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September 30, 2026 30Sep2026 News

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 – and McKinsey expects cheaper open-weight models to handle the bulk of routine work Continue Reading

September 29, 2026 29Sep2026 News

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

September 29, 2026 29Sep2026 Blog Post

Cantina develops ‘The Brain’ for autonomous security agents

Cantina has developed a “shared context and memory layer” that connects identities, infrastructure and prior investigations, helping security agents investigate alerts with less discovery work. The ... Continue Reading

September 29, 2026 29Sep2026 News

Only 30% of Metropolitan Police officers have completed mandatory data training

Metropolitan Police senior officers admit that only 30% of the force has completed mandatory data protection training following a series of high-profile data incidents Continue Reading

September 29, 2026 29Sep2026 News

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

September 29, 2026 29Sep2026 News

US university implements campus-wide Cisco network refresh

University of Notre Dame modernises network infrastructure to create resilient network to support the growing demands of AI, immersive research and bandwidth-intensive learning applications Continue Reading

September 29, 2026 29Sep2026 News

Private 4G/5G network takes off at Ontario International Airport

Southern California’s most popular airport looks to scale for the future with an advanced private wireless network to support security operations and future innovation Continue Reading

September 29, 2026 29Sep2026 In Depth

Ukraine’s 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 Ukraine’s tech sector has proven resilient despite the war Continue Reading

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 News

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

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 Blog Post

Stop managing AI agents like software. Start managing them like new hires.

This is a guest blogpost by Somya Kapoor, CEO, IFS Loops. Ninety-five percent of enterprise AI pilots never make it to production, according to MIT's NANDA Initiative. Ask most vendors why, and ... Continue Reading

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 Blog Post

Why the smartest agents will know when to stop

This is a guest blogpost by Jay Limburn, president of Ataccama. Ask an AI agent what “revenue” or “exposure” means and, in a well-run enterprise, it should be able to return the definition the ... Continue Reading

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 News

Are AI coders more trouble than they’re worth?

More and more code is being produced by AI tools. A poll finds that software teams are struggling to keep pace Continue Reading

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 News

Ofcom directs Openreach to withdraw broadband customer offer

UK’s leading broadband provider dealt blow by national comms regulator regarding offer to attract customers, but gains approval for others in sales basket Continue Reading

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 Opinion

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 – a worm's-eye view of the shortage the industry talks about Continue Reading

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 News

Oktane 2026: The industry is ready to talk about AI kill switches

The concept of an AI kill switch – a means to terminate out-of-control agents – 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

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 News

UiPath’s Cartographer agent interviews staff to map how businesses run

UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says the company’s Cartographer agent will capture the institutional knowledge AI agents lack by interviewing employees and learning from the corrections they make Continue Reading

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 Blog Post

Tensordyne co-founder: When it comes to inference, enterprises need more options than ever

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Gilles Backhus, co-founder of Tensordyne. Tensordyne is known for hardware and software acceleration platforms designed ... Continue Reading

September 28, 2026 28Sep2026 Opinion

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

September 27, 2026 27Sep2026 News

Vast Data pitches confidential AI to APAC’s regulated industries

DataEnclave, due in the coming months, protects artificial intelligence models and sensitive data while they are processed on GPUs, with Australian neocloud Sharon AI among the cloud providers lined up to offer it Continue Reading

September 26, 2026 26Sep2026 Blog Post

What to expect from NTT R&D Forum 2026

Kādo (カード)! It’s what you say in “standard loanword” (Gairaigo) Japanese when you need to buy a drink at a store in Tokyo and it sounds just like card-0, as in credit card. It’s a term that we'll ... Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance

Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in High Court claim for data protection breaches and harassment Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

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

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

How Meta plans to deliver petabit connectivity between US and France

Meta is working with NEC, Sumitomo Electric Industries and Orange to deliver petabit transoceanic cabling capacity Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 Opinion

Digital identity – moving forward with ambition

Despite the UK government's U-turn on a digital identity scheme, the uses and opportunities for digital ID are gathering pace Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation

The national police investigation into the Post Office IT scandal has now received the full funding it requires Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust

Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud? Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI

Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

Qualcomm sets out for future at beginning of agentic age

Annual conference of leading mobile platform provider sees transition into harnessing the power of agentic technologies through end product line including PCs, phones, cars and advanced eyewear Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 In Depth

AI promises a productivity windfall – who will reap the benefits?

Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general intellect’ – holds the key to why Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment

Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas Continue Reading

September 25, 2026 25Sep2026 News

Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal

Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox Continue Reading

September 24, 2026 24Sep2026 News

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

September 24, 2026 24Sep2026 Opinion

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

September 24, 2026 24Sep2026 News

US military confirms existence of orbital weapons

The US military has for the first time confirmed the existence of orbital weapons, but has not divulged details of their capabilities or whether they have been integrated with Space Force’s growing arsenal of AI systems Continue Reading

September 24, 2026 24Sep2026 News

Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath

With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365 Continue Reading

September 24, 2026 24Sep2026 In Depth

GCC organisations must ‘fight AI with AI’ to stay ahead of cyber threats

Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier to entry for cyber criminals, accelerating attack speeds and increasing the complexity of threats, prompting organisations to rethink resilience, governance and security operations Continue Reading

