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Hostile states launched 200 attacks on UK infrastructure in five months, says NCSC chief
Hackers will use AI-enabled cyber capabilities to exploit known vulnerabilities in legacy technology at scale by 2028, says National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard HorneWed, 17 Jun 2026 13:10:00 GMT
Post Office delays signing Horizon software replacement contract
Lot 2 of the contract to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon EPOS system has still not been signed offWed, 17 Jun 2026 09:14:00 GMT
UK companies can seize £50bn prize by industrialising AI, claims Celonis
Celonis claims FTSE 100 firms could save £4.4bn by closing ‘execution gaps’ in workflows through process intelligence software, potentially rising to £50bn with agentic AIWed, 17 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT
Cabinet Office states Capita set to miss Civil Service Pension Scheme deadline
Outsourcing firm’s botched takeover of civil service pension administration has seen scheme members experience financial hardshipWed, 17 Jun 2026 05:30:00 GMT
Google Cloud Summit: UK to deploy AI-powered planning system
The UK planning system is being reworked with artificial intelligence and computer vision to provide data in a consistent formatWed, 17 Jun 2026 04:55:00 GMT
NPL to run world’s first quantum standards network
National Quantum Standards Network will be overseen by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, with the aim of establishing the rules of the road for quantum computing and accelerating British innovationWed, 17 Jun 2026 04:15:00 GMT
Digital ID must not deepen exclusion
UK government plans for a national digital identity scheme risk embedding further inequalities and barriers to public services for the 19 million people currently experiencing digital exclusionWed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT
Scottish minister clarifies police facial-recognition approach
The Scottish government has confirmed its intention to ensure police use of facial recognition is lawful before deployments start taking place, unlike in England and Wales where the technology has been rolled out in a ‘legal vacuum’ without any formal scrutiny or debateTue, 16 Jun 2026 11:52:00 GMT
MPs call for UK government to back sovereign IT
Amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill calls for the government to publish a ‘digital sovereignty strategy’ to promote domestic technologyTue, 16 Jun 2026 11:24:00 GMT
NHS trusts operating on fewer patients with Palantir FDP, warns Foxglove
Around 30% of English hospitals that use Palantir’s FDP tools for scheduling are carrying out fewer procedures than before adoption, according to data from campaign group FoxgloveTue, 16 Jun 2026 09:58:00 GMT
US mortgage provider moves beyond ‘superficial AI integrations’
Pennymac Financial Services is using generative artificial intelligence tools from Amazon Web Services to bring borrowing up to dateTue, 16 Jun 2026 08:40:00 GMT
Interview: Ashwin Ballal, CIO, Freshworks
After a career in marketing, engineering, product and operations, a CIO role seemed unlikely for Ashwin Ballal – until he tried itTue, 16 Jun 2026 07:18:00 GMT
UK data regulator slammed over lack of action on complaints
The UK data regulator is being threatened with legal action after it was accused of ‘ignoring’ thousands of data protection complaints, with critics describing its new approach to complaint triage and investigation as akin to a ‘digital bin’ for the public’s concernsTue, 16 Jun 2026 06:32:00 GMT
Nordea Liv Norway migrates 58 million transactions to the cloud
Life and pensions provider migrates to the cloud as part of wider multi-year transformation projectTue, 16 Jun 2026 06:09:00 GMT
The great datacentre backlash: The industry response
In part two of a two-part series looking at attitudes to datacentres, we look at how developers and operators have responded to the wave of anti-datacentre sentiment sweeping through communities and what their plan is to avoid further escalationTue, 16 Jun 2026 05:45:00 GMT
Insurance industry AI recruitment correlates with success
Research shows that insurers have accelerated recruitment of artificial intelligence professionalsTue, 16 Jun 2026 05:00:00 GMT
Amnesty calls for ban on AI risk-profiling systems
Amnesty International says AI-driven risk profiling systems are discriminatory and may lead to misleading results that violate international human rights lawTue, 16 Jun 2026 04:30:00 GMT
AI demands an identity reset
In this week’s Computer Weekly, our latest buyer’s guide examines how AI is transforming the demands and expectations on identity and access management systems. We talk to early implementers of agentic AI to find out the lessons learned. And we explain why the AI infrastructure boom is likely to drive up cloud prices for every IT leader. Read the issue now.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:24:00 GMT
Ineffable Intelligence strikes Google Cloud deal for Vera Rubin GPU power
London-based ‘anti-LLM’ developer led by AlphaGo founder David Silver selects Google Cloud Vera Rubin GPU infrastructure to build reinforcement learning ‘superlearners’Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:00:00 GMT
The truth about Claude Mythos is less dramatic than it seems
The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers if Anthropic’s Claude Mythos frontier AI model is a benefit or barrier to achieving resilient enterprise IT security, and how security leaders need to adapt.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:14:00 GMT