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28 Jan 2026
Alteryx launches in-warehouse data prep tool for BigQuery
Live Query for BigQuery eliminates the need to move data between systems, saving customers from spending on data egress and reducing the risk of security leaks.
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28 Jan 2026
Dynatrace AI agents draw on new observability integrations
Dynatrace rolls out AI agents grounded in a newly consolidated observability data back end and user interfaces, as enterprise AI ROI now hinges on context engineering.
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28 Jan 2026
Domo adds App Catalyst to platform to aid AI development
By combining natural language code generation with enterprise-grade security and governance, the vendor aims to help customers more successfully build cutting-edge applications.
Industries News from the past 365 days
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14 Feb 2025
Gartner: CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives
Only 14% of security leaders can ‘effectively secure organisational data assets while also enabling the use of data to achieve business objectives’, according to Gartner
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14 Feb 2025
Government launches consultation on plan to streamline business through e-invoicing
Government announces 12-week consultation on electronic invoicing as part of its plan for change
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14 Feb 2025
Government renames AI Safety Institute and teams up with Anthropic
Addressing the Munich Security Conference, UK government technology secretary Peter Kyle announces a change to the name of the AI Safety Institute and a tie-up with AI company Anthropic
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13 Feb 2025
UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple
US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-US Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users
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13 Feb 2025
UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers
The UK government has imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime syndicate responsible for aiding ransomware attacks, targeting the group and individual members
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched
Sustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement
The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut
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12 Feb 2025
CCRC reviewing 17 Post Office convictions with potential Capture software involvement
Statutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace
At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace
At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence
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11 Feb 2025
Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs
A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries
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11 Feb 2025
MPs demand bank bosses come clean over IT outages following Barclays crash
Treasury committee wants banks to provide details of how IT failures have affected their businesses over the past two years
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11 Feb 2025
Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal
Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape
The focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up
A number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris
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11 Feb 2025
F1’s Red Bull charges 1Password to protect its 2025 season
For the upcoming 2025 Formula 1 season, Oracle Red Bull Racing adds cyber security partner 1Password to its roster of team suppliers and sponsors
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11 Feb 2025
AI projects get £85m funding to improve NHS diagnostics and drugs
The funding pot is being distributed between three projects, aiming to establish new ways of researching how artificial intelligence can be used to target hard-to-treat diseases and develop medicines
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10 Feb 2025
Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab
A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out of the UK
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10 Feb 2025
Natural England clears clouds with machine learning
Earth observation images from satellites can be blotted by cloud cover, but Natural England has cleared the sky using artificial intelligence
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10 Feb 2025
Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons
Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems
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10 Feb 2025
Unionised drivers to stage ride-hailing app strike
Drivers employed by Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are set to log off for six hours on 14 February 2025 in long-running disputes over poor pay, work conditions and algorithmic transparency
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09 Feb 2025
Government opens up bidding for AI growth zones
As part of its AI opportunities action plan, the government is encouraging local authorities to put in bids for AI growth zones
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09 Feb 2025
HMRC spends £785m a year on running digital tax systems
Beyond £785m spend, HMRC also spent £482m on upgrading legacy systems and introducing new digital systems, as it continues to fall behind its plans to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world
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07 Feb 2025
Tech companies brace after UK demands backdoor access to Apple cloud
The UK has served a notice on Apple demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored by users anywhere in the world on Apple’s cloud service
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07 Feb 2025
US lawmakers move to ban DeepSeek AI tool
US politicians have introduced a bill seeking to ban the use of the DeepSeek AI tool on government-owned devices, citing national security concerns due to its alleged links to the Chinese state
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07 Feb 2025
Ransomware payment value fell over 30% in 2024
Several factors, including the impact of law enforcement operations disrupting cyber criminal gangs and better preparedness among users, may be behind a significant drop in the total value of ransomware payments
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06 Feb 2025
UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre begins incident classification work
The Cyber Monitoring Centre will work to categorise major incidents against a newly developed scale to help organisations better understand the nature of systemic cyber attacks and learn from their impact
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06 Feb 2025
Thales encouraging wider portfolio sales
Security player introduces fresh partner programme to make it easier for the channel to sell across products, including the fruits of the Imperva acquisition
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05 Feb 2025
Malaysian public sector embraces generative AI
Nearly half a million civil servants set to get access to Google Workspace with Gemini to improve delivery of public services
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05 Feb 2025
Met Police spied on BBC journalists’ phone data for PSNI, MPs told
The Metropolitan Police monitored the phones of 16 BBC journalists on behalf of police in Northern Ireland, a cross-party group of MPs heard
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05 Feb 2025
State of Open Con 25: Why public sector needs an open approach
Openness, open source and open data were among the topics discussed at OpenUK’s State of Open Con 25 in London
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05 Feb 2025
Dell shares details of 2025 partner programme
Focus is on artificial intelligence, PC refresh, storage and collaborating more closely with the channel to support growth
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05 Feb 2025
MPs to scrutinise use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector
MPs launch inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the financial services sector
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05 Feb 2025
Youth activists protest Meta over mental health impacts
Protest outside Meta’s London offices marks launch of Mad Youth Campaign, an effort by activists to challenge the ways in which corporate power negatively shapes the conditions young people live under
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05 Feb 2025
MoD set to develop £50m data analytics platform with Kainos
The Ministry of Defence has chosen IT services provider Kainos to develop its £50m data analytics platform across all armed services, over a three-year programme
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04 Feb 2025
DSIT issues guidance to support public sector hosting of cloud workloads in overseas datacentres
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has issued guidance to support public sector organisations that want to host workloads and applications in overseas datacentres for cost and resilience reasons
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04 Feb 2025
Can AI identify financially vulnerable people better than humans?
Research from customer experience firm Nice finds that AI can identify financially vulnerable people better than humans and offer more comfortable channels for financial problem solving
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03 Feb 2025
Nationwide Building Society to train people to think like cyber criminals
Nationwide wants to help bring more diversity into UK cyber security skills base through partnership with training specialist
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03 Feb 2025
Government sets out cyber security practice code to stoke AI growth
The government has set out a cyber security code of practice for developers to follow when building AI products
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03 Feb 2025
Disjointed industrial strategy a barrier to UK scaleup success
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee calls on Labour to join-up piecemeal initiatives and cut bureaucracy
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03 Feb 2025
Government failed to provide accurate cost of Post Office scandal compensation
Limited information is likely to lead to significantly inaccurate assumptions on the cost of Post Office scandal compensation schemes
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03 Feb 2025
DSIT permanent secretary says more AI transparency needed
The government must improve transparency around the use of artificial intelligence systems throughout the public sector if it is going to gain and retain trust in how the technology is being deployed
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31 Jan 2025
Police swoop on Sky ECC cryptophone distributors in Spain and Holland
Dutch and Spanish police have arrested four people accused of making millions of euros by distributing Sky ECC encrypted phones to criminal organisations
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31 Jan 2025
Barclays hit by major IT outage on HMRC deadline day
Customers of Barclays Bank are left unable to access web app and online banking following a significant IT outage that seems to have come at the worst possible time
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31 Jan 2025
How Zebra is empowering frontline workers through tech
Zebra Technologies’ CEO Bill Burns discusses the company’s growth strategy and how it is enhancing frontline worker capabilities through machine vision, artificial intelligence and robotics
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30 Jan 2025
Major obstacles facing Labour’s AI opportunity action plan
Skills, data held in legacy tech and a lack of leadership are among the areas discussed during a recent Public Accounts Committee session
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30 Jan 2025
First international AI safety report published
A global cohort of nearly 100 artificial intelligence experts publish first international AI safety report ahead of the third AI summit, outlining an array of challenges posed by the technology that will be used to inform upcoming discussions
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30 Jan 2025
Transparency on public sector AI use fosters trust, says AI minister Feryal Clark
The government’s decision to publish a batch of algorithmic transparency records signals its latest effort in showing potential opportunities AI and technology could provide
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30 Jan 2025
QBS Software picks up Prianto
Expansive distributor seeks to strengthen its EMEA position with a move for fellow channel player with wide geographical reach
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30 Jan 2025
Interview: Volvo’s engineering lead discusses tech stacks
Volvo Cars’ approach to manufacturing is becoming more software-defined, built on top of what it calls ‘a superset tech stack’
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30 Jan 2025
Covid effect opens door to music learning through Icelandic innovation
Icelandic tech startup Moombix describes itself as an ‘Uber for music lessons’. Its founder tells Computer Weekly why
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29 Jan 2025
How government hackers are trying to exploit Google Gemini AI
Google’s threat intel squad has shared information on how nation state threat actors are attempting to exploit its Gemini AI tool for nefarious ends
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29 Jan 2025
Chancellor backs plans to boost Oxford-Cambridge growth
To build a UK Silicon Valley between Oxford and Cambridge, boosting the region’s tech capabilities, requires more trains, more roads and more houses
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29 Jan 2025
Vallance rejects latest charge to reform UK hacking laws
Science minister Patrick Vallance rejects proposed amendments to the Computer Misuse Act, arguing that they could create a loophole for cyber criminals to exploit
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29 Jan 2025
Interview: Digital tech fuels AutoTrader’s drive into the future
Led by a technology enthusiast, AutoTrader is on a digital journey that began when it decided to take a different route in 2007