September 24, 2026 24Sep2026 News

Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency

A draft architecture published under the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy spells out what full software sovereignty requires and why full hardware sovereignty remains out of reach Continue Reading

September 24, 2026 24Sep2026 Blog Post

What to expect from Qualys ROCon 2026

It takes technology vendors years to cement the name of their user conferences in the minds of practitioners; it’s a core branding exercise that only reinforces itself through time and effort. ... Continue Reading

September 24, 2026 24Sep2026 Opinion

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

September 24, 2026 24Sep2026 News

Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin

The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asia’s first enterprise to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

Law firm paid £200m to support Post Office, while police investigating scandal are forced to beg

There are concerns that a lack of funds for the police investigation could prevent the full Post Office scandal truth getting out Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

UK national centre will fight Russian disinformation, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham

National Centre for Information Defence will disrupt information warfare from hostile states, UK prime minister Andy Burnham has announced Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 Blog Post

Wisdom AI CEO: Why enterprise AI needs smaller, purpose-built applications

More active than a good number of its competitors this year (if we measure the number of platform announcements and tool updates emanating from its core communications portal, if not also by dint ... Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 Opinion

Agentic AI in the enterprise: why governance, not adoption, will define the winners

IT leaders racing to deliver agentic AI risk repeating a familiar problem with new technologies - establishing controls after proving the concept. Agentic AI requires governance to be established from the outset Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

Former subpostmaster demands extension to Post Office scandal claims deadline

Subpostmasters can only make claims for losses through Post Office Process Review until September 30, but a former subpostmaster says there is a necessity to extend the deadline Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

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

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

Dubai and Microsoft launch real-time cyber resilience dashboard for government entities

Purpose-built zero-trust platform gives Dubai Electronic Security Center continuous visibility into compliance with the emirate’s Information Security Regulation, replacing point-in-time assessments with live security insights Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

Lumen lights up Intelligent Internet for AI demands

Infrastructure provider looks to bring cloud-like agility to enterprises with internet model combining on-demand bandwidth, digital control and predictable costs Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

DE-CIX launches neutral internet exchange in southern Austria

Southern Austria’s first neutral Internet Exchange based on edge containers designed to turn the state of Carinthia into a digital hub for the Alps-Adriatic region, backed by €5.7m state investment Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

Telxius plugs in 800G coherent optical tech to boost network capacity

Global connectivity provider evolves high-capacity international network with next-generation IP-over-DWDM technology to support growing cloud, AI and datacentre connectivity demands Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

Huawei expands vision for agentic world of infrastructure

Tech and networking giant unveils compute platform based on proprietary computing architecture and key interconnect technology that makes the system possible Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 News

Engineering Council licenses CIISec to assess cyber pros

Partnership gives cyber pros the opportunity to achieve Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status from the Engineering Council Continue Reading

September 23, 2026 23Sep2026 Blog Post

Abbyy FineParser tackles the document ingestion problem behind enterprise AI

Developers need to parse. Why? Because software application developers need to parse raw documents into structured formats in order to avoid problems such as poor ingestion and to prevent ... Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 News

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

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 Opinion

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, it’s a model that now needs to evolve. Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 News

Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence

Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 News

UK government defends ‘fundamentally flawed’ eVisa system

The government has rejected a suggestion from the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the electronic visa system should move to a more stable, token-based process, rather than the current error-prone system that relies on real-time database checks Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 In Depth

Interview: Paris Marx on why hyperscale datacentres pose greater threat than AI ‘science fiction’

Ahead of the release of his book, Paris Marx tells Computer Weekly how tech companies’ insatiable datacentre demands are accelerating the climate crisis Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 News

The Middle East’s AI race has a people problem

Middle East firms are quickly snapping up AI hardware, but finding the right people to put it to work effectively in everyday operations is proving a lot more difficult Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 Opinion

What do we mean by sovereign AI?

‘Sovereign AI’ is everywhere but rarely defined. It bundles ownership, control, jurisdiction, capability and optionality. The real test for most organisations is, do you know your dependencies, and can you leave if you need to? Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 Blog Post

Vast brings confidential AI to sensitive enterprise data with DataEnclave

Data storage specialist VAST Data (hereafter written as Vast) these days styles itself as an AI operating system company. The organisation’s latest release is Vast DataEnclave, the confidential AI ... Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 In Depth

Savola accelerates AI-driven transformation to support Saudi Vision 2030

Hazim Al Ahmadi, general Manager of information technology at Savola, discusses how AI, cloud technologies and digital innovation are helping the organisation improve efficiency, modernise operations and prepare for the future of business in Saudi ... Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 News

Capita lacks the ‘capacity and ability’ to run GP pension scheme, BMA tells MPs

The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to MP committees calling for the Capita-run GP pension scheme to be brought in-house Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 News

Splunk helps US research uni embrace ‘student-powered’ 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

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 E-Zine

Celebrating 60 years of Computer Weekly

Sixty years ago today, the first issue of Computer Weekly landed on IT managers’ desks across the UK. It’s been our privilege to document the incredible progress of UK IT ever since. In this special anniversary issue, leaders from across the sector ... Continue Reading

September 22, 2026 22Sep2026 Blog Post

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