FISA 702 is one of two key US laws that undermine data sovereignty and allow the US to access foreign data without the subject knowing. Senators demand release of a secret ruling

Healey’s Autumn Budget covenant makes grid priority and on-site generation conditional on community investment, jobs and water protection, weeks after MSPs paused Scotland’s pipeline

In his Autumn Budget, chancellor John Healey announced more funding for sovereign tech and AI safety

As 100kW-plus racks push AI facilities toward gigawatt scale, Johnson Controls’ John Keane explains why zero-water thermal architectures are vital to securing site viability

Austria is following Germany’s lead by introducing a sovereign encrypted messaging service for healthcare professionals

Aera Technology has been looking at how agentic AI should handle the complexity and trade-offs of enterprise decision-making

Sameer Bhatia, senior regional director for India, the Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Seagate Technology, discusses how organisations in the Gulf can build scalable AI infrastructure while balancing data governance, storage density, energy efficiency and long-term costs

Of £8.96bn in UK public sector cloud contracts, only £1.64bn traces cleanly to hyperscalers. BidSkim data reveals how AWS takes the direct route while Microsoft Azure hides behind resellers

After live exploitation of PHP2Shell was verified at the weekend, the US Cisa cyber agency has updated its vulnerability catalogue, urging organisations to prioritise their fixes

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to the keynote stage at Oracle AI World, calling for the security community to keep focus in the face of AI-enabled vulnerability discovery

GSMA’s Jawad Abbassi says the event will bring together telecoms operators, policymakers and technology leaders as Gulf countries accelerate investment in 5G, AI and datacentres

A survey of US users has found that businesses are paying significantly more to host Microsoft apps on non-Microsoft public clouds

At TechEd 2026 in Berlin, SAP unveiled AI developments including deploying its RPT-2 tabular data AI model aboard the International Space Station

Cloud carbon data is complex, attributed, and often opaque. Buyers must look past dashboard totals to understand allocation, electricity accounting, and embodied emissions

The chancellor wants to boost UK tech sovereignty and has unveiled plans to support chip development, AI defence and biosecurity

From a growing pool of software engineers and government-backed skills programmes to AI-driven product development, Egypt is positioning itself as a serious technology destination for international businesses

With CVE volumes spiking amid AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, Oracle is responding with cyber initiatives and practices for its customers

On the opening day of its annual AI World conference, Oracle brought a wide range of agentic innovations to bear on its Fusion Cloud application suite

Minister says she will ‘hold Capita’s feet to the fire’ as MPs wade in with distressing stories from affected constituents

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we hear from multinational companies adopting AI to find out how they are proving the value of the technology, beyond the hype that surrounds it. Retailers are embracing AI and some are introducing a new role – chief AI officer. We examine why and what the job entails. And AWS’s security chief discusses the challenges of cyber security since the Mythos model has shown how it can hack IT systems. Read the issue now.