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21 Jul 2026
BellSoft takes on Dockerfile sprawl with Hardened Builder
BellSoft's Hardened Builder lets Paketo Buildpacks users build zero-CVE container images on hardened base images, reducing security toil without changing application code.
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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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20 Jul 2026
Employees' shadow AI use is poorly monitored, survey finds
Employee behavior has always presented one of the biggest enterprise cybersecurity challenges. Add AI into the equation, and education and governance become even more critical.
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21 Jul 2026
Jisc recommits to academic cyber collaboration network
Academic IT and network services network Jisc resigns a collaborative MoU with partners from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US.
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21 Jul 2026
23andMe settles multistate data breach lawsuit for $18M
A coalition of 43 attorneys general resolved allegations against 23andMe stemming from a 2023 data breach that impacted 7 million customers.
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21 Jul 2026
Aetna: Docs trust payers more even as administrative burden persists
Although providers are trusting payers more, there's an opportunity for health IT to ameliorate administrative burdens, including prior authorizations.
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21 Jul 2026
Scottish Water taps BT, Accenture to plot digital future
Scottish utility firm inks strategic relationships with tech firms to continue digital journey, looking to deliver more resilient, secure and efficient services as well as strengthen technology foundations
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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
Why providers can't get paid for using clinical AI tools
Healthcare payment models aren't built for AI, say industry leaders in a new report, which proposes a reimbursement framework as CMS launches a model to pay for technology-enabled care.
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21 Jul 2026
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital goes live with all-operator mobile
Neutral host provider delivers all-operator 4G mobile connectivity to leading medical facility as part of UK government’s ambition to shift services from analogue to digital
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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
O2 hits Giga Site mobile network milestone
UK operator reveals latest part of Mobile Transformation Plan passing the halfway mark on plan to have 1,000 advanced mobile sites across the country
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21 Jul 2026
O2 hits Giga Site mobile network milestone
UK operator reveals latest part of Mobile Transformation Plan passing the halfway mark on plan to have 1,000 advanced mobile sites across the country
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21 Jul 2026
Leaseweb picks up ITQ’s white label VCSP customer base
IaaS specialist bolsters its position as a VMware Pinnacle Partner with the addition of more customers across Europe
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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
Survey: Hospital brand loyalty drives care access decisions
U.S. News survey data show that patient loyalty is increasingly being placed in the hospital brand, likely because patients want a comprehensive care experience.
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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
Health information orgs blame developers for blocking data-sharing
Organizations, including HIEs and HDUs, report that information blocking has declined from 2019 to 2025; however, they note that certified health IT developers remain the main culprit.
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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
How primary care can implement patient-centered AI policy
Patients are aware of the risks of AI use, so primary care offices need to implement a patient-centered AI policy enabling disclosure and consent.
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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
Civil rights groups: ACA, Medicaid cuts exacerbate health disparities
Of the nearly 15 million people slated to lose ACA or Medicaid coverage, 60% will come from minority groups, which could worsen racial health disparities.
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16 Jul 2026
CHAI launches AI adoption support for public health agencies
As public health agencies fall behind in AI adoption, CHAI has launched the PULSE program to bring public health practitioners together in AI workgroups and develop playbooks.
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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
What patients want in AI-drafted patient portal messages
Patients are receptive to AI-drafted patient portal messages, so long as a clinician reviews them and they're informed that AI was involved.
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16 Jul 2026
Sophos looks to partners to take Fusion to market
The channel is seen as the best source of delivery for the security player’s AI offering
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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
World leaders confront AI layoffs; more in store for contact centers
Apprenticeship may solve the problem of training new contact center hires after AI vacuums up all the entry-level jobs humans now perform.
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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
Regatta Data launches unified base for AI with RegattaDB
The database vendor is entering a crowded market with the launch of a database purpose-built for agents by unifying disparate data workloads.
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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
Physician pay cuts loom as CMS unveils major Medicare reforms
The 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule would cut conversion factors, sunset traditional MIPS and overhaul the Medicare Shared Savings Program despite provider pushback on costs.
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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
Healthcare ransomware attacks surge 14% amid growing cyberthreats
A new report shows that healthcare organizations have faced 410 ransomware attacks in the first half of 2026, as regulatory efforts to bolster healthcare cybersecurity stalled.
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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
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
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 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
Health plans fall short in maternity care member communication
Health plans and their members have different ideas of what constitutes good member communication during pregnancy, a new report shows.
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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
Care continues shift to outpatient as hospital margins dip
Outpatient revenue jumped 8% YTD while operating margins fell to 2.7% in May, prompting strategic changes, Kaufman Hall reports.
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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
Alation launches OS for building, governing AI agents
While not the first AI governance suite, the vendor's Intelligence Operating System is somewhat unique by unifying data, context and agents in one environment.
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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
Various approaches being used to keep IT projects on track
Research from Westcon-Comstor has highlighted the responses from the channel towards ongoing hardware availability and price constraints
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14 Jul 2026
Healthcare struggles with risk remediation in first half of 2026
Healthcare organizations are improving at identifying cyber threats, but remediation efforts continue to lag due to resource constraints and operational challenges.
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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
Channel faces challenges around AI security
The technology increases risk but has the potential to help defenders if they can master the opportunity
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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
AI patient portal message may increase clinicians' cognitive burden
AI-generated patient portal messages often misalign with clinician responses, increasing cognitive burden, but adapting LLMs can improve accuracy and reduce editing, new research shows.
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13 Jul 2026
Digital health disparities undercut Cures Act's open notes policy
Without systems to address digital health disparities, the open notes policy under the 21st Century Cures Act will remain limited to a subset of patients.
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13 Jul 2026
REACH ACOs save $2.5B as model prepares for LEAD shift
REACH ACOs achieved $2.5B in gross savings with a 6.7% rate in 2024, as 96 of 115 ACOs earn net savings as the model prepares to transition to LEAD in 2027.
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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
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Personnel moves of note at Sophos, Commvault, Veeam Software, Clue Software, Genesys, Jitterbit, IRIS, WatchGuard and GuidePoint Security
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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
Context: Print market slows in Q2
Hardware sales across Western Europe have declined in the past few weeks, while on the 3D front, the market remains buoyant
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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
MSPs ideally placed to improve supply chain resilience
Research from Proxima indicates more CEOs are worried about their ability to defend from attacks originating outside the organisation
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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
ClickFix and removable media lead malware delivery methods
Now more than ever, defenders must look for suspicious behavior, not specific malware. Learn how to defend against two trending initial access methods.
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10 Jul 2026
OpenEvidence adds real-time evidence quality grading to AI
A new feature in OpenEvidence provides real-time grading of the quality of published evidence cited in AI answers, in an effort to promote transparency and accuracy.
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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
Verizon gears up as BMW US vehicle connectivity provider
Leading comms provider named as US connectivity provider for global car manufacturer’s newly manufactured vehicles, delivering 5G standalone and LTE connectivity through partnership with Japanese telco
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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
AdaptHealth says hackers exfiltrated patient data in social engineering attack
AdaptHealth, a home medical equipment supplier, reported the data breach in an SEC filing.
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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