<p>There is a familiar story that plays out every time another news report emerges of children being seriously harmed online. Parents are told to “take control”. Schools are asked to “do more”. Tech companies promise another round of tweaks. But this framing misses the real issue. The harm children experience on social media is not a failure of parenting or education. It is the outcome of commercial systems designed to maximise engagement at all costs.</p> <p>If the tech sector genuinely prioritised child safety, we would not be facing the scale of harm that now confronts children and young people. What is happening online is not accidental, or the result of a few bad actors. It is the consequence of algorithmic recommender systems deliberately engineered to keep users s

<p>Discussions around the <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Data-centre-energy-efficiency-and-green-IT">sustainability of public cloud</a> platforms have become increasingly prominent in recent years.&nbsp;</p> <p>Hyperscale providers now publish a growing volume of data, dashboards and metrics designed to demonstrate the environmental efficiency of their infrastructure.&nbsp;</p> <p>But, for enterprise IT leaders tasked with making informed decisions, distinguishing between meaningful insight and marketing narrative remains a persistent challenge.</p> <p>At a surface level, cloud platforms present a compelling sustainability proposition. The ability to consolidate workloads into highly optimised, large-scale

<p><a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Data-centre-energy-efficiency-and-green-IT">IT infrastructure-related carbon emissions</a> reporting is slowly becoming a global regulatory requirement.&nbsp;</p> <p>The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) have incorporated climate-related financial disclosure requirements, including obligations to inventory and report Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.&nbsp;</p> <p>Individual countries – including Australia, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Union and the State of California (United States) – have enacted these standards into law, although some countries have delayed or minimised Scope 3 reporting.&nbsp

<p>Ongoing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366639621/Resilience-under-pressure-How-regional-conflict-is-reshaping-the-Middle-East-tech-strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tensions between Iran, Israel and the US</a>&nbsp;have brought new challenges to countries across the Gulf. For the education sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the wider Middle East, this evolving geopolitical situation presents a significant test.</p> <p>In response, schools and universities are increasingly turning to technology to ensure that learning continues without disruption. The push goes far beyond basic videoconferencing: national education technology providers are reinventing remote learning, equipping teachers and students with new tools

<p>For the better part of a decade the move to public cloud was sold as the ultimate environmental win.&nbsp;</p> <p>The logic was simple. Hyperscalers operate at a level of efficiency no individual company could hope to match. But as we move deeper into 2026, that "green" polish is starting to wear thin.&nbsp;</p> <p>For IT leaders, the challenge has shifted from migrating workloads to justifying the physical and<a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Data-centre-energy-efficiency-and-green-IT"> environmental cost of those workloads</a> in a world that is increasingly sceptical of corporate hand-waving.</p> <p>The reality on the ground today is that while Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google all claim t

<p>Abu Dhabi has taken a step towards global artificial intelligence (AI) with Falcon Perception, a<a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366635316/Sea-Lion-powering-AI-tools-for-migrant-workers-local-businesses"> multimodal model</a> that enables machines to efficiently see, read and interpret the physical world.</p> <p>Developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of the emirate’s Advanced Technology Research Council, Falcon Perception expands the UAE’s AI ecosystem by combining vision and language capabilities.&nbsp;</p> <p>​As global AI competition intensifies, the UAE hopes to position itself among nations capable of advanced multimodal systems at scale, making Falcon Perception central to this am

<p><a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Identity-and-access-management-products" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI-driven identity solutions</a> are often presented as the grown-up answer to modern access control: smarter verification, less friction, better security, happier users. In principle, yes. In practice, they also drag a fairly hefty suitcase of compliance, privacy and ethical questions in behind them.</p> <p>The first issue is compliance. Identity is not a side topic in enterprise environments. It sits right in the middle of security, governance, risk and accountability. Once AI is involved in deciding who gets access, who is challenged, who is flagged as suspicious, or who is denied entry altogether, that stops being just a technical c

<p>Wireless communication technology provider Wilson Connectivity has announced a joint development partnership with Autonomous Systems to bring automated, digitally transformed capabilities to phases of in-building wireless infrastructure spanning initial deployment through ongoing optimisation.</p> <p>The full network lifecycle management offering combines Wilson’s 30-year track record in <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366629867/Boldyn-powers-up-5G-for-VMO2-users-at-Sunderlands-Stadium-of-Light">distributed antenna systems</a> (DAS), <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366639431/Firecell-CloudRANAI-collaborate-to-cut-cost-and-complexity-of-private-5G">private</a> <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366639431/Fi

