Half of Brits struggle to spot AI scams
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Artificial intelligence-based scams are increasing in number and sophistication, according to National Trading Standards findings from Com...
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Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Saudi Arabia’s next AI challenge is turning infrastructure into capability
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Magna AI executive says governance, operational ownership and sovereign control will determine whether organisations can scale artificial in...
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Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures
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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 cl...
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Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Cyber authorities issue alerts over exploitation of Citrix vulns
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The latest vulnerabilities to be uncovered in the frequently-targeted Citrix NetScaler product lines were being exploited well-before disclo...
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Dutch datacentre sector pitches itself as relief for an overloaded grid
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European datacentre associations argue that building datacentres where renewable power is generated could ease grid congestion in the Nether...
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Monday, 28 September 2026
Kiteworks lifts shutdown order after incident-free weekend
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Kiteworks customers are back up and running after a highly-unusual preemptive shutdown that came amid indications of an impending cyber atta...
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Are AI coders more trouble than they’re worth?
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More and more code is being produced by AI tools. A poll finds that software teams are struggling to keep pace from ComputerWeekly.com htt...
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Oktane 2026: The industry is ready to talk about AI kill switches
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The concept of an AI kill switch – a means to terminate out-of-control agents – sounds dramatic, but security leaders are now starting to ta...
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Friday, 25 September 2026
French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging
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French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech from ComputerWeekly....
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Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust
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Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the n...
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AI promises a productivity windfall – who will reap the benefits?
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Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general intel...
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Thursday, 24 September 2026
GCC organisations must ‘fight AI with AI’ to stay ahead of cyber threats
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Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier to entry for cyber criminals, accelerating attack speeds and increasing the complexity of th...
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Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency
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A draft architecture published under the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy spells out what full software sovereignty requires and why full hardw...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2026
Law firm paid £200m to support Post Office, while police investigating scandal are forced to beg
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There are concerns that a lack of funds for the police investigation could prevent the full Post Office scandal truth getting out from Com...
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UK national centre will fight Russian disinformation, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham
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National Centre for Information Defence will disrupt information warfare from hostile states, UK prime minister Andy Burnham has announced ...
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Former subpostmaster demands extension to Post Office scandal claims deadline
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Subpostmasters can only make claims for losses through Post Office Process Review until September 30, but a former subpostmaster says there ...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence
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Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has ...
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UK government defends ‘fundamentally flawed’ eVisa system
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The government has rejected a suggestion from the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the electronic visa system should move to a more stabl...
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Celebrating 60 years of Computer Weekly
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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 th...
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Capita lacks the ‘capacity and ability’ to run GP pension scheme, BMA tells MPs
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The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to MP committees calling for the Capita-run GP pension scheme to be brought in-house fr...
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Monday, 21 September 2026
Will new grid rules put the future of UK datacentres at risk?
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Ofgem's proposed commitment fees aim to clear grid-clogging data centres, but could the upfront costs deter viable projects and threaten...
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Selective sovereignty: Why balance beats lockdown in the data debate
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Everpure CTO Patrick Smith argues data sovereignty demands selective control, balancing strict workload rules with global cloud speed rather...
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Friday, 18 September 2026
Nvidia Doesn't Sell Chips. It Sells a Flywheel
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Nvidia's greatest invention maybe building a business that continuously manufactures demand for its own products from ComputerWeekly.c...
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Meta’s $18bn settlement shows why the UK must act on children’s social media harms
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Ministers must set out a clear timetable for raising the age of social media access to 16 and move at the pace children need. from Compute...
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Capita boss gets ‘obscene’ pay packet while retired civil servants need emergency loans
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Adolfo Hernandez is said to have earned £1.6m in his yearly pay packet, as the government pension scheme he oversees fails to pay retirees ...
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Thursday, 17 September 2026
Home Office challenged on ‘farcical’ secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ order
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UK government argues that national security would be damaged if it departs from 'neither confirm nor deny policy' on Apple 'back...
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Interview: Stephen Wood, chief operating officer, Rathbones Asset Management
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Data is so important for the financial services firm that its COO leads the strategy – and it’s enabling them to forge ahead with AI and age...
