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The US government is incorporating social media vetting as part of its border control policy, leading to concerns about what data will be collected and how it will be protected Continue Reading

UK government says half of all small businesses have been cyber breached in the recent past as it urges them to ‘lock the door’ Continue Reading

British Transport Police will deploy facial recognition for six months despite calls for the government to halt its rapid expansion of the technology Continue Reading

Capgemini’s chief innovation officer says the 2025 rise and deployment of artificial intelligence agents put enterprise AI progress on hold, but laid the ground for acceleration to come Continue Reading

Retail conglomerate behind Kmart and Officeworks signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for customer service and internal productivity Continue Reading

Research questions AI’s trustworthiness in giving people accurate information about government services Continue Reading

These best practices can help data leaders create an effective big data strategy that meets an organization's analytics needs and delivers valuable business benefits. Continue Reading

In lieu of a full-blown ban on the technology, Green London Assembly member Zoë Garbett has called for a number of new safeguards to be implemented that she feels would protect Londoners from ‘escalating’ biometric surveillance Continue Reading

As artificial intelligence permeates aspects of the economy and society, individuals and civic groups are devising creative ways to rebel - but any impact on AI’s development, adoption and regulation is unclear Continue Reading

The CMA is seeking views on Apple and Google’s commitments to ensure fair app store practices to stoke the UK’s app economy, fintech and improve developer confidence Continue Reading

More than 100 artificial intelligence experts have produced the second international AI safety report ahead of a summit in India, outlining a high degree of uncertainty about the development and risks of AI Continue Reading

Australian lender claims to be the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Salesforce Agentforce at scale, following a national roll-out of a CRM platform that consolidates data from different systems to ease administrative toil Continue Reading

Salesforce's ‘2026 Connectivity benchmark report’ points to an increase in enterprise agentic AI deployment, but highlights governance gaps and a siloed system that requires better orchestration Continue Reading

The Department for Work and Pensions’ 2023-2030 data strategy aims to modernise systems, slash costs by 20%, promote data sharing, and embed a data culture in a hub and spoke model Continue Reading

LinkedIn’s head of engineering for talent solutions explains how fine-tuned LLMs and agentic AI architectures are replacing traditional search methods to save recruiters four hours per role Continue Reading

Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support, in conjunction with the UK Cyber Flywheel organisation Continue Reading

Klemensas Mecejus from ai71 explains why predictive, agent-based AI could finally crack construction’s productivity and cost overrun problem, and why the Middle East is poised to leap ahead Continue Reading

While the UK has the data assets and the expertise to deliver real public benefit with artificial intelligence, a lack of consistency, completeness and interoperability in its data foundations risks missing these opportunities Continue Reading

The UK government has named Barnsley as the nation’s first ‘tech town’, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses Continue Reading

HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience Continue Reading

The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing Continue Reading

The Metropolitan Police has defended its use of live facial recognition against a legal challenge that claims there are no effective constraints on where it can deploy the technology Continue Reading

SAP reports €36.8bn for 2025, up 8%, despite what CEO Christian Klein called a ‘rough start to the year’ due to geopolitical unrest from tariff conflict between the US and the EU Continue Reading

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology finishes ‘discovery phase’ of £100m National Data Library programme, including pilot projects Continue Reading

Splunk finds 75% of UK IT teams had outages from missed alerts in 2025, driven by alert fatigue and tool sprawl. Collaboration between cyber and observability teams can help Continue Reading

Black Hat Europe made clear that cyber security can no longer be separated from politics, economics and behaviour, as ransomware, AI and long-standing security failures combine Continue Reading

Estonia is a thriving hub for advancements in healthcare technology, harnessing artificial intelligence and genomics. Its healthtech industry is targeting the UK and Europe for collaboration and market development Continue Reading

The fast-growing insurance firm wants data insights and artificial intelligence to give customer-facing employees all the information they need at their fingertips through data-powered conversational interfaces Continue Reading

Organisations are implementing zero-trust models for data governance thanks to the proliferation of poor quality AI-generated data, often known as AI slop Continue Reading

Met Police boasts that its permanent deployment of live facial recognition cameras in Croydon has led to more than 100 arrests and prompted a double-digit reduction in local crime, ahead of an upcoming judicial review assessing the technology’s lawfulness Continue Reading

Visitors to the World Economic Forum will be able to use an AI personal assistant, EVA, built by Salesforce on WEF data, to navigate the event and get recommended actions Continue Reading

As the UK government considers its approach to artificial intelligence and copyright, Computer Weekly explores the dynamics at play in copyright markets, and what measures can be taken to ensure that creatives are protected Continue Reading

Table representation learning unlocks 99% of organisational data that remains unused Continue Reading

BI and big data analytics support different types of analytics applications. Using them in complementary ways enables a comprehensive data analytics strategy. Continue Reading

