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16 Jun 2026
Salesforce plans to acquire Fin agentic customer service AI
By Don FluckingerIrish CX tech company Fin, long known as Intercom until a rebrand last month, promises to jump-start Salesforce's agentic customer service business.
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16 Jun 2026
HPE drives forward with AI networking push
By Paul CrocettiHPE brings networking into focus for enterprises at Discover 2026, rolling out switching advancements, AI-powered remediation and AI assistant support.
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16 Jun 2026
Datadog shops: AI incident management needs platform engineers
AI-driven incident management will only be as good as the human-designed platforms they run on, according to conference presenters at Datadog DASH.
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17 Jun 2026
2026 World Cup billed as ‘largest entertainment attack surface in history’
By Aaron TanWith the tournament underway across North America, Palo Alto Networks warns that temporary supplier ecosystems, vulnerable municipal infrastructure and geopolitical tensions are creating risks for enterprises and fans
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16 Jun 2026
Insurance industry AI recruitment correlates with success
By Karl FlindersResearch shows that insurers have accelerated recruitment of artificial intelligence professionals
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16 Jun 2026
How AngelHack uses hackathons to ease AI adoption
By Aaron TanFrom internal hackathons to accelerator programmes, Singapore’s AngelHack is empowering everyday employees to build their own AI applications while expanding its reach in the US, Brazil and Australia
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15 Jun 2026
Post Office Capture appeal objections not ‘right, just or fair’
By Karl FlindersInfluential advisory group tells Post Office there is a ‘clear case’ that Capture convictions are unsafe
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15 Jun 2026
Swedish industrial AI deal exemplifies Indian software fix to AI threat
By Mark BallardAs India does big deals in the Nordics, the sub-continent’s role for the artificial intelligence age begins to become apparent
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12 Jun 2026
The digital pivot: How HSS transformed hire with agentic AI
By Antony AdsheadHSS ProService underwent a profound transformation from asset-heavy hire business to digital marketplace set to deploy agentic AI. CEO Tom Shorten tells us how it did it
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12 Jun 2026
Oracle fixes PeopleSoft flaw exploited by ShinyHunters
By Alex ScroxtonA zero-day vulnerability affecting Oracle’s PeopleSoft products is being exploited by a ShinyHunters campaign targeting schools and universities
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11 Jun 2026
Established enterprise patching models dead in the water, says report
By Alex ScroxtonVulnerability discovery and exploitation was surging dramatically even before Anthropic decided to unleash its frontier Mythos model. As such, an Action1 report finds old approaches to patching are no longer fit for purpose
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11 Jun 2026
Government aims to make UK top spot for open source AI
By Cliff SaranAI minister Kanishka Narayan unveils funding for computer access to support open source developers of artificial intelligence technology
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11 Jun 2026
Government aims to make UK top spot for open source AI
By Cliff SaranAI minister Kanishka Narayan unveils funding for computer access to support open source developers of artificial intelligence technology
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10 Jun 2026
ING increases use of AI in mortgage application process
By Karl FlindersBank using artificial intelligence to speed up mortgage applications as the company introduces the technology across its business
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09 Jun 2026
Microsoft smashes record for biggest ever Patch Tuesday update
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft has obliterated the record for the largest ever Patch Tuesday drop, with its June 2026 update addressing approximately 200 flaws and three zero-days
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08 Jun 2026
Infosecurity Europe 2026: AI turbo-charging cyber crime and response
By Brian McKennaAI is accelerating cyber attacks by criminals and hostile states, with attackers faster, more persistent and increasingly collaborative, say experts speaking at Infosecurity Europe 2026
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03 Jun 2026
Interview: Michael Cole, chief technology officer, DP World Tour
By Mark SamuelsAI promises to revolutionise the experience of watching or taking part in the traditional sport of golf for players, fans and TV viewers – the IT chief leading the change explains how
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02 Jun 2026
Over half a trillion dollars generated by global fintechs last year
By Karl FlindersFintech sector has emerged from a “reset year” as a more mature industry, according to report
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02 Jun 2026
Scottish residents granted permission for group action against Capita
By Karl FlindersPeople of Scotland given the go-ahead on group proceedings regarding the 2023 Capita cyber breach, in which the personal information of millions of people was stolen from Capita systems after a major cyber attack
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01 Jun 2026
AI agents help Cato slash ‘time-to-protect’ from new CVEs
By Alex ScroxtonThe application of agentic AI to vulnerability management workflows has slashed mitigation times in experimental conditions, claims Sase specialist Cato Networks
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29 May 2026
Microsoft hits out over irresponsible vulnerability disclosure
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft goes on the offensive after a disgruntled security researcher unleashed a series of zero-days without checking in first
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29 May 2026
Also-ran Sweden bids for AI world leadership
By Mark BallardNot satisfied with applying US AI systems, Nordic giant Sweden is hoping to change the rules of the game
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27 May 2026
Glassworm botnet that targeted OS devs smashed to pieces
By Alex ScroxtonCrowdStrike, Google and the Shadowserver Foundation worked together to take down a botnet that poisoned over 300 GitHub repositories, risking widespread supply chain compromise
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27 May 2026
NatWest inks AI deal for trade finance
By Karl FlindersNatWest bank wants to streamline trade finance while improving compliance through the use of artificial intelligence
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27 May 2026
Datacentre dive: ‘We’re at Chinese levels’ at TeraWulf 750MW AI factory
By Antony AdsheadWe see the latest in artificial intelligence factory technology and construction at TeraWulf’s Lake Ontario datacentre, where a former coal-fired power station is the site of a rapid transformation
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26 May 2026
Who owns AI's decisions? Reengineering AI governance
By Ben LutkevichAI leaders say governance must evolve beyond compliance checklists toward trust, observability and clear decision ownership in agentic systems.
