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27 Feb 2026
News brief: Attackers gain speed in cybersecurity race
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team
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27 Feb 2026
Harness Artifact Registry strengthens supply chain governance
Harness makes its artifact registry generally available beyond early preview customers, with a security twist that could challenge established players such as JFrog.
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26 Feb 2026
ServiceNow touts AI governance for its Autonomous Workforce
As an enterprise trust gap persists for autonomous AI agents, ServiceNow pledges strong platform controls for a new set of specialist agents, beginning with the L1 service desk.
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27 Feb 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Flotek, Infinigate, TD Synnex, Westcon-Comstor, GitLab, Yubico and Zenarmor
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27 Feb 2026
UK has laid track for open banking, but failed to run trains
The UK risks losing its fintech leadership, with open banking progress slow, as countries such as the UAE and India advance rapidly
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27 Feb 2026
AI takes centre stage at GTIA forum
Members keen to get a firmer grip on deploying and supporting the technology
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27 Feb 2026
Australia inks five-year deal with Microsoft to drive AI and cloud adoption
The Digital Transformation Agency’s new agreement promises cost certainty, improved discounts, and a skills fund to support the government’s digital transformation agenda
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26 Feb 2026
Qilin crew continues to dominate ransomware ecosystem
The Qilin ransomware gang remained ‘top dog’ in January 2026, with over 100 observed cyber attacks to its name, amid a rapidly evolving and fragmenting cyber criminal ecosystem
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26 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit: Open source gains ground, but sovereignty tensions persist
While open source artificial intelligence gained unprecedented recognition during the latest global AI summit, divisions over governance, market concentration and regulatory power cast doubt on whether the technology will benefit society as a whole
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26 Feb 2026
UK to see weekend protests against ‘dirty datacentres’
Environmental charity Global Action Plan UK is coordinating a campaign effort to bring attention to wider concerns about datacentre electricity demand, water use and environmental impacts
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26 Feb 2026
Fake UK government website redirect detection time reduced to eight days
It used to take two months, but the UK government has reduced the time it takes to address fake DNS redirects
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26 Feb 2026
Firecell, CloudRAN.AI collaborate to cut cost and complexity of private 5G
Hot on the heels of the Accelleran merger, purpose-built private 5G connectivity company unveils radio portfolio integration to give system integrators faster, more affordable deployment route across industrial, enterprise sites
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26 Feb 2026
Firecell, CloudRAN.AI collaborate to cut cost and complexity of private 5G
Hot on the heels of the Accelleran merger, purpose-built private 5G connectivity company unveils radio portfolio integration to give system integrators faster, more affordable deployment route across industrial, enterprise sites
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26 Feb 2026
Deputy prime minister vows to reform justice system with AI
Initiatives to transform UK courts include launching a justice AI academy, an AI listing assistant and a new High Court digital system
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26 Feb 2026
Santander pins €1bn business value gain on AI
Bank said artificial intelligence will be fully embedded into the business, personalising customer experiences
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26 Feb 2026
Khazna’s NexOps shift signals new operating model for AI-scale infrastructure
Managing director Bart Holsters explains why hybrid insourcing, competence assurance and sovereign readiness are becoming essential as artificial intelligence pushes datacentres to their limits
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26 Feb 2026
US artificial intelligence developers accuse Chinese firms of stealing their data
Artificial intelligence developers are accusing Chinese firms of stealing their intellectual property following a spate of ‘distillation attacks’, despite their own alleged theft of training data
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26 Feb 2026
CrowdStrike touts agentic SOC to tackle security woes
By embedding AI agents across its platform, CrowdStrike is looking to help security teams automate repetitive security tasks, enabling them to focus on complex and stealthier threats that could slip under the radar
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25 Feb 2026
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN users targeted in series of cyber attacks
The NCSC, Cisa, and other Five Eyes agencies have warned of mass exploitation of vulnerabilities in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, which Cisco is attributing to an unknown threat actor called UAT-8616
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25 Feb 2026
The UK’s proposed social media ban explained
