Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust
A spectre of trust haunted last week’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The supplier behind the conference, Salesforce, has long vaunted its trustworthiness as a…
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French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging
French local authorities are to replace WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams with open source encrypted messaging software as part of a long-term move away from software…
Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers
Kiteworks has warned users of its products to shut down their managed file transfer (MFT) servers immediately after apparently being alerted to the existence of…
Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance
An investigative journalist has filed a high court claim against the Police Service of Northern Ireland after police unlawfully obtained communications data in a covert…
How Meta plans to deliver petabit connectivity between US and France
Meta has said it will be connecting a petabit subsea cable between the US and France by 2029. Called Petal, the subsea cable will span…
Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation
The UK government has agreed to fully fund the police investigation into criminality associated with the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. Yesterday (24 September), Computer…
GCC organisations must ‘fight AI with AI’ to stay ahead of cyber threats
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally changing the cyber threat landscape, enabling attackers to launch more sophisticated attacks faster while reducing the technical expertise traditionally required…
US military confirms existence of orbital weapons
The US military has confirmed for the first time it has deployed weapons in Earth’s orbit, triggering concerns of a global arms race and the…
Is AI dangerous? Trying to separate hype from fact
The first time I watched DeepSeek “think” inside AI coding agent Cline, it felt uncanny. It paused, reconsidered, said, “but wait,” weighed two approaches, then…
Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination
The Meta Connect 2026 conference opened with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, where he talked about the company’s new agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform,…
Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency
The Dutch government published a draft architecture (version 0.9) for a centrally built sovereign cloud service in late August, setting out the technical blueprint for…
Celebrating 60 years of Computer Weekly
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