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Feature
23 Oct 2026
Can Britainâs grid keep up with the datacentre boom?
Mounting power demands and grid bottlenecks are reshaping the geography of the UKâs digital infrastructure, pushing developers to wherever they can connect fastest Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Oct 2026
CW@60: How Singapore, India and Australia built their tech industries
Computer Weekly is 60 this year. We look back at what has shaped enterprise IT in three of the regionâs key markets, and what each is building next Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
22 Oct 2026
Botched PHP2Shell disclosure revealed as panic continues
As security teams worldwide grapple with the deep impact of the PHP2Shell flaws, the PHP Foundation reveals how a carefully planned vulnerability disclosure process went horribly wrong Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Feature
22 Oct 2026
The drift towards AI totalitarianism
In the 20th century, totalitarian societies emerged at gunpoint. Going forward, they might arise from overwhelming deference to artificial intelligence Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2026
Indiaâs quantum mission takes shape, but adoption is the harder test
Three years into its National Quantum Mission, India has a 1,000km quantum-secure network and a home-grown 25-qubit computer, but turning that research into revenue and building skills at scale will decide how far it goes Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2026
Government canât account for digital transformation spend
Being transparent on digital spend across departments currently ânot feasibleâ due to finance systems constraints, the government responds to Science and Technology Committee recommendations Continue Reading
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21 Oct 2026
Grid âruns on coal-age dataâ, warns Open Climate Fix
Open Climate Fix says opening priority energy datasets could cut consumer bills, as a coalition of energy and data innovators urges ministers to act on the clean power mission Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
21 Oct 2026
Burnham ministry shifts look far from fixing datacentre gridlock
Clogged grid queues and speculative planning applications threaten the UKâs 2030 datacentre and clean energy targets. Is a national âsuperministryâ the only way out? Continue Reading
By- Daryl Baxter
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News
21 Oct 2026
ClickFix scams pose growing risk to education sector, Jisc says
Observers have noted a surge in so-called ClickFix scams targeting the UK's higher education sector as threat actors seek valuable personal and research data Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
21 Oct 2026
Southeast Asian enterprises trail consumers in AI usage
Per capita AI usage in Southeast Asia is about a tenth of US levels, a gap the latest e-Conomy SEA report puts down to consumer-led, mobile-first adoption rather than enterprise deployments Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Opinion
20 Oct 2026
Who is the boss of an AI agent?
AI agents that work for an employee, a business process or the enterprise carry different risks and deliver different returns, and organisations that govern them all the same way stand to get both wrong Continue Reading
By- Leinar Ramos
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News
20 Oct 2026
Google Cloud power event knocks out UK banks, courts and couriers
Google runs a single UK cloud region, so when one London zone lost power, there was nowhere to failover â most services recovered by late afternoon, but courts are still down Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
20 Oct 2026
Future digital ID arrangements remain unclear, PAC hears
Following the scrapping of the governmentâs digital ID scheme, future plans, costs and data-sharing agreements are not yet settled Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2026
Teachersâ pension transfers from Capita on eve of governmentâs civil service scheme decision
The government is currently deciding what to do with two failed pension outsourcing contracts as members of a third brace for upcoming switchover Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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E-Zine
20 Oct 2026
The Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2026
In this weekâs Computer Weekly, we reveal our latest annual list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology â and we talk to the number one, Karen Blake, about the importance of changing the culture of the tech workforce. We also kick off our new buyerâs guide examining whatâs needed to run on-premise AI infrastructure. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2026
Freshworks builds towards autonomous IT as it moves upmarket
Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside is expanding Freshservice into IT operations and software spend management and says customers shouldnât have to work out what AI is costing them in tokens Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
20 Oct 2026
CIOs admit they are being forced to upgrade enterprise IT
The deep integration within the organisation makes it increasingly difficult for IT departments to select alternative enterprise IT systems, says survey Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Opinion
19 Oct 2026
Keep less, know more: the AI advantage hiding in your data estate
The Security Think Tank explores the intersection of GDPR and artificial intelligence, considering how data protection standards in the UK and Europe are changing in this new paradigm. Continue Reading
By- Dhairya Mehta, PA Consulting
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Opinion
19 Oct 2026
Sustainability efforts could reverse public datacentre backlash
Datacentres are in the public crosshairs, but AI models could be next. Greenpixieâs John Ridd explains why companies must embrace sustainability data to ensure AI adoption lasts Continue Reading
By- John Ridd, Greenpixie
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Opinion
19 Oct 2026
Cooling â not compute â is the binding constraint on the AI factory
Compute can be bought, but heat rejection must be engineered. Nvidiaâs Ajay Sekar reveals how warm-water liquid cooling is redefining the economics and geography of AI factories Continue Reading
By- Ajay Sekar, Nvidia
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News
19 Oct 2026
Funding, people and patience: How the UK can become a deeptech leader
At an event run by the Global Tech Advocates group, female leaders working in the deeptech sector discussed the ways in which the UK can become a leader in the space, including a focus on funding, people and having patience Continue Reading
By- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
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Opinion
19 Oct 2026
Efficient chips cannot save inefficient software
While hardware and datacentres dictate power supply, software creates AI demand. Forresterâs Abhijit Sunil explains why software sustainability must become a core engineering metric Continue Reading
By- Abhijit Sunil, Forrester
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News
19 Oct 2026
Lenovoâs AI Express targets enterprises waiting for AI servers
Lenovo has set a 15 to 25 business day order-to-ship target for three pre-validated AI server configurations, offering faster shipments to enterprises that have struggled to get GPU kit amid a memory crunch Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
16 Oct 2026
CMA to decide Microsoft strategic market status by February 2027
The CMA proposes to designate Microsoftâs business software ecosystem with strategic market status and sets out a roadmap on Copilot, Teams, cloud licensing and security Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
15 Oct 2026
AI agents can act, but humans must own the outcome
AI agents can operate at machine speed, but people still need to set intent, make the hard calls and answer for outcomes, says Goh Eng Choon of ST Engineering Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
15 Oct 2026
MoDâs new SIEM, analytics platform up and running
At a critical moment for Britain's national security, the Ministry of Defenceâs upgraded SIEM and security analytics platform is being delivered by Centerprise and Elastic Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
15 Oct 2026
Waste-to-energy firm picks Stackable on Ionos for sovereignty
Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Feature
15 Oct 2026
Beyond Nvidia: how alternative silicon is reshaping datacentre design
Driven by rising inference demands and power constraints, datacentres are evolving beyond Nvidia dominance toward alternative silicon, custom accelerators and edge sites Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2026
UAE leads in AI agent deployment as governance gaps emerge
Some 15% of UAE CIOs say their organisations run more than 500 AI agents in production, but limited visibility and containment capabilities pose challenges for enterprise oversight Continue Reading
By- Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly
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News
15 Oct 2026
ORCA launches PT-3 quantum computer in London datacentre
ORCA Computing unveils PT-3 in London, a room-temperature quantum system paired with Nvidia GPUs to boost AI-driven drug discovery yield and complex energy grid scheduling Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
15 Oct 2026
Anthropic opens Singapore office, signs AI safety pact with government
The Claude maker now offers in-region inference for firms with strict data residency rules in the city-state, where GovTech, Grab and DBS are already using its models Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
14 Oct 2026
Amazon uses AI-powered âriskâ system to track union activity globally
