Computer Weekly

Zohar Pinhasi stands accused of duping distressed ransomware victims by offering fake cyber services that he could not provide.

The NCSC’s joint advisory names perennial offender Integrity Technology, accusing it of facilitating cyber attacks on behalf of Flax Typhoon, a Chinese state threat actor.

How optical company Zeiss built a real-time data integration system using SAP Hana Cloud and Datasphere, solving data access problems across operations and saving €2m annually

An OpenAI bot overloaded Wikimedia, attacked a system at the foundation and attempted to change entries

The half-yearly update to the Windows operating system gets a host of features for running AI models locally and securely

Payment card provider will enable offline payments to be accepted in Europe in the event of power and network outages

The US media company is looking to AI and agentic tools to improve its IT service desk and employee experience

Large language models must have lawful basis for processing personal data – ‘benefiting humanity’ is not enough, says Information Commissioner’s Office

Following a data breach earlier in October, cyber criminals appear to have a much more complete picture of Asos’ user base than first thought, it has emerged

Evren Karaibrahimgil, IT manager at the FAW, on securing the national football association of Wales against evolving cyber threats, with Euro 2028 on home soil in mind

Dutch bank has kicked off its artificial intelligence journey with a complex mortgages product line

The UK bans cloud and software for Russia, but sanctions illegal Israeli settlements only narrowly – while AWS, Google and Microsoft run the IT infrastructure for the occupation

At its European customer event in Amsterdam, Atlassian unveiled AMP, a multi-player agentic AI system said to enable collaborative teamwork between humans and artificial intelligence agents

Businesses are being inundated with trivial AI-generated data protection, say lawyers

The latest Stack Overflow survey shows that a growing number of software developers are working as sole traders

Study to delve into how 25 years of flawed legal presumption has affected perceptions of practitioners

At AI Everything Abu Dhabi, Core42 CEO Talal Al Kaissi outlined how sovereign AI is evolving beyond national borders, with the UAE seeking to become a global hub for AI infrastructure, compute capacity and cross-border digital sovereignty

Google has closed its open source vulnerability reporting programme to new submissions while it recalibrates in the face of a surge in automated junk reports

A previously unknown hacking group sent threatening messages to customers of fashion website Asos after allegedly breaching its Snowflake data platform

Green IT must look beyond physical datacentres to software efficiency. Optimising code, data retention, and architecture reduces energy demand and hardware churn