Category: ComputerWeekly

Gartner: What to look for in a customer data platform
27
Jan
2026

Alan Turing Institute fellowship programme boosted by $1m from Meta

Building on the CustomerFirst unit, which was unveiled last week, the UK government has announced that Meta is investing $1m…

Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to UK dissident targeted with Pegasus spyware
27
Jan
2026

Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to UK dissident targeted with Pegasus spyware

A judge has ordered the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to pay compensation of £3m to a London-based dissident who…

Three-quarters of UK IT teams beset by outages due to missing alerts
27
Jan
2026

Three-quarters of UK IT teams beset by outages due to missing alerts

Three-quarters of UK IT professionals say they had outages due to missing alerts in 2025, according to research from Splunk,…

The need to build and protect UK digital sovereignty
27
Jan
2026

The need to build and protect UK digital sovereignty

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 27 January 2026 Tech nationalism: The need to build and protect…

Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation
27
Jan
2026

Landmark legal challenge against police facial recognition begins

A judicial review against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition (LFR) will argue the force is unlawfully deploying…

Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision
26
Jan
2026

Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision

A Spanish court has raised questions about the validity and reliability of intercepted phone data, acquitting multiple defendants of drug…

Resilience for resilience: Managing burnout among cyber leaders
26
Jan
2026

AI claims are cheap: The challenge is to work out what’s real

AI security tooling is already mainstream, and 2026 will only amplify the noise. Expect more ‘AI-washed’ claims, bigger promises, and…

Ada Lovelace: using market forces to professionalise AI assurance
26
Jan
2026

Microsoft introduces AI accelerator for US Azure customers

Microsoft has announced that Azure’s US central datacentre region is the first to receive a new artificial intelligence (AI) inference…

How one IT chief shifted the needle on a reactive IT strategy
26
Jan
2026

Dawn supercomputer gets sixfold boost thanks to £36m funding injection

The government has announced it is ploughing £36m into the Dawn supercomputer, which will lead to a sixfold increase in…

Sovereign cloud and AI services tipped for take-off in 2026
26
Jan
2026

Sovereign cloud and AI services tipped for take-off in 2026

Interest in sovereign cloud services has followed a bumpy trajectory over the past decade, both in the public sector and…

US punts renewal of threat data sharing law to September
24
Jan
2026

US punts renewal of threat data sharing law to September

The United States’ Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 – CISA 2015 – which came within a hair’s breadth of…

Overcoming tech career barriers faced by underrepresented groups
23
Jan
2026

Overcoming tech career barriers faced by underrepresented groups

Conversations around diversity in the UK’s technology sector have evolved over the past decade, from a focus on increasing the…