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MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions
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Government pledges planning guidance by Christmas and environmental impact assessments for schemes of more than 50MW, with Scotland’s commit...
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Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Why Thomson Reuters developed its own proprietary AI model
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The content and technology provider has spurned the offerings of AI providers to instead develop an in-house large language model that it be...
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Executive interview: Reckitt has no fear of missing out on the AI frenzy
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How Bastien Parizot, senior vice-president of global business services and AI at Reckitt, focuses on business outcomes from ComputerWeekly...
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Dreamforce 2026: Marc Benioff beats customer data drum for business AI use
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Salesforce launches AIforce, an artificial intelligence management layer for its CRM, integrating Anthropic’s Claude, focused on unlocking b...
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Advice for CIOs on AI’s 'existential threat'
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Statements by OpenAI chief Sam Altman, following an essay by Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, raise concerns over the safety of frontier models...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2026
UK, US and Netherlands warn over Iranian state spyware campaign
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Cyber attackers linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security are targeting opponents and opposition groups with Windows spyware ...
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UK Atomic Energy Authority readies US artificial intelligence collaboration
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The UKAEA plans to work with the US Department of Energy to combine supercomputing power for nuclear fusion research from ComputerWeekly.c...
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Data dive: The revolving door between Whitehall and big tech
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A Computer Weekly data analysis reveals a steady revolving door between Whitehall and major technology suppliers, mapping 63 moves by senior...
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Monday, 14 September 2026
UK lawmakers call for new law to protect human rights from AI systems
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MPs and peers call for the UK to create a statutory AI oversight body with powers to test and evaluate high-risk uses of AI and to prevent t...
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Skills, culture and leadership: The foundations of the UAE’s digital economy
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Fatma Ashkanani, chief people and culture officer at Khazna Data Centers, discusses the changing nature of technology talent, the importance...
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Finnish government AI plan puts thousands of public sector jobs at risk
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Nordic government estimates huge cost savings and productivity gains through public sector AI plan from ComputerWeekly.com https://ift.tt/...
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UK cyber shortfalls: A skills gap and/or a gender gap?
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There is both a skills and gender gap occurring in UK cyber, says Code First Girls – something it is looking to remedy with an innovative pa...
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Friday, 11 September 2026
IT event dive: Through the AWS public sector symposium revolving door
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What goes on in the gaps between reporting on vendor events, with a morning spent absorbing thousands of words at the AWS Public Sector AI S...
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Civil service union welcomes pension scheme insourcing plan
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PCS union chief met Cabinet Office minister to discuss troubled pension scheme run by Capita from ComputerWeekly.com https://ift.tt/3HpqtV...
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AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must shape AI, use open source
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As frontier models outpace cyber defences, two public sector voices set out different answers to the same security question – transparency a...
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Thursday, 10 September 2026
AWS AI Symposium: UHCW adds an operation a day with AI
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UHCW added daily theatre capacity and got correct utilisation data using Proximie’s AI as part of what partners describe as the NHS’s larges...
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Capita meeting self-imposed civil service pension targets ‘not sufficient’, says government
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UK government views the outsourcer’s overall performance as ‘unacceptable’ after it reports meeting a self-imposed target from ComputerWee...
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Anthropic calls for ‘verifiable effort’ to control frontier AI
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After Claude Mythos circumvented guardrails in July, Anthropic now wants an industry effort to control the pace of frontier model developmen...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Interview: Workday’s Joel Hellermark on making everyone a Leonardo
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Joel Hellermark, chief AI officer at Workday, argues that artificial intelligence and large language models will transform enterprise work, ...
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Why AI agents cannot be trusted to secure agentic AI yet
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The idea of using AI agents to secure AI agents seems compelling, but in doing so, we risk unnecessarily expanding our attack surface. fro...
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‘Wilfully blind’ Post Office thought just a few hundred affected by Horizon errors
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Government department admits that the Post Office ‘misunderstood the scale of Horizon scandal’ from ComputerWeekly.com https://ift.tt/tL3T...