<p>The boilerplate has it that German software powerhouse <a href="https://www.sap.com/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SAP</a> supports mission-critical workloads for thousands of customers all over the world, and as one of the biggest customers of the big three hyperscalers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure – probably runs the largest private cloud in the world.</p> <p>However large its business may be aside, under the surface, the complexities that SAP experiences in securing the confidential enterprise data of thousands of its clients while dealing with an ever-more dangerous threat landscape and the ever-changing data security compliance and sovereignty requirement environment are undeniable.</p> <p>This

<p>As live media workflows become increasingly distributed across facilities, partner networks and cloud environments, technology advances are creating programmable demarcation points between operational domains. Given this dynamic, Net Insight is introducing programmable Trust Boundaries that make live media interconnection predictable as traffic moves between facilities, networks and cloud environments.</p> <p>Explaining what made the launch, <a href="https://netinsight.net/mfn_news/net-insight-sets-a-new-standard-for-live-media-operations-with-nimbra-live-intelligence/">Net Insight</a> said that as live production becomes increasingly distributed, media network traffic must move seamlessly across operational domains. It added that while IP networks provide

<p>Japan continues to bail out Fujitsu UK, with an £80m cash injection taking the total transferred to £360bn since 2024, when details of its Post Office scandal role became widely known. &nbsp;</p> <p>As Computer Weekly revealed in 2024, <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366611383/Fujitsu-addresses-financial-challenge-doubts-over-commitment-to-righting-Post-Office-wrongs">Fujitsu UK received £200m</a> in April that year, which a senior executive told staff was to address some financial indicators, which could have prevented it from bidding for UK public sector work. In the same month in 2025, it received a further £80m, and this week, the same amount was <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Fujitsus-role-in-the-Post-Office-scanda

<p>News that an estimated 30,000 employees are losing their jobs at Oracle comes at a time that the company is claiming to have <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366640817/Oracle-Cloud-Infrastructure-The-bare-metal-facts">$533bn in orders to fulfil</a>.</p> <p>As of May 2025, the company had a workforce of around 165 million employees. Its latest quarterly earnings filing shows that the Oracle expects revenue of $67bn and capital expenditures of $50bn for 2026, which it stated is unchanged from its previous financial guidance.</p> <p>For 2027, its financial guidance forecasts revenue of $90bn. Neither the latest quarterly earnings filing nor the subsequent earnings call with financial analysts revealed any changes to headcount.</p&g

<p>Abu Dhabi takes a decisive step in global artificial intelligence (AI) with Falcon Perception, a <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366635316/Sea-Lion-powering-AI-tools-for-migrant-workers-local-businesses">multimodal model</a> enabling machines to efficiently see, read and interpret the physical world.</p> <p>Developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of the emirate’s Advanced Technology Research Council, Falcon Perception expands the UAE’s AI ecosystem by combining vision and language capabilities.&nbsp;</p> <p>​As global AI competition intensifies, the UAE positions itself among nations capable of advanced multimodal systems at scale, making Falcon Perception central to this ambition. With

<p>In July 2025, UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-compute-roadmap/uk-compute-roadmap">Peter Kyle</a> said: “We forecast that the UK will need at least 6GW of AI [artificial intelligence]-capable <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Data-Centre">datacentre capacity</a> by 2030.”</p> <p>As things stand, that target will likely not be met, with UK datacentre capacity on course to total 4.9GW by 2030 given the current planning status of many projects.&nbsp;</p> <figure class="main-article-image full-col" data-img-fullsize="https://www.computerweekly.com/rms/computerweekly/quoteNumbers.png"> <img data-src="https://www.computerweekly.com/

<p>High-risk individuals have been urged to take steps to reduce their exposure to social engineering attacks against encrypted messaging apps, including Signal, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.</p> <p>The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/ncsc-warns-of-messaging-app-targeting">warned that politicians, academics, journalists and lawyers are at greater risk</a> from social engineering attacks by nation state-backed hackers attempting to gain access to messaging services.</p> <p>Government officials have also been targeted by China, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) – <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252525366/How-Russian-intelligence-hacked-the-encrypted-emails-of-forme

<p>IBM has begun working with chipmaker Arm to develop what it calls dual-architecture hardware to provide flexibility when running enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive workloads.</p> <p>Their overall goal is to combine IBM’s experience in systems reliability, security and scalability that it offers on <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366622197/IBM-boosts-AI-mainframe-capabilities-with-z17">Z-series mainframe systems</a> with Arm’s expertise in power-efficient architectures and supporting a broad software ecosystem to build flexible and scalable computing platforms for the future.</p> <p>Arm has been on a path to deliver an alternative to x86-powered servers in the datacentre. The company has introduced the Arm A

