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• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation

  The national police investigation into the Post Office IT scandal has now received the full funding it requires

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

  French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust

  Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud?

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI

  Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Qualcomm sets out for future at beginning of agentic age

  Annual conference of leading mobile platform provider sees transition into harnessing the power of agentic technologies through end product line including PCs, phones, cars and advanced eyewear

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment

  Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal

  Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination

  Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  US military confirms existence of orbital weapons

  The US military has for the first time confirmed the existence of orbital weapons, but has not divulged details of their capabilities or whether they have been integrated with Space Force’s growing arsenal of AI systems

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath

  With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency

  A draft architecture published under the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy spells out what full software sovereignty requires and why full hardware sovereignty remains out of reach

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin

  The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asia’s first enterprise to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Law firm paid £200m to support Post Office, while police investigating scandal are forced to beg

  There are concerns that a lack of funds for the police investigation could prevent the full Post Office scandal truth getting out

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  UK national centre will fight Russian disinformation, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham

  National Centre for Information Defence will disrupt information warfare from hostile states, UK prime minister Andy Burnham has announced

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Former subpostmaster demands extension to Post Office scandal claims deadline

  Subpostmasters can only make claims for losses through Post Office Process Review until September 30, but a former subpostmaster says there is a necessity to extend the deadline

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Informatica wants AI agents to stop making up the numbers

  Informatica, owned by Salesforce, is making its catalogue metadata machine-readable, and adding trust indicators to answers in Claude so customers can see where a figure comes from before they act on it

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Dubai and Microsoft launch real-time cyber resilience dashboard for government entities

  Purpose-built zero-trust platform gives Dubai Electronic Security Center continuous visibility into compliance with the emirate’s Information Security Regulation, replacing point-in-time assessments with live security insights

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Lumen lights up Intelligent Internet for AI demands

  Infrastructure provider looks to bring cloud-like agility to enterprises with internet model combining on-demand bandwidth, digital control and predictable costs

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  DE-CIX launches neutral internet exchange in southern Austria

  Southern Austria’s first neutral Internet Exchange based on edge containers designed to turn the state of Carinthia into a digital hub for the Alps-Adriatic region, backed by €5.7m state investment

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Telxius plugs in 800G coherent optical tech to boost network capacity

  Global connectivity provider evolves high-capacity international network with next-generation IP-over-DWDM technology to support growing cloud, AI and datacentre connectivity demands

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Huawei expands vision for agentic world of infrastructure

  Tech and networking giant unveils compute platform based on proprietary computing architecture and key interconnect technology that makes the system possible

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Engineering Council licenses CIISec to assess cyber pros

  Partnership gives cyber pros the opportunity to achieve Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status from the Engineering Council

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch

  In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence

  Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  UK government defends ‘fundamentally flawed’ eVisa system

  The government has rejected a suggestion from the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the electronic visa system should move to a more stable, token-based process, rather than the current error-prone system that relies on real-time database checks

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  The Middle East’s AI race has a people problem

  Middle East firms are quickly snapping up AI hardware, but finding the right people to put it to work effectively in everyday operations is proving a lot more difficult

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  Capita lacks the ‘capacity and ability’ to run GP pension scheme, BMA tells MPs

  The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to MP committees calling for the Capita-run GP pension scheme to be brought in-house

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  Splunk helps US research uni embrace ‘student-powered’ security

  When she was asked to let IT students run its SOC, New Jersey Institute of Technology CISO Sharon Kelley ran a mile. Find out why she changed her mind, and how Splunk is helping her raise a new generation of cyber analysts

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  NTU uses AI agents to uncover flaws in mobile networks

  Nanyang Technological University’s agentic AI tool checks mobile core network code against 3GPP specifications and has found 84 vulnerabilities, including one that lets an attacker hijack a subscriber’s internet session

• September 21, 2026 21 Sep'26

  EU states failing to exchange information on cross-border cyber security attacks

  European Union urged to deploy real-time European cyber alert platform to share information with member states on cross-border cyber attacks

• September 21, 2026 21 Sep'26

  AI hasn’t changed ‘core skills’ needed for work, say experts

  AI is rapidly changing the world of work and how we navigate daily life, but the core skills schools need to instil in students haven’t changed