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Ryanair calls for government action over Nats IT failure
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The National Air Traffic Control System was not fully operational for over eight hours, causing major disruption to airlines and passengers ...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Power costs curb UK advanced tech defence strategy
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High energy costs and inability to manufacture hardware and frontier models limit the UK’s advanced tech defence and security capabilities ...
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Live facial recognition: The poster boy of biometric surveillance
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William Webster, the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales, reflects on the state of facial recognition in t...
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Interview: Huawei targets Saudi Arabia’s shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption
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As enterprises move beyond artificial intelligence pilots, Huawei is positioning its cloud, computing and partner ecosystem to help organisa...
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Assessed by algorithm – can AI read your emotions?
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In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the emerging use of AI for emotion sensing and find out how it could be used – for good and bad –...
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Monday, 7 September 2026
Working with your board around risk – why cyber responsibility can’t be shirked
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The UK's Cyber Resilience Pledge urges companies to invest in cyber security. With threats rising, boards must understand risk financial...
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Application diversity transforms Oslo’s AI scene from innovator to leader
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The AI scene in Oslo is once again confirming Norway’s refusal to be boxed in when it comes to innovation from ComputerWeekly.com https://...
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HP grows Saudi presence through AI, manufacturing and skills investment
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With AI research, commercial manufacturing and startup development initiatives, HP is turning its Vision 2030 commitment into tangible outco...
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CW@60: The long gestation of a data nerd and agent overseer
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Computer Weekly's acting datacentre and cloud editor – and data journalist – Antony Adshead traces his tech evolution from green-screen ...
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Friday, 4 September 2026
Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know
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Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008 and is, in fact, part of the story. This guide contains essentia...
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The future of AI depends on the quality of the data behind It
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More data doesn't mean better insight. As AI grows, foundations matter most. Competitive advantage relies on data quality, not scale. En...
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Nvidia acquires Hugging Face and becomes open platform provider
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AI acceleration hardware provider Nvidia announces the acquisition of the open model platform Hugging Face from ComputerWeekly.com https:/...
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Thursday, 3 September 2026
Financial firms face ‘vulnerability bottlenecks’ from frontier AI
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The Financial Conduct Authority warns that frontier AI models are finding security vulnerabilities faster than firms can patch them from C...
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Interview: Oracle accelerates Middle East cloud expansion as demand for sovereign AI rises
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The company is expanding its regional cloud footprint, growing sovereign cloud deployments and investing in AI skills development as governm...
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Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison called to testify over US health system overspend
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The executive chair of Oracle and its CEO will be asked to justify why a project budgeted at $10bn is costing taxpayers $17bn more from Co...
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Human-AI chemistry: the real differentiator in enterprise AI
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Enterprise AI has evolved from isolated tools to integrated systems, says Capgemini. Success depends on human-AI collaboration, runtime gove...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2026
The road to digital tyranny: when AI acts autonomously
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AI can operate autonomously but should do so only within human-defined limits. Capability is not equal to authority — AI may act independent...
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AWS S3 & AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
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We speak to AWS’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about S3 growth, DuckDB and how AI is helping people understand their data from ComputerWeekly.c...
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Microsoft sets November launch for Saudi cloud region
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Announcement at Leap 2026 highlights Saudi Arabia’s push to expand local cloud and AI infrastructure in support of Vision 2030 from Comput...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Interview: Haleon’s tech chief delighted for AI agents to feed SAP ‘clean core’
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Haleon, formed from the consumer health units of GSK, Pfizer and Novartis, makes familiar brands like Sensodyne and Advil. Its chief digital...
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The Security Interviews: Abby Kearns, ActiveState
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ActiveState CEO Abby Kearns discusses open source’s ‘existential crisis’, how AI is changing the secure software playbook, and why it’s time...
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AI factories will depend on a reliable data infrastructure
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AI factories shift enterprises from isolated AI experiments to scaled operations. Success depends less on raw GPU compute and more on truste...
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AI and the right to resist
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In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the campaigners pushing back on industry narratives around the use of AI, seeking to bring a more...
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How to get hardware, software and even edge AI working in harmony
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Presenting the right subset of data to the right endpoints, especially in real time, means juggling an array of constraints from ComputerW...
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