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• Adobe continues to prove the iPad is a powerful creative tool

  18-08-2021 18:28
  
  Adobe has published significant updates to its creative apps. In doing so, it continues to fulfil the "post-PC" promise behind the Apple iPad, with powerful new features that demonstrate the capability of the tablet to get real work done.A slice of computingIn part, Adobe is achieving this by continuing to add features from its desktop/notebook pro products to Photoshop for iPad. The latest update adds the powerful Healing Brush and Magic Wand tools to the application, both of which stretch the
  
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• Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance

  25-09-2026 17:35 via computerweekly.com
  Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in Northern Ireland in high court claim for data protection breaches and harassment
  
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• Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers

  25-09-2026 17:18 via computerweekly.com
  An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers.
  
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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Zero-trust was built for people. Nobody told it about agents

  22-09-2026 15:48 via computerweekly.com
  The concept of zero-trust needs no introduction, but in the new world of AI agents, it’s a model that now needs to evolve.
  
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• Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence

  22-09-2026 14:20 via computerweekly.com
  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
  
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• UK government defends ‘fundamentally flawed’ eVisa system

  22-09-2026 13:15 via computerweekly.com
  The government has rejected a suggestion from the Lords 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
  
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• The Middle East’s AI race has a people problem

  22-09-2026 09:00 via computerweekly.com
  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
  
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• What do we mean by sovereign AI?

  22-09-2026 08:15 via computerweekly.com
  ‘Sovereign AI’ is everywhere but rarely defined. It bundles ownership, control, jurisdiction, capability and optionality. The real test for most organisations is, do you know your dependencies, and can you leave if you need to?
  
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• Capita lacks the ‘capacity and ability’ to run GP pension scheme, BMA tells MPs

  22-09-2026 07:07 via computerweekly.com
  The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to MP committeescalling for the Capita-run GP pension scheme to be brought in-house
  
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• Splunk helps US research uni embrace ‘student-powered’ security

  22-09-2026 06:30 via computerweekly.com
  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
  
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• Celebrating 60 years of Computer Weekly

  22-09-2026 06:00 via computerweekly.com
  Sixty years ago today, the first issue of Computer Weekly landed on IT managers’ desks across the UK. It’s been our privilege to document the incredible progress of UK IT ever since. In this special anniversary issue, leaders from across the sector reflect on their personal memories from six decades of innovation. Read the issue now.
  
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