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23 Sep 2026
Hardcoded credentials in public MCP files open door to cyberattacks
New research reveals thousands of public Model Context Protocol files leak non-expiring credentials on GitHub -- leaving corporate data, private networks and costly AI token pools open to exploitation.
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23 Sep 2026
OpenAI takes AI price war to next level with GPT-6 Sol, Luna pricing
The vendor is reacting to U.S. rivals Google and Anthropic, as well as the growing popularity of open source models.
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23 Sep 2026
Gartner sees CIOs becoming AI 'evidence custodians'
A conventional log may not be enough. CIOs could need end-to-end evidence showing what AI did, why it was allowed and what changed as a result.
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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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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
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27 Aug 2026
TCS teams with Porsche to accelerate drive towards AI mobility
Strategic deal sees AI mobility centre of excellence set up to boost manufacturing, engineering, operations and customer experience at premium car company
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27 Aug 2026
Post Office Horizon replacement ‘screw-up’ ends in challenge, more cost and delay
IT supplier Escher challenged the award of the Horizon EPOS replacement contract, leading to months of delay and additional costs
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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
Qualcomm looks to accelerate Japan’s robotics ecosystem
Mobile technology platform begins ‘comprehensive’ robotics investment initiative in Japan anchored by robotics research centre
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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
Advania increases support to turn user AI dreams into reality
Channel player introduces service that delivers a secure and sovereign environment users can plan and deploy through
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25 Aug 2026
UK fintech investment plummets over past six months
Lowest level of fintech investment since 2016 after ‘challenging’ start to 2026, according to KPMG
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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
How AI has improved customer support for Aussie firms
Support leaders for carsales at Catapult Sports and Sealy of Australia explain how Zendesk’s AI tools have changed their service operations, from providing round-the-clock support to ticket triage in over 60 languages
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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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21 Aug 2026
‘AI Resist List’ launched to challenge tech industry narratives
A coalition of journalists, scholars and researchers has launched a database to document the increasing grassroots pushback against artificial intelligence technologies
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20 Aug 2026
PoliceAI outlines plans to test and assure AI for policing
Computer Weekly speaks with PoliceAI – a national body set up to build, test and assure artificial intelligence models for policing contexts – about how it plans to approach the development and implementation of automated policing tools
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19 Aug 2026
How AI is changing the economics of customer service
Jon Aniano, Zendesk's senior vice-president and general manager of customer experience, talks up the rise of voice AI agents, the limits of average handle time and why automated resolution frees human agents for the calls that matter
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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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17 Aug 2026
Multiple organisations investigating fresh wave of Cl0p breaches
Multinational giants such as Philips and Shell may have been affected after the Cl0p cyber extortion gang hacked a popular piece of PLM software
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16 Aug 2026
ACE Robotics takes aim at embodied AI’s data problem
The SenseTime-backed firm is pairing wearable data capture with an on-device world model to address the challenges holding back the wider use of robots in the enterprise
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13 Aug 2026
Rimini Street bids to broaden CIO appeal with agentic AI move
Rimini Street made its name in third-party enterprise software maintenance but says it is now branching out to attract IT leaders bewildered by complexity
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13 Aug 2026
Ahead Foundry to increase support for UK and European customers
Firm opens facility to help users looking to design and deploy high-performance AI computing solutions
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13 Aug 2026
Ryanair signs five-year Google Cloud AI partnership
Ryanair adds Google Cloud to existing AWS estate, to deploy Gemini Enterprise and DeepMind models to 35,000 staff for crew scheduling and operational decision-making
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13 Aug 2026
At least six police forces have racked up contracts with Palantir worth £7.8m
A joint investigation by Computer Weekly and Good Law Project reveals six police forces have used Palantir’s data analytics software, while several other forces are believed to have access through regional taskforces
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12 Aug 2026
Ant Group debuts physician platform to support patient care
The AQ for Doctor platform is integrated with a patient-facing app to help doctors conduct online consultations, manage patient records and support clinical decision-making
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12 Aug 2026
Dubai ranks second globally in AI adoption as investment in digital infrastructure accelerates
BCG’s Intelligent Cities Index highlights how the emirate is translating artificial intelligence ambitions into large-scale deployment, supported by investments in datacentres, sovereign AI initiatives and digital infrastructure
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12 Aug 2026
Horizon3 backs channel with multimillion-dollar investment
Security player outlines how it intends to bolster its operations and the support it can provide partners
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12 Aug 2026
HPE UK channel boss on making life easier for partners
The vendor is making hardware pricing more predictable as it continues to work towards its Power of One strategy
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12 Aug 2026
Sovereignty beyond residency: Why Gulf governments must rethink AI control
Vast Data’s Haider Aziz argues that auditability, portability and governance will determine the success of sovereign artificial intelligence initiatives across the Middle East
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11 Aug 2026
Nearly 60% of people regretted taking social media financial advice
TSB survey of 2,000 people found that one in four have used artificial intelligence for financial advice
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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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05 Aug 2026
Everpure looks within for EMEA and LatAm channel lead
Partners get to update their contact books as the data player announces a fresh name in its executive team
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05 Aug 2026
Munich Airport marshalls digital twin to improve operations
Munich Airport turns to Celonis process mining software to optimise operations and passenger experience through real-time digital twins, focusing on baggage handling efficiency
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05 Aug 2026
ECI snaps up Prima
ERP specialist acquired as Tracxn Technologies shines a light on the general state of European technology investments
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04 Aug 2026
Many medical AI developers unfamiliar with regulations
Most developers feel responsible for the AI tools they build, but few know the frameworks meant to keep patients safe, according to a study by Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University
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03 Aug 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Personnel moves of note at Cellhire, Civiteq, Proofpoint and Armadin
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03 Aug 2026
Bechtle UK expands London base
Channel player increases office size with an eye on the future and showing a sign of commitment to the capital
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02 Aug 2026
TeamViewer touts self-healing IT as turnaround takes hold
CEO Oliver Steil sets out the supplier’s push into autonomous IT management and the guardrails around it, as its latest results point to a recovery from a year spent absorbing the acquisition of 1E
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31 Jul 2026
Anthropic lost control of Claude in latest AI cyber blunder
Days after two OpenAI frontier AI models conducted their own real-world cyber attacks, Anthropic admits that three of its models went off the rails and hacked external organisations thanks to a ‘misunderstanding’ with one of its technical partners
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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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30 Jul 2026
Channel can benefit from SME move away from retail
With the high street players concentrating on price, those able to provide more substantial hardware options could take more business
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30 Jul 2026
Subpostmasters anxious over Horizon replacement as it is delayed yet again
Mounting delays in signing the Post Office Horizon replacement contract are fuelling widespread anxiety and uncertainty across the subpostmaster network, raising operational concerns
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29 Jul 2026
OCBC taps agentic AI to cut private banking onboarding time
The bank’s Helios platform front-loads compliance checks to reduce account opening times and turn its compliance function into a source of quality leads for its private banking business
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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
What’s behind SAP’s change to maintenance and support?
Following the EU’s antitrust investigation, SAP has agreed to make changes to how it provides support and maintenance
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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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29 Jul 2026
NUS builds AI assistant to ease research process
AI Sense Maker draws on 150,000 NUS research papers and digitised Southeast Asian materials to help students and researchers generate insights from trusted sources
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28 Jul 2026
Adobe releases AI search product catalog optimization tool
Soon, if not already, the customer relationship begins by persuading AI agents that your brand is legit.
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28 Jul 2026
Inside police plans to share intelligence and crime data across the UK
Computer Weekly examines how UK police will use Palantir’s AI tools to dramatically increase intelligence sharing between forces, enabling investigators to analyse mobile phone data and sensitive information at scale
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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
All agentic AI data access, orchestration hinges on these two standards
A vibe check on the state of the two foundational generative AI standards.