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09 Oct 2026
AI coding tools run riot over SBOM controls as EU CRA looms
Shifting open source dependency liability under the EU CRA intensifies AI-related software supply chain security issues, per discussions at Open Source Summit Europe.
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09 Oct 2026
Prompt: AI agents are running into the limits of access
As agents take on more work for users, companies are deciding whether to let outside AI systems act on their platforms.
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09 Oct 2026
AI data center land buying hits $6B as power premiums rise
Utilities want certainty from data center builders, while data center builders need committed power, a 'chicken-and-egg' dilemma with a big effect on data center site selection.
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09 Oct 2026
NCSC and pals call out company that backed Chinese state hackers
The NCSC's joint advisory names perennial offender Integrity Technology, accusing it of facilitating cyber attacks on behalf of Flax Typhoon, a Chinese state threat actor.
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09 Oct 2026
Mastercard commits to offline payment capability in uncertain world
Payment card provider will enable offline payments to be accepted in Europe in the event of power and network outages
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09 Oct 2026
Interview: Chris Kairinos, senior director of global modern workplace technology, A+E Global Media
The US media company is looking to AI and agentic tools to improve its IT service desk and employee experience
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08 Oct 2026
Scope of Asos data breach wider than first reported
Following a data breach earlier in October, cyber criminals appear to have a much more complete picture of Asos’ user base than first thought, it has emerged
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08 Oct 2026
The Security Interviews: Evren Karaibrahimgil, Welsh FA
Evren Karaibrahimgil, IT manager at the FAW, on securing the national football association of Wales against evolving cyber threats, with Euro 2028 on home soil in mind
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08 Oct 2026
ING deliberately started AI journey the hard way
Dutch bank has kicked off its artificial intelligence journey with a complex mortgages product line
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08 Oct 2026
HSBC cuts wealth management roles as AI increasingly services customers
UK bank could cut 70% of its human wealth advisers as it uses artificial intelligence to serve wealthy clients
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08 Oct 2026
Public sector risk and double standards over occupied Palestine
The UK bans cloud and software for Russia, but sanctions illegal Israeli settlements only narrowly – while AWS, Google and Microsoft run the IT infrastructure for the occupation
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07 Oct 2026
UK Supreme Court to decide whether to block ‘trivial’ data protection claims
Businesses are being inundated with trivial AI-generated data protection, say lawyers
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07 Oct 2026
UK Supreme Court to decide whether to block ‘trivial’ data protection claims
Businesses are being inundated with trivial AI-generated data protection, say lawyers
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07 Oct 2026
Channel forum: 30% of EMEA partners will disappear by 2030
Analyst warns the ecosystem is evolving and those that want to remain in business need to transform their approach
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07 Oct 2026
Academics study impact of computer evidence presumption on lawyer perceptions
Study to delve into how 25 years of flawed legal presumption has affected perceptions of practitioners
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07 Oct 2026
UAE positions sovereign AI as global export strategy
At AI Everything Abu Dhabi, Core42 CEO Talal Al Kaissi outlined how sovereign AI is evolving beyond national borders, with the UAE seeking to become a global hub for AI infrastructure, compute capacity and cross-border digital sovereignty
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06 Oct 2026
Asos app users receive threatening messages after hack
A previously unknown hacking group sent threatening messages to customers of fashion website Asos after allegedly breaching its Snowflake data platform
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05 Oct 2026
Metropolitan Police awards Atos with £350m IT deal
IT firm will provide London police force with IT services for six years as part of new deal
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05 Oct 2026
Single mother faces removal from UK over eVisa and admin errors
A malfunctioning electronic visa status and administrative errors on the part of the Home Office have left a single mother and her son facing removal from the UK, despite her proactive efforts to legally secure a new visa
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05 Oct 2026
NAO to investigate what went wrong in Capita’s civil service pension takeover
The transfer of the Civil Service Pension Scheme to a new administrator has been a disaster, but why?
