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20 Apr 2026
Redis unveils Feature Form to improve AI, ML workloads
By Eric AvidonUnified batch and streaming pipelines and multi-tenant capabilities that allow teams to isolate work in shared database instances highlight new ML management environment.
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20 Apr 2026
Adobe defines its AI-powered customer experience platform
By Don FluckingerAdobe previews and releases elements of CX Enterprise at Summit.
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17 Apr 2026
News brief: Microsoft security vulnerabilities revealed
By Staff reportCheck out the latest security news from TechTarget SearchSecurity's sister sites, Cybersecurity Dive and Dark Reading.
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24 Feb 2026
Email from 1999 reveals Post Office ECCO+ system crash problems
By Karl FlindersECCO+ 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
By Aaron TanSingtel 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
By Alex ScroxtonGraduates 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
By Clare McDonaldTech 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
By Bill GoodwinThe 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
By Beth PariseauEven 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
By Kim LoohuisEx-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
By Aaron TanWith 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
By Mark SamuelsRecruitment 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
Interview: Ankur Anand, group CIO, Nash Squared
By Mark SamuelsRecruitment 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
By Aaron TanWith 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
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
By Alex ScroxtonA 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonGovernment 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
By Karl FlindersThe 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
By Andrea BenitoThe 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Karl FlindersHouse 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
By Charlotte LangThe 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
By Aaron TanChip 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
By Alex ScroxtonCisa 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
By Alex ScroxtonA 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
By Karl FlindersPost 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
By Andrea BenitoErtug 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
By Joe O’HalloranAI 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
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
By Karl FlindersGrowing 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
By Lis EvenstadLords’ 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
By Karl FlindersBanks 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
By Cliff SaranAre 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
By Brian McKennaUK 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
By Charlotte LangBritish 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
By Brian McKennaCapgemini’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
By Mark SamuelsWith 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
By Karl FlindersNatWest 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
By Karl FlindersPeers 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
By Simon QuickeBeing 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Clare McDonaldThe 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
By Andrea BenitoDeloitte’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
By Aaron TanRetail 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
By Joe O’HalloranUK 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
By Lucy BoothCatch 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
By Lis EvenstadThe 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
By Aaron TanSingapore 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
By Karl FlindersNational 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
By Bill GoodwinEuropean 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
By Karl FlindersCapita 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
By Charlotte LangResearch 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
By Adele Zeynep WaltonIn 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
By Simon QuickeVendor’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
By Andrea BenitoUAE 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
By Karl FlindersInvestment 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
By Bill GoodwinGovernment 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
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonIn 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
By Karl FlindersGovernment 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
By Alex ScroxtonMick 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
By Aaron TanRising 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
By Simon QuickeCustomers 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
By Cliff SaranWhile 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
By Charlotte LangRegulators warned that statutory powers alone cannot address the ethical harms of artificial intelligence
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11 Feb 2026
Fujitsu will be out by next summer, says Post Office CTO
By Karl FlindersPost 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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11 Feb 2026
Iomart warns of softening market
By Simon QuickeTrading update lifts lid on financial performance ahead of its fiscal year coming to a conclusion next month
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10 Feb 2026
Arctic Wolf targets mid-market security gap in APAC
By Stephen WithersFollowing 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
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft 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
By Alex ScroxtonResearchers 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?
By Karl FlindersTrade deal between European Union and India simplifies the visa system for professionals from India, which could make the country’s suppliers more accessible
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10 Feb 2026
Second ever international AI safety report published
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonMore than 100 artificial intelligence experts have produced the second international AI safety report ahead of a summit in India, outlining a high degree of uncertainty about the development and risks of AI
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10 Feb 2026
G42 expands global AI ambitions with sovereign cloud partnership in Vietnam
By Andrea BenitoUAE artificial intelligence champion takes its sovereignty-first model to Southeast Asia
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10 Feb 2026
Arc bolsters position with Skye Cloud buy
By Simon QuickeManaged services player makes fourth acquisition in the space of two years as it continues to expand the business
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10 Feb 2026
Artificial intelligence now finance sector’s ‘connective tissue’
By Karl FlindersMajor study finds debate over AI adoption is over as almost every finance firm in the world is already using the technology
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09 Feb 2026
Fractile expansion demonstrates UK growth opportunity
By Cliff SaranAI chip firm’s £100m expansion and facility in Bristol is being used to showcase the government’s AI opportunity plan in action
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09 Feb 2026
Russia’s cyber attacks on Polish utilities draws NCSC alert
By Alex ScroxtonA series of Russian cyber attacks targeting Poland’s energy infrastructure has prompted a warning from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre
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09 Feb 2026
NTT Data deepens Middle East cloud push with acquisition of UAE-based Zero&One
By Andrea BenitoDeal highlights growing strategic importance of the UAE as global technology firms race to scale cloud, AI and digital services across the region
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09 Feb 2026
UAE’s TII challenges big tech dominance with open source Falcon AI models
By Andrea BenitoThrough its Falcon models and an open, efficiency-driven research strategy, the Technology Innovation Institute is positioning the UAE as a producer of foundational AI, not merely a consumer of global platforms
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09 Feb 2026
Ireland to procure national electronic health record
By Lis EvenstadThe Irish government has approved project to digitally transform the Irish health service by introducing integrated health records as part of Digital for Care strategy
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09 Feb 2026
US bid for Dutch ID infrastructure raises sovereignty concerns
By Kim LoohuisKyndryl’s proposed takeover shows how critical systems become exposed to foreign control without an overarching policy decision
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09 Feb 2026
As space gets crowded, cyber threats from jamming to stalker satellites loom large
By Aaron TanExperts at the inaugural CYSAT Asia in Singapore warn of the urgency of securing space assets amid growing geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities
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06 Feb 2026
Cloud infrastructure suffers AI growing pains
By Beth PariseauWill $5 trillion in AI infrastructure investment be enough? Cloud providers facing that question must also yield a return, prompting questions about pricing hikes for users.