Internal documents disclosed during a Canadian labour dispute show Amazon is using an artificial intelligence-powered risk-scoring system named Atlas to track union organising among its workforce, while training managers on how to handle what it perceives as the âthreatâ of union activity Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Opinion
13 Oct 2026
Why Southeast Asiaâs AI ambitions hinge on fibre, 5G and Wi-Fi 7
Enterprise AI will stall in Southeast Asia unless fibre, 5G and Wi-Fi 7 are planned as one connectivity layer, and that makes network modernisation a boardroom issue Continue Reading
By- Mustafa Kapasi
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News
13 Oct 2026
Microsoft CVE volumes on relentless upward trajectory
Microsoftâs monthly Patch Tuesday drop breaks yet another record, with over 1,400 flaws listed Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
13 Oct 2026
NCA cracks down on foreign cyber fraudsters
Almost 30 arrests and four million online profiles were removed in an NCA-hosted operation targeting fraudsters in Ghana and Nigeria Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
13 Oct 2026
Data dive: The carbon bill for the UKâs datacentre boom
The UKâs existing datacentres emit about 1.5 million tonnes of CO2e a year. A 14.6GW committed pipeline would add about 12 million tonnes a year â or 38 million tonnes if it all runs on gas Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
13 Oct 2026
Enterprises are growing the use of AI â but proving what it earns is the harder part
At the World Summit AI conference, Santander, Axa, ABN Amro, AMD and Albert Heijn explained how they are trying to turn AI projects into demonstrable value they can prove Continue Reading
By- Kim Loohuis
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E-Zine
13 Oct 2026
What CFOs make of AI
In this weekâs Computer Weekly, we talk to four chief financial officers to find out their views and experiences of artificial intelligence and what it can deliver. We find out why Thomson Reuters chose to spend millions of pounds developing its own AI large language model. And the tech chief at banking giant Chase tells us why leading 12,000 IT professionals to support 87 million customers is a fun job. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
13 Oct 2026
The Security Interviews: A post-Mythos reality check
Rudra Mitra, vice-president of security services at AWS, on why cyber security teams need to rethink their approach to IT security Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
12 Oct 2026
Campaign group submits evidence to two Capita probes as pension scheme member turns to food bank
Members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme make submissions to two inquiries into the Capita disaster that has left many in extreme financial hardship Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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News
12 Oct 2026
Capital, not chips, may be the real brake on the AI build-out
The world is spending about $200bn a year running AI models and getting $150bn back, Broadcomâs Hock Tan told DBSâs inaugural Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, with most enterprises yet to see a return Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
12 Oct 2026
DBS CEO warns against âAI lipstickâ as TikTok turns to agents for safety checks
DBS chief executive Tan Su Shan says firms have to rethink how work gets done to get real value from AI, while TikTokâs Shou Zi Chew sets out how the video platform is using agents and vision models in its safety work Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
11 Oct 2026
How F1 and Lenovo shrank the sportâs travelling datacentre
Three racks of IT kit have become one in Formula 1âs travelling datacentre, and the sport has pulled telemetry processing back to the circuit so teams get their data sooner Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
09 Oct 2026
NCSC and pals call out company that backed Chinese state hackers
The NCSCâs joint advisory names perennial offender Integrity Technology, accusing it of facilitating cyber attacks on behalf of Flax Typhoon, a Chinese state threat actor Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
09 Oct 2026
ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
The Singapore transport operator can now host production Kubernetes workloads on its private cloud, and it wants most of its AI work there, too, as it tries to keep a lid on data exposure and token bills Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
08 Oct 2026
Scope of Asos data breach wider than first reported
Following a data breach earlier in October, cyber criminals appear to have a much more complete picture of Asosâ user base than first thought, it has emerged Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
08 Oct 2026
The Security Interviews: Evren Karaibrahimgil, Welsh FA
