI literacy in schools
Maggie Philbin charity urges public sector leaders to mentor and sponsor, as students demand education reform, soft-skill extracurriculars and a ‘mission in AI literacy’
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09 Sep 2026
Ryanair calls for government action over Nats IT failure
The National Air Traffic Control System was not fully operational for over eight hours, causing major disruption to airlines and passengers
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08 Sep 2026
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft updates address almost 1,000 flaws
Microsoft has released another record-breaking Patch Tuesday update with almost 1,000 flaws in scope
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04 Sep 2026
US senator Bernie Sanders calls for ban on AI superintelligence
Two bills aimed at curbing the possibility of superintelligent AI systems, and regulating the use of agentic AI, are being introduced in the US
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04 Sep 2026
Peer demands action on DWP subpostmaster prosecutions in duty of candour debate
Post Office scandal featured heavily as the House of Lords debated duty of candour Bill
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02 Sep 2026
Mythos helps bug bounty firm find critical hidden RCE
HackerOne used Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos 5 model on its codebase and found a critical hidden flaw
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01 Sep 2026
The Security Interviews: Abby Kearns, ActiveState
ActiveState CEO Abby Kearns discusses open source’s ‘existential crisis’, how AI is changing the secure software playbook, and why it’s time to have a different conversation about open source security
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01 Sep 2026
Pay more, check nothing: Councils buy Microsoft but don’t test
A Computer Weekly analysis of FOI responses from 37 English councils found 32 have never run a competitive procurement in which an alternative to Microsoft could have won
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27 Aug 2026
Deutsche Bank selects Thought Machine to support core system reduction
Thought Machine’s Google-inspired banking technology has now been adopted by 20 global Tier 1 banks
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26 Aug 2026
Research ‘challenges assumption’ that older generation is less confident with fintech
Older people are more confident managing money online, despite the perception that young tech-savvy people have an advantage
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26 Aug 2026
Gartner: Deploy sandboxes to rein in AI agents
A string of mishaps is making sandboxing a priority for organisations deploying AI agents, but Gartner’s Manjunath Bhat warns that sandboxes are just one layer of defence
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25 Aug 2026
More than 100 apply to review DWP subpostmaster prosecutions as process drags on
The government is seeking to appoint a person tasked with reviewing department’s prosecutions of subpostmasters
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24 Aug 2026
Post Office finally signs off Horizon replacement deal after three-month delay
The Post Office has finally put pen to paper on its contract with an electronic point of sale system supplier after a three-month holdup
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24 Aug 2026
Mimecast CEO on why AI risk starts with the user
Ranjan Singh talks up the security supplier’s focus on human risk management, the behavioural data he believes rivals can’t match, and why having a local datacentre is a condition of doing business in APAC
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21 Aug 2026
NCSC tells organisations to have AI kill switches at the ready
In the wake of a series of cyber incidents involving AI agents, the NCSC has published interim guidance for operators of agentic systems, advising organisations retain the ability to pull the plug on AI systems entirely
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19 Aug 2026
Proofpoint launches AI security engineering centre in India
The security supplier is hiring over 200 engineers in Hyderabad to develop models that can interpret the intent behind the actions of AI agents, Proofpoint’s latest investment in a market where its business has tripled in a year
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18 Aug 2026
Apple addresses multiple WebKit vulnerabilities
Apple’s latest security updates address a swathe of WebKit vulnerabilities, many of them apparently discovered using OpenAI tools
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06 Aug 2026
South Korea's government overtakes telcos as top cyber attack target
Kaspersky researcher Sojun Ryu says ransomware crews have joined nation-state groups in going after South Korean organisations, as traces of LLM output start turning up inside malware
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05 Aug 2026
Mythos ran real-life supply chain attack in AI safety body test
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 has been caught orchestrating a real-world open source supply chain attack using social engineering techniques during a test run by the UK’s AI Security Institute
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04 Aug 2026
Nvidia-backed Open Secure AI Alliance puts AI security and sovereignty in focus for Middle East
Industry coalition aims to develop open tools for securing artificial intelligence systems, a model that could resonate strongly in the UAE and Saudi Arabia as governments and enterprises seek greater control over AI infrastructure, data and cyber risk
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03 Aug 2026
Kaspersky to scan AI agents for backdoors as shadow AI spreads
The security supplier will release a tool this month that vets agent skills, models and artificial intelligence development components before they reach corporate networks to defend against threats from shadow AI
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30 Jul 2026
Amazon pins multiple open source compromises on North Korea
Amazon threat researchers found one threat actor behind four distinct open source compromises, including the March 2026 incident affecting the axios NPM library
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29 Jul 2026
Dynatrace execs dish details on Bluebox autonomous AI
The new sub-venture, made available to early adopters this month, completely rethinks the software delivery lifecycle, taking humans out of the loop.