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26 May 2026
Sir Alan Bates questions UK government commitment to Post Office criminal investigation
By Karl FlindersThe UK government needs to increase funding for police investigation of Post Office scandal crimes, or face a five-year delay
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26 May 2026
Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.7 Max at inaugural Singapore conference
By Aaron TanChinese tech giant debuts AI model capable of extended autonomous tasks, alongside a major upskilling initiative backed by the Singapore government to ensure no jobless growth in the age of AI
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20 May 2026
Avoid expensive AI agents with these five design imperatives
By Aaron TanDell Technologies’ chief operating officer Jeff Clarke offers a blueprint for the AI-native enterprise, warning that failing to integrate data and control tokenomics will result in high cloud bills and fragmented tools
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19 May 2026
Vulnerability exploitation now primary origin of data breaches
By Alex ScroxtonVerizon’s annual cyber report reveals a major change in how data breaches originate, highlighting the impact of artificial intelligence
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19 May 2026
Interview: How Volvo built software for a two-and-a-half-tonne moving object
By Kim LoohuisVolvo Cars is the only legacy carmaker in the world rated at the highest level of software-defined vehicle capability by S&P Global Mobility. Its chief engineering and technology officer, Anders Bell, tells us how it got there
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15 May 2026
Post Office chair defends ‘inappropriate and harmful’ position on Capture appeals
By Karl FlindersPost Office chairman defends its position on contesting subpostmaster appeals against Capture-based convictions
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14 May 2026
Gov.uk chatbot makes government services faster to access
By Cliff SaranChatbot functionality in the Gov.uk app now provides citizens and businesses with a natural language interface across government online services in the UK
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14 May 2026
Software developers shift to AI code reviewers
By Cliff SaranUsing artificial intelligence to generate code is not necessarily a productivity boost, with programmers spending far more time reviewing AI-generated code
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13 May 2026
IBM Think: AI transformation aims to shrink process, lift people
By Ben LutkevichExecutives at IBM Think want to use AI to remove friction for their people in the mid-to-long term, but understand significant change is necessary to get there.
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12 May 2026
Microsoft releases rare zero-day free Patch Tuesday update
By Alex ScroxtonNo zero-day flaws were addressed in May’s Patch Tuesday update but as usual there is much for admins to chew over in the coming days
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12 May 2026
Interview: Alwin Bakkenes, head of software engineering, Volvo Cars
By Mark SamuelsAs cars become increasingly software-driven and AI-enabled, the Volvo software chief is at the cutting edge of connected vehicles and advanced mobility tools for drivers and passengers
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12 May 2026
Executive interview: Pros and cons of AI in academic research
By Cliff SaranWe speak to Jill Luber, chief technology officer at academic publisher Elsevier, about how large language models can support researchers
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11 May 2026
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: FedEx digital chief unpacks agentic AI’s potential
By Ryan PriestSpeaking to Computer Weekly at ServiceNow Knowledge 2026, Vishal Talwar, FedEx’s executive vice-president and CDIO, lays out the company’s mission to scale artificial intelligence responsibly
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11 May 2026
Commerzbank to cut 3,000 jobs as it ‘leverages AI even more’
By Karl FlindersPart of the German bank’s transformation will see a total of 3,000 jobs cut across the business
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11 May 2026
The Netherlands leads in quantum technology but lags on quantum security
By Kim LoohuisThe Dutch government has invested €615m to build a world-class quantum technology ecosystem, but many institutions have not started any quantum-specific preparations to protect themselves against the security threat
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08 May 2026
ESET: Don’t fear the ‘AI Terminator’, but prepare for agent risks
By Aaron TanWhile fully autonomous hacking bots remain a distant reality, an ESET expert warns that AI is quietly supercharging phishing schemes and creating new vulnerabilities inside organisations
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07 May 2026
Nutanix CEO maps out agentic AI strategy, targets VMware defectors
By Aaron TanRajiv Ramaswami talks up Nutanix’s agentic AI play, the growing demand for sovereign cloud capabilities, and why decoupling storage from HCI is hastening migrations from VMware
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06 May 2026
Netherlands moves GPT-NL from lab to live: first pilots under way
By Kim LoohuoisDutch national language model enters real-world testing with a €13.5m public budget and a project-claimed world-first licensing deal with national news publishers
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06 May 2026
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: McDermott proclaims fully automated cyber defence
By Ryan PriestChief executive’s conference keynote launches agentic artificial intelligence cyber security features for enterprise software player’s centralised platform
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05 May 2026
Post Office acknowledges ECCO+ user’s calls for help three decades ago
By Karl FlindersA former subpostmaster repeatedly asked the Post Office for help when unexplained shortfalls occurred in her branch while using ECCO+ software, with evidence of her requests still in the organisation’s possession
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05 May 2026
Google’s Agentic Data Cloud to power ‘systems of action’
By Aaron TanAs enterprises move from reactive analytics to AI agents, Google Cloud’s data chief details new metadata, cross-cloud and database tools to help them govern and scale AI agents
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05 May 2026
CSA: Take AI cyber threats to the boardroom
By Aaron TanCurrent cyber risk assumptions may no longer be valid given the speed of advanced AI, warns the chief executive of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency
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04 May 2026
UK’s NCSC warns of ‘wave of patches’
By Alex ScroxtonVulnerability discovery and mitigation continues to exercise the top minds at Britain’s NCSC as cyber experts continue to debate the impact of frontier AI models such as Mythos
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30 Apr 2026
Global study reveals biggest risks of AI in finance sector
By Karl FlindersUniversity of Cambridge study reveals the risks facing the finance sector as it adopts artificial intelligence
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29 Apr 2026
MPs call on UK government to learn from central bank’s IT project success story
By Karl FlindersMembers of a parliamentary committee want the wider government to learn from success of Bank of England project
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29 Apr 2026
HSBC collaborates on noisy qubit real-world application
By Cliff SaranResearchers have demonstrated that usable results for financial modelling are achievable even on current noisy quantum computers
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29 Apr 2026
DP World Tour Europe selects HCLTech for ‘total shop window rebuild’
By Karl FlindersSports association signs up Indian IT firm as global partner as it rebuilds its website and fan app in the ‘era of AI’
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28 Apr 2026
Court of Appeal rejects Post Office Capture case delay request
By Karl FlindersThree convictions based on the Capture system have reached the Court of Appeal, which has rejected the Post Office’s request to delay its response, advancing long-awaited justice for affected subpostmasters
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24 Apr 2026
Wiz founder: Hack yourself with AI, before the bad guys do
By Alex ScroxtonAt Google Cloud Next, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica called on security defenders to use AI to steal a march on threat actors, and launched agentic capabilities for cyber teams
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23 Apr 2026
Agentic AI speeds up mainframe modernisation, but human experts remain key
By Stephen WithersAgentic AI tools are helping organisations overcome Cobol skills shortages and untangle legacy infrastructure, but successful modernisation still requires an expert in the loop to manage complexity
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23 Apr 2026
AI adoption is rapid but many stuck at basic levels, says AWS
By Antony AdsheadThe UK could unlock £35bn of productivity – equivalent to the economy of Manchester – if organisations can move from basic use of AI to productive, often agentic, modes of working
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22 Apr 2026
Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs
By Aaron TanWith more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows
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22 Apr 2026
A tsunami of flaws: When frontier AI and Patch Tuesday collide
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft’s April Patch Tuesday drop was the second-largest in history, falling just shy of an October 2025 record. What is behind the spike in vulnerability disclosures, and is there a connection to Anthropic’s bug-hunting Claude Mythos AI model?