Evren Karaibrahimgil, IT manager at the FAW, on securing the national football association of Wales against evolving cyber threats, with Euro 2028 on home soil in mind Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
Public sector risk and double standards over occupied Palestine
The UK bans cloud and software for Russia, but sanctions illegal Israeli settlements only narrowly â while AWS, Google and Microsoft run the IT infrastructure for the occupation Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
06 Oct 2026
AI slop overwhelms Googleâs OSS bug bounty programme
Google has closed its open source vulnerability reporting programme to new submissions while it recalibrates in the face of a surge in automated junk reports Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Opinion
06 Oct 2026
Green IT: Taking responsibility for softwareâs physical footprint
Green IT must look beyond physical datacentres to software efficiency. Optimising code, data retention, and architecture reduces energy demand and hardware churn Continue Reading
By- Daniel Smith, Astralis Technology
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News
06 Oct 2026
Microsoft campus datacentre to rely on gas fuel cells until 2037
Plans show a 72MW datacentre proposed for Microsoftâs Thames Valley Park campus has just 1.8MW of grid power secured, so gas-fed fuel cells will power it until around 2037 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
06 Oct 2026
JP Morgan Chase most advanced in AI as UK banks group in chasing pack
North American banks dominate the leading group of AI adopters, according to global benchmark Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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E-Zine
06 Oct 2026
A healthy approach to AI
In this weekâs Computer Weekly, we talk to health and hygiene products manufacturer Reckitt to find out what it has learned about successful AI adoption. Our new buyerâs guide examines process mining. And we reflect on the issues raised around trust in AI at Salesforceâs recent Dreamforce user conference. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2026
Cyber insurers in Asia step up security services as market softens
Zurich Insurance is using its claims data to show organisations in Asia the potential cost of a supplier breach or cloud outage, as brokers push insurers to do more than just offer a policy Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
The AI kill switch â what actually happens when you press it?
Talk of an AI kill switch abounds, but what would such a thing actually look like in practice, and what would it mean to âpressâ it? Continue Reading
By- Adam Stringer, PA Consulting
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
Software architecture as the first line of climate defence
True digital sustainability requires addressing software waste. Refactoring bloated code cuts computational overhead, lowering enterprise energy consumption and hardware churn Continue Reading
By- Shane Herath , Eco-Friendly Web Alliance
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News
05 Oct 2026
UK signs innovation and tech deal with Taiwan
Agreement builds on existing collaboration between the UK and Taiwan, and aims to drive development in several areas, including semiconductors and standards around artificial intelligence Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
It's time to rethink what we mean by a legacy datacentre
Rather than viewing older datacentres as obsolete legacy assets, smart operators are unlocking commercial value by upgrading existing sites for AI and higher density Continue Reading
By- Simon Harris, BCS Consultancy
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
Why scarcity alone won't pay for Asia's AI infrastructure
Singtel, SK Telecom and China Telecom are each betting on a different kind of scarcity. The fibre boom is a reminder that scarcity attracts capital until it disappears Continue Reading
By- Edwin Lin
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
AI is creating more âbullshit jobsâ - here's how to stop
What's the point in AI saving hours of workers' time if there's no thought around what to do with all that time saved? Continue Reading
By- Will Venters, London School of Economics and Political Science
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News
04 Oct 2026
APAC has the datacentre demand, but turning plans into capacity is the hard part
Asia-Pacific now generates its own datacentre demand, but executives from AWS, Damac Digital and Delta Electronics say the real test is turning announced investments into working capacity Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
02 Oct 2026
Members braced as Teachersâ Pension transfer approaches
The UKâs Teachersâ Pension scheme administration is set to transfer from Capita to Tata Consultancy Services Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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News
01 Oct 2026
Teen hacker arrested amid KillSec cyber gang takedown