<p>As enterprises rush to integrate <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/AI-Artificial-Intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligenc</a>e‑driven identity and verification solutions, it is tempting to be swept up in their operational elegance and apparent efficiency. But as I have argued repeatedly, deploying AI without <i>governance‑first thinking</i> is a strategic mistake, and one that risks compliance failures, ethical missteps, and reputational harm. The UK’s shifting regulatory landscape and the emergence of new standards such as <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/42001" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ISO 42001</a> only reinforce that <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/de

<p>The accelerated pace in uptake of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies by Nordic financial institutions is set to gain momentum as the region’s leading banks and insurance groups launch programmes to streamline.</p> <p>Recognising the dangers and consequences for their members in a rapidly changing financial services landscape, labour unions across the Nordic region are engaging in negotiations with sector employers.</p> <p>The rapid growth and advance of online digital banks in the region has sharpened the urgency among financial services providers, and particularly long-established high street banks, to pursue more expansive <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366640379/Nordea-to-slash-1500-jobs-as-AI-impact-grows">techno

<p>Nearly one in eight young people in the UK aged 16 to 24, almost one million individuals, are not in education, employment, or training (Neet). For many, ambition alone isn’t enough. Opportunities often depend on who you know, not what you can do. This gap isn’t just a social challenge; it is a missed economic opportunity, especially for the UK’s growing digital economy.</p> <section class="section main-article-chapter" data-menu-title="From Croydon to coding: Angel’s journey"> <h2 class="section-title"><i class="icon" data-icon="1"></i>From Croydon to coding: Angel’s journey</h2> <p>Angel, from Croydon, knows this reality all too well. Growing up in a single-parent household and balancing school with caring responsibilities, she wasn’t

<p>Fujitsu has announced a voluntary redundancy scheme and plans to cut its UK workforce by nearly 10%.</p> <p>Compulsory redundancies “may need” to be introduced if its voluntary redundancies fall short of its target, the troubled supplier told staff.</p> <p>Fujitsu’s UK business has been in turmoil since its role in the <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Post-Office-Horizon-scandal-explained-everything-you-need-to-know">Post Office scandal</a> became mainstream news. It has since lost significant business in the public sector, where it has been traditionally strong, as the government, under pressure, attempts to distance itself from the supplier.</p> <p>A source told Computer Weekly that Fujitsu is not only losing busi

<p>Tata Communications has launched a self-healing network platform called IZO datacentre Dynamic Connectivity, which is designed to eliminate costly datacentre downtime and support the demands of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven world.</p> <p>In explaining the rationale for the launch, Tata Communications said that in the current digital economy, disruptions from cable cuts, route failures or sudden AI workload spikes can bring business to a standstill.</p> <p>Specifically, that is every enterprise depends on the ability to always be connected with an uninterrupted data flow. From financial transactions, information technology-enabled services (IT-ITeS) and manufacturing to <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366629456/AI-streaming-to-deli

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<p>Culham Campus in Oxfordshire, the site of the UK’s first artificial intelligence (AI) growth zone, will house the UK’s first <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366624056/AIs-thirst-for-power-pushing-enterprises-into-supercomputing">AI supercomputer</a>.</p> <p>The UK government is investing £45m into a 1.4MW supercomputer named Sunrise, a key first step in establishing the country’s first AI Growth Zone at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA).</p> <p>Unveiled in the UK’s Fusion Strategy, Sunrise is due to be ready by June. The government claims it is the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to fusion energy.</p> <p>With the global economy under siege from the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz due

<p>The Met Office has celebrated one year of <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Infrastructure-as-a-Service-IaaS">“supercomputing as a service”</a> from Microsoft.&nbsp;</p> <p>The occasion presented an opportunity for the weather forecasting and climate prediction organisation to offer its view on why artificial intelligence (AI) is peripheral to its scientific modelling core activities and why cloud is suited to the delivery of supercomputing services.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/ezine/Computer-Weekly/Innovating-with-weather-data-at-the-Met-Office">Met Office</a>’s Microsoft cloud supercomputing capability was <a href="https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/better-forecasts-ahead-as-met-o

<p>When the chair of your own independent inquiry walks out a year early, citing “glacially slow progress,” that is not a minor administrative footnote - it is a distress signal.</p> <p>Kip Meek’s departure from the <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/The-CMA-anti-trust-investigation-into-AWS-and-Microsoft-explained-Everything-you-need-to-know?_gl=1*479sev*_ga*MTQyNTQ1NjY0NS4xNzQxMzYzOTc3*_ga_TQKE4GS5P9*czE3NzMyMzgzNzkkbzEyMTgkZzEkdDE3NzMyMzkzOTckajYwJGwwJGgw">Competition and Markets Authority</a> (CMA) in late January, reportedly driven by frustration at the snail-like pace of action following the cloud services market investigation, should be deeply uncomfortable reading for British businesses who depend on digital infrastructure they can trust,

