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Salesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy

Salesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy.

An AWS tech stack can aid business growth and facilitate efficient operations, but misconfigurations have become all too common and stall this progress

Increased hiring reflects that fintechs are maturing and now require more cyber security and compliance experts

US charges the operators of two malwares, DanaBot and Qakbot, whose actions led to millions of dollars worth of cyber theft and fraud

As part of Horizon 2020, the UK recently signed up to an EU initiative to support the expansion of high-performance computing for AI

CIISec and military charity PTSD Resolution hope to address a gathering mental health crisis among frontline cyber professionals

Cyber threat intelligence is no longer a luxury: intelligence sharing communities must mature, and there are many common lessons to learn.

The airline’s data chief is applying his expertise as a PhD in astrophysics to the nitty-gritty details of using artificial intelligence to improve customer experience

At its recent ITF World 2025 conference in Antwerp, Belgian research institute Imec delivered a pointed message: as AI accelerates, the world needs new thinking – not just in software, but in the hardware ecosystems underpinning it

In a small but ambitious project in Stavanger, Norway, autonomous buses are proving they might one day solve a critical problem: the chronic shortage of bus drivers

The US ‘Signalgate’ debacle is a case a case study in how security collapses when leadership treats basic rules as optional

A typical incident response effort is highly technical, so where do soft skills come in and how do you know how effective your team is? We look at a measurement option and the human consideration in these scenarios

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the criticism being levelled at government proposals to use electronic visa data and biometrics to surveil migrants living in the UK. We also hear from a noted cyber pro about why he thinks the Computer Misuse Act is ripe for reform. And we find out everything there is to know about retrieval augmented generation architectures and how they can be used to infuse generative artificial intelligence (AI) into a business context. Read the issue now.

Industry experts discuss how artificial intelligence is being used to support network management

Gulf autocracy gets access to powerful AI chips subject to export ban and pursues legal reforms to make foreign computing firms feel comfortable about putting their data there

Why Microsoft's rhetoric on protecting European users from US government actions does not quite ring true

A tool built on the government’s Humphrey AI toolset is being piloted by 25 councils to take notes during meetings

An equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory

Artificial intelligence operations can place different demands on storage during training, inference, and so on. We look at NAS, SAN and object storage for AI and how to balance them for AI projects