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21 Apr 2026
‘Platitudes’ hide struggle as Post Office scandal redress scheme closing date announced
By Karl FlindersScheme for group that took the Post Office to court and exposed the widest miscarriage of justice in history to be completed by the year’s end
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21 Apr 2026
Danish logistics giant under pressure to rush world’s largest IT integration
By Mark BallardThe emergence of AI-driven competition has lit a fire beneath global logistics firm DSV, while it is distracted with integrating the global IT systems of a €14bn merger and trying to get its finances back to full health
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20 Apr 2026
Singapore pushes for global standard to test generative AI
By Aaron TanThe proposed standard aims to ensure trustworthy AI by standardising benchmarking and red teaming methodologies, as IMDA’s chief urges faster action on global rules
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17 Apr 2026
Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows
By Alex ScroxtonNIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, which are set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation
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17 Apr 2026
Bank cyber teams on red alert as Anthropic promises them Mythos next week
By Karl FlindersArtificial intelligence supplier promises UK banks opportunity to review AI model, which has already revealed thousands of security flaws
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16 Apr 2026
Finance regulators to address AI risks after MPs say they are ‘not doing enough’
By Karl FlindersAfter a Treasury committee stated that public and finance systems are ‘exposed to potential serious harm’ from AI because regulators are ‘not doing enough’ to manage risks, finance regulators say they will take action to address concerns
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15 Apr 2026
UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says government
By Alex ScroxtonTechnology secretary Liz Kendall urges Britain’s business community to sit up and pay attention to emerging AI threats, following the debut of Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos
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14 Apr 2026
April Patch Tuesday brings zero-days in Defender, SharePoint Server
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update may be one of the largest in history, with more than 160 issues in scope
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09 Apr 2026
European Union deep tech plan too late for quantum champions IQM and Pasqal
By Mark BallardEuropean quantum computing firms hurry to get US stock exchange listings so they can be predator not prey in a coming wave of consolidation
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09 Apr 2026
Interview: Researching quantum algorithms for today’s devices
By Cliff SaranThe world of quantum computing is a noisy place, where error correction is needed to ensure quantum devices run correctly. Lucy Robson, a quantum algorithm scientist at Universal Quantum, tells Computer Weekly all about it
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08 Apr 2026
Keir Starmer was warned about Post Office prosecution practices as director of public prosecutions
By Karl FlindersA Horizon scandal victim wrote to Keir Starmer in 2011, when he was director of public prosecutions for the CPS, alerting him to the Post Office’s controversial prosecution practices
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02 Apr 2026
How ‘Wikipedia of cyber’ helps SAP make sense of threat data
By Alex ScroxtonSAP runs enormous cloud environments for some of the world’s most heavily-regulated organisations, and in the hyperscale era, data security and compliance were becoming big challenges. It turned to cutting-edge agentic tools from Uptycs to cut through the noise
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02 Apr 2026
How ANZ firms are driving automation and AIOps
By Stephen WithersTech leaders from Westpac, NAB, Telstra and ACC New Zealand share their automation journeys, from overcoming cultural resistance to the cautious adoption of AI
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31 Mar 2026
Agoda scales AI strategy, opens new APAC tech hub
By Aaron TanThe digital travel platform has set its sights on becoming an AI-powered travel companion as it changes how it builds software and moves its tech workforce into a new facility in Bangkok
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29 Mar 2026
Advancing to the next frontier of AI
By Aaron TanAs AI agents move faster than software made for human users, both digital tooling and silicon architecture need to be redesigned to reduce latency and power bottlenecks, according to chief scientists of Nvidia and Google
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27 Mar 2026
Lloyds admits coding fault exposed customer transactions
By Cliff SaranThe bank has responded to the Treasury Committee’s request for information on a major data breach in its banking app
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27 Mar 2026
Second Post Office Capture conviction referred to appeal court
By Karl FlindersConviction of 30 years has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
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26 Mar 2026
Post Office still can’t find evidence for 1,400 scandal redress claimants, while people die waiting
By Karl FlindersFinding evidence for events that took place decades ago is a challenge for many subpostmasters seeking compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme
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26 Mar 2026
Bank of England IT project offers lessons for wider government
By Karl FlindersThe UK central bank’s core IT system replacement project surprised MPs, who were unaccustomed to reviewing success stories – its achievement could potentially serve as a model for future government IT initiatives
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25 Mar 2026
Emergency Microsoft, Oracle patches point to wider cyber issues
By Alex ScroxtonEmergency out-of-band patches from Microsoft and Oracle signal underlying security issues around update cycles and patching, and identity security and zero-trust, says the community
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25 Mar 2026
Why AI agents are one prompt away from ransomware
By Stephen WithersAs AI adoption advances beyond chatbots, security leaders are up against rogue AI agents mirroring threat actors and a generational skills gap as security operations teams become overly dependent on AI
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25 Mar 2026