The UK government will use new legal powers to lay the groundwork for an under-16 social media ban after its consultation on children’s digital well-being, but opponents warn the measures being considered will only treat the symptoms of the problem if they ignore the structural power of big tech
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25 Feb 2026
Atos ‘IT services staff of the future’ begin apprenticeships
Atos has taken on its first cohort of apprentices who will become an ‘artificial intelligence-ready’ workforce
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25 Feb 2026
Application exploitation back in vogue, says IBM cyber unit
IBM’s X-Force unit observes an uptick in the exploitation of vulnerable public-facing software applications
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25 Feb 2026
UK government commits £483m to Post Office for IT transformation
The UK government is to provide the next round of funding to support the Post Office’s move away from its controversial Fujitsu Horizon IT system
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25 Feb 2026
Climb and 11:11 Systems adding global reach
Distributor and VMware specialist seal deals to widen coverage in Europe and APAC, respectively
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25 Feb 2026
Institutionalised AI puts Visa top of ranking
The payment card services giant leads the way in applying artificial intelligence in its sector, according to research
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25 Feb 2026
RWS Global deploys Box’s AI tools to streamline contract workflow
Box Enterprise Advanced is being used to cut contract processing time from 20 minutes down to two
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24 Feb 2026
NUHS and GSMA Foundry team up on 5G and AI in healthcare
Singapore’s National University Health System is working with GSMA Foundry, Ericsson and Singtel to drive the use of 5G-enabled robotics, ambient AI and holographic surgery in healthcare
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24 Feb 2026
New Relic plans to expand AI agent observability
New Relic will update its observability tools with new agentic AI features but will stick to its domain of expertise and a partnership strategy for broader forms of IT automation.
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24 Feb 2026
Cyber association launches code of conduct for security pros
ISC2’s Code of Professional Conduct will supposedly establish a worldwide framework dedicated to principled and ethical practices in the security trade
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24 Feb 2026
Red Hat, Nvidia tighten integration with AI Factory
Red Hat and Nvidia knit together a software stack, called AI Factory, meant to get AI in enterprise production faster. Red Hat also rolled out a new AI Enterprise product bundle.
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24 Feb 2026
Aviva prepares for life after CIO retirement with early announcement
Aviva has named the replacement for its outgoing technology chief, with former BT IT executive joining in the summer
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24 Feb 2026
Microsoft CEO opens London AI Tour with Copilot push
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used his event keynote to showcase how the artificial intelligence in M365 is a foundation for agentic AI in the enterprise
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24 Feb 2026
Where MENA CIOs draw the line on AI sovereignty
From patient data that cannot be outsourced to banking risk systems that must stay in-country, CIOs are keeping regulated cores sovereign while using global clouds for speed and scale
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24 Feb 2026
UAE CIOs feel AI heat as 85% fear role risk within two years
Technology leaders say careers, credibility and corporate resilience now hinge on delivering measurable artificial intelligence outcomes
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24 Feb 2026
Starling expands internationally as demand for banking as a service continues to rise
UK challenger bank has expanded its banking-as-a-service business with entry into New Zealand
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24 Feb 2026
Email from 1999 reveals Post Office ECCO+ system crash problems
ECCO+ system experienced freezes during transactions, which could have left Post Office branch account discrepancies
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24 Feb 2026
Singtel, Nvidia to help scale enterprise AI deployments
Singtel and Nvidia have teamed up on a multimillion-dollar facility to help organisations scale enterprise AI deployments, tackle extreme datacentre power densities, and prepare for the era of embodied AI
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23 Feb 2026
Innovate UK cyber startup programme gets £10m funding booster
Graduates of DSIT and Innovate UK's CyberASAP scheme to commercialise cutting-edge cyber research projects have raised nearly £50m in the past decade
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23 Feb 2026
Gap between upskilling intent and execution in business, says Pluralsight
Tech leaders understand the importance of providing their employees with training, but there are too many challenges in the way of doing so
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23 Feb 2026
Governments urged to step up enforcement of big tech amid rush to ban social media for under-16s
The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights says that European governments should consider better enforcement against big tech companies before banning children from social media
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23 Feb 2026
AWS Kiro 'user error' reflects common AI coding review gap
Even internal AWS Kiro users haven't always peer-reviewed AI code output, as evidenced by a reported December outage that overshadowed recent product updates.