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29 Jul 2026
Laundry Bear pivots to new exploit days after Zimbra alert
The NCSC and partners warned of a novel phishing technique being deployed against high-profile users of Zimbra’s Communication Suite, but the threat actor behind the campaign already seems to be moving on to new targets
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29 Jul 2026
Open banking payments exceed one billion mark
Payments made in the UK through open banking have exceeded one billion in number since its launch eight years ago
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28 Jul 2026
Stateless MCP seen as step forward for enterprise AI
Experts say the project's update this week will make it more suitable for enterprise production use, but it comes with a breaking change for existing systems.
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28 Jul 2026
Did an AI agent really break free and attack another company?
The reality of the AI-orchestrated cyber attack on Hugging Face is rather more complicated, and much more worrying, than it might appear at face value
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28 Jul 2026
DBS holds off on letting AI agents run on their own as controls lag capability
The bank has strung together as many as 80 agents to prepare credit approvals for big corporate clients but says the industry’s ability to police such systems is advancing at a fraction of the pace of the technology itself
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27 Jul 2026
HSBC chooses Singapore for global AI centre of excellence
UK-headquartered bank will develop artificial intelligence in Singapore-based centre of excellence
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24 Jul 2026
Russian APT Laundry Bear perfects zero-click phishing attack
A newly identified Russian state threat actor is using a novel zero-click phishing technique, likely developed with the help of an AI, to target Western users of Zimbra software products
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24 Jul 2026
Why embodied AI security extends beyond the robot
As AI moves into robots, autonomous vehicles and industrial systems, attackers are likely to target the credentials, cloud services and update channels that control them
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23 Jul 2026
Why AI coding agents won’t kill SaaS
Investors may fear that AI coding agents will wipe billions off SaaS valuations, but SiteMinder CTO Tom Varsavsky thinks the technology will speed up software delivery, reduce tech debt and force IT leaders to master token economics
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22 Jul 2026
Harness Agent DLC targets AI agent development gaps
DevSecOps for AI agents requires more than code review -- Harness beefs up behavioral and security controls and hints at a possible observability expansion.
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22 Jul 2026
Hugging Face ‘hacker’ was rogue OpenAI model
A hacker who broke into Hugging Face’s systems last week has been exposed as a pair of advanced OpenAI frontier models that were trying to cheat on an exam
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22 Jul 2026
‘Modest but notable’ regional spread of fintech funding in UK
Hubs outside London have made some headway in the UK fintech sector, but overall funding has dropped
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21 Jul 2026
BellSoft takes on Dockerfile sprawl with Hardened Builder
BellSoft's Hardened Builder lets Paketo Buildpacks users build zero-CVE container images on hardened base images, reducing security toil without changing application code.
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20 Jul 2026
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
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17 Jul 2026
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
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17 Jul 2026
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
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16 Jul 2026
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
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16 Jul 2026
Denmark debates ‘emergency’ energy plan to curb datacentres
To fix grid crisis caused by mismanagement under her previous administrations, Danish prime minister opens third term in office with laws against datacentres
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15 Jul 2026
Atlassian Jira Planner joins spec-driven development AI coding trend
As enterprises grapple with tokenomics, Atlassian emphasizes upfront planning to improve downstream efficiency. But optimizing AI coding costs and quality remains complex.
