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24 Jul 2026
NetScout doubles AI DDoS defenses after infrastructure buy
NetScout boosts its attack mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps and plans to strengthen integration between its on-premises and cloud-based tools.
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24 Jul 2026
IBM infrastructure revenue down; open source, quantum on rise
IBM is looking to close what its CEO is calling "delayed sales" and eyeing a quantum future. While infrastructure and mainframe revenue is down, other units are up.
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24 Jul 2026
WEKA pushes full-stack approach to keep GPUs fed
WEKA addresses AI inference bottlenecks with WEKApod 3, its first custom-designed hardware, paired with NeuralMesh 6 software to improve GPU efficiency.
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24 Jul 2026
US government to consider AI Kill Switch law
Two US congressmen have introduced a bill to give Washington the power to pull the plug on rogue AI models in an emergency.
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24 Jul 2026
Patrick Vallance returns as AI taskforce chair
Following stepping down as science minister, Vallance’s return marks a rethink on AI, taking best practices from the UK’s Covid-19 Taskforce
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24 Jul 2026
SAP signals channel role as AI becomes increasingly embedded
Research from SAP Engagement Cloud underlines the shift in the market and the need for experts who can talk data, privacy and customer experience
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24 Jul 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at 11:11 Systems, Ignition Technology, Phoenix Software, Bechtle, Keepit and BCE
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24 Jul 2026
OpenUK calls for a UK version of the Linux Foundation
Tech sovereignty needs to be a part of the UK government’s reindustrialisation plans, and this requires an open source focus
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24 Jul 2026
‘It beggars belief’ as DWP ‘drags its heels’ over subpostmaster prosecutions reviews
Government department prosecuted around 100 subpostmasters in relation to benefits fraud, with support from the Post Office, and has made no advancement in the 18 months since its independent review of prosecutions was announced
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24 Jul 2026
Russian APT Laundry Bear perfects zero-click phishing attack
A newly identified Russian state threat actor is using a novel zero-click phishing technique, likely developed with the help of an AI, to target Western users of Zimbra software products
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24 Jul 2026
UK broadband altnets call for telecoms to be at heart of growth agenda
Trade body for the UK’s independent broadband providers warns government over effects of new policy concerning country’s digital infrastructure on broadband delivery, digital inclusion and network resilience
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24 Jul 2026
Why embodied AI security extends beyond the robot
As AI moves into robots, autonomous vehicles and industrial systems, attackers are likely to target the credentials, cloud services and update channels that control them
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24 Jul 2026
Why embodied AI security extends beyond the robot
As AI moves into robots, autonomous vehicles and industrial systems, attackers are likely to target the credentials, cloud services and update channels that control them
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23 Jul 2026
MI5 and PSNI ordered to pay damages to BBC journalist Vincent Kearney over unlawful surveillance
The Security Service, MI5 and the Police Service of Northern Ireland have been ordered to pay damages to former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney following multiple attempts to identify his confidential sources
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23 Jul 2026
Connectivity becomes the weakest link in Britain’s workplaces
Study finds internet and connectivity failures have overtaken software problems as the biggest cause of lost productivity, with the average UK employee losing 93 working hours a year to IT issues
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23 Jul 2026
Will digital government recover from DSIT breakup?
Computer Weekly looks at what Burnham’s decision to dismantle DSIT means for the UK tech sector, and how the department will be split up
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23 Jul 2026
Digital government services increase accessibility gap
Many adults are unable to access digital government services in the UK, leading the digital divide to widen
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23 Jul 2026
Alphabet borrows $100bn to pay for AI investments
The parent company of Google and YouTube has increased its debt portfolio from $16bn to $100bn to pay for AI infrastructure
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23 Jul 2026
AI takes centre stage at Microsoft partner event
Talk of evolving models and expanding skillsets dominated the MCAPS Start for Partners agenda
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23 Jul 2026
Why AI coding agents won’t kill SaaS
Investors may fear that AI coding agents will wipe billions off SaaS valuations, but SiteMinder CTO Tom Varsavsky thinks the technology will speed up software delivery, reduce tech debt and force IT leaders to master token economics
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23 Jul 2026
UK’s low-income areas suffer with continued broadband digital divide
Study shows that despite steady growth and progress in rolling out high-speed internet across the UK, broadband black spots still exist
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22 Jul 2026
Harness Agent DLC targets AI agent development gaps
DevSecOps for AI agents requires more than code review -- Harness beefs up behavioral and security controls and hints at a possible observability expansion.
