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18 Sep 2026
Seismic shift in Splunk pricing spotlights AI data management
The era of simply amassing heaps of raw telemetry is over, Splunk users say. Viable AI agents for automated IT ops will depend on putting all that data in context.
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18 Sep 2026
Harness makes its case for governing autonomous AI SDLC
Harness aims to govern increasingly autonomous software delivery with risk-based controls, agent context and runtime data.
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18 Sep 2026
AI agent autonomy puts CIO controls to the test
As AI leaders warn capabilities are advancing faster than safeguards, CIOs face a more immediate question: how much authority to give enterprise agents.
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18 Sep 2026
US cyber agency endorses ‘decoy’ tactics
Official US guidance suggests organisations consider using cyber decoys to strengthen their detection and response capabilities.
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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
Data dive: London and M4 the datacentre hotspot, but not for long
A fresh count of the UK’s existing datacentres finds 1.6GW, mostly in London and the M4, while a projected 14.6GW heads north to get on the grid
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18 Sep 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at GTIA, Arrow, Bechtle, Westcon-Comstor and Inforcer
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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
Softcat makes $1bn move for GDT
Acquisition of US business seen as delivering a host of benefits that will bring more growth options for the channel platter
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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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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
Trustmarque Ultima ushers in TMU brand
Business unveils fresh look as it continues to integrate businesses that came together in a merger 10 months ago
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17 Sep 2026
Bytes talks of continued strong demand
Channel player shares trading update and indicates customers are continuing to invest in technology and services
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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
TechUK calls for 10-year digital infrastructure strategy
UK tech association warns that the country’s economic growth, productivity and national resilience depend on urgent action to strengthen its digital infrastructure foundations
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17 Sep 2026
Microsoft showcases AI-powered cyber defence tools at GISEC
The company highlights new security capabilities as businesses across the UAE look to secure growing artificial intelligence deployments
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17 Sep 2026
London infrastructure planning rules could see £2.7bn output loss
Report calls for mobile connectivity needs to be addressed, identifying mobile sites earlier and introducing mechanisms to speed up infrastructure replacement
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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
Salesforce wants ASEAN customers to stop thinking in tokens
The region’s customers have stopped bankrolling open-ended AI pilots, and Salesforce is responding with action-based pricing, forward-deployed engineers and tools that hand simple tasks to cheaper models
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16 Sep 2026
Tech companies under fire as Europe proposes social media ban for under-15s
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says technology platforms will have to prove they are safe before children can access them
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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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16 Sep 2026
MSPs are becoming customers’ chief information security officers
Sophos research reveals the extent to which customers are viewing their security partner as a trusted advisor
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16 Sep 2026
Executive interview: Reckitt has no fear of missing out on the AI frenzy
How Bastien Parizot, senior vice-president of global business services and AI at Reckitt, focuses on business outcomes
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16 Sep 2026
Advice for CIOs on AI’s 'existential threat'
Statements by OpenAI chief Sam Altman, following an essay by Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, raise concerns over the safety of frontier models
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16 Sep 2026
Anthropic picks Singapore for fifth APAC office
The Claude developer has hired a former Google Cloud executive to run its ASEAN business, days after CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to slow down
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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
Cisco users urged to patch email gateway flaw
Cisco warns defenders to patch a critical vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway appliance that may be used by attackers to gain root privileges
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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
Splunk Conf 26: Splunk hopes to build confidence in agentic AI
With trust in AI agents close to rock bottom in the popular imagination, Splunk and Cisco unveiled a series of platform enhancements designed to enhance observability and confidence in agentic AI
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15 Sep 2026
UK, US and Netherlands warn of Iranian state spyware campaign
Cyber attackers linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security are targeting opponents and opposition groups with Windows spyware
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15 Sep 2026
Spor extends workplace proposition with Squaredot buy
Addition of design business will add depth to the solution the firm can pitch to customers
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15 Sep 2026
Salesforce puts Claude and Slack in front of its CRM
CRM giant productises the plumbing that lets its own and third-party AI agents operate on the Salesforce platform, and reveals Koa, a reasoning model built with Nvidia
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15 Sep 2026
Node4 welcomes replacement CEO
Following the untimely death of its former boss, the managed service player has chosen its candidate to run the business
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15 Sep 2026
UK Atomic Energy Authority readies US artificial intelligence collaboration
The UKAEA plans to work with the US Department of Energy to combine supercomputing power for nuclear fusion research
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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
CDC chief backs datacentre standards as social licence runs short
CDC Data Centre’s Greg Boorer says the proposed national rules on water and energy will be good for the industry, but warns that years of deliberate anonymity have left operators with no community relationships to fall back on
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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
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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11 Sep 2026
Customers need to be guided through AI journey
The decision by Advania to bet big on AI and increase the support it can provide underlines the need for hand-holding if adoption dreams are going to become reality
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10 Sep 2026
ANZ firms put data foundations before agentic AI
At Boomi World Tour Sydney, Brickworks, Bakers Delight and Cochlear explain how they are shoring up the integration, data and governance foundations that AI agents depend on
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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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10 Sep 2026
IBM and NASA make Moon AI model available on Hugging Face
The foundation mdel can help scientists analyse petabytes of data collected over decades
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10 Sep 2026
Anthropic calls for ‘verifiable effort’ to control frontier AI
