Category: ComputerWeekly

Answers to key questions about AI in IT security
02
Feb
2026

Answers to key questions about AI in IT security

The buzz around agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems, AI agents, autonomous security operations centres, and everything in between is louder…

Birmingham Oracle project: Data cleansing and resourcing issues
02
Feb
2026

Birmingham Oracle project: Data cleansing and resourcing issues

Questions raised during the latest audit committee meeting at Birmingham City Council show continued concerns among councillors that the project…

HMRC predicts IR35-related £20m annual tax loss due to business size classification changes
02
Feb
2026

HMRC chooses cloud SAP S/4Hana for tax system overhaul

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has chosen SAP S/4Hana in the cloud, using the supplier’s Rise pathway, for an overhaul…

Canva uses 1Password to secure ID during growth phase
02
Feb
2026

Canva uses 1Password to secure ID during growth phase

In May 2019, graphic design platform Canva fell victim to a major cyber security breach in which a threat actor…

Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision
02
Feb
2026

Police intercept evidence from Sky ECC cryptophone network ‘unreliable’, Antwerp court told

A court in Belgium has refused to allow defence lawyers in a high-profile drugs case extra time after a forensic…

Post Office Capture and Ecco+ users asked to make contact with Scottish statutory body
30
Jan
2026

History repeats itself in Post Office Capture redress scheme with low-ball offers made

Subpostmasters who suffered at the hands of errors in the Post Office’s Capture software, like Horizon users, are receiving derisory…

Police Digital Service ex-staffers launch employment tribunal action over mistreatment claims
30
Jan
2026

Police Digital Service future remains uncertain as ‘radical’ Home Office policing reform unveiled

Uncertainty about what the future holds for the Police Digital Service (PDS) continues, despite the UK government confirming the organisation is…

Chinese cyber spooks lure laid-off US government workers
30
Jan
2026

Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans

The Home Office has outlined plans for the massive roll-out of artificial intelligence (AI) and facial-recognition technologies as part of…

Diversity Think Tank: Divesting from inclusion is a tech business mistake
30
Jan
2026

Diversity Think Tank: We can’t afford to roll back DEI

We are experiencing a deliberate, and often quiet, roll back of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within UK businesses…

Microsoft has already contracted GPUs to balance costs
30
Jan
2026

Microsoft has already contracted GPUs to balance costs

Among the insights revealed during the latest quarterly earnings call from Microsoft is that it is de-risking its artificial intelligence…

Ex-directors of firm linked to Satoshi Nakamoto imposter sue over whistleblowing retaliation claims
30
Jan
2026

Ex-directors of firm linked to Satoshi Nakamoto imposter sue over whistleblowing retaliation claims

Two former directors of nChain UK, the London blockchain company associated with a computer scientist who falsely claimed to be…

Pulling the plug: A way to halt a cyber attacker in your network?
29
Jan
2026

RAMP ransomware forum goes dark in probable FBI sting

The Russian-speaking RAMP cyber crime forum – one of the most significant players in the underground cyber criminal ecosystem –…