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13 Mar 2026
News brief: Risk of Iran-backed cyberattacks rising in U.S.
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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13 Mar 2026
NanoClaw AI agents find a home in Docker Sandboxes
The minimal, containerized alternative to the viral OpenClaw gets an added dose of isolation from Docker microVMs, as 'AI claws' proliferate.
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12 Mar 2026
Qdrant raises $50M in funding to fuel vector database growth
With VCs cautious about investing in data management providers, the financing, which will be used for R&D and go-to-market initiatives, serves as validation of the vendor's vision.
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13 Mar 2026
Unreliable fleet connectivity driving employee exodus
Study finds fleets experience an average downtime of 25%, equating to three to four days of downtime per month, while a third of fleet operators still rely on hotspots from mobile devices to provide connectivity on the move
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12 Mar 2026
Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI
Moving AI from experiment to production requires high-quality, real-time data streaming. Australia tech leaders from Confluent, Bendigo Bank, Telstra, and Coles share how they are turning systems of record into systems of action
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12 Mar 2026
MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions
Report from MPs warns of unknown number of unsafe subpostmasters convictions based on multiple pre-Horizon systems
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12 Mar 2026
UK government ‘flying blind’ with poor data in charting regional growth
The government is being impeded in its bid to stoke economic growth across the regions, according to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
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12 Mar 2026
Zoom expands enterprise agentic AI platform
AI-first work platform provider introduces new workflow capabilities across Workplace, phone and customer experience products, expanding its enterprise agentic AI platform
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12 Mar 2026
Lloyds banking app ‘glitch’ shows transactions of strangers
Customers of Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank experienced a glitch this morning, where details of other customers’ transactions were displayed in their online banking apps
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11 Mar 2026
What it takes to succeed with AI
With research showing the use of AI may temporarily reduce productivity, Cloudera’s Vini Cardoso urges businesses to adopt an organisation-wide platform approach driven by measurable value and trusted data
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11 Mar 2026
Ford accelerates fleet data capability with Pro AI
Auto manufacturing giant introduces fleet management software aiming to help organisations manage their fleet operations more effectively and get daily tasks done
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11 Mar 2026
Zendesk to acquire Forethought in major agentic AI play
Zendesk is acquiring Forethought to bolster its agentic AI chops with specialised and self-learning AI agents capable of managing complex customer service workflows
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11 Mar 2026
Zendesk to acquire Forethought in major agentic AI play
Zendesk is acquiring Forethought to bolster its agentic AI chops with specialised and self-learning AI agents capable of managing complex customer service workflows
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10 Mar 2026
Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server
Zero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update
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10 Mar 2026
Ericsson, Future Technologies scale wireless infrastructure for industrial AI
Connectivity transformation systems integrator and comms tech giant expand collaboration to accelerate deployment of private 5G and enterprise wireless networks across North America
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10 Mar 2026
Microsoft Cowork: One data store for all your M365 assets
MIcrosoft has revealed the next stage of its plans to place its software at the heart of enterprise data, which is now powered by agentic AI
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10 Mar 2026
Open banking presents £43bn opportunity for UK economy if warnings are heeded
Open banking has already delivered billions of pounds to the UK economy and has huge future potential, but industry leaders warn against complacency
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09 Mar 2026
UK to launch cyber fraud squad in April
The UK’s Online Crime Centre, launching next month, will bring together government, police, intelligence agencies, banks, mobile networks and tech firms to take coordinated action against cyber fraud
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09 Mar 2026
IBM takes a second shot at Post Office contract to replace Horizon
The US tech giant is bidding for a £323m contract to replace the Post Office’s flawed Horizon IT system, a decade after its previous attempt was abandoned due to complexities
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09 Mar 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Personnel moves of note in the past week at QBS Software, Smart Communications, Pax8, e2e-assur, Trellix, Basware and New Relic
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09 Mar 2026
Connectus continues M&A strategy with i7 Technologies
MSP continues to add geographical coverage to the business with the addition of Welsh security specialist
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09 Mar 2026
DBS rewires operating models for AI reasoning era
The bank expects AI tools to evolve from being a copilot to an autopilot as it undergoes organisational transformation to prepare its workforce for agentic AI
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06 Mar 2026
Pegasystems adds vibe coding to Blueprint app builder
Pega Blueprint combines conversational code with drag-and-drop feature editing.
