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15 Oct 2026
Vendors build safeguards for autonomous software factories
Experts say baked-in workload isolation, network controls and continuous verification are important safeguards for autonomous software development.
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15 Oct 2026
Salesforce expands Tableau agentic analytics push with Loops buy
The startup's acquisition will add an AI agent that tracks and analyzes KPIs to the Tableau platform. Full details of the integration plans weren't disclosed.
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15 Oct 2026
Project teams get new names, but the money stays put
A former Verizon VP and other executives explain why product operating models stall when funding and decision rights don't change -- and what CIOs can do about it.
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15 Oct 2026
AIforce World Tour: Salesforce promises free Slack access to UK students
Salesforce said it will give UK further and higher education students free Slack Enterprise, as part of a drive to close the digital skills gap
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15 Oct 2026
UAE leads in AI agent deployment as governance gaps emerge
Some 15% of UAE CIOs say their organisations run more than 500 AI agents in production, but limited visibility and containment capabilities pose challenges for enterprise oversight
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15 Oct 2026
How Nearmap is teaching AI to read rooftops from 10,000 feet
Australian aerial imagery specialist Nearmap is pairing its own camera systems with AI models trained on expert-labelled data to assess the condition of individual properties, from hail-damaged roofs to rusting air-conditioning systems
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15 Oct 2026
Anthropic opens Singapore office, signs AI safety pact with government
The Claude maker now offers in-region inference for firms with strict data residency rules in the city-state, where GovTech, Grab and DBS are already using its models
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14 Oct 2026
Softcat CEO talks of investing in future growth
As the channel player shares its FY26 numbers, it is a moment to reflect on a strategy that continues to deliver results
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14 Oct 2026
NatWest uses Nvidia for natural language banking
UK bank is testing Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology with Royal Bank of Scotland customers
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14 Oct 2026
Amazon uses AI-powered ‘risk’ system to track union activity globally
Internal documents disclosed during a Canadian labour dispute show Amazon is using an artificial intelligence-powered risk-scoring system named Atlas to track union organising among its workforce, while training managers on how to handle what it perceives as the ‘threat’ of union activity
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14 Oct 2026
Starling Bank claims first banking AI trained on UK sovereign cloud
Starling says ‘transactional foundation model’ will train on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions on Civo’s UK cloud – but the data tokenises in Google Cloud first
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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
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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13 Oct 2026
FDP programme must command trust to succeed, says data guardian
NHS national data guardian Nicola Byrne says the level of public opposition to FDP is ‘striking’ and decisions about its future must be supported by clear evidence
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12 Oct 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Here's an overview of the personnel moves of note that took place at Bechtle, BP3 Global, NetApp, QuantWare and Vertiv Holdings over the past week
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12 Oct 2026
DBS CEO warns against ‘AI lipstick’ as TikTok turns to agents for safety checks
DBS chief executive Tan Su Shan says firms have to rethink how work gets done to get real value from AI, while TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew sets out how the video platform is using agents and vision models in its safety work
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11 Oct 2026
How F1 and Lenovo shrank the sport’s travelling datacentre
Three racks of IT kit have become one in Formula 1’s travelling datacentre, and the sport has pulled telemetry processing back to the circuit so teams get their data sooner
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09 Oct 2026
Microsoft tweaks Windows to secure agentic AI
The half-yearly update to the Windows operating system gets a host of features for running AI models locally and securely
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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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09 Oct 2026
Interview: Chris Kairinos, senior director of global modern workplace technology, A+E Global Media
The US media company is looking to AI and agentic tools to improve its IT service desk and employee experience
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09 Oct 2026
ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
The Singapore transport operator can now host production Kubernetes workloads on its private cloud, and it wants most of its AI work there, too, as it tries to keep a lid on data exposure and token bills
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08 Oct 2026
Scope of Asos data breach wider than first reported
