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28 Aug 2025
CDC Director fired as FDA restricts COVID-19 vaccine use
By Alivia Kaylor, MScCDC Director Susan Monarez was fired the same day the FDA rescinded emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines, restricting use for seniors and high-risk younger people.
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28 Aug 2025
Salesforce Agentforce for Public Sector woos government users
By Don FluckingerSalesforce sets up MCP servers and testing environments for AI agents, and customizes Agentforce for the government vertical.
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28 Aug 2025
Most providers not ready for telehealth flexibilities to expire
By Anuja VaidyaIn a new survey, healthcare providers cited technology gaps and privacy concerns as major challenges for a potential rollback of telehealth flexibilities at the end of the month.
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14 Jul 2025
Channel Recruiter and Nebula team up with talent offering
By Simon QuickePartnership between Nebula and The Channel Recruiter will help the channel tap into skilled staff on demand to bolster their capabilities
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14 Jul 2025
Technology fuels successful FCA fight against unauthorised financial services
By Karl FlindersThe UK finance regulator is using data and technology to identify websites and apps that could cause financial harm
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14 Jul 2025
DCC sells Exertis to private equity firm Aurelius
By Simon QuickeA deal for Exertis is struck eight months following DCC’s announcement that it was divesting its IT distribution business
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14 Jul 2025
AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs
By Aaron TanAs organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president
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11 Jul 2025
'Click to Cancel' left to the states, for now
By Don Fluckinger'Click to Cancel' laws are still on the books in many states.
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11 Jul 2025
ACM president Yannis Ioannidis sees a more humane role for AI
By Pat BransPanel brought together academic, industry and policy leaders to discuss how AI can support climate goals, financial inclusion and infrastructure development
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11 Jul 2025
Former Post Office staff in Horizon replacement bid team
By Karl FlindersEscher, which supplied middleware in the Post Office Horizon system, is eyeing up the contract to replace the controversial software
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11 Jul 2025
UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation
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10 Jul 2025
Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff
By Karl FlindersFollowing exploration of artificial intelligence’s potential in conjunction with staff, AIB is rolling the tools out across the company
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10 Jul 2025
Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff
By Karl FlindersFollowing exploration of artificial intelligence’s potential in conjunction with staff, AIB is rolling the tools out across the company
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09 Jul 2025
Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures
By Bill GoodwinThe professional body for policing in England and Wales failed to properly manage its transition to new accounting and payroll systems
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09 Jul 2025
CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl
By Aaron TanNintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation
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08 Jul 2025
July Patch Tuesday brings over 130 new flaws to address
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft patched well over 100 new common vulnerabilities and exposures on the second Tuesday of the month, but its latest update is mercifully light on zero-days
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08 Jul 2025
AI for Good: Signal president warns of agentic AI security flaw
By Cliff SaranSecure by design is a mantra of the tech sector, but not if it’s agentic AI, which wants ‘root’ access to everything
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08 Jul 2025
Post Office inquiry chair 'cannot rule out' scandal caused 13 suicides
By Karl FlindersPost Office scandal public inquiry publishes its first report after three years of gathering and analysing evidence, examining the human impact on victims and the compensation process
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07 Jul 2025
Financial services giant Prudential crafts agentic AI strategy
By Don FluckingerLike all technology deployments in highly regulated industries, agentic AI must be approached carefully.
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07 Jul 2025
Zopa to embed into Manchester’s tech ecosystem
By Karl FlindersChallenger bank Zopa plans to eventually have 500 staff in its Manchester office, which will launch next month
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07 Jul 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeMoves this past week at BCS, 8x8, Leaseweb, Alteryx, CyberArk and TrafficGuard
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04 Jul 2025
Dassault Systèmes accelerates virtual twin offer with Ascon Qube acquisition
By Joe O’HalloranLeading engineering technology provider acquires core technology to advance its virtual twin strategy for factories, with AI-powered, SaaS-ready tech set to enable software-defined automation at the machine level
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04 Jul 2025
Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore
By Aaron TanThe Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters
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03 Jul 2025
How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future
By Aaron TanThe Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages
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02 Jul 2025
IFS snaps up AI agent platform vendor TheLoops
By Jim O'DonnellIFS beefs up its industrial AI agentic capabilities by acquiring TheLoops.