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23 Feb 2026
€126bn in Dutch tech projects blocked by permits and grid limits
Ex-ASML chief Peter Wennink’s deregulation solution triggers warnings from academics and government advisors
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23 Feb 2026
Why crypto agility is key to quantum readiness
With quantum computing threatening current encryption standards, experts call for organisations to achieve crypto agility by managing the lifecycle of certificates and cryptographic keys through automation
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20 Feb 2026
Interview: Ankur Anand, group CIO, Nash Squared
Recruitment is one of the industries that is supposedly most likely to be transformed by AI, but the CIO of one top firm is looking more to how the technology can help its team enhance their own jobs
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20 Feb 2026
What it takes to secure agentic commerce
With AI agents increasingly acting as digital concierges for shoppers, verifying bot identities, securing the APIs they rely on and detecting anomalous behaviour will be key to safeguarding automated transactions, according to Akamai
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19 Feb 2026
ICO wins appeal over data protection obligations in Currys cyber attack
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has won an important appeal relating to data protection obligations arising from a 2017-18 cyber attack at electronics retailer Currys PC World
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19 Feb 2026
PromptSpy Android malware may exploit Gemini AI
A newly uncovered malware targeting the Android operating system seems to exploit Google’s Gemini GenAI tool to help it maintain persistence
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19 Feb 2026
European politicians amplify disinformation about UN rapporteur
Government officials from the US and Europe have condemned UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for remarks about Israel she never made, based on a truncated clip circulating online that takes her statements out of context
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19 Feb 2026
Bank of Ireland UK fined for late security system implementation
The payments regulator has fined the bank nearly £4m after it missed a deadline to implement a system to check payees
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19 Feb 2026
Neom partners with DataVolt on $5bn hyperscale datacentre project for digital infrastructure
The landmark 1.5GW renewable-powered facility at Oxagon signals the Kingdom’s accelerating investment in AI infrastructure, sustainable computing and next-generation digital cities
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19 Feb 2026
UKRI sets out strategy to make UK an AI leader by 2031
The strategic framework for 2031 lays out the steps the UK needs to take to drive forward innovation and academic research in artificial intelligence
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19 Feb 2026
T-Labs demos commercial viability of quantum networking
The research and development arm of telco Deutsche Telekom has worked with Qunnect to demo quantum networking over 30km of optical fibre
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19 Feb 2026
Minister wants ‘logical conclusion’ to review of digital evidence in light of Post Office scandal
House of Lords debate saw government minister make an ambiguous promise in regard to the treatment of computer evidence in court
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19 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit begins
The summit aims to democratise AI and bridge the growing divide between countries, but critics warn that it risks becoming a mere spectacle if the technology only serves the interests of power and profit
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19 Feb 2026
Nvidia backs India’s sovereign AI push with gigawatt-scale infrastructure
Chip giant unveils compute expansion with L&T, Yotta and E2E Networks at the India AI Impact Summit, paving the way for domestic heavyweights to build AI agents and physical AI applications
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18 Feb 2026
Flaws in Google and Microsoft products added to Cisa catalogue
Cisa has added six CVEs to its Kev catalogue this week, including newly disclosed issues in Google Chromium and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, and some older flaws as well
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18 Feb 2026
0APT ransomware crew makes embarrassing splash
A ransomware gang called 0APT has attracted attention, but many of its victims may not even be real, and its operators are being accused of over-egging their criminal pudding
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18 Feb 2026
Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon from the Post Office, step by step
Post Office IT chief tells Computer Weekly about the challenges and progress in removing the controversial Horizon system from Post Office branches
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18 Feb 2026
HP bets on edge AI and regional investment to power Middle East enterprise transformation
Ertug Ayik, managing director for Middle East and Africa at HP Inc, outlines how on-device artificial intelligence, embedded security and a partner-first model are positioning the company at the heart of MENA’s digital transformation
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17 Feb 2026
Lumen targets AI bottlenecks with cloud gateway and metro expansion
AI network provider introduces enterprise capabilities designed to accelerate data movement across distributed artificial intelligence environments while aiming to lower complexity and cost
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17 Feb 2026
Western cyber alliances risk fragmenting in new world order
The conduct of powerful nations is causing knock-on effects in the cyber world as long-standing security frameworks appear increasingly precarious