Following a data breach earlier in October, cyber criminals appear to have a much more complete picture of Asos’ user base than first thought, it has emerged
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08 Oct 2026
Defence tops public sector AI spend as Palantir takes £553m
A sweep of 2,008 UK public-sector AI contracts finds £1.83bn of award value, with US-owned companies winning about one in 10 contracts but more than half the money
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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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08 Oct 2026
HSBC cuts wealth management roles as AI increasingly services customers
UK bank could cut 70% of its human wealth advisers as it uses artificial intelligence to serve wealthy clients
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08 Oct 2026
Public sector risk and double standards over occupied Palestine
The UK bans cloud and software for Russia, but sanctions illegal Israeli settlements only narrowly – while AWS, Google and Microsoft run the IT infrastructure for the occupation
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08 Oct 2026
Broadcom targets 50% VCF 9 adoption by late 2027 as AI speeds vulnerability discovery
Broadcom infrastructure software chief Ram Velaga says AI models that can find software flaws quickly are pushing VMware customers to upgrade faster, and argues enterprises should own rather than rent their AI infrastructure
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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
Channel forum: 30% of EMEA partners will disappear by 2030
Analyst warns the ecosystem is evolving and those that want to remain in business need to transform their approach
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07 Oct 2026
Academics study impact of computer evidence presumption on lawyer perceptions
Study to delve into how 25 years of flawed legal presumption has affected perceptions of practitioners
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06 Oct 2026
How Optus, Bupa and others are using Databricks
Optus has replaced its legacy data platforms, and Bupa’s marketers now get answers in minutes rather than weeks – two of the experiences shared at Databricks’ Data + AI World Tour in Sydney
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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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06 Oct 2026
JP Morgan Chase most advanced in AI as UK banks group in chasing pack
North American banks dominate the leading group of AI adopters, according to global benchmark
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06 Oct 2026
LeapXpert jumps into WhatsApp enterprise messaging for Webex
Governed communication intelligence provider and collaboration giant to take unified comms system beyond internal collaboration and into client messaging based on Meta platform
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05 Oct 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where
Personnel moves of note at NFON, Avanade, Xantaro Group, Pulsant and New Relic
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05 Oct 2026
Nucleus Network taps AI agent to screen clinical trial volunteers
The Australian clinical research organisation is using an AI agent built on Salesforce’s Agentforce to do early screening of trial volunteers, but its doctors still determine who can participate in a trial
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02 Oct 2026
Government faces judicial review over Post Office Capture redress
Former subpostmasters could apply for judicial review over unfair redress of financial losses
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02 Oct 2026
Air IT offers SMEs a way through AI confusion
Channel player’s suite of services designed to take the headaches out of choosing which approach to take to AI technology
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30 Sep 2026
Post Office process redress scheme pays out £4m so far
Post Office Process Review scheme, set up to redress subpostmaster losses caused by non-Horizon processes, products and policies, closes
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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
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
Only 30% of Metropolitan Police officers have completed mandatory data training
Metropolitan Police senior officers admit that only 30% of the force has completed mandatory data protection training following a series of high-profile data incidents
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29 Sep 2026
US university implements campus-wide Cisco network refresh
University of Notre Dame modernises network infrastructure to create resilient network to support the growing demands of AI, immersive research and bandwidth-intensive learning applications
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28 Sep 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
We recap the personnel moves of note in the past week at OnecomMatrix, Anaplan, Leyard Europe, Delinea and Sapiens
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28 Sep 2026
UiPath’s Cartographer agent interviews staff to map how businesses run
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says the company’s Cartographer agent will capture the institutional knowledge AI agents lack by interviewing employees and learning from the corrections they make
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25 Sep 2026
French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging
French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech
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25 Sep 2026
Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust
Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud?
