With the launch of Microsoft Elevate UAE, the tech giant deepens its commitment to artificial intelligence skilling, infrastructure and innovation across education, government and startups... 👉 [read]

Abdul Latif Jameel’s chief information and digital officer, Filip Nekvinda, discusses the challenges of transformation, the power of data, and how Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is shaping the future of technology leadership.... 👉 [read]

The Police Digital Service has defended its decision to cut the size of its flexible IT workforce, as sources raise concerns about low staff morale and hampered IT project delivery times... 👉 [read]

Computer Weekly reveals report that misguided the Post Office’s sales pitch to subpostmasters for its controversial Capture system... 👉 [read]

With the US administration raising fees for the H1-B visa, the UK has an opportunity to roll out the red carpet for world-class talent.... 👉 [read]

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers the burdens and responsibilities that accompany the role of chief information security officer, and share guidance on how to navigate a challenging career path.... 👉 [read]

Low code providers and their ethos could lend momentum and security to the enterprise adoption of agentic AI.... 👉 [read]

After setting out its ambition to embark on building a tech-focused regeneration project, Blackpool Council has revealed it is prepping a planning application for a datacentre, and has submitted a bid to become one of the UK government’s AI growth zones.... 👉 [read]

Computer Weekly has revealed who is on the 2025 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, including this year’s winner, Naomi Timperley... 👉 [read]

Fully admitting her career path has been a happy accident, this year’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech, Naomi Timperley, tells us about her work with entrepreneurs and startups.... 👉 [read]

Each year, Computer Weekly selects a number of Rising Stars who are making waves in the women, diversity and inclusion in tech space and may find themselves on the top 50 list in the future.... 👉 [read]

Humanoids are moving from labs to industry, enhancing efficiency and working alongside humans, not replacing them. Ethical, socially beneficial integration is key to trust and adoption.... 👉 [read]

Bugcrowd acquires scaleup Mayhem Security to enhance the ingenuity of its human hackers with AI-backed software testing capabilities.... 👉 [read]

SAP TechEd in Berlin put an accent on building agentic and generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems to create real business outcomes, beyond what its executives say is excessive hype.... 👉 [read]

Health insurance firm Vitality wants to help its customers take a more preventative approach to managing their health and fitness, with the help of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence portfolio.... 👉 [read]

The Middle East is rapidly advancing in artificial intelligence and digital transformation, driven by strong government strategies. Success in the region requires trust, cultural awareness and alignment with local regulations.... 👉 [read]

Cybersecurity governance professor warns that executives lack the capability to assess cyber threats in implementation approaches.... 👉 [read]

The US administration’s decision to raise fees for ‘H-1B’ visas for skilled foreign workers to $100,000 could prove a seminal moment — not just because of the policy itself, but because of its timing. It comes at a point when global demand for AI, data and digital expertise is reaching... 👉 [read]

M&S profits fall by over 90% in the wake of the spring 2025 cyber attack that crippled the retailer's systems for weeks.... 👉 [read]

Planned changes to the computer science curriculum announced following independent review recommendations.... 👉 [read]

US prosecutors indict three men who allegedly attacked multiple victims with ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware whilst working as professional cyber incident responders.... 👉 [read]

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers the burdens and responsibilities that accompany the role of chief information security officer, and share guidance on how to navigate a challenging career path.... 👉 [read]

Microsoft’s decade-long investment in the United Arab Emirates underscores its commitment to building a robust artificial intelligence ecosystem, advancing digital infrastructure and fostering local talent through a strategic partnership with G42.... 👉 [read]

The UAE-based tech group and global networking giant will co-develop secure AI infrastructure and cyber security solutions to support high-performance computing and data centre growth... 👉 [read]

The Sovereign Launchpad cloud infrastructure platform aims to strengthen digital resilience and regulatory compliance across government and regulated sectors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).... 👉 [read]

The UK government’s recently announced Digital ID aims to curb the prospect of work for illegal migrants, along with claiming several benefits for UK citizens and legal residents. However, are the threats to our personal data worth the risk?... 👉 [read]

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about hard drive metrics, why mean time to failure (MTTF) is less useful than annualised failure rate, and why big systems need to use enterprise drives.... 👉 [read]

The recent ‘Tech Prosperity Deal’ proposed by large tech firms is a massive opportunity for the UK, as long as the UK builds the skills to take advantage... 👉 [read]

Access to expert digital forensic analysis is biased towards the prosecution, says criminal defence.... 👉 [read]

Slush Startup in Helsinki will feature dual-use, defence and security events that bring suppliers together.... 👉 [read]

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers the burdens and responsibilities that accompany the role of chief information security officer, and share guidance on how to navigate a challenging career path.... 👉 [read]

Recorded Future’s CEO talks threat intelligence, AI in cyber security, and the ever-changing cyber threat landscape.... 👉 [read]

Unveiled before Abu Dhabi’s flagship energy event ADNOC, the partnership aims to deploy AI across ADNOC’s operations and deliver sustainable infrastructure to power Microsoft’s global datacentre growth... 👉 [read]

Despite having to make allowances for paying out close to $2bn in severance payments, Amazon’s results show its cloud arm is continuing to go from strength to strength.... 👉 [read]

The I/O demands of AI processing on storage are huge. It is often the case that model data in use will just not fit into a single GPU memory and so is parallelised across many of them.... 👉 [read]

As it reworks Oracle implementation, misleading numbers have led to an ‘ideological’ programme of cuts and asset sales at Birmingham City Council.... 👉 [read]

Just over two weeks remain before Companies House starts enforcing new digital identity verification procedures for company directors, but there's still time to get ready.... 👉 [read]

Europe faces rising cyber threats from criminals and nation-states. Ransomware attacks now take just 24 hours, with 22% of global victims being European.... 👉 [read]

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers the burdens and responsibilities that accompany the role of chief information security officer, and share guidance on how to navigate a challenging career path.... 👉 [read]

Siemens and Capgemini are expanding their partnership to create AI-based industrial technologies, said to boost efficiency, sustainability and innovation in manufacturing sectors.... 👉 [read]

Collaboration aims to boost awaness of open source initiatives, community development and the procurement process... 👉 [read]

Industrial firms face rising OT cyber threats. Asset visibility is vital for defence — without knowing what’s connected, organisations are risk blind.... 👉 [read]

The growing threat of ransomware attacks requires cyber to evolve from a defensive posture to being increasingly proactive. Building threat intel can enable this, helping better predict, prioritise and prevent ransomware attacks.... 👉 [read]

US and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server.... 👉 [read]

European governments are turning towards open standards alternatives to end-to end encrypted messaging and collaboration services dominated by WhatsApp and Teams .... 👉 [read]

Japanese IT supplier managed to grow its UK public sector business last year despite the fallout of the Post Office scandal.... 👉 [read]

Strategic partnership signals a new era of smart mobility aligned with country’s digital ambitions.... 👉 [read]

Microsoft Cloud posted revenue of $49bn. But a configuration error has caused a global outage impacting many customers... 👉 [read]

Colocation giant Equinix has acquired a plot of land in Hertfordshire where datacentre developer, DC01UK, secured planning permission to build a hyperscale campus back in January 2025... 👉 [read]

Two US senators have proposed legislation that would require AI chatbot companies to verify the ages of people using their chatbots, in attempt to limit their harmful effects on children.... 👉 [read]