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05 Oct 2026
UK signs innovation and tech deal with Taiwan
Agreement builds on existing collaboration between the UK and Taiwan, and aims to drive development in several areas, including semiconductors and standards around artificial intelligence
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05 Oct 2026
Middle East firms risk scaling cyber threats as AI adoption accelerates, says Illumio
Security visibility, segmentation and breach containment are becoming critical as organisations across the UAE and Saudi Arabia rush to deploy AI technologies
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02 Oct 2026
UK and Europe at risk from Chinese tech, says security think tank
Although the UK and Europe have laws to restrict Chinese technology from critical infrastructure, implementation is patchy
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02 Oct 2026
UK data regulator restructures amid allegations of ‘toxic’ workplace culture
A reimagined structure for the UK data regulator raises questions about the effectiveness of its oversight, as staff continue to express concern over a toxic workplace culture that has taken hold under the organisation’s leadership
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02 Oct 2026
Government faces judicial review over Post Office Capture redress
Former subpostmasters could apply for judicial review over unfair redress of financial losses
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02 Oct 2026
Members braced as Teachers’ Pension transfer approaches
The UK’s Teachers’ Pension scheme administration is set to transfer from Capita to Tata Consultancy Services
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02 Oct 2026
DWP insources Universal Credit checking work
Government department moves nearly 3,000 staff from supplier as it insources work in effort to make savings
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01 Oct 2026
Teen hacker arrested amid KillSec cyber gang takedown
A multinational operation targeting the KillSec ransomware gang has led to three arrests, including an unnamed 16-year-old
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01 Oct 2026
Microsoft, UAE Cyber Council and Core42 deploy AI cyber defence across government
MDASH roll-out builds on Microsoft and Core42’s expanding sovereign cloud investments in the UAE, supporting the nation’s cyber security ambitions through AI-driven threat detection and code security
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01 Oct 2026
Channel key to next stage of growth as Toughbook reaches milestone
EMEA partner lead shares vision of increased activity as the firm cuts the cake after three decades of business
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30 Sep 2026
Post Office process redress scheme pays out £4m so far
Post Office Process Review scheme, set up to redress subpostmaster losses caused by non-Horizon processes, products and policies, closes
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30 Sep 2026
Half of Brits struggle to spot AI scams
Artificial intelligence-based scams are increasing in number and sophistication, according to National Trading Standards findings
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30 Sep 2026
Trust Bank cuts incident triage time to two minutes with AI agents
The Singapore digital bank is running AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to work out the likely cause of an incident before engineers join the call, with humans still deciding on the fix
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30 Sep 2026
Saudi Arabia’s next AI challenge is turning infrastructure into capability
Magna AI executive says governance, operational ownership and sovereign control will determine whether organisations can scale artificial intelligence beyond pilots
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30 Sep 2026
Schneider Electric extends channel access to decarbonisation programme
Vendor working with Lenovo and Greenly to get its emissions reduction programme in front of more people
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29 Sep 2026
Only 30% of Metropolitan Police officers have completed mandatory data training
Metropolitan Police senior officers admit that only 30% of the force has completed mandatory data protection training following a series of high-profile data incidents
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25 Sep 2026
A bright future for distribution?
Where is the world heading for disties? Billy MacInnes canvases a range of opinions to find out
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25 Sep 2026
Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation
The national police investigation into the Post Office IT scandal has now received the full funding it requires
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25 Sep 2026
French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging
French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech
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25 Sep 2026
Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI
Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks
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25 Sep 2026
Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment
Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas
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24 Sep 2026
US military confirms existence of orbital weapons
The US military has for the first time confirmed the existence of orbital weapons, but has not divulged details of their capabilities or whether they have been integrated with Space Force’s growing arsenal of AI systems
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24 Sep 2026
Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath
With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365
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24 Sep 2026
Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency
A draft architecture published under the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy spells out what full software sovereignty requires and why full hardware sovereignty remains out of reach
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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
UK national centre will fight Russian disinformation, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham
National Centre for Information Defence will disrupt information warfare from hostile states, UK prime minister Andy Burnham has announced
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23 Sep 2026