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22 Jul 2026
Hugging Face ‘hacker’ was rogue OpenAI model
A hacker who broke into Hugging Face’s systems last week has been exposed as a pair of advanced OpenAI frontier models that were trying to cheat on an exam
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22 Jul 2026
House of Lords questions Andy Burnham’s AI plans
An urgent question relating to the disbandment of DSIT has put the new administration under pressure to clarify funding and strategy for AI and science
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22 Jul 2026
Singapore to hold CII boards accountable as AI reshapes OT threat landscape
The Cyber Security Agency’s first update to its critical infrastructure code of practice since 2022 will make boards directly answerable for cyber resilience
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22 Jul 2026
‘Modest but notable’ regional spread of fintech funding in UK
Hubs outside London have made some headway in the UK fintech sector, but overall funding has dropped
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22 Jul 2026
Middle East faces new cyber reality: attackers logging in, not breaking in
Geopolitical tensions, stolen credentials and increasingly rapid attacker movement are reshaping the Middle East’s cyber threat landscape, putting pressure on organisations to look beyond traditional, alert-driven security models
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21 Jul 2026
Singapore’s military to explore quantum computing for mission planning
The Singapore Armed Forces’ Digital and Intelligence Service and the Defence Science and Technology Agency are working with IBM to test quantum optimisation for military logistics
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21 Jul 2026
Jisc recommits to academic cyber collaboration network
Academic IT services network Jisc re-signs a collaborative MoU with partners from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US
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21 Jul 2026
AMD CTO: Europe’s AI opportunity lies beyond semiconductor manufacturing
Mark Papermaster says Europe’s commitment to interoperability and diversity of supply could become a strategic advantage as AI infrastructure grows more heterogeneous
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21 Jul 2026
Acquia talks how vibe coding, Hermes agents build the next content AI
Acquia AI tools are built with -- you guessed it -- a heavy dose of AI.
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21 Jul 2026
Change of prime minister seen as a chance to improve tech sector
The advent of Andy Burnham’s premiership creates an opportunity to accelerate investment in AI, advance digital skills training, and enhance outcomes for the channel and its customers
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21 Jul 2026
Ofcom green-lights UK Wi-Fi access across entire 6 GHz band
UK comms regulator announces prioritised spectrum sharing framework for Wi-Fi in the Upper 6 GHz band, available on the same licence exempt basis as the Lower 6 GHz band
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21 Jul 2026
Kanishka Narayan takes on AI sovereignty in Burnham cabinet
AI minister will attend cabinet meetings held by UK prime minister Andy Burnham, with focus on ownership of UK tech
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21 Jul 2026
UK regulator crackdown on finfluencers gathers pace
After a slow start, the Financial Conduct Authority’s is taking action to curb the activities of unregulated individuals who use social media to give financial advice
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20 Jul 2026
Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder victim of mass Oracle breach
Employee data at US-based cosmetics firm Estée Lauder was compromised through a vulnerability in Oracle’s software, likely orchestrated by the Cl0p ransomware gang
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20 Jul 2026
How Lithuania became a tech startup nation
Lithuania has built a network of tech startup companies the hard way, through bootstrapping. Today, it claims six companies with valuations over a billion dollars
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20 Jul 2026
Westcon-Comstor UK sales lead looking for growth
The freshly appointed UKI executive shares her priorities and first impressions of the task ahead
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20 Jul 2026
Burnham government to drop digital ID and tech department
Controversial ID Scheme and government technology department to be tossed on scrap heap as new prime minister enters 10 Downing Street
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20 Jul 2026
Dutch Surf tests practical route out of Big Tech dependency
The Netherlands’ education and research IT cooperative is running pilots with open source tools, placing working alternatives alongside existing Big Tech services
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20 Jul 2026
Where AI fits in modern supply chains
We find out how businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI), GenAI and agentic AI to streamline supply chain operations
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20 Jul 2026
Singapore spells out how personal data can be used in GenAI
Advisory guidelines clarifying when organisations can scrape and reuse personal data to build GenAI models are among a raft of announcements at the inaugural Singapore Data Festival
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17 Jul 2026
Interview: Dan Cherowbrier, CTO, Formula E
For the tech chief at the electric vehicle racing organisation, innovation extends from everything digital to all the technology elements that make the growing motorsport operation a success
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17 Jul 2026
Frustration as Post Office Horizon replacement contract signing delayed again
If signed off, cloud-based EPOS system will replace controversial Horizon software from Fujitsu
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17 Jul 2026
NatWest signs up to quantum trial for fraud detection
The retail bank is one of 11 organisations testing quantum technologies as part of Digital Catapult’s quantum technology access programme
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17 Jul 2026
Interview: Reflections on tech revolutions and silos
David Minahan, director of digital at Young Lives vs Cancer, discusses data silos and how new tech is offering a more natural user experience
