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British public won’t tolerate cyber disruption any more

The British public’s tolerance for cyber disruption, particularly at high-profile organisations such as retailers, is wearing thin, according to a TalkTalk Business study
BT Group, Verizon to form enterprise comms joint venture

UK, US comms giants unite to create a scaled international connectivity platform for customers focused on multinational connectivity underpinned by a platform designed for the age of cloud and AI
Martha Lane Fox and other experts see AI arms race as damaging

A compilation of essays penned by digital experts illustrates the risks of AI dominance and what lessons can be learned from history
India’s Hexaware to add 1,200 UK tech staff

Indian heritage IT supplier plans to have 1,200 UK staff across multiple sites, with research and development centres to open this year
Cellular IoT reached new heights in 2025

Research finds highly diverse IoT market divided into multiple ecosystems, with approximately 4.8 billion devices connected to wide area networks based on cellular or low-power tech
Contrivian broadens Horizon for first response connectivity

Mission-critical enterprise and government comms provider claims to be redefining connectivity, bringing reliable field communications with intelligent 5G/LTE routing and SD-WAN

How IAM providers are preparing for agentic AI

There is little doubt that enterprises will be deploying agentic AI. As such, technology firms are looking at various ways to secure these systems
CW@60: An award-winning, ZX81-frisbee-throwing tech journalism career

On 22 September 2026, Computer Weekly turns 60. To mark the milestone, we asked our industry contacts - and our journalists - for their perspectives on how tech has changed their lives over six decades
The ‘year of AI’: 2026 sees influx of ransomware attacks

At Infosecurity Europe 2026, Cynthia Kaiser, former FBI cyber deputy director and now SVP of anti-ransomware platform services supplier Halcyon, warns that ransomware is evolving with AI and becoming readily available on the dark web

As agentic code accelerates software delivery, developers risk becoming the bottleneck- CW Developer Network

Dave Colwell, VP for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Tricentis, spoke to the Computer Weekly Developer Network during SAP Sapphire in Orlando this year to examine the productivity ... Continue Reading
Undo CTO: How to unlock the potential of AI coding agents by giving them runtime context- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Williamson, CTO of Undo - a company known for its Time Travel Debugging software that lets developers record, “blink ... Continue Reading
Viwoods AiPaper Mini- Inspect-a-Gadget

I have massively enjoyed using electronic writing pads up to now, including the Viwoods AiPaper product over the last couple of years; I rewrite my daily TO DO list at least twice a day (sorry if ... Continue Reading
Linux Foundation details intent to launch Agent Name Service - Open Source Insider

We need a new open standard to extend the Internet’s existing DNS infrastructure to enable portable identity, verification and discovery for the emerging agentic web. But what is the DNS ... Continue Reading

Why frontier AI must be stress-tested before CISOs trust it

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers if Anthropic’s Claude Mythos frontier AI model is a benefit or barrier to achieving resilient enterprise IT security, and how security leaders need to adapt.
Inclusion in engineering needs rigour like other systems

Engineering needs rigour to fix gender imbalances. By treating inclusion as a design challenge with intent and accountability, firms build better teams and more resilient system
Delivering better government after decades of disappointment

For three decades, governments have promised that technology would transform and improve the state - yet the same failures keep recurring. The missing ingredient is to find a better way to prove that a policy works