Exabeam heralds channel-driven growth
Supplier updates on progress made since it opted to go partner-first and introduce its Apex programme
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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
Dubai and Microsoft launch real-time cyber resilience dashboard for government entities
Purpose-built zero-trust platform gives Dubai Electronic Security Center continuous visibility into compliance with the emirate’s Information Security Regulation, replacing point-in-time assessments with live security insights
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22 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence
Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler
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22 Sep 2026
UK government defends ‘fundamentally flawed’ eVisa system
The government has rejected a suggestion from the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the electronic visa system should move to a more stable, token-based process, rather than the current error-prone system that relies on real-time database checks
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22 Sep 2026
The Middle East’s AI race has a people problem
Middle East firms are quickly snapping up AI hardware, but finding the right people to put it to work effectively in everyday operations is proving a lot more difficult
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22 Sep 2026
Capita lacks the ‘capacity and ability’ to run GP pension scheme, BMA tells MPs
The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to MP committees calling for the Capita-run GP pension scheme to be brought in-house
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22 Sep 2026
Splunk helps US research uni embrace ‘student-powered’ security
When she was asked to let IT students run its SOC, New Jersey Institute of Technology CISO Sharon Kelley ran a mile. Find out why she changed her mind, and how Splunk is helping her raise a new generation of cyber analysts
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21 Sep 2026
AI hasn’t changed ‘core skills’ needed for work, say experts
AI is rapidly changing the world of work and how we navigate daily life, but the core skills schools need to instil in students haven’t changed
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21 Sep 2026
IBM enabling partners to deliver a consultative sell
Vendor increases investment in education to arm partners with the tools to deliver AI guidance to users
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21 Sep 2026
Barnet council bringing Capita IT work in-house after alternative contract ‘abandoned’
London Borough of Barnet’s extended IT service contract with Capita finally comes to an end
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18 Sep 2026
Interview: François-Xavier Pierrel, chief data officer, TF1
As the French broadcaster looks to compete in a streaming-led world, its data strategy and use of AI agents will be fundamental to transforming the business
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18 Sep 2026
Hillsborough Law should catch bosses at firms like Fujitsu and Capita
Calls for the Public Office (Accountability) Bill to be expanded to government supplier bosses
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18 Sep 2026
GISEC: UAE advances collective cyber resilience in AI and quantum era
The UAE Cyber Security Council is advancing a strategy built on AI, cyber readiness and emerging technologies as organisations prepare for the next generation of threats
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18 Sep 2026
Capita boss gets ‘obscene’ pay packet while retired civil servants need emergency loans
Adolfo Hernandez is said to have earned £1.6m in his yearly pay packet, as the government pension scheme he oversees fails to pay retirees
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17 Sep 2026
Home Office challenged on ‘farcical’ secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ order
UK government argues that national security would be damaged if it departs from ‘neither confirm nor deny policy’ on Apple ‘backdoor’ notice
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17 Sep 2026
Interview: Stephen Wood, chief operating officer, Rathbones Asset Management
Data is so important for the financial services firm that its COO leads the strategy – and it’s enabling them to forge ahead with AI and agentic technologies
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17 Sep 2026
MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions
Government pledges planning guidance by Christmas and environmental impact assessments for schemes of more than 50MW, with Scotland’s committed pipeline at 14 schemes and 2.4GW
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17 Sep 2026
GISEC Global highlights growing influence of women leaders in cyber resilience
Female cyber security leaders from government, finance, research and international organisations share how opportunity, inclusion and confidence are helping shape the next generation of cyber talent across the Middle East and beyond
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17 Sep 2026
Saffron Building Society drinks its ‘first drop’ of artificial intelligence
Mutual society adopts artificial intelligence platform from FintechOS for end-to-end mortgage origination
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16 Sep 2026
Why Thomson Reuters developed its own proprietary AI model
The content and technology provider has spurned the offerings of AI providers to instead develop an in-house large language model that it believes will bring significant competitive advantage
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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
Capita doesn’t get to ‘walk away from’ civil service pension mess, says minister
UK government minister tells a packed-out Westminster debate that Capita must sort out Civil Service Pension Scheme problems before any decision on future of scheme
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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
UK rolls out digital ID for alcohol sales
Changes to the law that will enable the retail and hospitality industry to introduce digital identity checks for alcohol sales are being rolled out
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14 Sep 2026
UK lawmakers call for new law to protect human rights from AI systems
MPs and peers call for the UK to create a statutory AI oversight body with powers to test and evaluate high-risk uses of AI and to prevent the deployment of AI that poses risks to human rights