<p>The commercial case for cyber security platformisation is a compelling one, and it is a primary driver behind its momentum. Organisations running <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/tip/Too-many-cloud-security-tools-Time-for-consolidation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15 or 20 disparate security tools</a> face enormous operational overhead in the form of licensing complexity, integration maintenance, competing vendor relationships and fragmented data that makes it genuinely difficult to understand what’s happening across their technology estate.</p> <p>Consolidating onto a platform that reduces that burden while delivering tighter signal correlation is a legitimate strategic goal and CISOs are right to pursue it where it makes sense to do

<p>As data growth increases, ramping up storage capacity and costs, older backup methods once presumed obsolete -- such as magnetic tape -- are a saving grace.</p> <p>But was tape ever truly dead? Hardly.</p> <p>For a while, tape had a reputation for being outdated. This isn't surprising given that newer technologies have overcome some of tape's most problematic limitations. However, interest returned as organizations began generating data at unprecedented rates and <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/A-history-and-timeline-of-big-data">exponential data growth</a>&nbsp;became the norm, thanks in large part to AI's extensive training requirements and the increase in IoT devices.</p> <p>One of the main problems with

<p>The first HPE “modular” Mod Pod datacentre modules are set for delivery at <a href="http://carbon3.ai">Carbon3.ai</a>’s off-grid Derbyshire “AI factory”.</p> <p>The site will eventually comprise five HPE Mod Pods, which are modular datacentre pods capable of delivering 1.5mW of <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Data-centre-capacity-planning">datacentre capability</a>, and will be powered by electricity generated from landfill gas at the site.</p> <p>The Derbyshire site will go live in the second half of 2026, according to Carbon3.ai chief strategy officer Sana Kharegani.</p> <p>Carbon3.ai has plans <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366631218/Startup-Carbon3ai-sets-sights-on-building-UK-wid

<p>ChatGPT, launched in 2022, began making a significant impact on the market by late 2023, according to Synergy Research Group. The company’s chief analyst, John Dinsdale, points out that cloud market leaders have experienced accelerated revenue growth over time. Additionally, the emergence of numerous <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366634475/CBRE-charts-rise-of-neocloud-providers-within-European-colocation-market">neocloud companies</a> (<em>see box: </em><a href="http://preview.pg.techtarget.com:8080/ComputerWeekly/feature/Neoclouds-Meeting-demand-for-AI-acceleration?_dc=1770899156939&amp;vgnextrefresh=1"><em>What is a neocloud?</em></a>) has further strengthened the already positive momentum in the market.</p>

<p>T-Labs, the research and development division within Deutsche Telekom, has collaborated with quantum networking firm, Qunnect on a demonstration of quantum teleportation over a commercial network.</p> <p>T-Labs deployed Qunnect’s commercially available quantum entanglement distribution hardware in Berlin in a trial to show how quantum technology can be used to tackle instabilities and interferences in existing <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252506610/BT-advances-hollow-core-fibre-research-with-worlds-first-trial-of-quantum-secure-comms">telecom infrastructure</a>. T-Labs said the trial shows how a telecommunications operator can integrate quantum teleportation capabilities into operational networks. &nbsp;</p> <p>The experime

<p>New legal documents filed relating to Tesco’s legal case against Broadcom/VMware and Computacenter point to a situation where Dell appears to be aligned with Tesco’s arguments for its rights to have continued access to VMware products and services.</p> <p>The <a href="https://caseboard.io/cases/01c4a135-9cd3-4645-a4ac-9c452d0ee5a2">recent filing</a> from Dell, as it defends itself against Computacenter, which is a defendant in the Tesco/Broadcom lawsuit, shows the technology firm’s contractual obligation as a VMware distributor to provide Tesco, through reseller Computacenter, with access to VMware software and support.</p> <p>Tesco is suing Broadcom/VMware over what it sees as a contractual obligation by the owner of VMware products and suppo

<p>Attempting to address the growingly complex and pressing needs of businesses for whom <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366619196/AI-Action-Summit-global-leaders-decry-AI-red-tape">artificial intelligence (AI) innovation</a> is moving faster than ever before, Cisco has unveiled a range of products and services that it assured will provide the infrastructure its customers need to move fast and adopt AI safely and securely, raising ambitions for secure and trusted <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/The-agentic-AI-future-of-enterprise-architecture">agentic AI</a>.</p> <p>Launched at the <a href="https://www.ciscolive.com/emea.html">Cisco Live 2026 Conference in Amsterdam</a>, the new systems are said to reinforc