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29 Dec 2025
Agentic orchestration, the next AI issue for CIOs to tackle
Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS and others would like to manage all of your AI agents.
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19 Dec 2025
News brief: Browser security flaws pose growing risk
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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18 Dec 2025
Agentic AI security focus of ServiceNow acquisition targets
ServiceNow attempts to build one (secure) platform to rule them all.
Industries News from the past 365 days
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31 Dec 2025
2025 review: Channel stories of the year
A look back over the stories that generated headlines over the past 12 months
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31 Dec 2025
Top 10 police technology stories of 2025
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2025
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31 Dec 2025
Top 10 surveillance, journalism and encryption stories of 2025
A transatlantic row between the UK and the Trump administration erupted after the UK attempted to force Apple to break its advanced encryption. That was just one of a series of stories reporting on the tension between state surveillance and privacy this year
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30 Dec 2025
Oldest victim of Post Office scandal awarded OBE in New Year Honours 2026
The New Year Honours List 2026 conferred an OBE on the oldest living victim of the Post Office scandal, as well as hailing members of the UK technology community
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30 Dec 2025
Top 10 government IT stories of 2025
The past 12 months has seen a number of significant milestones in digital government. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 government IT stories of 2025
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30 Dec 2025
Top 10 technology ethics stories of 2025
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025
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29 Dec 2025
Top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025
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29 Dec 2025
Top 10 cyber security stories of 2025
AI dominated all tech conversations this year, but the concerns of cyber security professionals extend far beyond. From remote work to supply chains, quantum to identity, there were plenty of other topics for the industry to chew over in 2025.
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29 Dec 2025
Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2025
A new digital strategy, funding boosts and struggles to keep the lights on: here are Computer Weekly’s top NHS IT stories in 2025
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29 Dec 2025
Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2025
A new digital strategy, funding boosts and struggles to keep the lights on: here are Computer Weekly’s top NHS IT stories in 2025
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23 Dec 2025
Top 10 financial services stories of 2025
AI and data breaches both caused major disruption in banking this year as the industry faced increased challenges and a seismic shift thanks to emerging tech. Find out more in Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services stories of 2025
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19 Dec 2025
European Commission renews UK data adequacy agreement, ensuring continued free flow of data
Despite calls from some data protection campaigners, the UK's agreement to allow data movement with European Economic Area countries is extended until 2031
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19 Dec 2025
‘Sensitive’ data stolen in Westminster City Council cyber attack
London borough confirms that data breach affecting three neighbouring councils in a shared IT services operation led to personal information being copied by a third party
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19 Dec 2025
UK government confirms Foreign Office cyber attack
Reports blame Chinese hacking group but minister insists the source of the attack is unclear
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19 Dec 2025
Government set for early 2026 court hearing over decision to approve Iver datacentre development
A court date has been assigned for a legal action being brought against the government over its decision to grant planning permission for a datacentre in Iver
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18 Dec 2025
Post Office six years late to warn subpostmasters about Horizon defect
Following pressure from Computer Weekly and forensic investigator, the Post Office has warned subpostmasters about Horizon defect potentially at large for over 20 years
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18 Dec 2025
The AI regulation gap: Is the UK’s pro-innovation approach enough?
As AI advances, the UK’s pro-innovation regulatory stance faces growing scrutiny. With non-statutory principles at its core, can the framework maintain public trust and provide effective oversight?