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14 Sep 2026
Finnish government AI plan puts thousands of public sector jobs at risk
Nordic government estimates huge cost savings and productivity gains through public sector AI plan
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11 Sep 2026
US lawmakers call for UK court to lift secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ surveillance
Congress warns that the UK’s unprecedented secrecy over a ‘backdoor’ surveillance order against Apple is straining relations between the two countries
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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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11 Sep 2026
UK government to create team to validate Capita’s data on troubled pension scheme
Cabinet Office is setting up a function to check the civil service pension scheme data provided by Capita
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11 Sep 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Team Metalogic, Godel, Onecom Partners, Flare and Blackpoint Cyber
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11 Sep 2026
Civil service union welcomes pension scheme insourcing plan
PCS union chief met Cabinet Office minister to discuss troubled pension scheme run by Capita
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11 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must shape AI, use open source
As frontier models outpace cyber defences, two public sector voices set out different answers to the same security question – transparency and procurement leverage
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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
Nationwide consolidates 19 data stores to one in the cloud
Building society creates a single company-wide data platform using Microsoft cloud technology
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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
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must move to full AI transformation
AWS says public sector AI adoption must move to ‘full transformation’ as it shows advanced workflow redesign yields 68% efficiency gains at its London symposium
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10 Sep 2026
Capita meeting self-imposed civil service pension targets ‘not sufficient’, says government
UK government views the outsourcer’s overall performance as ‘unacceptable’ after it reports meeting a self-imposed target
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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
Government to force tech companies to verify age of users to protect children
Phone and tablet users will be required to verify their ages with credit card or official ID under government plans to prevent under-18s viewing nude images.
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08 Sep 2026
UK government proposes AI first responders for cyber attacks
The UK government will use money set aside for defensive investments to build an agentic cyber incident response capability, ministers say
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08 Sep 2026
UK committed datacentre pipeline grows to more than 14GW
Barbour ABI data show UK’s datacentre pipeline has grown to 173 projects and more than 14GW of capacity, driven by AI demand and large sites in Scotland and the North East
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08 Sep 2026
TSB CIO leaves bank as Santander merger progresses
UK bank TSB has let its IT boss go as part of its integration with Spanish banking giant Santander
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08 Sep 2026
Government has seen enough of Capita failure and Civil Service Pension Scheme to be moved in-house
Members of the troubled outsourced scheme are still waiting for pensions nine months after Capita took over its management
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08 Sep 2026
Power costs curb UK advanced tech defence strategy
High energy costs and inability to manufacture hardware and frontier models limit the UK’s advanced tech defence and security capabilities
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08 Sep 2026
Interview: Gill Haus, CIO, Chase
Even when leading 12,000 IT professionals to support 87 million consumers and 7.5 million small businesses, the tech chief at JPMorgan's consumer banking arm says being a CIO is still fun
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08 Sep 2026
Nokia opens Riyadh R&D centre to advance AI-powered network automation and support Saudi Vision 2030
Facility will develop AI-driven network automation software, strengthen local digital skills and contribute Made in Saudi innovations for global telecoms markets
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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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07 Sep 2026
Activist takes data protection watchdog to court after Europol ‘unlawfully’ processed personal data
Europe’s data protection supervisor (EDPS) faces court action over claims it failed to properly investigate Europol for ‘unlawfully’ processing the data of a human rights activist
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07 Sep 2026
HP grows Saudi presence through AI, manufacturing and skills investment
With AI research, commercial manufacturing and startup development initiatives, HP is turning its Vision 2030 commitment into tangible outcomes across the Kingdom
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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
US senator Bernie Sanders calls for ban on AI superintelligence
Two bills aimed at curbing the possibility of superintelligent AI systems, and regulating the use of agentic AI, are being introduced in the US
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04 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping NHS hyperscaler dependence
Mapping NHS DNS data reveals a heavy reliance on US hyperscalers, with Microsoft 365 routing email and infrastructure for the vast majority of trusts in a tangled web of connections
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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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04 Sep 2026
Billion-dollar AWS financial services investment builds on a decade of work
The US tech giant committed to the financial services sector a decade ago, which has seen its offering develop alongside the industry