Berlin anarchists have sabotaged key energy infrastructure in the city, claiming it as an act of ‘self-defence’ against the planet’s destruction by ‘energy-guzzling’ technologies and the wider fossil fuel economy that underpins their development Continue Reading

As AI systems mature, organizations must evaluate models, infrastructure and governance frameworks that balance cost, compliance and performance this year and beyond. Continue Reading

Salesforce has launched an ‘AI fluency playbook’ based on its own workforce’s experience, aimed at guiding customers on AI adoption, stressing what it sees as human-AI synergies Continue Reading

UK digital rights campaigners have urged UK parliamentarians to implement a digital sovereignty strategy as part of the forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to reduce reliance on technology subject to foreign interference Continue Reading

The consumer goods giant is taking its advanced analytics approach and adding AI for greater value, but its data leader stresses the importance of getting the data foundations in place first Continue Reading

While AI agents are transforming operations they bring risks. Governance, monitoring, and instant rollback can help with resilience, trust, and safe innovation Continue Reading

Faculty, the company that powered the data strategy of Boris Johnson’s former chief of staff, Dominic Cummings, is now part of Accenture Continue Reading

Technology partner for upcoming football tournament has built an artificial intelligence knowledge assistant for coaches, digital avatars to assist VAR decisions, and smart infrastructure for venue management Continue Reading

Agentic AI dominated enterprise IT discourse in 2025, evolving from generative AI. In 2026, AI convergence and governance will determine AI’s impact on enterprise IT Continue Reading

Age UK, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the RSPCA reveal the CRM and digital experience platforms – along with other marketing technologies – they use to help boost support Continue Reading

Ransomware exponents can target identity, bypassing technical defences. Boards should prioritise identity security, align investments, and embed cyber risk in governance Continue Reading

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2025 Continue Reading

There is no doubt what took centre stage in the theatre of business applications in 25: agentic AI, surpassing pre-2022 AI, and generative AI. C-level executives bang the AI drum while enterprises find value Continue Reading

The New Year Honours List 2026 conferred an OBE on the oldest living victim of the Post Office scandal, as well as hailing members of the UK technology community Continue Reading

Artificial intelligence continued to have a big impact on information management in 2025. Also selected are case studies and interviews with data chiefs that show the enduring value of good data management Continue Reading

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025 Continue Reading

This is a guest blog post by Sven Peters, AI Evangelist, Atlassian. AI is rapidly reshaping how we work, and many companies are highlighting how widely they have adopted the technology. In fact, ... Continue Reading

This is a guest blog post by Claus Jepsen, Chief Technology Officer, Unit4. It takes a catechetical form of self-posed questions and answers. Where will AI deliver the most value to ERP in 2026? A ... Continue Reading

A data scientist is an analytics professional who collects, analyzes, and interprets data to transform it into actionable insights that can facilitate decision-making. Continue Reading

The 2025 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with major data breaches even as organisations continue to press on with their digital transformation efforts in areas such as AI and automation Continue Reading

Enterprises are likely to shift from single-task AI to multi-agent systems, enabling autonomous, adaptive operations, but trust and orchestration remain problematic Continue Reading

UK regulator is to encourage mortgage brokers to use artificial intelligence and other technology Continue Reading

The University of York is replacing 57 HR and finance systems with a Workday platform, supported by KPMG, aiming for real-time insights and simpler processes Continue Reading

Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power Continue Reading

Market analysts are concerned about the AI bubble bursting, but Oracle’s latest earnings call shows it is still expanding datacentre roll-outs Continue Reading

Tech companies, a charity and academics have collaborated to create AI-powered avatars that are helping people with motor neurone disease hold natural conversations Continue Reading

Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions Continue Reading

As agentic AI changes business processes, it will also redraw the role of enterprise architecture Continue Reading

SAP’s chief executive counsels against abstractly idealistic conceptions of digital sovereignty that over-focus on physical data centres Continue Reading

Access to the F1 team’s garage in Abu Dhabi reveals how Monte Carlo simulations, artificial intelligence and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure power split-second decisions, strategy and championship-winning performance Continue Reading

A growing body of research suggests that the use of live facial recognition is reshaping police perceptions of suspicion in ways that undermine supposed human-in-the-loop protections Continue Reading

Data, automation and artificial intelligence are driving the regulator to take new approaches to its work and how it supports the pensions industry, leading to improved experiences for everyone in the UK who has a pension Continue Reading
The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies Continue Reading

At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data Continue Reading

In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, we take a look at how roadside recovery and car repair organisation, the RAC, is combining data analytics and AI to help speed up the time it takes to get motorists back on the road. We also dig into the curious case of cyber hackers buying a bank in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan to launder the profits from their crimes and evade Russian sanctions. This week’s buyer’s guide features the first instalment in our series on self-service developer tools, and how enterprises can make use of them to boost staff morale and trust. Rounding out the issue is our look at AI agents and how they are being misappropriated by cyber criminals. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Why you need to get the right data team in place before you start to deploy AI in your organisation. Continue Reading