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17 Jul 2026
Check Point builds homegrown AI model as attack barriers collapse
The company is training a security-only small language model as AI hands attackers industrial-scale capabilities and pushes cyber defence towards full automation
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16 Jul 2026
VodafoneThree calls for policy changes to drive UK mobile growth
Mobile network operators in the UK are battling with energy costs, planning red tape and regulations, all of which are impacting their investment plans
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16 Jul 2026
Palantir: Can anyone else do what it does?
Palantir is a US defence-intelligence company, born from the CIA's venture arm that now operates inside the UK public sector. We examine the claim that its technology does what no other supplier can
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16 Jul 2026
Horizon3.ai boss talks of partner importance
Security player has seen its revenues via the channel continue to grow as it looks to ramp up its indirect business
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16 Jul 2026
Scattered Spider hackers sentenced over TfL attack
Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, the hackers behind the 2024 TfL cyber attack, have been sentenced to five-year prison terms at Woolwich Crown Court
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16 Jul 2026
A fifth of PC devices still on Windows 10
While support ended in October 2025, community-driven insights from Lansweeper has found that smaller businesses are still using Windows 10
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16 Jul 2026
Denmark debates ‘emergency’ energy plan to curb datacentres
To fix grid crisis caused by mismanagement under her previous administrations, Danish prime minister opens third term in office with laws against datacentres
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15 Jul 2026
Atlassian Jira Planner joins spec-driven development AI coding trend
As enterprises grapple with tokenomics, Atlassian emphasizes upfront planning to improve downstream efficiency. But optimizing AI coding costs and quality remains complex.
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15 Jul 2026
Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders
Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds
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15 Jul 2026
Are UAE enterprises ready for agentic AI?
Enterprise leaders must hit the ground running by aligning their company’s processes, governance, talent pool and technology to keep up with the fast-evolving agentic AI operations or risk lagging in the global digital race
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15 Jul 2026
Prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham takes aim at outsourcing
Soon-to-be-appointed prime minister adds weight to government’s existing plan to ‘end era of outsourcing’
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15 Jul 2026
Home Office proposes AI tooling to accelerate digital disclosure
PoliceAI will be used to pilot artificial intelligence tools that are capable of automatically generating summaries of digital material, saving ‘countless’ admin hours
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15 Jul 2026
Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI
The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs
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15 Jul 2026
Devolutions move for Mizo taking AI into MSP management space
Managed service providers are under pressure to respond to tickets, and AI is emerging as a method to lighten that load
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15 Jul 2026
Digital Dubai and Emirates Group deepen collaboration on shared digital platforms
Agreement will give Emirates Group access to Dubai’s expanding ecosystem of digital services, data capabilities and shared platforms as the emirate pushes towards a more integrated, AI-enabled digital economy
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15 Jul 2026
Australia launches Office of AI to drive world-first national framework
Prime minister Anthony Albanese establishes Office of AI to coordinate binding standards for the technology, promising the world's first single national AI framework
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15 Jul 2026
ICO ‘less effective as a regulator’ due to toxic culture
Staff of the UK’s data protection watchdog say it was ‘less effective’ due to a toxic workplace culture upheld by senior leadership team
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15 Jul 2026
Inside AWS’s $1bn forward-deployed engineering initiative
The cloud giant is embedding cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists and strategists with customers, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia among those already seeing results
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15 Jul 2026
Made in Spain: Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in India
India is rolling out facial-recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens, with much of the software coming from a Spanish company – but critics argue the government promise of public safety is not the main aim
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14 Jul 2026
IDCA warns of ‘delay tax’ as AI datacentre power surges 50%
Global datacentre electricity consumption reaches 1.9% of all generation, with ‘zombie workloads’ wasting 3GW of US capacity alone and a 100MW project delay costing up to $1bn
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14 Jul 2026
PAC raises more questions over Capita’s role in government
Report demands answers on Capita’s suitability to run HR and payroll services to 250,000 civil servants
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14 Jul 2026
PAC worried shared services strategy set to fail
The committee says Cabinet Office has no clear plan or timeline for achieving its predicted £4.3bn in savings from the strategy, as it continues to be delayed and suffers from lack of departmental buy-in
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14 Jul 2026
Cribl buys CardinalOps for detection engineering, edges into SecOps
Erstwhile Splunk nemesis adds a "SIEM-like" experience, with IP and engineering from CardinalOps folded into its "Bring Your Own Agent" pitch to IT buyers.
