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Ransomware gangs focus on winning hearts and minds
Ransomware-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
Gartner: AI and datacentre spending ramps up
Hyperscalers are increasing AI capacity but IT buyers are now looking at their return on investment for this much-hyped technology
Infosecurity Europe launches cyber security startups stream
Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support, in conjunction with the UK Cyber Flywheel organisation
CW EMEA: Women in Cyber
In this quarter’s issue of CW EMEA, we look at the decision in Sweden to discontinue the use of a machine learning model to identify benefit fraud. The country’s Data Protection Authority became involved in November 2024, when it was revealed that a...
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NHS publishes tech-laden cancer plan
The 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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Australia’s CommBank partners business school for AI research
CommBank 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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Minister responds to criticism of Post Office Capture redress
Redress 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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Virgin Media O2 accelerates automation across mobile network
UK telco teams with cloud-first tech modernisation firm to deploy AI-driven automation technology to minimise downtime across mobile network, resolve issues faster and anticipating faults before escalation
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ANZ rolls out AI agents for business bankers
Australian 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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Hyundai Motor Group, Vodafone IoT deploy connected cars in MENA
Internet of things division of leading European telco partners with Korean motor giant to power connected cars in five countries across the Middle East, claiming reliable and secure in-car connectivity that is fully compliant with regional laws
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In The Current Issue:
- Women in Cybersecurity Middle East marks five years of impact at Black Hat MEA
- Swedish welfare authority suspends ‘discriminatory’ AI model
- Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped
In Depth
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From chaos to clarity: How AI is redefining construction at scale
Klemensas Mecejus from ai71 explains why predictive, agent-based AI could finally crack construction’s productivity and cost overrun problem, and why the Middle East is poised to leap ahead
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Why the UK needs to rethink the Investigatory Powers Act and allow intercept evidence in court
The UK needs clear and unambiguous laws around the use of digital evidence in court. The law has become tangled following rulings in the country’s EncroChat prosecutions. It’s time to allow intercept data to be used as evidence in legal cases
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Answers to key questions about AI in IT security
Forrester examines the key factors security leaders and IT decision-makers need to evaluate when considering AI-enabled IT security
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E-Zine | February 2026
Datacentre indecision: UK government’s back and forth on planning
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E-Zine | January 2026
Tech nationalism: The need to build and protect UK digital sovereignty
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E-Zine | January 2026
CW EMEA: Women in Cyber
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E-Zine | January 2026
How open banking is evolving to unlock finances
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E-Zine | January 2026
Every Post Office victim deserves an OBE, says Betty Brown
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Blogs
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GreenOps – Astronomer: Workflow orchestration is the hygiene layer a data team needs- CW Developer Network
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Carter Page in his capacity as EVP of R&D at Astronomer. Astronomer is the company behind Astro, the modern data ... Continue Reading
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GreenOps & FinOps – Sweep: From compliance & cost cutting to business growth- CW Developer Network
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yannick Chaze, CTO and co-Founder of Sweep. Sweep is a sustainability data platform that helps organisations track carbon ... Continue Reading
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AI abilities for utilities, IFS Resolve serves field technicians & emergency crews- CW Developer Network
Continuing to expand its ‘industrial AI’ mission with real-world in-the-field application services, IFS has detailed the arrival of its IFS Nexus Black Resolve for Utilities. This is a ... Continue Reading
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Accountability for AI model misuse- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The public and political backlash over the use of Grok’s AI engine to create explicit photographs, forcing the company’s hand into changing tack, shows just how out of touch the tech giants really ... Continue Reading
Opinion
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Smaller, safer AI models may be key to unlocking business value
While AI presents a significant opportunity to further the way we do business, what if it’s time to consider a new direction? What if the safest and most effective path for AI isn’t to go larger, but smaller instead?
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AGI? Business leaders are still trying to make AI work
Artificial general intelligence made headlines at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos but business leaders chatting in the corridors are much more interested in how they can make AI work in real business process.
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Is banking IT and business relationship still ‘them and us’?
As the UK government appoints senior IT executives at two banks to help it guide artificial intelligence deployment in the sector, Computer Weekly asks one IT professional in banking what he thinks
Videos
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Diversity in tech 2023: Bev White, Nash Squared
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Diversity in tech 2022: Explaining employee resource groups
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Diversity in tech 2022: Mehdi Mobayen-Rahni, Tyl by NatWest
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Diversity in tech 2022: Kerensa Jennings, BT
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