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02 Jul 2025
TSB faces another risky IT migration as Santander eyes UK bank
By Karl FlindersTSB’s customers were moved to the in-house-developed platform of its parent, Sabadell, in a disastrous migration in 2018
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02 Jul 2025
Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation
By Aaron TanMoe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms
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02 Jul 2025
Qantas customer data exposed in contact centre breach
By Aaron TanAustralian flag carrier is investigating significant data theft of personal information for up to six million customers after a third-party platform used by its call centre was compromised
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01 Jul 2025
Education customers need to move away from Windows 10
By Simon QuickeFrom a security perspective, the option of remaining with an operating system that has had its support ended is not a wise one
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01 Jul 2025
ING Bank transforming operations through agentic AI
By Karl FlindersNetherlands-headquartered international bank is using artificial intelligence throughout its operations
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01 Jul 2025
Logicalis reaches sustainability milestone
By Simon QuickeChannel player Logicalis shares progress on reducing carbon emissions as it moves towards meeting ambitious targets
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01 Jul 2025
Firms must adopt skills-based strategy for human-AI workforce
By Aaron TanTo unlock the value of AI agents, organisations must shift to a skills-based strategy and manage their new digital employees with the same rigour as their human workforce, according to a senior Workday executive
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30 Jun 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeThere are moves of note this week at Arc, PaperCut, Synaxon, Proofpoint and Symatrix
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30 Jun 2025
How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape
By Pratima HarigunaniModular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing
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30 Jun 2025
Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI
By Stephen WithersAt its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents
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27 Jun 2025
Ciaran Martin: AI might disturb attacker-defender security balance
By Brian McKennaThe founder of the National Cyber Security Centre spoke with Computer Weekly at Infosecurity Europe 2025 about how artificial intelligence might disturb the attacker-defender security equilibrium
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27 Jun 2025
Working Together for Channel Success: Analysts discuss security, partner programmes, sustainability
By Simon QuickeThe topics of security, sustainability and the need for evolving partner programmes were discussed at the partner event
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26 Jun 2025
Seven main suspects under police investigation in national Post Office probe
By Karl FlindersThe national police investigation into crimes related to the Post Office scandal expects the number of suspects to continue to rise
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26 Jun 2025
SAP agrees to allow Celonis data access until case resolved
By Jim O'DonnellSAP agrees to allow Celonis customers to access data from its systems as their legal battle continues, but customers will be best served if the vendors resolve data access issues.
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26 Jun 2025
Next phase of fintech reflected in strong financials, says World Economic Forum
By Karl FlindersDigital-powered finance firms might not be growing their customer base as fast as the immediate post-pandemic period, but revenue and profits are strong
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26 Jun 2025
UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years
By Karl FlindersA UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community
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25 Jun 2025
Genesys Cloud AI Studio enables generative AI agents
By Don FluckingerGenesys enables custom generative AI agents for its users.
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24 Jun 2025
Salesforce Agentforce 3 lifts the hood on observability
By Don FluckingerAgentforce 3, the latest agentic AI tool from Salesforce, focuses on observability and interoperability.
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24 Jun 2025
Colt and ALSO Cloud UK continue to talk sustainability
By Simon QuickeChannel players share progress to reduce emissions and call on more efforts to counter the energy demands of AI
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24 Jun 2025
Zopa Bank launches current account earlier than expected
By Karl FlindersZopa launches its UK current account, five years after reinventing itself as a challenger bank
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24 Jun 2025
CMA consults on Google’s search dominance
By Cliff SaranThe Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on whether Google should be designated with strategic market status
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23 Jun 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickePersonnel moves have occurred this week at the likes of Softcat, Alteryx, N-able and Checkmarx
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23 Jun 2025
Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group
By Antony AdsheadWe talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process
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20 Jun 2025
Election workers’ data stolen in cyber breach of Oxford City Council
By Brian McKennaOxford City Council election workers had personal information stolen by cyber attackers in an attack over the weekend of 7-8 June. The council has stated that most disrupted systems are back online
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20 Jun 2025
UK data reforms become law
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy
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20 Jun 2025
Report on integrity of current Post Office Horizon system due in autumn
By Karl FlindersInvestigation into the integrity and discrepancy identification capabilities of Post Office core system being carried out by independent specialists
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20 Jun 2025
AR/VR headset market reaching ‘critical tipping point’
By Joe O’HalloranResearch finds marked uptick in immersive technologies market with 18.1% year-on-year growth fuelled by immersive and versatile experiences, with future growth anticipated to be driven by mixed and extended reality
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19 Jun 2025
University of Oulu shows machine vision can replace expert presence
By Joe O’HalloranLeading Finnish university and tech hub reveals advances in immersive augmented reality technologies to support remote work and operations and address unique challenges and skill shortages of northern regions
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18 Jun 2025
Execs shy away from open models and open source AI
By Cliff SaranThe Capgemini Research Institute has found that business executives prefer the support and security associated with commercial products
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18 Jun 2025
Workday UK head Dan Pell: Managing AI agents requires system of record
By Brian McKennaSpeaking with Computer Weekly at Workday’s Elevate 2025 event in London, its UK and Ireland general manager discussed what it will mean to manage digital labour
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17 Jun 2025
Microsoft declares era of logical qubits
By Aaron TanThe tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery
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17 Jun 2025
Adobe takes on AI search optimization with LLM Optimizer
By Don FluckingerSEO isn't dead yet, but new tools are needed to optimize content for generative AI search engines.