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18 Dec 2025
Fortinet vulnerabilities prompt pre-holiday warnings
Analysts track exploitation of two vulnerabilities disclosed last week by Fortinet
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18 Dec 2025
MHRA seeks views on healthcare AI regulation
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) wants to know how to regulate AI technologies in the NHS while keeping patients safe
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17 Dec 2025
Jilted Fujitsu replaced by Netcompany in HMRC relationship
Troubled Fujitsu replaced by Netcompany on trading service as HMRC begins to move its outsourcing away from scandal-hit firm
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17 Dec 2025
ClickFix attacks that bypass cyber controls on the rise
NCC’s monthly threat report details the growing prevalence of ClickFix attacks in the wild
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15 Dec 2025
Finance regulator wants mortgage brokers to use artificial intelligence
UK regulator is to encourage mortgage brokers to use artificial intelligence and other technology
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15 Dec 2025
Reinventing the Arabic newsroom: How Al-Masry Al-Youm is harnessing AI, data, and cloud to transform
Al-Masry Al-Youm CIO Omar Badr reveals how Egypt’s leading independent daily has navigated a decade of digital disruption, balancing editorial freedom with cutting-edge technology
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12 Dec 2025
National Audit Office praises Bank of England after complex mega-project
Public spending watchdog says the Bank of England’s core system replacement project offers lessons to other government departments
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12 Dec 2025
Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Open sourcing and assuring AI
Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power
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11 Dec 2025
Beyond Now and Azul expanding channel options
Vendors outline benefits of fresh ownership and acquisition to generate increased opportunities for partners
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10 Dec 2025
Google DeepMind partners with UK government to deliver AI
The partnership promises to provide scientists with access to advanced AI models, as well as help the government become more streamlined
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10 Dec 2025
How digital twins are helping people with motor neurone disease speak
Tech companies, a charity and academics have collaborated to create AI-powered avatars that are helping people with motor neurone disease hold natural conversations
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10 Dec 2025
UK government funds 80 digital skills schemes
The £11.7m Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund will support projects across the UK to help people gain digital skills and access to devices
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10 Dec 2025
Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID
Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions
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09 Dec 2025
Microsoft patched over 1,100 CVEs in 2025
The final Patch Tuesday update of the year brings 56 new CVEs, bringing the year-end total to more than 1,100
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09 Dec 2025
Airline set to launch with end-to-end AI workflows
IBM has been working with Riyadh Air to develop a digital-first, AI native airline that uses its Watson technology on OpenShift running on Azure
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09 Dec 2025
MPs maul digital ID plans in Parliamentary debate
MPs brand the government’s digital ID plans ‘un-British’ and ‘an attack on civil liberties’ during debate on the controversial policy
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09 Dec 2025
How Oracle Red Bull Racing is driving Formula 1 into the future with cloud, AI and data
Access to the F1 team’s garage in Abu Dhabi reveals how Monte Carlo simulations, artificial intelligence and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure power split-second decisions, strategy and championship-winning performance
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09 Dec 2025
Q&A: Natalie Noor, UK&I channel and SME director, Lenovo
Lenovo’s UK channel lead updates on how the year has been and where the focus will be in 2026
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09 Dec 2025
Fujitsu underestimated Post Office scandal backlash
Troubled IT supplier loses UK government megadeal despite internal confidence, as political pressure mounts
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08 Dec 2025
How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion
A growing body of research suggests that the use of live facial recognition is reshaping police perceptions of suspicion in ways that undermine supposed human-in-the-loop protections
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08 Dec 2025
Number of UK social care providers using digital records hits 80%
Use of digital records in social care has doubled, as the UK government explores options to link digital care records with the NHS
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05 Dec 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at EntrustIT, SCC, MLL, Westcon-Comstor and Automat-it
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05 Dec 2025
Interview: Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology, The Pensions Regulator
Data, automation and artificial intelligence are driving the regulator to take new approaches to its work and how it supports the pensions industry, leading to improved experiences for everyone in the UK who has a pension
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05 Dec 2025
Cloudflare fixes second outage in a month
A change to web application firewall policies at Cloudflare caused problems across the internet less than three weeks after another major outage at the service, but no cyber attack is suspected
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05 Dec 2025
Jersey to get remote monitoring for vulnerable adults
Jersey’s Family Nursing and Home Care (FNHC) hopes remote monitoring service will help keep people out of hospital and support care at home
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04 Dec 2025
NCC supporting London councils gripped by cyber attacks
Three west London councils hit by a cyber attack continue to investigate as services remain disrupted nearly two weeks on
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04 Dec 2025
Constrained budgets left security teams short-handed in 2025
With 2024 seeing surges in security funding cuts, lay-offs and hiring freezes, 2025 brought some relief for cyber pros, but constrained budgets are leaving security teams short-staffed
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04 Dec 2025
Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation
The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies
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04 Dec 2025
UK Space Agency pumps £17m into tech projects
The agency is funding 17 different projects through its National Space Innovation Programme, including the design of an AI-powered satellite radar
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04 Dec 2025
Western coalition supplying tech to Ukraine prepared for long war
