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• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  Banks reduce reliance on OpenAI as strategies mature

  Banks are increasingly using alternative AI providers as Anthropic and Google eat into OpenAI’s dominance

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  CGI’s artificial intelligence boss knows his job title won’t exist for long

  IT service provider is using AI to increase throughput while applying it to ‘big ticket’ challenges externally

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Canva uses 1Password to secure ID during growth phase

  As it underwent a growth spurt in the early 2020s, graphic design platform Canva turned to 1Password to manage identity across its expanding organisation

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Birmingham Oracle project: Data cleansing and resourcing issues

  Councillors at audit committee urged to ensure strong project governance, adequate tech staffing levels and change management procedures

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  History repeats itself in Post Office Capture redress scheme with low-ball offers made

  Early signs show that former Post Office Capture users face derisory initial compensation offers and face impossible appeals process

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Sir Alan Bates slams ‘nonsense’ reported about his financial redress settlement

  Campaigning subpostmaster speaks out about the highly inaccurate claims about the compensation he received

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Security now one of the UK’s fastest-growing career paths

  The number of people working in the cyber security field has almost trebled in the 2020s, with one cyber professional for every 68 businesses in the UK

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Nationwide expands Amazon Web Services partnership to delve deeper into AI

  Nationwide will have access to artificial intelligence-powered tools to help staff in their everyday interactions with its members

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  DWP review of Post Office worker prosecutions yet to start, months after announcement

  The DWP said in August that it would carry out an independent review of prosecutions of subpostmasters, but it has yet to appoint a reviewer

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  UK financial regulators exposing public to ‘potential serious harm’ due to AI positions

  MPs warn that action is needed to ensure artificial intelligence is adopted safely in the finance sector as companies capitalise on its opportunities

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  Liverpool FC signs WasabiAiR for fast video tagging and search

  Reds can tag video frame-by-frame with AI-based ML-as-a-service to get rapid search and ‘hyper-personalisation’ of footage for fan engagement and partner content

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Microsoft patches 112 CVEs on first Patch Tuesday of 2026

  January brings a larger-than-of-late Patch Tuesday update out of Redmond, but an uptick in disclosures is often expected at this time of year

• January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

  Fujitsu Post Office IT support team were ‘legalised hackers’

  Backdoors meant it was possible for Fujitsu staff to steal money from Post Office branches, says former Fujitsu tech worker

• January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

  S/4Hana in 2026: Three ways to move off SAP ECC

  We speak to three companies that have taken very different approaches to migrate off SAP Enterprise Core Components onto S/4Hana

• January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

  How Bahrain is building a region-leading digital economy

  From hyperscale cloud and fintech regulation to AI skills and smart manufacturing, Bahrain is positioning technology at the heart of its economic diversification strategy, says Bahrain EDB’s Musab Abdullah

• December 31, 2025 31 Dec'25

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2025

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Top 10 European IT stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 European technology stories of 2025

• December 23, 2025 23 Dec'25

  Top 10 financial services stories of 2025

  AI and data breaches both caused major disruption in banking this year as the industry faced increased challenges and a seismic shift thanks to emerging tech. Find out more in Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services stories of 2025

• December 17, 2025 17 Dec'25

  Jilted Fujitsu replaced by Netcompany in HMRC relationship

  Troubled Fujitsu replaced by Netcompany on trading service as HMRC begins to move its outsourcing away from scandal-hit firm

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  National Audit Office praises Bank of England after complex mega-project

  Public spending watchdog says the Bank of England’s core system replacement project offers lessons to other government departments

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Open sourcing and assuring AI

  Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  How Chinese-owned Radisson Hotel Group split US enterprise resource planning

  During the UK and Ireland SAP user group conference in Birmingham, Computer Weekly met with the SAP platform lead at Radisson Hotel Group

• December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection

  Malicious prompt injections to manipulate GenAI large language models are being wrongly compared to classical SQL injection attacks. In reality, prompt injection may be a far worse problem, says the UK’s NCSC

• December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion

  A growing body of research suggests that the use of live facial recognition is reshaping police perceptions of suspicion in ways that undermine supposed human-in-the-loop protections

• December 05, 2025 05 Dec'25

  Jersey to get remote monitoring for vulnerable adults

  Jersey’s Family Nursing and Home Care (FNHC) hopes remote monitoring service will help keep people out of hospital and support care at home