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06 Mar 2026
Stephen Lawrence detective calls for better checks after child’s Instagram account ‘memorialised’
Former detective Clive Driscoll, who secured convictions in the Stephen Lawrence case, calls for better checks after Instagram ‘memorialised’ the account of a child without the family’s knowledge
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06 Mar 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
The past week has brought several noteworthy developments in the channel. We look at what’s been happening at Wasabi Technologies, LevelBlue, Phoenix Software, Alkira and Boom Collaboration
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06 Mar 2026
International Women’s Day 2026: Support must not stop after the hire is made
Women in the tech industry emphasise the importance of maintaining a sustained commitment to diversity that extends beyond the initial recruitment stage
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06 Mar 2026
Enterprises warming to AI PCs amid growing cloud costs
While global memory shortages will pose a threat to the broader PC market, AI PCs are gaining momentum across Asia as companies look to cut cloud costs, boost productivity and secure sensitive information
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05 Mar 2026
UK government departments not sold on shared services strategy, NAO report finds
Eight years on from the launch of the government’s shared services strategy, there is no clear ownership, funding remains uncertain and some departments are yet to fully commit
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05 Mar 2026
Spyware suppliers exploit more zero-days than nation states
Exploitation of zero-days by commercial surveillance and spyware developers outpaced exploitation by nation-state actors last year, according to a report
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05 Mar 2026
Salesforce rolls out Agentforce Health AI agents
Agentforce Health updated to automate more processes.
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05 Mar 2026
Government wants to build digital ID system in-house
The Home Affairs Committee hearing on digital ID reveals consultation is due next week; there will be no central database; and while government wants to build the system in-house, it will not replace private digital ID providers
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05 Mar 2026
Celerity adds to board as it mulls over further M&A activity
Managed services player Celerity continues to add expertise to the brain power advising its strategy
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05 Mar 2026
Scandal victim gets leave to appeal decision to split case against Post Office and Fujitsu
Prominent scandal victim given leave to appeal High Court decision in his legal action against the Post Office and Fujitsu
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04 Mar 2026
GTDC: Distribution key to expanding vendor reach
The ability to react to challenges and master them has put disties across the globe in a key position to support partner enablement and sales
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04 Mar 2026
Stability talk in Spring Statement cautiously welcomed
UK chancellor’s declarations around improving inflation rates and delivering economic growth got a mixed response across the industry
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04 Mar 2026
AI workloads force a fundamental redesign of Middle East datacentres
From hyperscale GPU clusters to sovereign AI ambitions, Huawei outlines how infrastructure must evolve to meet regional demand
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04 Mar 2026
Transnational AI regulation needed to protect human rights in the UK
Tech companies have told MPs and Lords they would welcome greater harmonisation in regulatory standards at a global level
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03 Mar 2026
Scattered data, cloud transfers creating challenges in enterprise AI
The cost, speed, and governance of moving petabytes of data across hybrid and multicloud environments is becoming a challenge for enterprises looking to harness the benefits of AI
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03 Mar 2026
Interview: Wolf & Badger CEO George Graham on getting ‘hands-on’ with AI
From continually exploring the potential of artificial intelligence to actually building and introducing AI-enabled systems for his company, George Graham is leaning into the age of agentic commerce
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03 Mar 2026
Santander and Mastercard complete test of AI-initiated payment
Bank and payments giant complete first payment initiated by artificial intelligence in a controlled environment
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03 Mar 2026
Logicalis: Customers struggling with rapid AI deployments
The channel player’s latest CIO report exposes a user base struggling to adopt artificial intelligence technology while continuing to remain compliant and secure
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03 Mar 2026
Synaxon boss charts path to increased growth
After a period of transformation, the channel organisation is looking to meet ambitious targets and continue to carve out a solid position in the hardware and services realms
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03 Mar 2026
Emerging markets prioritise top-line growth with agentic AI
While firms in mature markets are using AI agents to automate routine tasks, those in emerging markets where the cost of the technology is higher than that of human labour are favouring revenue-generating use cases
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03 Mar 2026
NS&I seeks Bank of England counsel over project disaster
The Bank of England’s successful IT transformation, praised by the National Audit Office, is being used as a model for government departments, including NS&I, which faces a failing IT project
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02 Mar 2026
Demand necessitates digital twin and data visualisation at National Grid
In-house project replaces spreadsheet-based planning for future electricity network
