Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk
Ordnance Survey (OS) has worked with Snowflake to develop Intelligent Flood Readiness, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data model for assessing the impact of flooding. The…
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Finnish quantum computing champion IQM determined to make ‘impossible’ engineering breakthrough
The boss of Europe’s largest quantum computing firm says it is determined to make the engineering breakthroughs that superconducting quantum computers need to become capable…
Finance regulator outlines its open finance vision
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its vision for what it wants open finance to look like by 2030, focusing on helping small businesses…
April Patch Tuesday brings zero-days in Defender, SharePoint Server
The latest monthly Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft landed earlier on 14 April, including two notable zero-day flaws amid a total of over 160 distinct…
Department for Transport shows how its AI system avoids bias
The UK Department for Transport (DfT) has worked with Google Cloud and the Alan Turing Institute to build the Consultation Analysis Tool (CAT) to analyse…
Turkey launches nationwide 5G services with ambitious domestic production targets
Turkey officially launched commercial 5G services this month, ending years of anticipation and positioning the country to catch up with global markets that began deploying…
How Nvidia’s risky move paid off
Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 14 April 2026 How a risky move paid off for Nvidia Share this item with your…
‘Grand Theft Auto’ publisher Rockstar hit by hackers again
UK-based Rockstar Games, publisher of the long-running Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series, has fallen victim to another cyber attack orchestrated by the ShinyHunters operation, which…
UK reliance on US big tech companies is ‘national security risk’, claims report
The UK is over-reliant on a small number of big tech companies to provide critical datacentres, software and digital infrastructure, placing national security at risk,…
AI’s dumb genius problem | Computer Weekly
The AI debate right now centres almost entirely on models – which LLM is smarter, whether they’ll be commoditised, whether OpenAI or Anthropic or Google…
Datacentre developers tout benefits to local communities, but do they deliver?
Aaron Saran is worried about his family business. His freight distribution company PNL, which has been based in Southall in west London for 30 years,…
If we can’t kick the habit, how do we manage AI’s energy needs?
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, recently made a comparison between how much energy had been consumed by humanity over the millennia and the energy consumption…