Month: February 2026

IT leaders need to assess the cost implications of migrating from vSphere 8 to the latest supported VMware product offering

Resham Kotecha, the global head of policy at the Open Data Institute, argues 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

Banks paid 88% losses claimed by customers that fell victim to authorised push payment fraud last year

As organisations across the UAE move to AI orchestration, leaders are being forced to rethink skills, governance and accountability in an emerging hybrid workforce

The UK needs clear and unambiguous laws around the use of digital evidence in court. The law has become tangled following rulings in the country’s EncroChat prosecutions. It’s time to allow intercept data to be used as evidence in legal cases

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

This week’s Computer Weekly ezine digs into the latest twist in a long-running datacentre planning saga, concerning a server farm in Iver, Buckinghamshire, that the government has now admitted it was wrong to grant planning permission for. We also hear from the head of advanced analytics at Dutch Bank ING about how its foray into using AI technologies is benefiting both its business and the customers it serves. Sticking with the AI theme, we take a deep dive into how the technology is being used as an enabler for the development of urban digital twins, and find out how it can be used to assist IT security teams. Read the issue now.

The government's plans to offer AI skills training to UK citizens depends almost entirely on US big tech companies - how is this meant to support the aim of supporting homegrown AI firms and enhancing sovereignty?