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02 Mar 2026
Virtual twins and AI companions target enterprise war rooms
Dassault Systèmes claims platform can answer complex business questions in seconds, but approach requires rethinking enterprise data architecture
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02 Mar 2026
UK government consults on social media ban for under-16s
A UK government consultation launched today asks whether under-16s should be banned from social media, and age restrictions introduced for VPNs and chatbots
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27 Feb 2026
UK has laid track for open banking, but failed to run trains
The UK risks losing its fintech leadership, with open banking progress slow, as countries such as the UAE and India advance rapidly
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27 Feb 2026
Wildix looks to bring conversations under enterprise control with eSIM
AI-powered Fixed Mobile Convergence capability designed to connect native mobile calls to enterprise workflows, preserving identity, context and customer insight without requiring an app
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27 Feb 2026
Australia inks five-year deal with Microsoft to drive AI and cloud adoption
The Digital Transformation Agency’s new agreement promises cost certainty, improved discounts, and a skills fund to support the government’s digital transformation agenda
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26 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit: Open source gains ground, but sovereignty tensions persist
While open source artificial intelligence gained unprecedented recognition during the latest global AI summit, divisions over governance, market concentration and regulatory power cast doubt on whether the technology will benefit society as a whole
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26 Feb 2026
Shutters come down on Exertis AV
Specialist distributor Exertis AV reveals that it is closing its doors at the start of next week
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26 Feb 2026
Santander pins €1bn business value gain on AI
Bank said artificial intelligence will be fully embedded into the business, personalising customer experiences
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26 Feb 2026
Khazna’s NexOps shift signals new operating model for AI-scale infrastructure
Managing director Bart Holsters explains why hybrid insourcing, competence assurance and sovereign readiness are becoming essential as artificial intelligence pushes datacentres to their limits
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26 Feb 2026
US artificial intelligence developers accuse Chinese firms of stealing their data
Artificial intelligence developers are accusing Chinese firms of stealing their intellectual property following a spate of ‘distillation attacks’, despite their own alleged theft of training data
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25 Feb 2026
Salesforce acquisition of Momentum to boost sales functions
Salesforce to add AI-powered revenue orchestration to sales features.
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25 Feb 2026
The UK’s proposed social media ban explained
The UK government will use new legal powers to lay the groundwork for an under-16 social media ban after its consultation on children’s digital well-being, but opponents warn the measures being considered will only treat the symptoms of the problem if they ignore the structural power of big tech
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25 Feb 2026
How AI code generation is pushing DevSecOps to machine speed
Organisations should adopt shared platforms and automated governance to keep pace with the growing use of generative AI tools that are helping developers produce code at unprecedented volumes
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25 Feb 2026
Institutionalised AI puts Visa top of ranking
The payment card services giant leads the way in applying artificial intelligence in its sector, according to research
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24 Feb 2026
NUHS and GSMA Foundry team up on 5G and AI in healthcare
Singapore’s National University Health System is working with GSMA Foundry, Ericsson and Singtel to drive the use of 5G-enabled robotics, ambient AI and holographic surgery in healthcare
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24 Feb 2026
Microsoft CEO opens London AI Tour with Copilot push
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used his event keynote to showcase how the artificial intelligence in M365 is a foundation for agentic AI in the enterprise
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24 Feb 2026
UAE CIOs feel AI heat as 85% fear role risk within two years
Technology leaders say careers, credibility and corporate resilience now hinge on delivering measurable artificial intelligence outcomes
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24 Feb 2026
Starling expands internationally as demand for banking as a service continues to rise
UK challenger bank has expanded its banking-as-a-service business with entry into New Zealand
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24 Feb 2026
Email from 1999 reveals Post Office ECCO+ system crash problems
ECCO+ system experienced freezes during transactions, which could have left Post Office branch account discrepancies
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24 Feb 2026
Singtel, Nvidia to help scale enterprise AI deployments
Singtel and Nvidia have teamed up on a multimillion-dollar facility to help organisations scale enterprise AI deployments, tackle extreme datacentre power densities, and prepare for the era of embodied AI
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23 Feb 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Personnel moves of note last week at Delinea, Red Helix, GTIA, Kong and CyberFOX
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20 Feb 2026
Oracle drops a truckload of CX-centric generative AI agents
Oracle's tactical deployment of AI boosts Fusion Cloud Applications for sales, service and marketing.
