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• New poll shows Facebook's severe trust problem

  31-03-2021 13:41 via Latest news
  
  A recent informal poll of tech community sentiment showed a shocking level of distrust for Facebook -- way more than other tech companies.
  
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• MWC Doha aims to position Middle East as global hub for AI and digital infrastructure

  27-10-2026 13:40 via ComputerWeekly.com
  GSMA’s Jawad Abbassi says the event will bring together telecoms operators, policymakers and technology leaders as Gulf countries accelerate investment in 5G, AI and datacentres
  
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• Azure licensing lock-in limits choice

  27-10-2026 13:15 via ComputerWeekly.com
  A survey of US users has found that businesses are paying significantly more to host Microsoft apps on non-Microsoft public clouds
  
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• TechEd 2026: SAP fronts tabular data model in space as it bids to make autonomous enterprise real

  27-10-2026 12:45 via ComputerWeekly.com
  At TechEd 2026 in Berlin, SAP unveiled AI developments including deploying its RPT-2 tabular data AI model aboard the International Space Station
  
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• Why measuring your public cloud carbon footprint is so hard

  27-10-2026 11:33 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Cloud carbon data is complex, attributed, and often opaque. Buyers must look past dashboard totals to understand allocation, electricity accounting, and embodied emissions
  
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• Autumn Budget 2026: Healey sets out AI funding

  27-10-2026 09:20 via ComputerWeekly.com
  The chancellor wants to boost UK tech sovereignty and has unveiled plans to support chip development, AI defence and biosecurity
  
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• AI World: AI vulnerability surge brings change for Oracle’s cyber practice

  27-10-2026 07:45 via ComputerWeekly.com
  With CVE volumes spiking amid AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, Oracle is responding with cyber initiatives and practices for its customers
  
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• AI World: Oracle sets agents loose on Fusion Cloud apps

  27-10-2026 07:42 via ComputerWeekly.com
  On the opening day of its annual AI World conference, Oracle brought a wide range of agentic innovations to bear on its Fusion Cloud application suite
  
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• Capita ‘comprehensively failed’ on Civil Service pension artificial intelligence promise

  27-10-2026 07:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Minister says she will ‘hold Capita’s feet to the fire’ as MPs wade in with distressing stories from affected constituents
  
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• Proving the benefits of AI

  27-10-2026 06:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  In this week’s Computer Weekly, we hear from multinational companies adopting AI to find out how they are proving the value of the technology, beyond the hype that surrounds it. Retailers are embracing AI and some are introducing a new role – chief AI officer. We examine why and what the job entails. And AWS’s security chief discusses the challenges of cyber security since the Mythos model has shown how it can hack IT systems. Read the issue now.
  
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• Anthropic's blockbuster share listing - 5 surprising things we now know

  26-10-2026 20:57 via BBC News
  
  Anthropic’s IPO prospectus is 355 pages and full of never before disclosed company information.
  
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• EU makes progress towards PHP patching, UK lags behind

  26-10-2026 17:30 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Five days into the PHP2Shell incident, and patch rates are creeping upwards, but the majority of publicly visible PHP hosts remain exposed.
  
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• Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic risk' to humankind ahead of blockbuster share listing

  26-10-2026 17:27 via BBC News
  
  The company will be the first true artificial intelligence company to go public as tech firms continue to invest heavily in AI.
  
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• UK secrecy over AI in immigration and asylum decisions under fire

  26-10-2026 17:24 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Home Office seeks technical fixes to immigration and asylum while invoking national security to avoid disclosing the growing use of AI in decision making, claims report 
  
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• Employees must be empowered to refuse AI tools at work, says UTAW

  26-10-2026 13:45 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Tech worker union says meaningful consultation over artificial intelligence deployments and new rights of refusal are needed to protect workers from the negative impacts of the technology’s proliferation in their workplaces
  
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• ‘Blackmail’ call as Warwickshire council approves £9m Microsoft renewal

  26-10-2026 11:30 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Warwickshire County Council approves a three-year Microsoft 365 renewal worth about £9m, up £375,000 a year, as the council’s former leader calls the licence model ‘blackmail’
  
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• Egypt’s next tech opportunity: Turning engineering talent into global innovation

  26-10-2026 09:02 via ComputerWeekly.com
  From a growing pool of software engineers and government-backed skills programmes to AI-driven product development, Egypt is positioning itself as a serious technology destination for international businesses
  
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• How Luxembourg built a secure sovereign instant messaging service for residents

  26-10-2026 08:30 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Luxembourg is rolling out a secure encrypted messaging service based on the open source Matrix protocol, for use by government, businesses and citizens, offering a sovereign alternative to WhatsApp and Signal
  
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• Lost in the post: Subpostmasters could miss out on redress

  26-10-2026 08:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Subpostmasters and their families left out of Post Office scandal redress schemes as deadlines pass
  
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• Big, noisy and coming to a town near you - why the data centre backlash is growing

  26-10-2026 00:44 via BBC News
  
  Data centres are the lifeblood of our digital world, but there are growing concerns about their environmental impact. The BBC explores their rise in charts.
  
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• Financial services leaders believe AI impact will be bigger than Big Bang

  25-10-2026 21:01 via ComputerWeekly.com
  KPMG survey reveals belief that artificial intelligence will shake up the finance sector more than the 1986 financial Big Bang
  
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• UK to invest £100m in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab

  24-10-2026 02:05 via BBC News
  
  The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.
  
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• 'It's been relentless' say IT workers on frontline of PHP cyber-security scramble

  23-10-2026 14:00 via BBC News
  
  IT and cyber experts have told the BBC about their struggles in the last 48 hours to update their systems.
  
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• Microsoft Frontier Tour London: Agentic AI governance in the spotlight

  23-10-2026 13:45 via ComputerWeekly.com
  During the London event, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella outlined his view of how agentic AI needs to be managed as part of enterprise IT
  
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• Can Britain’s grid keep up with the datacentre boom?

  23-10-2026 11:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Mounting power demands and grid bottlenecks are reshaping the geography of the UK’s digital infrastructure, pushing developers to wherever they can connect fastest
  
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• The Indian workers filming their work to train AI

  23-10-2026 10:04 via BBC News
  
  Indian workers are being paid to film themselves at work and the footage is used to train AI.
  
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• Data readiness, not compute, seen as biggest barrier to sovereign AI in the Gulf

  23-10-2026 09:00 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Mohammed Retmi, vice-president of sovereign clouds at Core42, says organisations moving AI into production must address data classification, governance, integration and resilience, while balancing infrastructure costs with performance and regulatory requirements
  
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• AI accelerates path from IT compromise to OT targeting

  23-10-2026 08:45 via ComputerWeekly.com
  Commercial AI has not invented new OT attacks, but it has sped up reconnaissance, compressing attackers time to understand targets. Process-specific engineering knowledge remains a barrier
  
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• Suspect Post Office systems that came before Horizon to be investigated by the government

  23-10-2026 06:57 via ComputerWeekly.com
  The Department for Business and Trade has announced its investigation of faulty software used in Post Office branches before the controversial Horizon system
  
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• Zuckerberg wins Meta deal to help him foot bill for possible California billionaire tax

  22-10-2026 20:26 via BBC News
  
  The Meta boss had said he would exit the state over a wealth tax that has not yet come into force.
  
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