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• X, AWS, and Cloudflare outage reports spiked Friday morning - what we know

  16-01-2026 18:06 via zdnet.com
  The social media site was down today. What we know so far.
  
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• How Meta plans to deliver petabit connectivity between US and France

  25-09-2026 11:45 via computerweekly.com
  Meta is working with NEC, Sumitomo Electric Industries and Orange to deliver petabit transoceanic cabling capacity
  
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• Digital identity – moving forward with ambition

  25-09-2026 10:08 via computerweekly.com
  Despite the UK government's U-turn on a digital identity scheme, the uses and opportunities for digital ID are gathering pace
  
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• Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation

  25-09-2026 10:04 via computerweekly.com
  The national police investigation into the Post Office IT scandal has now received the full funding it requires
  
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• French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

  25-09-2026 09:40 via computerweekly.com
  French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech
  
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• Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust

  25-09-2026 09:15 via computerweekly.com
  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?
  
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• Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI

  25-09-2026 09:04 via computerweekly.com
  Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks
  
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• AI promises a productivity windfall – who will reap the benefits?

  25-09-2026 08:15 via computerweekly.com
  Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general intellect’ – holds the key to why
  
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• Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment

  25-09-2026 06:45 via computerweekly.com
  Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas
  
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• Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination

  24-09-2026 14:30 via computerweekly.com
  Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users
  
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• Is AI dangerous? Trying to separate hype from fact

  24-09-2026 13:46 via computerweekly.com
  The danger is not a conscious machine, but a dazzling prediction engine that moves faster than we can supervise. The real risk is that we hand over the controls too easily
  
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• US military confirms existence of orbital weapons

  24-09-2026 13:00 via computerweekly.com
  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
  
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• Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath

  24-09-2026 12:15 via computerweekly.com
  With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365
  
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• GCC organisations must ‘fight AI with AI’ to stay ahead of cyber threats

  24-09-2026 12:00 via computerweekly.com
  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
  
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• Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency

  24-09-2026 08:00 via computerweekly.com
  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
  
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• OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says

  24-09-2026 04:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Albanese said he expressed "concern" to OpenAI founder Sam Altman, after authorities were informed three months after the breach in June.
  
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• Indians are discovering the thrill of shopping without paying

  24-09-2026 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dopamine sites mimic shopping’s thrill without the spending, turning the ritual of consumption into a digital game.
  
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• US rejects pleas from OpenAI, Anthropic for global AI standards

  24-09-2026 00:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  OpenAI's Sam Altman has called for risk evaluation standards, as have Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue.
  
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• Pornhub investigated over its age checks

  23-09-2026 17:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The regulator says it has concerns over how the site is relying on third party checks provided by Apple for some users.
  
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• OpenAI gives cyber defence tools to Ukraine

  23-09-2026 14:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ukraine will get access to OpenAI's advanced GPT 5.6 Sol model under the deal - a rival to Anthropic's Mythos and Fable
  
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• Law firm paid £200m to support Post Office, while police investigating scandal are forced to beg

  23-09-2026 12:10 via computerweekly.com
  There are concerns that a lack of funds for the police investigation could prevent the full Post Office scandal truth getting out
  
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• UK national centre will fight Russian disinformation, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham

  23-09-2026 11:30 via computerweekly.com
  National Centre for Information Defence will disrupt information warfare from hostile states, UK prime minister Andy Burnham has announced
  
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• Agentic AI in the enterprise: why governance, not adoption, will define the winners

  23-09-2026 10:00 via computerweekly.com
  IT leaders racing to deliver agentic AI risk repeating a familiar problem with new technologies - establishing controls after proving the concept. Agentic AI requires governance to be established from the outset
  
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• Former subpostmaster demands extension to Post Office scandal claims deadline

  23-09-2026 09:30 via computerweekly.com
  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
  
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• US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

  23-09-2026 03:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Under the draft laws, tech firms face fines if they do not give users the option to switch off algorithms.
  
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• Will a switch to light speed cut power use at data centres?

  23-09-2026 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  To save power and add capacity,data centres are switching from copper wires to tech using light.
  
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• Huge data centres rise at 'China speed' to power its AI ambitions

  23-09-2026 00:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC visits Inner Mongolia, an unlikely frontier in Beijing's AI race with Washington.
  
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• Rare look at the remote engine rooms fuelling China's AI boom

  23-09-2026 00:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC is in Inner Mongolia where dozen of Chinese data centres are being constructed, as the country aims to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
  
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• Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch

  22-09-2026 23:00 via computerweekly.com
  In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly-managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with new capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles.
  
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• Call of Duty's Activision to make next Halo game as Xbox cuts more jobs

  22-09-2026 16:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The news comes as part of a "reset" announced by Xbox in July, with 3,600 planned job losses overall.
  
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