• September 21, 2026 21 Sep'26

  Barnet council bringing Capita IT work in-house after alternative contract ‘abandoned’

  London Borough of Barnet’s extended IT service contract with Capita finally comes to an end

• September 21, 2026 21 Sep'26

  CrowdStrike warns AI agents are creating a cyber battleground for GCC organisations

  Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier to entry for cyber criminals, accelerating attack speeds and increasing the complexity of threats, prompting organisations to rethink resilience, governance and security operations

• September 21, 2026 21 Sep'26

  Bumrungrad turns to AI agents to clear patient email backlog

  Bumrungrad International Hospital is using Salesforce’s Agentforce to summarise and route patient correspondence, with automated appointment booking and voice agents on the cards

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  US cyber agency endorses ‘decoy’ tactics

  Official US guidance suggests organisations consider using cyber decoys to strengthen their detection and response capabilities

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  Orange, Telesat open gateway for space communications

  Teleport for next-generation low Earth orbit constellation now installed and commissioned to boost secure, reliable and low-latency connectivity for enterprise and government

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  Interview: François-Xavier Pierrel, chief data officer, TF1

  As the French broadcaster looks to compete in a streaming-led world, its data strategy and use of AI agents will be fundamental to transforming the business

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  Data dive: London and M4 the datacentre hotspot, but not for long

  A fresh count of the UK’s existing datacentres finds 1.6GW, mostly in London and the M4, while a projected 14.6GW heads north to get on the grid

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  Ericsson looks to meet customer control demand in wireless WAN

  Customer-hosted wireless offering designed to address a global trend where organisations face critical infrastructure requirements that can restrict use of public cloud network management

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  Hillsborough Law should catch bosses at firms like Fujitsu and Capita

  Calls for the Public Office (Accountability) Bill to be expanded to government supplier bosses

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  XRHealth prescribes augmented reality glasses for real-time telehealth

  Augmented reality platform designed to enable clinicians to connect live with patients, see what patients see, and provide guidance while patients remain present in their real-world environment

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  GISEC: UAE advances collective cyber resilience in AI and quantum era

  The UAE Cyber Security Council is advancing a strategy built on AI, cyber readiness and emerging technologies as organisations prepare for the next generation of threats

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  TLD Robotics launches to deploy autonomous operations at scale

  Merger culminates a decade of collaboration, builds on momentum of 35 global operations and 50,000 autonomous missions, and brings driverless operations together under one autonomous vehicle business

• September 18, 2026 18 Sep'26

  Capita boss gets ‘obscene’ pay packet while retired civil servants need emergency loans

  Adolfo Hernandez is said to have earned £1.6m in his yearly pay packet, as the government pension scheme he oversees fails to pay retirees

• September 17, 2026 17 Sep'26

  Home Office challenged on ‘farcical’ secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ order

  UK government argues that national security would be damaged if it departs from ‘neither confirm nor deny policy’ on Apple ‘backdoor’ notice

• September 17, 2026 17 Sep'26

  Interview: Stephen Wood, chief operating officer, Rathbones Asset Management

  Data is so important for the financial services firm that its COO leads the strategy – and it’s enabling them to forge ahead with AI and agentic technologies

• September 17, 2026 17 Sep'26

  MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions

  Government pledges planning guidance by Christmas and environmental impact assessments for schemes of more than 50MW, with Scotland’s committed pipeline at 14 schemes and 2.4GW

• September 17, 2026 17 Sep'26

  TechUK calls for 10-year digital infrastructure strategy

  UK tech association warns that the country’s economic growth, productivity and national resilience depend on urgent action to strengthen its digital infrastructure foundations

• September 17, 2026 17 Sep'26

  Microsoft showcases AI-powered cyber defence tools at GISEC

  The company highlights new security capabilities as businesses across the UAE look to secure growing artificial intelligence deployments

• September 17, 2026 17 Sep'26

  London infrastructure planning rules could see £2.7bn output loss 

  Report calls for mobile connectivity needs to be addressed, identifying mobile sites earlier and introducing mechanisms to speed up infrastructure replacement