Why OpenClaw agents are the next big enterprise challenge
By Aaron TanAs users flock to deploy OpenClaw agents for everything from gig work to shopping, IT leaders warn that bringing these autonomous systems into the enterprise will require strict guardrails and a mix of AI models
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24 Mar 2026
Cyber pros must grasp the vibe coding nettle, says NCSC chief
By Alex ScroxtonAt RSA in San Francisco, NCSC chief exec Richard Horne says security professionals have an opportunity and a responsibility to get in front of the security issues raised by the popularity of ‘vibe coding’
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23 Mar 2026
DWP finally seeks reviewer of its subpostmaster prosecutions
By Karl FlindersMonths after announcing review, the government has advertised for a reviewer to look over more than 100 prosecutions of subpostmasters by the Department of Work and Pensions
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23 Mar 2026
CUDA at 20: From billion-dollar gamble to agentic AI
By Aaron TanAs Nvidia marks two decades of CUDA, its head of high-performance computing and hyperscale reflects on the platform’s journey, the power of software optimisation, and how the fusion of GPUs and LPUs will shape the future of AI
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19 Mar 2026
AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report
By Brian McKennaRegulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell
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19 Mar 2026
Gartner: Ditch ‘big transformation’ cyber strategies for continuous improvement
By Stephen WithersAs artificial intelligence reshapes the enterprise, CISOs must abandon risky big bang security transformation initiatives in favour of incremental changes to build cyber resilience
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19 Mar 2026
Government announces redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims
By Karl FlindersGovernment offers two routes to financial redress for the families of victims of the Post Office scandal
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18 Mar 2026
Qualtrics expands synthetic research marketing, testing tech
By Don FluckingerQualtrics attempts to meld agentic AI and digital twins for A/B testing in marketing and product development, and to improve CX.
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18 Mar 2026
Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade
By Aaron TanJensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem
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17 Mar 2026
Alibaba joins AI agent race with Wukong launch
By Aaron TanFollowing the viral success of OpenClaw and product launches from Nvidia and Tencent, Alibaba has unveiled an agentic AI platform that integrates with DingTalk to orchestrate business workflows
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16 Mar 2026
Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration
By Aaron TanNvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform
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16 Mar 2026
Companies House restarts online services following cyber breach
By Alex ScroxtonCompanies House was forced to pull its WebFiling service offline at the weekend after it emerged that a flawed update was putting data at risk of exposure
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12 Mar 2026
Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI
By Stephen WithersMoving AI from experiment to production requires high-quality, real-time data streaming. Australia tech leaders from Confluent, Bendigo Bank, Telstra, and Coles share how they are turning systems of record into systems of action
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12 Mar 2026
MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions
By Karl FlindersReport from MPs warns of unknown number of unsafe subpostmasters convictions based on multiple pre-Horizon systems
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11 Mar 2026
UK government announces package to get more women in tech
By Karl FlindersThe UK government aims to add billions of pounds to the economy through getting more women into the tech sector
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10 Mar 2026
Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server
By Alex ScroxtonZero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update
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10 Mar 2026
WA auditor general flags weak Microsoft 365 security controls across state entities
By Aaron TanWestern Australia’s Office of the Auditor General has uncovered weaknesses in M365 configurations across seven government agencies, leading to compromised accounts and data breaches
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09 Mar 2026
APT36 unleashes AI-generated ‘vibeware’ to flood targets
By Aaron TanThe Pakistani threat group has been using AI to rewrite malicious code across multiple programming languages, prioritising scale over sophistication to evade detection, security researchers have found
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06 Mar 2026
Nordics ally with Baltics to accelerate digital wallet roll-out
By Gerard O'DwyerBaltic and Nordic countries work together on a common certification system to support digital wallet applications
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05 Mar 2026
AppDev leaders eye Postman AI tools for API development
By Beth PariseauPostman's agentic automation could add efficiency and ease of use, plus specialized context and governance guardrails, as AI apps reshape API development.
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05 Mar 2026
Spyware suppliers exploit more zero-days than nation states
By Alex ScroxtonExploitation of zero-days by commercial surveillance and spyware developers outpaced exploitation by nation-state actors last year, according to a report
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05 Mar 2026
Scandal victim gets leave to appeal decision to split case against Post Office and Fujitsu
By Karl FlindersProminent scandal victim given leave to appeal High Court decision in his legal action against the Post Office and Fujitsu
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04 Mar 2026
Zero-day in Android phone chips under active attack
By Alex ScroxtonGoogle and Qualcomm have tag-teamed a serious vulnerability in the chipsets used in Android mobile devices, which has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day
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02 Mar 2026
Demand necessitates digital twin and data visualisation at National Grid
By Karl FlindersIn-house project replaces spreadsheet-based planning for future electricity network