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15 Jul 2026
Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders
Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds
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15 Jul 2026
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
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14 Jul 2026
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
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10 Jul 2026
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
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09 Jul 2026
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
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08 Jul 2026
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
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06 Jul 2026
UK regulator publishes ‘landmark’ AI review
FCA review of the use of artificial intelligence in retail finance follows MPs’ criticism of regulators
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03 Jul 2026
Breach of IBM-managed environment exposes personal data of 70,000 in Singapore
Unauthorised access to a development and testing environment managed by IBM has exposed the names, NRIC numbers and property addresses of about 70,000 people held by the Singapore Land Authority
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02 Jul 2026
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
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02 Jul 2026
Digital readiness gaps emerge around FIFA World Cup 2026
Dynatrace research highlights disparities in federation website performance around the FIFA World Cup 2026, with Saudi Arabia among the slowest performers, as organisations turn to AI and observability to manage unpredictable traffic spikes
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30 Jun 2026
Nordic datacentre investments surge amid tightening licence rules
Strains on national power grids in the Nordic region are pushing the region’s governments towards tougher regulation
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30 Jun 2026
Singpass to roll out passkeys in fight against phishing scams
The passwordless feature will launch for iPhone users on 1 July 2026 with a device-bound model to avoid the security risks of cloud-synced passkeys
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29 Jun 2026
Tencent Cloud powers cloud migration for Indonesian telco
Using AI agents to replace months of manual labour, Tencent Cloud consolidated XLSmart’s fragmented, multicloud IT estate into a unified platform and migrated over 15TB of core data assets in record time
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26 Jun 2026
Secure Code Warrior CEO on surviving the AI ‘vulnerability apocalypse’
As enterprises embrace agentic AI and vibe coding, Secure Code Warrior CEO and co-founder Pieter Danhieux warns that code-generating models are still producing critical security flaws
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25 Jun 2026
Red Hat and IBM, Chainguard take on OSS security risk
Industry players are using a clearinghouse model to triage the AI-fueled surge in OSS vulnerabilities -- and, in some cases, act as maintainers of last resort.
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25 Jun 2026
Finland drives AI growth amid low take-up concerns
Survey reveals concerns over the take-up of artificial intelligence technology in Finland
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24 Jun 2026
Overwhelming support for Microsoft SMS designation in CMA responses
Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs
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24 Jun 2026
Gartner: AI coding agents will cost more than real developers
As organisations ramp up the use of AI coding agents in software development, they may find costs increase significantly if such tools are overused
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23 Jun 2026
Roundtable: UK tech chiefs on agentic AI, workforce culture and tokenomics
Tech leaders from THG Ingenuity, Kingfisher, Rightmove and Deloitte speak at the Google Summit London about the transition to agentic systems and the rising focus on token costs
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23 Jun 2026
Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management
We talk to PHP pioneer and Google agentic data cloud vice-president about ensuring agentic quality, including having agents voting against each other, and the risk of LLM lock-in
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22 Jun 2026
Santander extends staff access to AI as first quarter delivers €35m value
Spanish bank expects artificial intelligence use to add €200m in value this year through cost savings and extra revenues
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22 Jun 2026
Interview: How a startup mentality helps keep pace with AI
The pace of change in artificial intelligence can be overwhelming. We speak to Thomson Reuters CTO Joel Hron about how to innovate at pace
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22 Jun 2026
GitLab CIO rejects ‘tokenmaxxing’ as it rebuilds work around agentic AI
Manu Narayan tells Computer Weekly why he’s steering clear of vanity metrics such as ‘tokenmaxxing’, why reports of SaaS’s death are overblown, and why the biggest pressure is simply keeping pace
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22 Jun 2026
Wimbledon’s ‘hidden court 19’ uses IBM Bob to complete 10 years’ work in months
IBM unleashed its artificial intelligence-driven software development technology in preparation for the latest Wimbledon tennis tournament