Russia is deploying hybrid warfare against Europe as western nations supply critical IT and telecoms equipment to Ukraine’s front line
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04 Dec 2025
Fujitsu police contract ‘complicates’ Post Office investigation
National Police investigation into Post Office scandal uses IT infrastructure provided by Fujitsu
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03 Dec 2025
NCSC and BT block a billion dangerous clicks
A protective service jointly developed by the NCSC and BT has disrupted over a billion potential cyber incidents by stopping members of the public from clicking through to dangerous websites
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03 Dec 2025
Interview: Florence Mottay, global CISO, Zalando
Florence Mottay moved from mathematics to software engineering, and is now leading security at Zalando, a high-tech online fashion retailer
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03 Dec 2025
Post Office avoids £1m fine over botched website upgrade data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office considered fining the Post Office £1m for a 2024 data breach that let subpostmasters down again
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03 Dec 2025
Post Office finally investigates Horizon defect, but investigator slams comms strategy
Subpostmaster and investigator met the Post Office over Horizon defect raised six years earlier
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02 Dec 2025
UK prosecution of alleged Chinese spies was ‘shambolic’ says Parliamentary committee
The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy reports that China was engaged in malicious cyber attacks against UK Parliament and democratic institutions
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02 Dec 2025
Use of digital ID in UK achieves statutory status
A formal regime of certification and governance is now in place for digital identity services – just as the UK government presses ahead with its controversial plan for a national ID scheme
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02 Dec 2025
Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches after third system appeal
Post Office scandal campaigner reveals she had her suspicions over a third Post Office system, as review of convictions based on APS/APT looks likely to bring thousands more subpostmasters into scope
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02 Dec 2025
GTDC: Distribution the most cost-effective route to market
Organisation shares its latest report encouraging vendors to deepen their involvement with disties
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02 Dec 2025
CIO interview: Innovation in reworking business processes
David Holton, chief transformation officer at Cambridge and Counties Bank, talks IT modernisation and agentic AI
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02 Dec 2025
Former Post Office legal boss won’t escape police reach
Police say they will question those who evaded the public inquiry, naming former Post Office legal boss Jane MacLeod as an example
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01 Dec 2025
Interview: Dominic Redmond, group CIO, PageGroup
The recruitment firm’s IT chief is looking to use data-enabled technologies, including automation and artificial intelligence, to enhance workplace activities and boost employee productivity
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01 Dec 2025
Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear
It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working
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01 Dec 2025
Google Cloud withdraws complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing tactics
More than a year has passed since Google filed a complaint with the European Commission, outlining its concerns over Microsoft’s licensing tactics, and now the internet search giant has withdrawn it
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01 Dec 2025
Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO, Checkout.com
Checkout.com’s chief technology officer has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry, and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it
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28 Nov 2025
CCRC refers case based on third faulty Post Office system
The latest Post Office prosecution to be sent to the Court of Appeal involves a third IT system in a 2001 case, after previous referrals for people convicted due to flaws in Horizon and Capture software
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28 Nov 2025
Budget 2025: Extra NHS IT cash welcome, but plan lacks clarity
Industry and healthcare leaders are concerned that NHS tech funding is too focused on already approved platforms, fails to tackle core issues and lacks a clear delivery plan
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28 Nov 2025
UK government commits to Loan Charge settlement reforms in wake of independent review into policy
The UK government has agreed to follow through on recommendations made by an independent review of how to resolve the Loan Charge that could wipe thousands of pounds off tax bills for those affected
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27 Nov 2025
Azul channel boss working at scale
Java specialist’s global head of partners has driven the firm towards partners and is continuing to look for more activity as it lands fresh private equity backing
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26 Nov 2025
London councils endure wave of cyber attacks, shared IT services hit
Four London councils – Kensington and Chelsea; Hackney; Westminster; and Hammersmith and Fulham – have suffered cyber attacks, disrupting services and prompting NCSC-supported investigation
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26 Nov 2025
Budget 2025: £300m extra for NHS IT and a £1.8bn budget for digital ID cards
The Autumn Budget contained little by the way of new policies in digital and technology, but handed out some cash to help progress in digitising public services and to support growing tech businesses
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26 Nov 2025
US breach reinforces need to plug third-party security weaknesses
Cyber breach at US financial sector tech provider highlights the risk of third-party vulnerabilities in finance ecosystems
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25 Nov 2025
Antwerp court adjourns high-profile drugs case amid questions over Sky ECC intercept
Defence lawyers ask court to adjourn after unexplained changes found in evidence files containing intercepted messages from Sky ECC encrypted phone network infiltrated by French and Dutch police
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25 Nov 2025
Tech central to swingeing job cuts at ABN Amro
Simplification enabled by the use of the latest technologies underpins Dutch bank’s plan to cut thousands of jobs
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25 Nov 2025
Big tech backers put Nordic AI bid into perspective
Nordic countries declare plan to become world leaders in artificial intelligence by joining forces
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24 Nov 2025
Scotland digital strategy promises government app in 2026
Joint local and central government digital strategy includes plans for a personalised public services app, ethical AI framework and increased public sector data sharing
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24 Nov 2025
UK digital bank Revolut sees value jump £23bn in a year