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14 Jul 2026
AI impacting stress levels among cyber professionals
AI is affecting the day-to-day careers of cyber security pros in regard to stress levels, but respondents to an ISC2 data-gathering exercise are split over whether or not their stress levels are going up or down
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14 Jul 2026
Oracle AI agent builder brings no-code, low-code and pro-code together
AI apps: Oracle's latest answer to mixing deterministic and probabilistic automations with governance.
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14 Jul 2026
Study reveals Microsoft tactics to lure Windows users
The Edge browser may have a small market share, but research commissioned by Firefox shows how Microsoft muscles in
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14 Jul 2026
Pure DC launches €7.5bn Finland AI datacentre campus
550MW AI datacentre project – with Microsoft reportedly signed up – reflects shift as European market moves north to bypass power constraints in traditional Flap-D hubs
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14 Jul 2026
DMCC launches cyber security hub as UAE accelerates development of digital resilience ecosystem
DMCC Cyber vertical brings together more than 200 cyber security firms under the DMCC Tech platform, reinforcing Dubai’s ambition to become a global technology and cyber innovation hub
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14 Jul 2026
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AI skills fund launches in Barnsley
The government is looking for ideas on how to deliver AI training to Barnsley residents as part of the government’s AI Upskilling Challenge Fund
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14 Jul 2026
Interview: Lucie Audibert, solicitor in MP Jess Asato’s Grok case
AWO solicitor Lucie Audibert speaks with Computer Weekly about representing Labour MP Jess Asato’s legal claim against xAI’s chatbot Grok, its nudification capabilities and how this case may define what liability for developers of AI tools look like
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14 Jul 2026
Scottish Building Society subscribes to embedded AI to begin a new journey
Oldest remaining building society becomes first customer to sign up to embedded AI offering from current supplier SBS
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14 Jul 2026
Couchbase eyes APAC growth as enterprises confront data problem
Having been taken private by private equity firm Haveli Investments, the NoSQL database supplier is pitching its newly launched AI data plane as the fix for the fragmented data layers
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13 Jul 2026
Cyber body Crest launches AI security charter
Crest’s industry-backed AI charter commits signatories to supporting responsible AI adoption and aims to foster trust in AI-enabled security services.