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17 Jun 2025
Artificial intelligence could fuel growth in global tennis
By Karl FlindersIBM launches artificial intelligence-driven tools to grow the sport’s reach, but AI’s role also reaches the on-court business
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17 Jun 2025
Infrastructure and governance are key for GenAI adoption
By Aaron TanMany generative AI projects are failing to scale because firms are overlooking foundational needs like network modernisation and governance frameworks, says a regional leader at NTT Data
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16 Jun 2025
Apogee taking the consultative approach to Windows 11 migrations
By Simon QuickeCustomers are wrestling with budget and resource issues, and using the end of support for Windows 10 as a threat is not the right approach for the channel to take
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16 Jun 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeA round-up of the people moves in the past seven days at Network Group, Nasuni, Uipath, CyberArk and Vertiv
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16 Jun 2025
Intelligence sharing key to cyber security in Europe, says EU Commission cyber expert
By Lis EvenstadCyber criminals choose not to attack Europe due to its resilience and preparedness, says the EU Commission’s principal advisor for cyber security coordination, Despina Spanou
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16 Jun 2025
CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows
By Aaron TanOpen source leaders highlight breakthroughs in projects like OpenTelemetry and discuss the open source community’s role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence workloads and fostering global collaboration amid geopolitical tensions
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15 Jun 2025
Qualtrics targets ‘action gap’ with AI copilot
By Stephen WithersThe company’s Assist for CX tool aims to help organisations act on customer feedback, with one Australian airline already using it to slash insight times from months to hours
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13 Jun 2025
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next employs more agents, CDP
By Don FluckingerSalesforce overhauls Marketing Cloud with agentic AI.
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13 Jun 2025
CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI
By Bill GoodwinAlan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing the use of AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications
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13 Jun 2025
Google Cloud and Singapore’s DISG launch AI initiative
By Aaron TanThe AI Cloud Takeoff initiative, part of the Singapore government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative, will offer local firms up to S$500,000 in incentives to establish in-house AI centres of excellence and build AI capabilities
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13 Jun 2025
Fusion and AI: How private sector tech is powering progress at ITER
By Pat BransWhen commercial AI meets the world’s most ambitious science experiment, nuclear fusion, surprising things start to happen
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12 Jun 2025
Lowe's SVP on AI's rosy future for e-commerce
By Don FluckingerAs AI evolves, its e-commerce applications multiply.
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12 Jun 2025
Cisco Live 2025: The digital workplace gets closer to ‘distance zero’
By Joe O’HalloranResearch reveals disconnects between employer expectations and employee preferences around return-to-office policies in the new world of hybrid working, but also finds acceptance and uptake of cutting-edge collaboration tools
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12 Jun 2025
UKtech50 2025: the longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders
By Lis EvenstadEach year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2025
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12 Jun 2025
Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up
By Mark BallardUrgent government calls for more high-powered sovereign computers to fulfil Swedish goal of building a more powerful AI industry answered by foreign financiers, US tech and Europe’s AI emergency fund
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12 Jun 2025
Agentforce London: 78% of UK companies use agentic AI, says Salesforce
By Brian McKennaSalesforce released Digital Labour Trends survey data to coincide with its Agentforce London 2025 event that found 78% of UK organisations are using agentic AI
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11 Jun 2025
West Brom Building Society project to meet customers’ digital demands
By Karl FlindersCalls from customers for a choice of digital channels drove West Brom Building Society’s digital transformation project
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11 Jun 2025
June Patch Tuesday brings a lighter load for defenders
By Alex ScroxtonBarely 70 vulnerabilities make the cut for Microsoft’s monthly security update, but an RCE flaw in WEBDAV and an EoP issue in Windows SMB Client still warrant close attention
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10 Jun 2025
UK finance regulator tie-up with Nvidia allows firms to experiment with AI
By Karl FlindersFCA wants to support organisations in testing their ideas for the use of artificial intelligence
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10 Jun 2025
HMRC paid Fujitsu £310m last year, but Post Office supplier’s UK business faces gradual decline
By Karl FlindersWhile victims are made to fight for every penny they are owed, the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal is handed hundreds of millions of pounds by UK government
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10 Jun 2025
Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation
By Aaron TanFrom powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China
