Computer Weekly

Digital sovereignty has become a much-discussed topic - but most debate misses the point. It's not about where your supplier comes from, but about whether you have the ability to make decisions regardless of technology

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

An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers.

Meta is working with NEC, Sumitomo Electric Industries and Orange to deliver petabit transoceanic cabling capacity

Despite the UK government's U-turn on a digital identity scheme, the uses and opportunities for digital ID are gathering pace

The national police investigation into the Post Office IT scandal has now received the full funding it requires

French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech

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?

Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks

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

Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas

Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users

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

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

With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365

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

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

There are concerns that a lack of funds for the police investigation could prevent the full Post Office scandal truth getting out

National Centre for Information Defence will disrupt information warfare from hostile states, UK prime minister Andy Burnham has announced

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