After Claude Mythos circumvented guardrails in July, Anthropic now wants an industry effort to control the pace of frontier model development
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09 Sep 2026
Dell touts platform play as AI demand goes beyond cloud suppliers
Enterprises and sovereign buyers are accounting for a growing share of Dell’s AI infrastructure business, and its chief strategy officer has some advice for buyers still waiting for the market to settle
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09 Sep 2026
Healthcare regs should include continuous AI monitoring
A new report provides four recommendations for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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09 Sep 2026
Focus widens SME offerings with Prime Networks buy
Firm makes move to add managed services muscle as it continues to expand the business
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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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09 Sep 2026
Ryanair calls for government action over Nats IT failure
The National Air Traffic Control System was not fully operational for over eight hours, causing major disruption to airlines and passengers
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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
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
GSMA urges policymakers to unlock 6GHz spectrum for mobile
Mobile ecosystem trade association makes case to comms policymakers for freeing up key spectrum band for its members’ use as upper 6GHz emerges as critical capacity band for future networks
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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
Emerge Digital and GCX Managed Services bolster management teams
Managed service specialists look to drive growth and increase support with the arrival of a raft of fresh executives
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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
Computacenter delivers record-breaking H1
Channel player experiences growth across its offerings, as well as geographically in the first half
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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
Interview: Huawei targets Saudi Arabia’s shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption
As enterprises move beyond artificial intelligence pilots, Huawei is positioning its cloud, computing and partner ecosystem to help organisations build scalable AI platforms while maintaining control over data, models and infrastructure
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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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08 Sep 2026
Citi pulls data out of regional silos to pave the way for AI
The bank’s wealth arm has spent 18 months moving client and market data off five regional datacentres and onto one cloud platform, cutting reporting times from weeks to days
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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
InTEC sells off commercial business to Tela
InTEC’s move is designed to help the business increase focus in a couple of chosen areas
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07 Sep 2026
Advania welcomes fresh UK CEO
After a search that has lasted almost seven months, the channel player has settled on its preferred candidate to run the UK business
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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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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
Humans have edge over AI in Dutch hacking contest
As machines become crucial for cyber security, humans wonder where they stand
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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
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04 Sep 2026
CIO interview: Frédéric Laurent, deputy CIO, Starling Bank
We speak to Starling Bank’s deputy CIO, Frédéric Laurent, about how he uses artificial intelligence for coding personally and in his day job
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04 Sep 2026
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face and becomes open platform provider
AI acceleration hardware provider Nvidia announces the acquisition of the open model platform Hugging Face
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03 Sep 2026
New York City to ban children’s use of GenAI tools in school
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved to restrict children’s use of AI tools in the city’s public school system
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03 Sep 2026
Interview: Oracle accelerates Middle East cloud expansion as demand for sovereign AI rises
The company is expanding its regional cloud footprint, growing sovereign cloud deployments and investing in AI skills development as governments and enterprises seek control over data, compliance and artificial intelligence
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03 Sep 2026
Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison called to testify over US health system overspend
The executive chair of Oracle and its CEO will be asked to justify why a project budgeted at $10bn is costing taxpayers $17bn more
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03 Sep 2026
CDW expands AI expertise
Distributor acquires more data and analytics expertise, while Genesys shares a momentum update on the positive impact of demand for AI tools
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03 Sep 2026
Singapore’s digital infrastructure bill leaves cross-border data to contract
Proposed licensing regime for datacentre and cloud providers tightens security and resilience obligations, but organisations using capacity in Johor and Batam will still rely on privacy law and contracts to protect data stored overseas
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02 Sep 2026
UK airport hackers leak stolen customer data
The cyber gang that attacked Manchester Airports Group has leaked data on 8.7 million travellers after its victim refused to pay a ransom
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02 Sep 2026
Mythos helps bug bounty firm find critical hidden RCE
HackerOne used Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos 5 model on its codebase and found a critical hidden flaw
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02 Sep 2026
Distology talks of expansion after Foresight backing
The security distributor has welcomed a fresh private equity backer as it looks to grow the business through M&A
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02 Sep 2026
AWS sets 2026 opening date for Saudi cloud region
New cloud region, AI partnerships and skills programmes underscore AWS’s growing role in supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030
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02 Sep 2026
Microsoft sets November launch for Saudi cloud region
Announcement at Leap 2026 highlights Saudi Arabia’s push to expand local cloud and AI infrastructure in support of Vision 2030
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02 Sep 2026
Rising token bills force rethink of AI cost management
APAC enterprises are consuming more tokens even as unit prices fall, and the advice on what to do about it runs from smarter caching and gated model access to renting their own infrastructure
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01 Sep 2026
Digital ID challenges remain despite government U-turn, says NAO
While the government may have cancelled its digital ID scheme, challenges such as fragmented data, digital access to public services and public trust remain
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01 Sep 2026
Chancellor unveils plans to entice UK tech startups
The UK government aims to build out home-grown research and development in artificial intelligence and cyber security
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01 Sep 2026
CloudClevr bolsters services options with Flow AI buy
Acquired outfit will form the basis of a fresh digital transformation practice that will add AI, data and automation options
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01 Sep 2026
The Security Interviews: Abby Kearns, ActiveState
ActiveState CEO Abby Kearns discusses open source’s ‘existential crisis’, how AI is changing the secure software playbook, and why it’s time to have a different conversation about open source security