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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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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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24 Sep 2026
Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin
The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asia’s first enterprise to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents
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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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23 Sep 2026
Informatica wants AI agents to stop making up the numbers
Informatica, owned by Salesforce, is making its catalogue metadata machine-readable, and adding trust indicators to answers in Claude so customers can see where a figure comes from before they act on it
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21 Sep 2026
CrowdStrike warns AI agents are creating a cyber battleground for GCC organisations
Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier to entry for cyber criminals, accelerating attack speeds and increasing the complexity of threats, prompting organisations to rethink resilience, governance and security operations
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21 Sep 2026
Bumrungrad turns to AI agents to clear patient email backlog
Bumrungrad International Hospital is using Salesforce’s Agentforce to summarise and route patient correspondence, with automated appointment booking and voice agents on the cards
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18 Sep 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at GTIA, Arrow, Bechtle, Westcon-Comstor and Inforcer
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18 Sep 2026
XRHealth prescribes augmented reality glasses for real-time telehealth
Augmented reality platform designed to enable clinicians to connect live with patients, see what patients see, and provide guidance while patients remain present in their real-world environment
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18 Sep 2026
TLD Robotics launches to deploy autonomous operations at scale
Merger culminates a decade of collaboration, builds on momentum of 35 global operations and 50,000 autonomous missions, and brings driverless operations together under one autonomous vehicle business
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18 Sep 2026
Softcat makes $1bn move for GDT
Acquisition of US business seen as delivering a host of benefits that will bring more growth options for the channel platter
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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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16 Sep 2026
Salesforce wants ASEAN customers to stop thinking in tokens
The region’s customers have stopped bankrolling open-ended AI pilots, and Salesforce is responding with action-based pricing, forward-deployed engineers and tools that hand simple tasks to cheaper models
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16 Sep 2026
Tech companies under fire as Europe proposes social media ban for under-15s
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says technology platforms will have to prove they are safe before children can access them
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16 Sep 2026
Dreamforce 2026: Marc Benioff beats customer data drum for business AI use
Salesforce launches AIforce, an artificial intelligence management layer for its CRM, integrating Anthropic’s Claude, focused on unlocking business value from ‘trapped data’
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16 Sep 2026
Anthropic picks Singapore for fifth APAC office
The Claude developer has hired a former Google Cloud executive to run its ASEAN business, days after CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to slow down
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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
Spor extends workplace proposition with Squaredot buy
Addition of design business will add depth to the solution the firm can pitch to customers
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15 Sep 2026
Salesforce puts Claude and Slack in front of its CRM
CRM giant productises the plumbing that lets its own and third-party AI agents operate on the Salesforce platform, and reveals Koa, a reasoning model built with Nvidia
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15 Sep 2026
Node4 welcomes replacement CEO
Following the untimely death of its former boss, the managed service player has chosen its candidate to run the business
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15 Sep 2026
Data dive: The revolving door between Whitehall and big tech
A Computer Weekly data analysis reveals a steady revolving door between Whitehall and major technology suppliers, mapping 63 moves by senior officials to AI and IT suppliers since 2010
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14 Sep 2026
CDC chief backs datacentre standards as social licence runs short
CDC Data Centre’s Greg Boorer says the proposed national rules on water and energy will be good for the industry, but warns that years of deliberate anonymity have left operators with no community relationships to fall back on
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14 Sep 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves of note this week at Core to Cloud, Intuit, Nebula, Cloudera and TXO
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11 Sep 2026
Eurocontrol extends critical European aviation network
UK’s leading comms provider extends its contract with European air traffic management firm to continue supporting and delivering resilient network services through to 2033
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10 Sep 2026
ANZ firms put data foundations before agentic AI
At Boomi World Tour Sydney, Brickworks, Bakers Delight and Cochlear explain how they are shoring up the integration, data and governance foundations that AI agents depend on
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10 Sep 2026
Inside Google AI worker’s union drive to instil company ethics
‘Google is in the military kill chain’: Google DeepMind’s AI workers are attempting to unionise over ethical concerns around the provision of cloud and AI technologies to the US and Israeli militaries, but the company is pushing back
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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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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: UHCW adds an operation a day with AI
UHCW added daily theatre capacity and got correct utilisation data using Proximie’s AI as part of what partners describe as the NHS’s largest surgical AI deployment
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10 Sep 2026
Extreme releases proactive, context-aware networking AI agent
General availability of agentic AI for networking solution claimed to be able to help IT teams solve issues 15 times faster, combining real-time network context, historical trend analysis and agentic reasoning
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10 Sep 2026
ITV tames World Cup streaming spikes with Akamai TrafficPeak
UK’s leading commercial broadcaster deploys network management and real-time data platform for operational intelligence deployed to safeguard live-streaming architecture during the World Cup
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09 Sep 2026
Interview: Workday’s Joel Hellermark on making everyone a Leonardo
Joel Hellermark, chief AI officer at Workday, argues that artificial intelligence and large language models will transform enterprise work, building company memory through agents, empowering humans and increasing their value
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09 Sep 2026
Focus widens SME offerings with Prime Networks buy
Firm makes move to add managed services muscle as it continues to expand the business
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09 Sep 2026
‘Wilfully blind’ Post Office thought just a few hundred affected by Horizon errors
Government department admits that the Post Office ‘misunderstood the scale of Horizon scandal’
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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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08 Sep 2026
Emerge Digital and GCX Managed Services bolster management teams
Managed service specialists look to drive growth and increase support with the arrival of a raft of fresh executives
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08 Sep 2026
Daimler Truck expands AI infrastructure to support manufacturing
Business and technology services company installs tech designed to handle the practical side of keeping manufacturing infrastructure current for global truck firm
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08 Sep 2026
Interview: Huawei targets Saudi Arabia’s shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption
As enterprises move beyond artificial intelligence pilots, Huawei is positioning its cloud, computing and partner ecosystem to help organisations build scalable AI platforms while maintaining control over data, models and infrastructure
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08 Sep 2026
Lendi Group taps agent swarm to reshape mortgage broking
The Australian mortgage group has built its own orchestration platform to run the specialised agents that now guide customers through the early stages of a loan application
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08 Sep 2026
Citi pulls data out of regional silos to pave the way for AI
The bank’s wealth arm has spent 18 months moving client and market data off five regional datacentres and onto one cloud platform, cutting reporting times from weeks to days
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07 Sep 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Personnel moves in the past week at Lenovo, Gigamon, Optiv, Unit4 and KnowBe4
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07 Sep 2026
Advania welcomes fresh UK CEO
After a search that has lasted almost seven months, the channel player has settled on its preferred candidate to run the UK business
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07 Sep 2026
Interview: The tech stack helping ‘q-commerce’ scale at Tesco
Computer Weekly gets the lowdown on the tech stack supporting one of Tesco’s fastest-growing business areas from the man overseeing digital customer experience for grocery home shopping at the UK’s largest retailer
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04 Sep 2026
Digital twins bill to be debated in Parliament
A Ten-Minute Rule Bill curbing the creation of digital twins of individual people is to be debated in Parliament
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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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03 Sep 2026
Interview: Oracle accelerates Middle East cloud expansion as demand for sovereign AI rises
The company is expanding its regional cloud footprint, growing sovereign cloud deployments and investing in AI skills development as governments and enterprises seek control over data, compliance and artificial intelligence
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03 Sep 2026
Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison called to testify over US health system overspend
The executive chair of Oracle and its CEO will be asked to justify why a project budgeted at $10bn is costing taxpayers $17bn more
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02 Sep 2026
Dragonwing expands access to intelligent connected devices
Processors intelligently connect devices across the IoT industry, attributed with adding intelligence, vision and connectivity to devices deployed in businesses and factories
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01 Sep 2026
Interview: Haleon’s tech chief delighted for AI agents to feed SAP ‘clean core’
Haleon, formed from the consumer health units of GSK, Pfizer and Novartis, makes familiar brands like Sensodyne and Advil. Its chief digital and technology officer, Claire Dickson, tells its IT transformation story
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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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01 Sep 2026
Snowflake: dashboard-era access controls won’t govern AI agents
The company’s chief data and AI officer talks up efforts to move access controls into the data layer, the cost of dynamic model routing and why governance cannot be baked into model weights
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28 Aug 2026
Wide misconception that AI investment information is regulated and that users are protected
With many using information generated by artificial intelligence to support their investments, the Financial Conduct Authority spells out the risks
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28 Aug 2026
When AI agents fail, companies can’t play the blame game
Singapore Academy of Law’s Yeong Zee Kin, who helped shape Singapore’s model AI governance framework, sets out who answers when AI causes harm – and why the trail usually leads back to a human decision
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27 Aug 2026
Meta pays $18bn to settle US child safety lawsuit
As part of a legal settlement over its child safety measures, Meta will have to pay $18bn over a 10-year period, and implement a number of changes to its Facebook and Instagram platforms