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13 Jul 2026
UK and EU impose sanctions on hacking groups linked to Kremlin
Hackers linked to Russian intelligence behind attack on Poland’s energy infrastructure, theft of credentials and using vulnerable routers to attack critical national infrastructure
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13 Jul 2026
Microsoft admits datacentre greenhouse gas emissions hike
Growth in carbon emissions for 2024-25 matches total emissions over the previous four years, as Microsoft focuses on datacentre power
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13 Jul 2026
European Commission accepts SAP’s on-premise ERP commitment
The ERP provider has accepted that it will no longer charge admin fees for returning maintenance customers, and has stated it will offer on-premise flexibility
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13 Jul 2026
Tech giants come under watch of UK finance regulators
IT suppliers critical to the UK finance sector are now within the remit of the UK’s financial services regulators
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13 Jul 2026
The quiet rise of digital identity: Convenience, control and the new social contract
Governments are rapidly expanding digital identity systems, promising greater convenience and faster access to services, but concerns around privacy, trust, surveillance and inclusion continue to grow
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13 Jul 2026
Singtel and Thales launch multi-operator IoT eSIM network
Bridge Alliance service will allow enterprises to provision and manage connected devices across four Asia-Pacific mobile operators through a single platform
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12 Jul 2026
Singapore investors embrace AI but still lean on human advisers
Singapore’s affluent investors are among the world’s keenest adopters of AI for investment research, but most still want a professional adviser to validate machine-generated insights
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10 Jul 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Barracuda, Arrow, TD Synnex, Giacom, Durabook and MSP Finance Team
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10 Jul 2026
AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier
Once dismissed as legacy tech on the way out, the mainframe is being reframed as the trusted anchor of hybrid, AI-era architectures
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09 Jul 2026
MPs call on NHS to scrap Palantir and its Federated Data Platform
Health and Social Care Committee urges health minister to get rid of US firm Palantir and its Federated Data Platform amid ‘mistrust’ and ‘contested benefits’
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09 Jul 2026
Cyber field doubts promise of Cyber Shield
The NCSC has shared more details of its national AI Cyber Shield initiative, but experts say the project faces serious delivery challenges
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09 Jul 2026
UK Court of Appeal gives Microsoft complaint the green light
The path is now clear for preowned software reseller ValueLicensing’s market abuse case against Microsoft to go ahead
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09 Jul 2026
Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2026
Tell us who you think should be included in Computer Weekly’s 2026 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology
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09 Jul 2026
Capita to lose money on pension debacle but ‘has government’s private parts in its grip’
Joint select committee grilling reveals that the tech Capita planned to use to increase process automation did not work
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09 Jul 2026
Insurer Unum aims to deliver benefits of $20m using AI to re-write old Cobol code
We speak to Shelia Anderson, chief information and digital officer of insurance company Unum, about its project to ‘reimagine’ mainframe software
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09 Jul 2026
Strong Q2 buoys Computacenter
Trading statement from channel firm indicates it is on track to double pre-tax profits in H1 compared with the same period last year
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09 Jul 2026
Circular IT turns sustainability ambitions into measurable technology for UAE organisations
As the UAE accelerates its Net Zero 2050 Strategy, CIOs are embedding sustainability into technology lifecycle management, circular IT and data-driven decision-making to reduce emissions, improve efficiency and tackle the growing challenge of e-waste
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09 Jul 2026
The FDP debate is looking in the rear-view mirror – what’s around the next bend?
The question is no longer whether the Federated Data Platform has delivered enough, but whether the NHS will have the data infrastructure to deploy AI before the workforce crisis forces the issue
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09 Jul 2026
NCS: Chinese open AI models gaining ground in Singapore
As American and Chinese AI worlds pull apart, the Singtel unit is courting both by putting OpenAI and Alibaba engineers on the same stage and folding Chinese models into its own products
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09 Jul 2026
IBM seeks mainframe, data center integration
IBM launched new models for its z17 mainframe series and LinuxOne servers to fit in a data center, at a time when space is at a premium. The vendor also made IBM Bob updates.
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09 Jul 2026
UK’s largest businesses dangerously exposed to cloud outages
British businesses, particularly those in the FTSE 100, are dangerously dependent on large cloud providers, with hypothetical large-scale outages at AWS or Azure regions likely to cause major economic damage, according to the Cyber Monitoring Centre
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08 Jul 2026
Post Office Horizon replacement contract delayed further
The Post Office has once more extended the standstill period before putting pen to paper on EPOS system
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08 Jul 2026
NTT Data and HYMH claim physical AI breakthrough
Collaboration embeds AI‑driven quality assurance directly into production, helping validate assembly process in real time to support quality assurance, improve efficiency and enable smarter manufacturing
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08 Jul 2026
Hamad International Airport launches one of the world’s largest biometric passenger journeys
Sita-powered Fast Pass enables travellers to use facial recognition from check-in to boarding across more than 700 touchpoints, highlighting the GCC’s growing leadership in smart airport technology
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08 Jul 2026
SysGroup returns to growth
Transformation strategy gets the firm back into a position where it can share strong numbers for its fiscal year