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• Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  19-10-2016 17:15 via computerweekly.com
  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier
  
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• Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools months after blacklisting company, BBC told

  05-10-2026 18:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It labelled the company a "supply chain risk" earlier this year, but multiple sources said Anthropic's Claude model was recently widely used.
  
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• Supply chain cyber resilience: from paper promises to operational reality

  05-10-2026 14:55 via computerweekly.com
  Cyber resilience is not just built by drafting better policies, but by proving your organisation can withstand and respond to incidents and manage risks buried deep within the supply chain.
  
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• The AI kill switch – what actually happens when you press it?

  05-10-2026 13:43 via computerweekly.com
  Talk of an AI kill switch abounds, but what would such a thing actually look like in practice, and what would it mean to ‘press’ it?
  
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• Metropolitan Police awards Atos with £350m IT deal

  05-10-2026 13:15 via computerweekly.com
  IT services firm will provide London police force with IT services for six years as part of new deal
  
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• Trump chooses top spy boss to run new AI taskforce

  05-10-2026 12:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US president said his national intelligence chief will lead the group as worries over AI grow.
  
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• Software architecture as the first line of climate defence

  05-10-2026 11:06 via computerweekly.com
  True digital sustainability requires addressing software waste. Refactoring bloated code cuts computational overhead, lowering enterprise energy consumption and hardware churn
  
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• Single mother faces removal from UK over eVisa and admin errors

  05-10-2026 10:00 via computerweekly.com
  A malfunctioning electronic visa status and administrative errors on the part of the Home Office have left a single mother and her son facing removal from the UK, despite her proactive efforts to legally secure a new visa
  
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• Norwegian AI firm appeals to block Google gigacenter

  05-10-2026 09:48 via computerweekly.com
  Local councillors welcome the prospect of becoming one of the world’s largest centres for AI computing, but a spurned rival thinks they cheated and still got a bad deal
  
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• NAO to investigate what went wrong in Capita’s civil service pension takeover

  05-10-2026 09:30 via computerweekly.com
  The transfer of the Civil Service Pension Scheme to a new administrator has been a disaster, but why?
  
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• It's time to rethink what we mean by a legacy datacentre

  05-10-2026 08:34 via computerweekly.com
  Rather than viewing older datacentres as obsolete legacy assets, smart operators are unlocking commercial value by upgrading existing sites for AI and higher density
  
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• AI governance gap emerges as GCC’s biggest cyber security challenge

  05-10-2026 08:00 via computerweekly.com
  Cybergate CISO Srdjan Babic warns that organisations are adopting artificial intelligence faster than they are building the governance, oversight and workforce capabilities needed to manage it securely
  
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• Middle East firms risk scaling cyber threats as AI adoption accelerates, says Illumio

  05-10-2026 06:34 via computerweekly.com
  Security visibility, segmentation and breach containment are becoming critical as organisations across the UAE and Saudi Arabia rush to deploy AI technologies
  
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• Gartner: Process mining and task mining insight

  05-10-2026 06:00 via computerweekly.com
  Gartner analysts explain when enterprises should focus on process mining and when they should use task mining
  
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• AI is creating more ‘bullshit jobs’ - here's how to stop

  05-10-2026 05:30 via computerweekly.com
  What's the point in AI saving hours of workers' time if there's no thought around what to do with all that time saved?
  
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• Machine-speed security: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

  05-10-2026 05:21 via computerweekly.com
  Rudra Mitra, vice president of security services at AWS discusses why we need to rethink cybersecurity in order to tackle AI-powered attacks
  
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• UK and Europe at risk from Chinese tech, says security think tank

  02-10-2026 14:00 via computerweekly.com
  Although the UK and Europe have laws to restrict Chinese technology from critical infrastructure, implementation is patchy
  
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• NRF Europe: tech transformations prevalent among major retailers

  02-10-2026 12:50 via computerweekly.com
  NRF Europe 2026 saw some key themes across the retail space, including AI, SaaS and ongoing technology transformation for even the biggest of retailers
  
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• UK data regulator restructures amid allegations of ‘toxic’ workplace culture

  02-10-2026 12:15 via computerweekly.com
  A reimagined structure for the UK data regulator raises questions about the effectiveness of its oversight, as staff continue to express concern over a toxic workplace culture that has taken hold under the organisation’s leadership
  
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• Government faces judicial review over Post Office Capture redress

  02-10-2026 11:30 via computerweekly.com
  Former subpostmasters could apply for judicial review over unfair redress of financial losses
  
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• Has the time arrived for the retail chief AI officer?

  02-10-2026 11:15 via computerweekly.com
  The retail jobs of the future are oft-debated, but the industry looks to be entering an era primed for the arrival of the chief AI officer
  
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• OpenAI fires workers for 'mishandling sensitive information'

  02-10-2026 10:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former employees were investigated for sharing data with an outside AI evaluation group.
  
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• Members braced as Teachers’ Pension transfer approaches

  02-10-2026 08:15 via computerweekly.com
  The UK’s Teachers’ Pension scheme administration is set to transfer from Capita to Tata Consultancy Services
  
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• CW@60: Making the next 60 years of British tech as glorious as the last

  02-10-2026 08:15 via computerweekly.com
  A tech entrepreneur reflects on Britain’s shortage of visible business and technology founder role models
  
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• DWP insources Universal Credit checking work

  02-10-2026 08:05 via computerweekly.com
  Government department moves nearly 3,000 staff from supplier as it insources work in effort to make savings
  
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• Crypto thieves attack man in home and threaten to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery

  02-10-2026 01:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.
  
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• Five ways to make it to the tech C-suite

  01-10-2026 15:56 via computerweekly.com
  Build a clear plan, invest in your technical skills and work on your leadership capabilities and your personal brand
  
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• Teen hacker arrested amid KillSec cyber gang takedown

  01-10-2026 15:46 via computerweekly.com
  
  A multinational operation targeting the KillSec ransomware gang has led to three arrests, including an unnamed 16 year-old.
  
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• Bank of England warns of AI debt

  01-10-2026 14:31 via computerweekly.com
  
  Bank of England governor Andy Bailey warns that artificial intelligence benefits may take longer to be realised
  
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• NetApp aims Novus storage at AI factory bottlenecks

  01-10-2026 14:05 via computerweekly.com
  
  NetApp Insight launches for new Novus storage that scales to 100TBps to keep AI factory GPUs fed, European data sovereignty controls and six months of free AI Data Engine
  
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