A multinational operation targeting the KillSec ransomware gang has led to three arrests, including an unnamed 16-year-old Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
01 Oct 2026
Bank of England warns of AI debt
Bank of England governor Andy Bailey warns that artificial intelligence benefits may take longer to be realised Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
30 Sep 2026
âInherent sovereignty is a fallacyâ says Beyond.pl AI factory exec
Beyond.pl built central Europeâs first sovereign AI factory on Everpure and Nvidia kit â now its CEO argues the real issue is operational sovereignty, not where the box sits Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
30 Sep 2026
Trust Bank cuts incident triage time to two minutes with AI agents
The Singapore digital bank is running AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to work out the likely cause of an incident before engineers join the call, with humans still deciding on the fix Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
30 Sep 2026
Saudi Arabiaâs next AI challenge is turning infrastructure into capability
Magna AI executive says governance, operational ownership and sovereign control will determine whether organisations can scale artificial intelligence beyond pilots Continue Reading
By- Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly
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News
30 Sep 2026
Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures
An Everpure survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across eight countries finds 90% recognise the risk, yet 64% lack a formal strategy to close âthe sovereignty gapâ Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
30 Sep 2026
Token bills to push most enterprise AI workloads onto open-weight models
With AI agents consuming tokens at an alarming rate, most enterprises have blown their AI budgets â and McKinsey expects cheaper open-weight models to handle the bulk of routine work Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
29 Sep 2026
Cyber authorities issue alerts over exploitation of Citrix vulns
The latest vulnerabilities to be uncovered in the frequently targeted Citrix NetScaler product lines were being exploited well before disclosure, prompting disquiet Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
29 Sep 2026
Dutch datacentre sector pitches itself as relief for an overloaded grid
European datacentre associations argue that building datacentres where renewable power is generated could ease grid congestion in the Netherlands and beyond Continue Reading
By- Kim Loohuis
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Feature
29 Sep 2026
Ukraineâs tech industry still stands strong
Andy Burnham visited Kyiv in Aug 2026, the fourth UK PM since 2022. UK-Ukraine tech collaboration has grown with AI-focused military deals, and Ukraineâs tech sector has proven resilient despite the war Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2026
Kiteworks lifts shutdown order after incident-free weekend
Kiteworks customers are back up and running after a highly unusual preemptive shutdown that came amid indications of an impending cyber attack Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Opinion
28 Sep 2026
The GPU mirage on a lazy Sunday afternoon
An attempt to spin up my own Whisper transcription server resulted in an afternoon of sold-out zones and vanishing GPUs â a worm's-eye view of the shortage the industry talks about Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
28 Sep 2026
Oktane 2026: The industry is ready to talk about AI kill switches
The concept of an AI kill switch â a means to terminate out-of-control agents â sounds dramatic, but security leaders are now starting to talk openly and pragmatically about why they are needed and how to use them Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
28 Sep 2026
UiPathâs Cartographer agent interviews staff to map how businesses run
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says the companyâs Cartographer agent will capture the institutional knowledge AI agents lack by interviewing employees and learning from the corrections they make Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Opinion
28 Sep 2026
Defining digital sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has become a much-discussed topic - but most debate misses the point. It's not about where your supplier comes from, but about whether you have the ability to make decisions regardless of technology Continue Reading
By- Mike Bracken, Andrew Greenway, Lauren Kahn, Raine Lester, James Stewart
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News
25 Sep 2026
Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers
An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
25 Sep 2026
Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI
Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Feature
25 Sep 2026
AI promises a productivity windfall â who will reap the benefits?
Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea â the âgeneral intellectâ â holds the key to why Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
24 Sep 2026
Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination
Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Opinion
24 Sep 2026
Is AI dangerous? Trying to separate hype from fact
The danger is not a conscious machine, but a dazzling prediction engine that moves faster than we can supervise. The real risk is that we hand over the controls too easily Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
24 Sep 2026
Why every telco's AI strategy looks different
Singtel, SK Telecom and China Telecom all agree that AI-ready infrastructure is worth building. Where they disagree is on what stays scarce once everyone has built it Continue Reading
By- Edwin Lin
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News
23 Sep 2026
Informatica wants AI agents to stop making up the numbers
Informatica, owned by Salesforce, is making its catalogue metadata machine-readable, and adding trust indicators to answers in Claude so customers can see where a figure comes from before they act on it Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
22 Sep 2026
Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch
In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Opinion
22 Sep 2026
Zero-trust was built for people. Nobody told it about agents
The concept of zero-trust needs no introduction, but in the new world of AI agents, itâs a model that now needs to evolve. Continue Reading
By- Niyati Daftary, Gartner
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News
22 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping UK police forcesâ hyperscale dependence
Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britainâs 48 police forces connect to â and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Feature
22 Sep 2026
Interview: Paris Marx on why hyperscale datacentres pose greater threat than AI âscience fictionâ
Ahead of the release of his latest book, Paris Marx tells Computer Weekly how tech companiesâ insatiable datacentre demands are accelerating the climate crisis Continue Reading
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22 Sep 2026
Splunk helps US research uni embrace âstudent-poweredâ security
When she was asked to let IT students run its SOC, New Jersey Institute of Technology CISO Sharon Kelley ran a mile. Find out why she changed her mind, and how Splunk is helping her raise a new generation of cyber analysts Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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E-Zine
22 Sep 2026
Celebrating 60 years of Computer Weekly
Sixty years ago today, the first issue of Computer Weekly landed on IT managersâ desks across the UK. Itâs been our privilege to document the incredible progress of UK IT ever since. In this special anniversary issue, leaders from across the sector reflect on their personal memories from six decades of innovation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Sep 2026
Cloud sovereignty: Very complex and difficult to achieve
Achieving true digital sovereignty is immensely difficult as geopolitical tensions, complex global supply chains and âsovereignty-washingâ complicate IT infrastructure security Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Sep 2026
Digital Realty: Aaron Binkleyâs passion and progress in sustainability
From farm to tech: How Aaron Binkley bridged real estate and big tech to drive Digital Realtyâs global sustainability strategy and massive renewable energy shift Continue Reading
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Opinion
21 Sep 2026
Will new grid rules put the future of UK datacentres at risk?
Ofgem's proposed commitment fees aim to clear grid-clogging data centres, but could the upfront costs deter viable projects and threaten the UK's AI ambitions? Continue Reading
By- Peter Dilks, Shakespeare Martineau
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Feature
21 Sep 2026
Selective sovereignty: Why balance beats lockdown in the data debate
Everpure CTO Patrick Smith argues data sovereignty demands selective control, balancing strict workload rules with global cloud speed rather than an all-or-nothing lockdown Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
21 Sep 2026
Can telcos beat neoclouds in the AI infrastructure race?
With more than $500bn in fresh capital heading for AI infrastructure, neoclouds, hyperscalers and telcos are each betting on a different bottleneck. The winners will be those that correctly identify what stays scarce Continue Reading
By- Edwin Lin
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News
21 Sep 2026
Bumrungrad turns to AI agents to clear patient email backlog
Bumrungrad International Hospital is using Salesforceâs Agentforce to summarise and route patient correspondence, with automated appointment booking and voice agents on the cards Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
18 Sep 2026
US cyber agency endorses âdecoyâ tactics
Official US guidance suggests organisations consider using cyber decoys to strengthen their detection and response capabilities Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
18 Sep 2026
Interview: François-Xavier Pierrel, chief data officer, TF1
As the French broadcaster looks to compete in a streaming-led world, its data strategy and use of AI agents will be fundamental to transforming the business Continue Reading
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News
18 Sep 2026
Data dive: London and M4 the datacentre hotspot, but not for long
A fresh count of the UKâs existing datacentres finds 1.6GW, mostly in London and the M4, while a projected 14.6GW heads north to get on the grid Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
17 Sep 2026
Interview: Stephen Wood, chief operating officer, Rathbones Asset Management
Data is so important for the financial services firm that its COO leads the strategy â and itâs enabling them to forge ahead with AI and agentic technologies Continue Reading
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17 Sep 2026
MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions
Government pledges planning guidance by Christmas and environmental impact assessments for schemes of more than 50MW, with Scotlandâs committed pipeline at 14 schemes and 2.4GW Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
17 Sep 2026
Microsoft showcases AI-powered cyber defence tools at GISEC
The company highlights new security capabilities as businesses across the UAE look to secure growing artificial intelligence deployments Continue Reading
By- Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly