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17 Feb 2026
Artificial intelligence ‘creeping into’ high-risk stock trading
Growing reliance on artificial intelligence is encroaching into the stock market, finds research
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17 Feb 2026
House of Lords committee concerned over digital forensics backlog
Lords’ Science and Technology Committee warns policing and justice system is unequipped to make use of technologies such as AI, and calls on government to handle digital forensics backlog
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17 Feb 2026
Banks to discuss UK alternative to Visa and Mastercard
Banks prepare to discuss a new payments infrastructure that would remove heavy reliance on US firms
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17 Feb 2026
Tesco vs VMware: Dell weighs in on VMware contractual obligation
Are negotiated software renewal fees binding? Dell is arguing that this provision in Tesco’s VMware 2021 contract amounts to a commitment
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17 Feb 2026
Government pumps £20m into using tech to fight addiction
Funding grants from Innovate UK will be used for medical technologies and digital tools such as artificial intelligence and wearables to reduce substance misuse and addiction
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17 Feb 2026
Government wages cyber campaign as half the UK’s SMEs are breached
UK government says half of all small businesses have been cyber breached in the recent past as it urges them to ‘lock the door’
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17 Feb 2026
British Transport Police start using live facial recognition
British Transport Police will deploy facial recognition for six months despite calls for the government to halt its rapid expansion of the technology
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16 Feb 2026
Pascal Brier, Capgemini: AI will prove its enterprise truth this year
Capgemini’s chief innovation officer says the 2025 rise and deployment of artificial intelligence agents put enterprise AI progress on hold, but laid the ground for acceleration to come
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16 Feb 2026
Interview: Richard Corbridge, CIO, Segro
With a varied IT leadership career across healthcare, retail and central government, property development brought fresh challenges for the CIO – and a chance to share his experience in an industry not renowned for digital transformation
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16 Feb 2026
NatWest hails progress after £1.2bn spent on tech last year, but true AI transformation to come
NatWest Bank describes the past 12 months of its tech transformation as ‘the year of [AI] deployment at scale’
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16 Feb 2026
UK government risks ‘perpetuating’ Post Office injustice through response to Capture appeals
Peers question government’s approach to wrongful conviction appeals from former users of Capture software
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16 Feb 2026
Meeting NCSC MSP guidance a competitive advantage
Being able to meet the requirements the national body recommends is a positive for managed service providers
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16 Feb 2026
Oracle readies AI note-taker for NHS
The AI tool drafts structured notes from patient-clinician interactions, helping to reduce administrative work
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16 Feb 2026
Next Tech Fest: Breaking tech role misconceptions
The Next Tech Girls event hosted women in technology to speak to young girls about how the industry is full of opportunity for their future careers
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16 Feb 2026
Qatar advances sovereign cloud strategy to strengthen digital trust and national autonomy
Deloitte’s Cloud Centre of Excellence in Lusail is helping public and private sector organisations adopt sovereign, AI-ready cloud environments aligned with Qatar’s regulatory vision
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15 Feb 2026
Wesfarmers to deploy agentic AI in retail operations
Retail conglomerate behind Kmart and Officeworks signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for customer service and internal productivity
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13 Feb 2026
UK government calls for review into mobile market
UK government creates programme to anticipate how the mobile market, and technologies that underpin it, will evolve over the next decade
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13 Feb 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Catch up on developments this week at Exclusive Networks, Apptio, Nebula Global Services, meshcloud UK and Version 1
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13 Feb 2026
UK National Crime Agency seeks CDIO, offering more than £100k for the role
The chief digital and information officer will be expected to set the National Crime Agency’s digital, data and technology sourcing strategy, secure multi-year investment and manage a £100m budget
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13 Feb 2026
Singapore to form National AI Council, expands tax breaks to ease AI adoption
Singapore government unveils plans to spur AI adoption through fiscal incentives, implementation guidance and workforce skilling in a concerted effort to drive the nation’s AI agenda
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12 Feb 2026
Government bank digital project a ‘full-spectrum disaster’ exposing taxpayers to risk
National Savings and Investments is unable to tell Public Accounts Committee the cost of its modernisation programme
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12 Feb 2026
Europe’s data protection supervisors warn over plans to ‘narrow’ privacy rights
European data protection supervisors warn the European Commission against narrowing the privacy protections for personal data as it gears up for a swathe of data protection reforms
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12 Feb 2026
Thousands of unread emails and 20 million database errors cause civil service pension hardship
Capita is to ‘fast-track’ any technology, including artificial intelligence, that can help it clear a backlog in civil service pension work
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12 Feb 2026
Large language models provide unreliable answers about public services, Open Data Institute finds
Research questions AI’s trustworthiness in giving people accurate information about government services
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12 Feb 2026
European Commission: TikTok’s addictive design breaches EU law
In a preliminary ruling, European Commission says TikTok’s additive design features are in breach of laws designed to create safer digital spaces
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12 Feb 2026
Citrix entrusts Arrow with broader channel management responsibilities
Vendor’s close ties with distributor deepen further a year into an exclusive relationship in Europe and North America
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12 Feb 2026
e& drives AI-first workforce transformation with Oracle Cloud
UAE technology group deploys Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM on OCI Dedicated Region to embed artificial intelligence across human resources while meeting national data sovereignty requirements
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12 Feb 2026
UK fintech investment slumped in 2025
Investment in the UK fintech sector fell to its lowest level since 2020, but it is still the European destination attracting the most money
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12 Feb 2026
College of Policing accounts ‘disclaimed’ by auditor for second year in wake of IT failure
Government auditors have refused to endorse the financial accounts of the professional body for policing in England and Wales for a second year, following IT project blunders
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11 Feb 2026
CVE volumes may plausibly reach 100,000 this year
The number of vulnerabilities to be disclosed in 2026 is almost certain to exceed last year's total, and may be heading towards 100,000, according to analysis
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11 Feb 2026
London Assembly member: Police should halt facial-recognition technology use
In lieu of a full-blown ban on the technology, Green London Assembly member Zoë Garbett has called for a number of new safeguards to be implemented that she feels would protect Londoners from ‘escalating’ biometric surveillance
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11 Feb 2026
Peer ‘disappointed’ that DWP review of subpostmaster prosecutions is still months away
Government indicates that there are 108 DWP prosecutions of subpostmasters that will be reviewed so far, but little progress has been made
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11 Feb 2026
The Security Interviews: Mick Baccio, Splunk
Mick Baccio, global security advisor at Splunk SURGe and Cisco Foundation AI, reveals how the experience of running cyber on a dime for a US presidential campaign has informed how he does security, and why the basics still matter
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11 Feb 2026
APAC firms ditch Oracle Java to cut costs amid AI demands
Rising Oracle Java licensing fees and the massive infrastructure requirements of AI workloads are driving the region’s businesses to migrate to OpenJDK distributions
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11 Feb 2026
Alteryx and Advania share AI insights
Customers want to adopt artificial intelligence, but there continue to be factors holding them back, which are areas the channel can help with
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11 Feb 2026
CIOs discuss friction between legacy IT and innovation
While it may not be something IT leaders want to talk about, managing technical debt is critical to moving forward with IT innovation
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11 Feb 2026
Lack of resources greatest hurdle for regulating AI, MPs told
Regulators warned that statutory powers alone cannot address the ethical harms of artificial intelligence
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11 Feb 2026
Iomart warns of softening market
Trading update lifts lid on financial performance ahead of its fiscal year coming to a conclusion next month
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11 Feb 2026
Fujitsu will be out by next summer, says Post Office CTO
Post Office’s project to replace its controversial core system will contract suppliers by the summer of this year, with the aim to remove Fujitsu by summer 2027, according to its chief technology officer
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10 Feb 2026
Arctic Wolf targets mid-market security gap in APAC
Following the launch of its full portfolio in Malaysia, the SOC provider discusses the security challenges facing lean IT teams, the value of supplier neutrality, and its roadmap for AI and ransomware protection
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10 Feb 2026
February Patch Tuesday: Microsoft drops six zero-days
Microsoft releases patches for six zero-day flaws in its latest monthly update, many of them related to security feature bypass issues
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10 Feb 2026
Researchers delve inside new SolarWinds RCE attack chain
Researchers at Huntress and Microsoft have shared findings from their analysis of a new SolarWinds Web Help Desk vulnerability
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10 Feb 2026
Is the EU’s free trade deal with India the dawn of a new era?
Trade deal between European Union and India simplifies the visa system for professionals from India, which could make the country’s suppliers more accessible