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Post Office finally investigates Horizon defect, but investigator slams comms strategy

  Subpostmaster and investigator met the Post Office over Horizon defect raised six years earlier

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches after third system appeal

  Post Office scandal campaigner reveals she had her suspicions over a third Post Office system, as review of convictions based on APS/APT looks likely to bring thousands more subpostmasters into scope

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO, Checkout.com

  Checkout.com’s chief technology officer has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry, and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it

• November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  SAP selects Tata Consultancy Services to transform its IT operations

  Software firm agrees five-year IT transformation project with Indian outsourcing giant, taking relationship up to 20 years

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  Interview: Bridgette McAdoo of Genesys on steering sustainability goals to success

  How resolving to ‘leave society better than you found it’ can open up solid opportunities at the intersection of science-based initiatives and business objectives

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Tech central to swingeing job cuts at ABN Amro

  Simplification enabled by the use of the latest technologies underpins Dutch bank’s plan to cut thousands of jobs

• November 21, 2025 21 Nov'25

  Subpostmaster was told no jury would believe Post Office had ‘dodgy computer’

  Academic research says the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters casts doubt on ‘golden thread’ of British justice, that people are innocent until proven guilty

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Fujitsu milks £110m from HMRC in six months with hardly a public stir

  IT giant Fujitsu pockets £110m from deals with HMRC in six months since the end of March this year

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Firstsource ditches labour arbitrage for AI-driven outcomes

  The business process services firm argues that the days of simple labour arbitrage are gone as it pushes an ‘un-BPO’ strategy led by AI and automation

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Government-backed coalition to end gazumping in property market

  The government wants a digital platform that can address ‘inefficiencies’ causing stress for homeowners and inflicting huge costs to the economy

• November 17, 2025 17 Nov'25

  UK investment bank IT outages cost £600k an hour

  Survey respondents say there are barriers to resilience for UK investment banks, including a skills shortage and internal resistance

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped

  ING warns grid congestion threatens Dutch datacentre leadership, while the country’s championed hydrogen solution remains largely untapped

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  NS&I’s digital overhaul £1.3bn over budget

  NAO calls on the government-owned savings bank to come up with ‘realistic plan’ as digital transformation programme runs four years behind, and total costs rise to £3bn

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026

  Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Two-thirds of finance firms use suppliers for AI agent development

  Survey finds more banks and insurers are working with suppliers rather than going it alone when developing artificial intelligence agents

• November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

  National Highways to get more out of its data through single platform

  Government-owned organisation National Highways will get more out of its data through extended working with IT service provider

• November 10, 2025 10 Nov'25

  Post Office extends controversial Fujitsu contract in £41m deal

  The Post Office’s controversial Horizon contract with Fujitsu will run until at least March 2027

• November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

  Popular LLMs dangerously vulnerable to iterative attacks, says Cisco

  Cisco researchers probed some of the most widely used public GenAI LLMs and found many of them were dangerously susceptible to so-called multi-turn cyber attacks producing undesirable outputs

• November 06, 2025 06 Nov'25

  Unearthed report reveals source of Post Office’s tenuous Capture sales pitch

  Computer Weekly reveals report that misguided the Post Office’s sales pitch to subpostmasters for its controversial Capture system

• November 06, 2025 06 Nov'25

  Interview: Filip Nekvinda on balancing IT stability with digital ambition at Abdul Latif Jameel

  The chief information and digital officer discusses the challenges of transformation, the power of data, and how Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is shaping the future of technology leadership

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  UAE Sovereign Launchpad begins nationwide roll-out with support from e& and AWS

  The cloud infrastructure platform aims to strengthen digital resilience and regulatory compliance across government and regulated sectors in the United Arab Emirates

• November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

  Accounting experts call for public inquiry into Birmingham bankruptcy

  As it reworks Oracle implementation, misleading numbers have led to an ‘ideological’ programme of cuts and asset sales at Birmingham City Council

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI

  E-commerce giant Amazon has cited artificial intelligence as a key driver of its decision to lay off thousands of its corporate employees

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  Banks’ AI cost-cutting benefits won’t last, will ‘erode’ profits

  Banks are making significant cost savings through initial artificial intelligence implementations, but the technology will eventually hit their profits

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  Government awards Post Office £2m contract to search for its own Capture records

  Up to 1,500 claims expected from former users of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software