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Microsoft Frontier Tour London: Agentic AI governance in the spotlight
During the London event, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella outlined his view of how agentic AI needs to be managed as part of enterprise IT
Mounting power demands and grid bottlenecks are reshaping the geography of the UK’s digital infrastructure, pushing developers to wherever they can connect fastest
Data readiness, not compute, seen as biggest barrier to sovereign AI in the Gulf
Mohammed Retmi, vice-president of sovereign clouds at Core42, says organisations moving AI into production must address data classification, governance, integration and resilience, while balancing infrastructure costs with performance and regulatory requirements
AI accelerates path from IT compromise to OT targeting
Commercial AI has not invented new OT attacks, but it has sped up reconnaissance, compressing attackers time to understand targets. Process-specific engineering knowledge remains a barrier
Suspect Post Office systems that came before Horizon to be investigated by the government
The Department for Business and Trade has announced its investigation of faulty software used in Post Office branches before the controversial Horizon system
Botched PHP2Shell disclosure revealed as panic continues
As security teams worldwide grapple with the deep impact of the PHP2Shell flaws, the PHP Foundation reveals how a carefully planned vulnerability disclosure process went horribly wrong
BMW uses Ansible to manage HPC cluster
German carmaker has migrated to Red Hat’s agentless IT automation platform to manage an HPC cluster comprising 30,000 Linux and Windows servers
The drift towards AI totalitarianism
In the 20th century, totalitarian societies emerged at gunpoint. Going forward, they might arise from overwhelming deference to artificial intelligence
Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs and employ more artificial intelligence
The UK bank is cutting thousands of jobs as it invests in the latest technologies, such as artificial intelligence
Interview: IQT, the organisation with roots in the CIA
Jennifer Nelson runs the international arm of an organisation that takes stakes in tech firms that secure US and allied interests
Grid ‘runs on coal-age data’, warns Open Climate Fix
Open Climate Fix says opening priority energy datasets could cut consumer bills, as a coalition of energy and data innovators urges ministers to act on the clean power mission
What to do as critical PHP flaws puts millions of websites at risk
Patch or go offline, say UK, US and EU agencies as two AI-discovered flaws in PHP, the language behind most websites, allow unauthenticated remote code execution
Burnham ministry shifts look far from fixing datacentre gridlock
Clogged grid queues and speculative planning applications threaten the UK’s 2030 datacentre and clean energy targets. Is a national ‘superministry’ the only way out?
Five resellers won one in seven UK public sector IT deals in 2025-26
UK public bodies awarded 7,994 IT contracts worth £91bn in the year to August 2026, a figure flattered by framework ceilings, while the typical award was worth £164,000
UK government adapts Post Office scandal redress schemes and investigates pre-Horizon software
The UK government will investigate Post Office software that predates Horizon and opens up new routes to financial redress for subpostmasters as claims of unfairness continue