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MoD’s new SIEM, analytics platform up and running

At a critical moment for Britain's national security, the Ministry of Defence’s upgraded SIEM and security analytics platform is being delivered by Centerprise and Elastic.
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:59:00 GMT

UK data watchdog warns Met Police over shadow IT data breach

The UK’s data protection watchdog warns of an “ongoing failure” by the Metropolitan Police Service to restrict staff from using unauthorised IT services
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:57:00 GMT

Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2026

Computer Weekly has revealed who has made the 2026 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, including this year’s winner, Karen Blake
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Warm jumpers and a power imbalance – this year’s most influential woman in UK tech

Stop offering ‘warm jumpers’ and actually change the inhospitable tech climate, says Computer Weekly’s most influential woman in UK tech 2026
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

AI will trade in finance markets instead of humans, says HSBC investment bank boss

Humans will have to remain in the loop as AI completes more algorithmic trading, according to HSBC’s corporate and institutional banking CEO
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:50:00 GMT

Waste-to-energy firm picks Stackable on Ionos for sovereignty

Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:36:00 GMT

Beyond Nvidia: how alternative silicon is reshaping datacentre design

Driven by rising inference demands and power constraints, datacentres are evolving beyond Nvidia dominance toward alternative silicon, custom accelerators and edge sites
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:36:00 GMT

AIforce World Tour: Salesforce promises free Slack access to UK students

Salesforce said it will give UK further and higher education students free Slack Enterprise, as part of a drive to close the digital skills gap
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:15:00 GMT

UAE organisations must prepare for quantum security now, says Help AG acting CEO

Aleksandar Valjarevic, acting CEO of Help AG, says organisations should begin mapping their cryptographic assets and apply zero-trust principles to AI agents as the UAE advances its sovereign artificial intelligence ambitions
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:50:00 GMT

AI tool used in asylum case reviews failing accuracy tests

Asylum seekers are not informed that caseworkers use an AI tool to summarise their interviews used by decision makers
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:15:00 GMT

ORCA launches PT-3 quantum computer in London datacentre

ORCA Computing unveils PT-3 in London, a room-temperature quantum system paired with Nvidia GPUs to boost AI-driven drug discovery yield and complex energy grid scheduling
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Bank of America hit with £1.2bn fine after money laundering probe

Bank of America has been fined £1.2bn for its failings related to anti-money laundering
Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:30:00 GMT

Why many AI companies are set to fail

Is the artificial intelligence bubble about to burst? Analyst Gartner does not expect CIOs will ramp up the amount they pay for AI inference
Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:51:00 GMT

NatWest uses Nvidia for natural language banking

UK bank is testing Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology with Royal Bank of Scotland customers
Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:30:00 GMT

AI has not invented new attacks, it has removed the waiting

AI can speed up attacks, with faster reconnaisance, while defenders should use AI to accelerate existing SOC work, but not chase after full autonomy
Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:06:00 GMT

Amazon uses AI-powered ‘risk’ system to track union activity globally

Internal documents disclosed during a Canadian labour dispute show Amazon is using an artificial intelligence-powered risk-scoring system named Atlas to track union organising among its workforce, while training managers on how to handle what it perceives as the ‘threat’ of union activity
Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT