Category: ComputerWeekly

Opinion: Saudi plans to be an IT superpower, but challenges lie ahead
17
Feb
2025

Opinion: Saudi plans to be an IT superpower, but challenges lie ahead

Saudi Arabia is spending big on IT, and on artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, in an effort to diversify from…

RAG AI: ‘Do it yourself,’ says NYC data scientist
17
Feb
2025

RAG AI: ‘Do it yourself,’ says NYC data scientist

Organisations should build their own generative artificial intelligence-based (GenAI-based) on retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with open sources products such as…

A path to better data engineering
17
Feb
2025

A path to better data engineering

Today’s data landscape presents unprecedented challenges for organisations, due to the need for businesses to process thousands of documents in…

Kenyan AI workers form Data Labelers Association
14
Feb
2025

Kenyan AI workers form Data Labelers Association

Artificial intelligence (AI) workers in Kenya have launched the Data Labelers Association (DLA) to fight for fair pay, mental health…

Gartner: CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives
14
Feb
2025

Gartner: CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives

Around the world, security leaders say they are struggling to balance the need to appropriately secure their data and the…

Government launches consultation on plan to streamline business through e-invoicing
14
Feb
2025

Government launches consultation on plan to streamline business through e-invoicing

The government has asked businesses for comment on a UK approach to electronic invoicing (e-invoicing), which is part of its…

Government renames AI Safety Institute and teams up with Anthropic
14
Feb
2025

Government renames AI Safety Institute and teams up with Anthropic

Peter Kyle, secretary of state for Science, Innovation and Technology will use the Munich Security Conference as a platform to…

UK accused of political ‘foreign cyberattack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple
13
Feb
2025

UK accused of political ‘foreign cyberattack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple

An unprecedented letter from the US Congress, released today, accuses the UK of “a foreign cyberattack waged through political means”….

Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data
13
Feb
2025

Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data

Over a hundred cyber security experts, companies and civil society groups have signed a letter calling for the Home Secretary,…

EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins
13
Feb
2025

EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins

As the European Union (EU) prepares to respond to Trump’s 25% tariff on aluminium and steel, a widely reported paper…

Baltic skills programme to help reduce European skills gap via Africa
13
Feb
2025

Baltic skills programme to help reduce European skills gap via Africa

IT professionals in Africa are being connected to tech businesses in the Baltic region as part of a European Commission-funded…

Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage
13
Feb
2025

Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage

Oxford Semantic Technologies, is an example of what Matt Clifford, chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), was…