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20 Feb 2026
Telefónica activates commercial Edge services in Spain
As part of its Edge Plan in Europe, Spain-based global telco begins marketing business-to-business services in five of the 17 nodes planned for this year supported by FTTH, 5G network and Open Gateway APIs
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20 Feb 2026
What it takes to secure agentic commerce
With AI agents increasingly acting as digital concierges for shoppers, verifying bot identities, securing the APIs they rely on and detecting anomalous behaviour will be key to safeguarding automated transactions, according to Akamai
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19 Feb 2026
European politicians amplify disinformation about UN rapporteur
Government officials from the US and Europe have condemned UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for remarks about Israel she never made, based on a truncated clip circulating online that takes her statements out of context
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19 Feb 2026
Bank of Ireland UK fined for late security system implementation
The payments regulator has fined the bank nearly £4m after it missed a deadline to implement a system to check payees
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19 Feb 2026
Minister wants ‘logical conclusion’ to review of digital evidence in light of Post Office scandal
House of Lords debate saw government minister make an ambiguous promise in regard to the treatment of computer evidence in court
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19 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit begins
The summit aims to democratise AI and bridge the growing divide between countries, but critics warn that it risks becoming a mere spectacle if the technology only serves the interests of power and profit
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19 Feb 2026
Nvidia backs India’s sovereign AI push with gigawatt-scale infrastructure
Chip giant unveils compute expansion with L&T, Yotta and E2E Networks at the India AI Impact Summit, paving the way for domestic heavyweights to build AI agents and physical AI applications
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18 Feb 2026
Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon from the Post Office, step by step
Post Office IT chief tells Computer Weekly about the challenges and progress in removing the controversial Horizon system from Post Office branches
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18 Feb 2026
HP bets on edge AI and regional investment to power Middle East enterprise transformation
Ertug Ayik, managing director for Middle East and Africa at HP Inc, outlines how on-device artificial intelligence, embedded security and a partner-first model are positioning the company at the heart of MENA’s digital transformation
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17 Feb 2026
Salesforce's acquisition of Cimulate to boost AI shopping
Agentforce Commerce is the beneficiary of Salesforce's latest startup buy.