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09 Jun 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickePersonnel movements this week at Exclusive Networks, Six Degrees, Tenable, Pure Storage and LogicMonitor
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09 Jun 2025
Compensation to Post Office scandal victims reaches £1bn milestone
By Karl FlindersThe government has now paid out more than £1bn to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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06 Jun 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Infinigate Group, Assured Data protection, Diliko, N-able, Coro and Quantum Dice
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06 Jun 2025
UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition
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05 Jun 2025
FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store
By Aaron TanThe supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet
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05 Jun 2025
UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPeople experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy
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05 Jun 2025
CCS and Servium contribute to Advania UK growth
By Simon QuickeChannel player reveals how acquisitions contributed to its 2024 performance and how it has grown in the region
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04 Jun 2025
Artificial intelligence to initiate and manage litigations after ‘landmark’ approval
By Karl FlindersThe Garfield Project created an artificial intelligence-based litigation service for small claims, but how far can the technology reach in the legal sector
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04 Jun 2025
Kaseya hires ‘passionate SME advocate’ as next CEO
By Simon QuickeSupplier of tools for managed service providers concludes its five-month search for its leader
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04 Jun 2025
Interview: Pega’s ‘Blueprint’ for breaking the curse of legacy IT
By Bill GoodwinLegacy IT is a drag on profits and innovation, but AI agents will help companies rebuild their processes better than before, claims Pegasystems CTO Don Schuerman
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04 Jun 2025
Open source adoption faces reality checks
By Aaron TanIndustry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges
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04 Jun 2025
Infosecurity 2025: SMEs feel on their own in the face of cyber attacks
By Brian McKennaProject findings to be presented at Infosecurity Europe 2025 highlight vulnerability of SMEs to cyber attack
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03 Jun 2025
Acumatica sale to Vista expected to solidify its cloud ERP
By Jim O'DonnellAcumatica's new ownership by Vista Equity Partners should result in increased investment in industry-specific functionality and AI capabilities, while maintaining independence.
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03 Jun 2025
Fintech growth three times that of finance sector as a whole
By Karl FlindersGlobal fintech revenues reached £280bn in 2024, according to Boston Consulting Group report
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03 Jun 2025
HMRC aims to improve customer service with £1.5bn IT investment
By Lis EvenstadThe department is on the hunt for customer relationship management system and contact centre as a service suppliers, following criticism of its customer service
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02 Jun 2025
Pegasystems expands agentic AI for business automation
By Don FluckingerAgents are here -- but is prompting dead?
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02 Jun 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeThere have been moves this past week at Infinigate Group, NTT DATA, BFS and Wireless Logic
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02 Jun 2025
Agentic AI set to handle 68% of customer service interactions by 2028
By Joe O’HalloranResearch reveals that advanced artificial intelligence will drive more personalised, proactive and predictive support to transform customer experience delivery
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02 Jun 2025
NPCC calls for better tech investment
By Lis EvenstadThe National Police Chiefs’ Council sets out a series of digital ambitions and asks for £220m per year in the upcoming spending review to scale up science and technology capabilities
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02 Jun 2025
Infosecurity 2025: NCA cyber intelligence head spells out trends
By Brian McKennaWill Lyne, head of cyber intelligence at the National Crime Agency, sketches out cyber criminal trends as ransomware and other attack varieties become democratised beyond Russophone, skilled software developers
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02 Jun 2025
How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI
By Aaron TanCompany CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach
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30 May 2025
Grow with SAP fuels Phoenix Global's digital transition
By Jim O'DonnellPhoenix Global implemented S/4HANA Cloud via Grow with SAP to replace outdated systems, digitize manual processes and enable AI capabilities for its metals and mining services.
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29 May 2025
Workday adds seven agents to Illuminate platform
By Alexander S. GillisWorkday expanded its Illuminate platform, adding new automation features for HR, finance and workforce management.
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29 May 2025
Wildix rolls out embedded agentic AI for UCaaS
By Joe O’HalloranUCaaS provider offers real-time, codeless automation with shared memory, native privacy controls and ‘proven’ return on investment, live across more than 1,000 environments
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29 May 2025
HP: Partners key to delivering sustainability
By Simon QuickeVendor HP provides an update on the continuing demand from customers for green technology and the role its channel plays in supporting those needs