UK-headquartered fintech firm sees its valuation increase dramatically with its latest share sale
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24 Nov 2025
Government launches GDS Local
Councils will get support from a dedicated unit to transform local digital services, alongside an online platform for public sector digital and data professionals
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24 Nov 2025
Interview: Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight, RAC
Real-time data insights and artificial intelligence are central to supporting the RAC’s motoring services and to getting drivers back on the road as quickly as possible
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21 Nov 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Crayon, Arrow Electronics, Node4, Qodea, BCN, Schneider Electric, Zenture Partners, Solace and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
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21 Nov 2025
Dutch voters grasp digital urgency better than their politicians
A grassroots campaign has propelled digitally competent candidates into the Dutch parliament, despite party leaders placing them low on electoral lists
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21 Nov 2025
UK digital ID scheme cash will come from existing funds
UK Parliamentary committee hearing reveals there will be no permanent government chief digital officer going forward, and digital ID scheme will be funded by existing budgets
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21 Nov 2025
Subpostmaster was told no jury would believe Post Office had ‘dodgy computer’
Academic research says the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters casts doubt on ‘golden thread’ of British justice, that people are innocent until proven guilty
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20 Nov 2025
Focus firmly on AI at Microsoft Ignite
Vendor announces several enhancements to its cloud partner programme to encourage the development of expertise around artificial intelligence products and services
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20 Nov 2025
Swedish welfare authorities suspend ‘discriminatory’ AI model
A machine learning model used by Sweden’s social security agency to flag benefit fraud has been discontinued following investigations by media outlets and the country’s data protection watchdog
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20 Nov 2025
Fujitsu milks £110m from HMRC in six months with hardly a public stir
IT giant Fujitsu pockets £110m from deals with HMRC in six months since the end of March this year
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19 Nov 2025
Government-backed coalition to end gazumping in property market
The government wants a digital platform that can address ‘inefficiencies’ causing stress for homeowners and inflicting huge costs to the economy
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19 Nov 2025
Cloudflare contrite after worst outage since 2019
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince apologises for the firm’s worst outage in years and shares details of how a change to database system permissions caused a cascading effect that brought down some of the web’s biggest names
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19 Nov 2025
Artificial intelligence helps Klarna double revenues with half the staff
Swedish fintech has gradually replaced half of its staff with artificial intelligence and doubled its revenues
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19 Nov 2025
Inside the Middle East tech ambition: How A2RL is shaping the future of AI-driven mobility
Driverless cars push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, real-time decision-making and data-driven mobility at Yas Marina Circuit
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18 Nov 2025
European Commission launches AWS and Microsoft-focused cloud competition probes
The European Commission has launched three investigations into how the continent’s cloud market operates, with two focused specifically on Microsoft and Amazon Web Services
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18 Nov 2025
Cloudflare outage disrupts public web services
An outage at web traffic management specialist Cloudflare has caused disruption across the internet
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18 Nov 2025
NHS signs another major IT deal with the Indian IT sector
Five-year NHS deal sees Tata Consultancy Services continue to grow its UK public sector business
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18 Nov 2025
CCS under fire over ‘anti-SME’ supplier requirements for G-Cloud 15
Government procurement chiefs have shared details of how IT suppliers can participate in G-Cloud 15, but concerns are being raised about changes that may render the framework inaccessible to SMEs
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17 Nov 2025
Technology innovation drives accountancy job changes
IT has often driven changes in bookkeeping. Now, joined-up data and conversational AI is helping accountants revisit a previous era
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17 Nov 2025
UK investment bank IT outages cost £600k an hour
Survey respondents say there are barriers to resilience for UK investment banks, including a skills shortage and internal resistance
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14 Nov 2025
Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack costs firm £485m in the quarter
Jaguar Land Rover’s quarterly financial statement discloses a £485m loss due to the late August cyber attack that halted production for six weeks, damaging the UK economy
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14 Nov 2025
NS&I’s digital overhaul £1.3bn over budget
NAO calls on the government-owned savings bank to come up with ‘realistic plan’ as digital transformation programme runs four years behind, and total costs rise to £3bn
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14 Nov 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at SCC, Hammer, Ingram Micro, N-Able and Selector
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14 Nov 2025
MI5 made multiple applications for phone data to identify BBC journalist’s sources
MI5 discloses it made and authorised unlawful ‘sequential applications’ for Vincent Kearney’s phone data during his time at the BBC, but will neither confirm nor deny whether it undertook further ‘lawful’ surveillance of BBC journalists
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13 Nov 2025
Two-thirds of finance firms use suppliers for AI agent development
Survey finds more banks and insurers are working with suppliers rather than going it alone when developing artificial intelligence agents
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13 Nov 2025
Scottish government to launch cyber observatory
The observatory will analyse and share warnings on public sector cyber threats, and identify emerging risks
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13 Nov 2025
Abu Dhabi hits accelerator on autonomous mobility commercialisation
Investment arm of Emirates development agency reveals 29 strategic partnerships to drive development of autonomous mobility in increasingly important region for smart mobility
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13 Nov 2025
Post Office contract with Fujitsu has option to extend into 2028
Extension agreement for controversial Horizon contract with Fujitsu has option that could take the relationship well into 2028