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17 Feb 2026
Businesses may be caught by government proposals to restrict VPN use
Labour proposals to restrict social media use to people aged 16 and under could have unintended consequences for businesses using virtual private networks
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17 Feb 2026
Banks to discuss UK alternative to Visa and Mastercard
Banks prepare to discuss a new payments infrastructure that would remove heavy reliance on US firms
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17 Feb 2026
Tesco vs VMware: Dell weighs in on VMware contractual obligation
Are negotiated software renewal fees binding? Dell is arguing that this provision in Tesco’s VMware 2021 contract amounts to a commitment
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17 Feb 2026
Government wages cyber campaign as half the UK’s SMEs are breached
UK government says half of all small businesses have been cyber breached in the recent past as it urges them to ‘lock the door’
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16 Feb 2026
Noah Donohoe inquest reveals issues with police ControlWorks system
An inquest heard that there were major issues with the system used by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to record information reported by the public
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16 Feb 2026
Pascal Brier, Capgemini: AI will prove its enterprise truth this year
Capgemini’s chief innovation officer says the 2025 rise and deployment of artificial intelligence agents put enterprise AI progress on hold, but laid the ground for acceleration to come
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16 Feb 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Appointments of note have been made at Maintel, Smart CT, OneTrust, StorMagic and Silverfort
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16 Feb 2026
NatWest hails progress after £1.2bn spent on tech last year, but true AI transformation to come
NatWest Bank describes the past 12 months of its tech transformation as ‘the year of [AI] deployment at scale’
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16 Feb 2026
UK government risks ‘perpetuating’ Post Office injustice through response to Capture appeals
Peers question government’s approach to wrongful conviction appeals from former users of Capture software
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15 Feb 2026
Wesfarmers to deploy agentic AI in retail operations
Retail conglomerate behind Kmart and Officeworks signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for customer service and internal productivity
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13 Feb 2026
Veeam shuffles EMEA channel executive pack
Vendor makes a trio of appointments, including in the UK, as it looks to refresh its partner leadership team
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13 Feb 2026
Singapore to form National AI Council, expands tax breaks to ease AI adoption
Singapore government unveils plans to spur AI adoption through fiscal incentives, implementation guidance and workforce skilling in a concerted effort to drive the nation’s AI agenda
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12 Feb 2026
Government bank digital project a ‘full-spectrum disaster’ exposing taxpayers to risk
National Savings and Investments is unable to tell Public Accounts Committee the cost of its modernisation programme
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12 Feb 2026
Large language models provide unreliable answers about public services, Open Data Institute finds
Research questions AI’s trustworthiness in giving people accurate information about government services
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12 Feb 2026
European Commission: TikTok’s addictive design breaches EU law
In a preliminary ruling, European Commission says TikTok’s additive design features are in breach of laws designed to create safer digital spaces
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12 Feb 2026
UK fintech investment slumped in 2025
Investment in the UK fintech sector fell to its lowest level since 2020, but it is still the European destination attracting the most money
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12 Feb 2026
College of Policing accounts ‘disclaimed’ by auditor for second year in wake of IT failure
Government auditors have refused to endorse the financial accounts of the professional body for policing in England and Wales for a second year, following IT project blunders
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11 Feb 2026
Peer ‘disappointed’ that DWP review of subpostmaster prosecutions is still months away
Government indicates that there are 108 DWP prosecutions of subpostmasters that will be reviewed so far, but little progress has been made
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11 Feb 2026
APAC firms ditch Oracle Java to cut costs amid AI demands
Rising Oracle Java licensing fees and the massive infrastructure requirements of AI workloads are driving the region’s businesses to migrate to OpenJDK distributions
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11 Feb 2026
Fujitsu will be out by next summer, says Post Office CTO
Post Office’s project to replace its controversial core system will contract suppliers by the summer of this year, with the aim to remove Fujitsu by summer 2027, according to its chief technology officer
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10 Feb 2026
February Patch Tuesday: Microsoft drops six zero-days
Microsoft releases patches for six zero-day flaws in its latest monthly update, many of them related to security feature bypass issues
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10 Feb 2026
Apple and Google pledge to improve app fairness
The CMA is seeking views on Apple and Google’s commitments to ensure fair app store practices to stoke the UK’s app economy, fintech and improve developer confidence
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10 Feb 2026
Second ever international AI safety report published
More than 100 artificial intelligence experts have produced the second international AI safety report ahead of a summit in India, outlining a high degree of uncertainty about the development and risks of AI
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09 Feb 2026
UAE’s TII challenges big tech dominance with open source Falcon AI models
Through its Falcon models and an open, efficiency-driven research strategy, the Technology Innovation Institute is positioning the UAE as a producer of foundational AI, not merely a consumer of global platforms
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09 Feb 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Changes in personnel at Avanade, Lenovo, One Identity and EUNetworks
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06 Feb 2026
Australia’s CommBank partners business school to research artificial intelligence
CommBank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence, as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector
