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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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11 Oct 2026
How F1 and Lenovo shrank the sport’s travelling datacentre
Three racks of IT kit have become one in Formula 1’s travelling datacentre, and the sport has pulled telemetry processing back to the circuit so teams get their data sooner
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09 Oct 2026
Fraudster who targeted ransomware victims appears in US court
Zohar Pinhasi stands accused of duping distressed ransomware victims by offering fake cyber services that he could not provide.
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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
Channel catch-up: News in brief
We recap developments this week at Arrow Electronics, Black & White Engineering, e92plus, Gridheart and Infinity Group
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09 Oct 2026
Why websites need to assess the Wikimedia attack
An OpenAI bot overloaded Wikimedia, attacked a system at the foundation and attempted to change entries
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09 Oct 2026
Openreach adds vigour in push for customers to go digital
UK’s leading communication provider accelerates programme to transition customers away from analogue services, aiming to reach 16.4 million people with stop-sell rules by November 2026
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09 Oct 2026
VMware partner ecosystem sees moves by 11:11 Systems and RapidScale
An acquisition and a partnership indicate some of the routes channel players are taking to extend their reach
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09 Oct 2026
Microsoft tweaks Windows to secure agentic AI
The half-yearly update to the Windows operating system gets a host of features for running AI models locally and securely
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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
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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09 Oct 2026
ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
The Singapore transport operator can now host production Kubernetes workloads on its private cloud, and it wants most of its AI work there, too, as it tries to keep a lid on data exposure and token bills
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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
VMO2: BT’s TalkTalk rescue deal ‘makes a mockery’ of comms market
Virgin Media O2’s boss fires off letter to UK secretary of state warning of danger to the communications market after acquisition of key rival
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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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08 Oct 2026
Broadcom targets 50% VCF 9 adoption by late 2027 as AI speeds vulnerability discovery
Broadcom infrastructure software chief Ram Velaga says AI models that can find software flaws quickly are pushing VMware customers to upgrade faster, and argues enterprises should own rather than rent their AI infrastructure
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07 Oct 2026
AI may be driving more software developers to freelance
The latest Stack Overflow survey shows that a growing number of software developers are working as sole traders
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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
Channel forum: Challenges of navigating the AI world
Leading vendors have made mistakes and the placement of datacentres is causing political uproar – partners have to oversee that evolving environment
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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
How Optus, Bupa and others are using Databricks
Optus has replaced its legacy data platforms, and Bupa’s marketers now get answers in minutes rather than weeks – two of the experiences shared at Databricks’ Data + AI World Tour in Sydney
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06 Oct 2026
AI slop overwhelms Google’s OSS bug bounty programme
Google has closed its open source vulnerability reporting programme to new submissions while it recalibrates in the face of a surge in automated junk reports
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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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06 Oct 2026
Microsoft campus datacentre to rely on gas fuel cells until 2037
Plans show a 72MW datacentre proposed for Microsoft’s Thames Valley Park campus has just 1.8MW of grid power secured, so gas-fed fuel cells will power it until around 2037
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06 Oct 2026
UK government accepts AI healthcare recommendations
An AI sandbox will be used to enable developers, regulators and healthcare partners to test how AI devices can be safely monitored continuously
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06 Oct 2026
BT to acquire TalkTalk comms group
UK government creates conditions allowing country’s leading telco to rescue ailing independent broadband provider, but rivals have raised competition concerns
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06 Oct 2026
JP Morgan Chase most advanced in AI as UK banks group in chasing pack
North American banks dominate the leading group of AI adopters, according to global benchmark
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06 Oct 2026
Cyber insurers in Asia step up security services as market softens
Zurich Insurance is using its claims data to show organisations in Asia the potential cost of a supplier breach or cloud outage, as brokers push insurers to do more than just offer a policy
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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
Norwegian AI firm appeals to block Google gigacenter
Local councillors welcome the prospect of becoming one of the world’s largest centres for AI computing, but a spurned rival thinks they cheated and still got a bad deal
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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
AI governance gap emerges as GCC’s biggest cyber security challenge
Cybergate CISO Srdjan Babic warns that organisations are adopting artificial intelligence faster than they are building the governance, oversight and workforce capabilities needed to manage it securely
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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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05 Oct 2026
Nucleus Network taps AI agent to screen clinical trial volunteers
The Australian clinical research organisation is using an AI agent built on Salesforce’s Agentforce to do early screening of trial volunteers, but its doctors still determine who can participate in a trial
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04 Oct 2026
APAC has the datacentre demand, but turning plans into capacity is the hard part
Asia-Pacific now generates its own datacentre demand, but executives from AWS, Damac Digital and Delta Electronics say the real test is turning announced investments into working capacity
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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
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Exclusive Networks, Opengear, MLL Telecom, Distology and Huntress
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02 Oct 2026
Competition watchdog finds competition issues in nexfibre/Netomnia merger
Investigation including a round of counterfactuals undertaken by national Competition and Markets Authority into major provider’s buyout of altnet finds grounds for concern on completion
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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
Air IT offers SMEs a way through AI confusion
Channel player’s suite of services designed to take the headaches out of choosing which approach to take to AI technology
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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
Bank of England warns of AI debt
Bank of England governor Andy Bailey warns that artificial intelligence benefits may take longer to be realised
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01 Oct 2026
NetApp aims Novus storage at AI factory bottlenecks
NetApp Insight launches for new Novus storage that scales to 100TBps to keep AI factory GPUs fed, European data sovereignty controls and six months of free AI Data Engine
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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