It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working Continue Reading

Acclaim Autism is a US organisation that has increased employee task discretion, with an increase in insurance approvals by using AI – but worker autonomy is declining across the UK Continue Reading

As AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI Continue Reading

Four London councils – Kensington and Chelsea; Hackney; Westminster; and Hammersmith and Fulham – have suffered cyber attacks, disrupting services and prompting NCSC-supported investigation Continue Reading

Defence lawyers ask court to adjourn after unexplained changes found in evidence files containing intercepted messages from Sky ECC encrypted phone network infiltrated by French and Dutch police Continue Reading

In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, we take a closer look at the knotty tale of MI5’s numerous attempts to identify a BBC journalist’s sources by obtaining phone data, and whether this led to further surveillance of its targets. Elsewhere in the issue, the City of Pittsburgh’s chief data officer talks about the work he is doing to deliver better public services to citizens with the help of data. This week’s Buyer’s Guide features the third and final instalment in our series advising enterprises on how to get started on using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) – with a look at the concept of creating AI factories to scale deployments. Rounding out the issue is our look at why the cyber security market is facing something of a recruitment crisis, and how this is forcing organisations to approach hiring talent in new ways. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Real-time data insights and artificial intelligence are central to supporting the RAC’s motoring services and to getting drivers back on the road as quickly as possible Continue Reading

A machine learning model used by Sweden’s social security agency to flag benefit fraud has been discontinued following investigations by media outlets and the country’s data protection watchdog Continue Reading

At Workday Rising EMEA, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier signalled a new phase of development as an agentic AI platform provider that might disrupt traditional ERP Continue Reading

Driverless cars push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, real-time decision-making and data-driven mobility at Yas Marina Circuit Continue Reading

Salesforce research finds CIOs closer than ever to steering the business, acting as strategic partners to their CEOs, thanks to the growth of agentic AI Continue Reading

Jaguar Land Rover’s quarterly financial statement discloses a £485m loss due to the late August cyber attack that halted production for six weeks, damaging the UK economy Continue Reading

MI5 discloses it made and authorised unlawful ‘sequential applications’ for Vincent Kearney’s phone data during his time at the BBC, but will neither confirm nor deny whether it undertook further ‘lawful’ surveillance of BBC journalists Continue Reading

The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for people across the bloc Continue Reading

Japan’s largest bank aims to transform into an AI-native company by using agentic AI, changing how it handles data, and inking key partnerships with OpenAI and Sakana AI Continue Reading

Government-owned organisation National Highways will get more out of its data through extended working with IT service provider Continue Reading

Oxford University and its host city have launched Equinox as a regional organisation uniting academia, business and government to establish Oxfordshire as a global innovation hub Continue Reading

Expert witnesses called before Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights have told MPs and Lords that the UK’s current approach to artificial intelligence regulation will fail to effectively protect people’s rights Continue Reading

Low code providers and their ethos could lend momentum and security to the enterprise adoption of agentic AI Continue Reading

SAP TechEd in Berlin put an accent on building agentic and generative AI systems to create real business outcomes, beyond what its executives say is excessive hype Continue Reading

The UK government’s recently announced digital ID scheme aims to curb the prospect of work for illegal migrants, along with claiming benefits for UK citizens and legal residents. However, are the threats to our personal data worth the risk? Continue Reading

Europe faces rising cyber threats from criminals and nation-states, according to CrowdStrike. Ransomware attacks now take just 24 hours, with 22% of global victims being European Continue Reading

Industrial organisations face rising operational security cyber threats. Asset visibility is vital for defence - without knowing what’s connected, organisations are risk blind Continue Reading

Siemens and Capgemini are expanding their partnership to create AI-based industrial technologies, said to boost efficiency, sustainability and innovation in manufacturing sectors Continue Reading

E-commerce giant Amazon has cited artificial intelligence as a key driver of its decision to lay off thousands of its corporate employees Continue Reading

The rise of agentic AI promises much for ERP, possibly even its supersession. But ERP isn’t dead – it’s evolving as it seeks to govern AI Continue Reading

Data analytics (DA) is the process of examining data sets to find trends and draw conclusions about the information they contain. Continue Reading

Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights organisations are calling for further action Continue Reading

Salesforce UK CEO Zahra Bahrololoumi and CTO Paul O’Sullivan put Dreamforce 2025 discourse about agentic AI into a UK context Continue Reading

Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, a platform for agentic AI, integrating Slack as its interface Continue Reading

A new system is being developed by the Police Digital Service and NEC Software Solutions to help manage the recovery of criminal assets, replacing 20-year-old legacy infrastructure Continue Reading
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