Autumn Budget 2026: Chancellor sets aside funds for UK tech
Just over 30 minutes into his Autumn Budget speech, UK chancellor John Healey referenced the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) to the UK, and the…
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TechEd 2026: SAP fronts tabular data model in space as it bids to make autonomous enterprise real
At SAP TechEd 2025 in Berlin, Philipp Herzig, chief technology officer of SAP, finished the opening keynote with a flourish in space. The supplier’s tabular…
Azure licensing lock-in limits choice
A survey of 410 software and cloud decision-makers in US businesses has found that organisations are putting off investment due to Microsoft software licensing costs.…
OpenAI’s Altman: Only way out of patch apocalypse is through
At Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, Nevada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has rallied the security community and called for cyber pros to keep focus,…
PHP2Shell: US updates Kev catalogue as exploits spread
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) has added the two so-called PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (Kev) catalogue after confirming live…
Why measuring your public cloud carbon footprint is so hard
If a business wants to understand the carbon cost of its public cloud use, it should be able to ask a straightforward question – what…
Capita ‘comprehensively failed’ on Civil Service pension artificial intelligence promise
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises made to the government by outsourcer Capita failed to materialise, providing the “biggest learning” from an independent audit into the failed…
UK secrecy over AI in immigration and asylum decisions under fire
The government is using AI in “near total secrecy” to police immigration and border crossings and is routinely invoking “national security” to refuse to answer…
EU makes progress towards PHP patching, UK lags behind
Organisations across the European Union (EU) are leading the charge to address the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, with patch rates hitting about 50% of exposed hosts in…
Employees must be empowered to refuse AI tools at work, says UTAW
Employees should be empowered to refuse the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools at work, says the tech worker union, after finding employers are using…
‘Blackmail’ call as Warwickshire council approves £9m Microsoft renewal
Warwickshire County Council’s Reform-run cabinet has approved the procurement of a three-year Microsoft 365 licence renewal worth about £9m. The move was dubbed “blackmail” by…
Gartner: Winning in the edge
Enterprises are shifting agentic artificial intelligence (AI) demand from intensive compute consumption and mass data transfers among endpoints towards real-time execution and performance economics to…