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• China's growth accelerates as AI boom helps boost exports

  19-10-2026 08:08 via BBC News
  
  Exports have helped offset weak spending at home, but trade tensions and AI doubts cloud its outlook.
  
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• Shares in Musk's SpaceX plunge as tech and AI stocks fall

  05-11-2026 18:57 via BBC News
  
  The market has been reacting to possible tougher scrutiny of data centre construction and the AI industry following the US mid-terms
  
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• Minority groups oppose ‘routine’ police facial recognition

  05-11-2026 11:30 via ComputerWeekly.com
  A Home Office-commissioned study into the views of minority groups with low trust in the police found that while they were not outright opposed to the use of facial recognition technologies, strict rules are needed to ensure accountability and rebuild trust
  
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• Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate

  05-11-2026 11:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  The Home Office has announced plans to renew AWS cloud hosting at a cost of £881.6m over two years
  
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• UK government ‘house of cards’ heavily reliant on US AI models

  05-11-2026 10:45 via ComputerWeekly.com
  US tech suppliers provide the artificial intelligence models behind most tools deployed by UK central government
  
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• How to avoid blowing your AI budget

  05-11-2026 09:50 via ComputerWeekly.com
  We investigate what IT decision-makers can do to maximise their return on AI investment
  
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• SailPoint: Anarchy reigns over enterprise agentic AI

  05-11-2026 05:30 via ComputerWeekly.com
  SailPoint research has found 89% of EMEA enterprises deploy AI agents, but 99% lack the identity security tools to govern them
  
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• OECD: AI compute now a strategic asset as UK bets £2bn

  05-11-2026 04:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Venture capital for artificial intelligence firms in IT infrastructure and hosting rose from $54.5bn to $123.9bn, while the OECD says compute now shapes which countries can build advanced AI
  
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• Elon Musk's millions failed to deliver Republican wins in fierce midterms

  04-11-2026 22:41 via BBC News
  
  Musk spent nearly $500m in the 2026 US midterm elections, an individual election spending record.
  
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• Capita last UK firm among government strategic tech suppliers

  04-11-2026 20:01 via ComputerWeekly.com
  The outsourcer is the only UK-headquartered tech firm among the government’s strategic suppliers, as Capgemini leads 2025/26 spending at £940m of a total £5.48bn
  
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• French blood storage impacted by freezer hacks as theories swirl about culprits

  04-11-2026 17:26 via BBC News
  
  The French Blood Establishment (EFS) said cold rooms storing blood were impacted by hackers.
  
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• Mastercard meets ‘responsibility’ through SME cyber security training

  04-11-2026 13:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Card giant is offering free cyber security training to millions of SMEs in the UK through its SME Academy
  
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• The invisible maths behind cloud carbon accounting

  04-11-2026 12:15 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Hypervisor abstraction and market-based accounting conceal cloud emissions. Operational sustainability requires raw telemetry, real-time grid data, and hardware lifecycle tracking
  
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• UK government responds to facial recognition consultation

  04-11-2026 12:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  The UK government has responded to a consultation on a new legal framework for police use of biometrics, but has not committed to specific safeguards while continuing to ramp up facial recognition deployments
  
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• Saudi Arabia’s digital sports expansion creates new cyber security challenges

  04-11-2026 10:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  The growing use of connected stadium infrastructure, digital fan platforms and AI agents is increasing the attack surface for sports organisations, raising concerns over insider threats, data protection and security governance
  
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• Data dive: Datacentre electricity – how much, where, why regions matter

  04-11-2026 08:30 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Official figures put datacentre electricity use at 4.46TWh in 2024 – 1.8% of the grid and up 41% since 2020, with the load stacking up in Slough and the M4 corridor
  
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• MPs launch civil service pension investigation but won’t rely on Capita data and promises

  04-11-2026 07:30 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Committee of MPs launches inquiry into Capita’s civil service pension scheme takeover
  
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• Graduates are managing AI - but are they learning much else?

  04-11-2026 01:04 via BBC News
  
  Graduates are spending more time managing AI, but are they missing out on other work experience?
  
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• TSB releases shocking fraud data to urge caution as Black Friday and Christmas near

  03-11-2026 20:01 via ComputerWeekly.com
  TSB data shows that purchase fraud losses among its customers are up 4% this year
  
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• Binance says fake job interviews used as part of $6.3bn crypto hack

  03-11-2026 17:19 via BBC News
  
  An engineer was contacted through a legitimate job-hunting platform and invited to bogus job interviews with fake company representatives, Binance says.
  
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• Exposing state threats still matters - resilience matters more

  03-11-2026 14:57 via ComputerWeekly.com
  In October 2026, MI5 revealed it was spending more on countering state threats than it did during the Cold War. The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank explores the changing nature of state-backed cyber threats.
  
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• UK meat industry hit by cyber-attack which targeted European supermarket freezers

  03-11-2026 14:07 via BBC News
  
  Supermarkets in countries including Ireland, Swedenand Belgium reported fridges being hiked in temperature on Monday.
  
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• UK government backs Cyber Essentials discount for SMEs

  03-11-2026 13:35 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Almost £10m of funding is being made available to help qualifying SMEs achieve Cyber Essentials certification.
  
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• UK abattoirs caught up in cyber attack against European supermarkets

  03-11-2026 13:30 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Refrigerators at three meat processors in the UK were hit by cyber attacks amid warnings from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre to protect internet-facing industrial devices
  
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• Apple unsure when it will get more foldable iPhones ahead of Christmas

  03-11-2026 12:10 via BBC News
  
  The tech giant reports strong sales but admits "constraints" are affecting supplies of the iPhone Duo.
  
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• Recognising a world first: LEO celebrates 75 years of business computing

  03-11-2026 10:53 via ComputerWeekly.com
  The Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) was the world’s first business computer and ran the world’s first automated business process
  
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• North Korea denies being behind record $6.3bn Binance hack

  03-11-2026 09:33 via BBC News
  
  US government agencies and cyber analysts have blamed Pyongyang for the record-breaking heist.
  
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• Government-backed open property initiative enters new phase

  03-11-2026 07:11 via ComputerWeekly.com
  The government-backed project aims to make home buying and selling easier through digital technology
  
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• UK to face AI-powered cyber attacks within two years, warns NCSC

  02-11-2026 20:01 via ComputerWeekly.com
  In a worst-case scenario, self-replicating artificial intelligence could launch cyber attacks at will against UK targets by 2028
  
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• If hackers can take control of a supermarket freezer, how vulnerable is other tech?

  02-11-2026 19:25 via BBC News
  
  Dozens of shops across European countries have been hit by a cyber-attack affecting their fridges.
  
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