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06 Feb 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Insight, Westcon-Comstor, Infinigate UKI, Assured Data Protection and TP-Link, and Palo Alto Networks
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06 Feb 2026
NHS publishes tech-laden cancer plan
By Lis EvenstadThe 10-year plan promises to transform cancer care through use of artificial intelligence, robotic surgeries and access to genomic testing, all wrapped up in the NHS App as the front door
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06 Feb 2026
Australia’s CommBank partners business school to research artificial intelligence
By Karl FlindersCommBank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence, as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector
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06 Feb 2026
Minister responds to criticism of Post Office Capture redress scheme
By Karl FlindersRedress claim on ‘pause’ as UK government agrees to look at complaints about scheme for those who suffered hardship from using the Post Office Capture system
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06 Feb 2026
ANZ rolls out AI agents for business bankers
By Aaron TanAustralian lender claims to be the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Salesforce Agentforce at scale, following a national roll-out of a CRM platform that consolidates data from different systems to ease administrative toil
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05 Feb 2026
Why traditional automation is key to avoid the AI solution trap
By Stephen WithersBoards are pushing for AI, but Nintex CTO Niranjan Vijayaragavan warns that AI projects are destined to fail without a foundation of traditional automation and clean data
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05 Feb 2026
OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform targets enterprises
By Beth PariseauHP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher and Uber are signed on to work with OpenAI engineers on overcoming what the vendor describes as "the capability overhang."
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05 Feb 2026
Why sovereign and agentic AI will define next phase of Middle East’s digital transformation
By Andrea BenitoOrganisations shift from artificial intelligence pilots to operational deployment as governments prioritise digital sovereignty and infrastructure control
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05 Feb 2026
Half of Google’s software development now AI-generated
By Cliff SaranIn a bid to free up budget to spend on artificial intelligence infrastructure, Google parent Alphabet is using AI to improve operational efficiency
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05 Feb 2026
Post Office offered bailout to cover £104.4m IR35 tax bill linked to Horizon IT scandal
By Caroline DonnellyThe Department for Business and Trade offers to pay the £104.4m the Post Office owes HMRC for incorrectly assessing the IR35 status of the ‘unusually large’ population of contractors it engaged to assist with the fallout from the Horizon IT scandal
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04 Feb 2026
LinkedIn touts agentic AI to slash recruitment time
By Aaron TanLinkedIn’s head of engineering for talent solutions explains how fine-tuned LLMs and agentic AI architectures are replacing traditional search methods to save recruiters four hours per role
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04 Feb 2026
SolarWinds RCE bug makes Cisa list as exploitation spreads
By Alex ScroxtonExploitation of CVE-2025-40551, an RCE flaw affecting SolarWinds Web Help Desk, appears to be spreading, with defenders on high alert
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04 Feb 2026
UK government must get its hands dirty on security, report says
By Alex ScroxtonAs the UK government develops its National Cyber Action Plan, a report from the Rusi think tank urges Westminster to take a more interventionist approach
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04 Feb 2026
AI security worries stall enterprise production deployments
By Beth PariseauFrom Big Tech executives at Cisco's AI Summit this week to market research, the industry is waking up to a major hindrance in enterprise AI adoption.
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04 Feb 2026
Banks reduce reliance on OpenAI as strategies mature
By Karl FlindersBanks are increasingly using alternative AI providers as Anthropic and Google eat into OpenAI’s dominance
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04 Feb 2026
Cisco CEO talks of increasing trust in AI
By Simon QuickeVendor’s AI Summit highlights growth opportunities, but also the barriers that are still holding back wider adoption
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03 Feb 2026
Ransomware gangs focus on winning hearts and minds
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware-as-a-service operations are increasingly seeking to forge connections with employees, contractors and trusted partners of their target organisations as an alternative to straight-up hacking, says NCC
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03 Feb 2026
Gartner: AI and datacentre spending ramps up
By Cliff SaranHyperscalers are increasing AI capacity but IT buyers are now looking at their return on investment for this much-hyped technology
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03 Feb 2026
Infosecurity Europe launches cyber security startups stream
By Brian McKennaInfosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support, in conjunction with the UK Cyber Flywheel organisation