Logicalis research adds to picture of customer gaps
The ambition is there to protect data, but the ability to do so is different, and it’s opening the door for those with managed security skills
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01 Oct 2026
Atos invests in AI education for West Midlands youth
IT services provider is working with Tech First Youth to provide artificial intelligence education to 650,000 young people
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01 Oct 2026
Everpure channel boss encouraging partners to seize AI-fuelled opportunities
Recently appointed EMEA and LatAm partner lead shares talks about the current areas of growth and his approach to the role
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30 Sep 2026
‘Inherent sovereignty is a fallacy’ says Beyond.pl AI factory exec
Beyond.pl built central Europe’s first sovereign AI factory on Everpure and Nvidia kit – now its CEO argues the real issue is operational sovereignty, not where the box sits
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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
Maintel shares H1 numbers as transformation continues
Cloud and comms services player updates markets, with its focus on customers one of the bright spots in the period
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30 Sep 2026
Cyber security without humans? The rise of agentic AI
The next evolution of cyber security may be autonomous, but industry leaders warn that trust, governance and human judgement can't be automated
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30 Sep 2026
Sweden boosts cyber threat security defences amid AI advances
Sweden is strengthening its national security defences against cyber attacks
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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
Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures
An Everpure survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across eight countries finds 90% recognise the risk, yet 64% lack a formal strategy to close ‘the sovereignty gap’
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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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30 Sep 2026
Token bills to push most enterprise AI workloads onto open-weight models
With AI agents consuming tokens at an alarming rate, most enterprises have blown their AI budgets – and McKinsey expects cheaper open-weight models to handle the bulk of routine work
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29 Sep 2026
Cyber authorities issue alerts over exploitation of Citrix vulns
The latest vulnerabilities to be uncovered in the frequently targeted Citrix NetScaler product lines were being exploited well before disclosure, prompting disquiet
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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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29 Sep 2026
Service player Wemtech lands Peach PE backing
Channel player able to tap into expertise as well as looking to private equity player to support its next phase of growth
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29 Sep 2026
Dutch datacentre sector pitches itself as relief for an overloaded grid
European datacentre associations argue that building datacentres where renewable power is generated could ease grid congestion in the Netherlands and beyond
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28 Sep 2026
Kiteworks lifts shutdown order after incident-free weekend
Kiteworks customers are back up and running after a highly unusual preemptive shutdown that came amid indications of an impending cyber attack
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28 Sep 2026
Are AI coders more trouble than they’re worth?
More and more code is being produced by AI tools. A poll finds that software teams are struggling to keep pace
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28 Sep 2026
Ofcom directs Openreach to withdraw broadband customer offer
UK’s leading broadband provider dealt blow by national comms regulator regarding offer to attract customers, but gains approval for others in sales basket
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28 Sep 2026
Oktane 2026: The industry is ready to talk about AI kill switches
The concept of an AI kill switch – a means to terminate out-of-control agents – sounds dramatic, but security leaders are now starting to talk openly and pragmatically about why they are needed and how to use them
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28 Sep 2026
UiPath’s Cartographer agent interviews staff to map how businesses run
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says the company’s Cartographer agent will capture the institutional knowledge AI agents lack by interviewing employees and learning from the corrections they make
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27 Sep 2026
Vast Data pitches confidential AI to APAC’s regulated industries
DataEnclave, due in the coming months, protects artificial intelligence models and sensitive data while they are processed on GPUs, with Australian neocloud Sharon AI among the cloud providers lined up to offer it
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25 Sep 2026
Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance
Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in High Court claim for data protection breaches and harassment
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25 Sep 2026
Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers
An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers
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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
How Meta plans to deliver petabit connectivity between US and France
Meta is working with NEC, Sumitomo Electric Industries and Orange to deliver petabit transoceanic cabling capacity
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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
Cost a major barrier to wider AI adoption
The channel must not lose sight of the importance of demonstrating return on investment if artificial intelligence pilots are to be turned into full-scale projects
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25 Sep 2026
TD Synnex boss talks of widening AI impact
Talking about the distributor’s third-quarter numbers provides a chance to touch on the opportunities the firm is taping into now as well as ones emerging in the near future
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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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25 Sep 2026
Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox
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24 Sep 2026
Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination
Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users
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24 Sep 2026
IBM extends consultancy depth with Logiq Consulting buy
Vendor continues to follow a pattern of using M&A to add more support options to put in front of public sector customers
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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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24 Sep 2026
Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin
The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asia’s first enterprise to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents
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23 Sep 2026
Phoenix47 grows as it plugs the channel’s services gap
Firm shares update on progress as it expands geographically and invests in its ability to support partners and customers
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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
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
Informatica wants AI agents to stop making up the numbers
Informatica, owned by Salesforce, is making its catalogue metadata machine-readable, and adding trust indicators to answers in Claude so customers can see where a figure comes from before they act on it
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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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23 Sep 2026
Engineering Council licenses CIISec to assess cyber pros
Partnership gives cyber pros the opportunity to achieve Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status from the Engineering Council
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22 Sep 2026
Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch
In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles