Software development tools
As businesses call for greater agility from their IT investments, software developers are required to create applications that are inherently flexible, open and adaptable to changing needs. Techniques such as agile programming and service-oriented architecture (SOA) are increasingly important, and the choice between developer tools such as Java and .Net, or IDEs such as Eclipse or others, is more critical than ever. Read the latest news and analysis about software development tools and how to maintain a successful development strategy.
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News
10 Jun 2025
UK finance regulator tie-up with Nvidia allows firms to experiment with AI
FCA wants to support organisations in testing their ideas for the use of artificial intelligence Continue Reading
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News
10 Jun 2025
HMRC paid Fujitsu £310m last year, but Post Office supplier’s UK business faces gradual decline
While victims are made to fight for every penny they are owed, the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal is handed hundreds of millions of pounds by UK government Continue Reading
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News
09 Jun 2025
Compensation to Post Office scandal victims reaches £1bn milestone
The government has now paid out more than £1bn to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jun 2025
Platform Engineering - GigaOm: It’s no quick fix, it’s a state of mind
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jon Collins in his capacity as VP of engagement and field CTO at GigaOm. Collins starts our platform engineering series (as ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jun 2025
Vast Data & Cisco team up to twist turnkey for enterprise AI
Vast Data Cisco have expanded their collaborative partnership. The two firms say they are focused on creating a validated AI infrastructure stack that spans compute, networking, storage and ... Continue Reading
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News
05 Jun 2025
How GitLab is tapping AI in DevSecOps
GitLab CISO Josh Lemos explains how the company is weaving AI, through its Duo tool, into the entire software development lifecycle to enhance efficiency and automate incident response Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Jun 2025
Platform Engineering Series: Editorial brief & scope
DevOps is dead, they say. The end is nigh for DevOps because platform engineering is about to take over as the “new” way to coordinate software application development and its corresponding ... Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2025
Artificial intelligence to initiate and manage litigations after ‘landmark’ approval
The Garfield Project created an artificial intelligence-based litigation service for small claims, but how far can the technology reach in the legal sector Continue Reading
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04 Jun 2025
Interview: Pega’s ‘Blueprint’ for breaking the curse of legacy IT
Legacy IT is a drag on profits and innovation, but AI agents will help companies rebuild their processes better than before, claims Pegasystems CTO Don Schuerman Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2025
Open source adoption faces reality checks
Industry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges Continue Reading
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News
02 Jun 2025
How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI
Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach Continue Reading
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News
28 May 2025
VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives
With so much Java code running enterprise IT, we consider the benefits of adapting existing systems to make them more cloud-native Continue Reading
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27 May 2025
Norway’s autonomous bus moves into the fast lane
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 Continue Reading
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23 May 2025
Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI
Southeast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals Continue Reading
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Definition
22 May 2025
What is an object in programming?
In object-oriented programming (OOP), an object is a reusable unit of code that can perform certain actions and interact with other objects in a program. Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2025
Google I/O: LLM capabilities power agentic AI search
As Google strives to make AI universal, it is starting to integrate agentic AI into Google Search to fast-track purchasing on websites Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 May 2025
RAD RHEL, Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite
Red Hat used its annual developer gathering this month to detail a new offering that combines platform engineering tools with enhanced security capabilities. The company says it wants to help ... Continue Reading
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News
20 May 2025
Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning
Windows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows Continue Reading
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News
19 May 2025
Post Office performs costly 30-year U-turn on Horizon
Post Office Horizon replacement magnifies missed opportunity as move from the controversial Horizon system to an off-the-shelf alternative is going back to a plan it rejected in the 1990s Continue Reading
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News
16 May 2025
Kissflow finds its place in low-code market
The supplier of low-code software development tools that cater to both citizen developers and IT professionals is experiencing rapid growth in Southeast Asia where it has been doubling its revenue over the past four years Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 May 2025
Quantum computing signals the coming of the API storm
With insecure APIs creating vast blind spots and quantum computing poised to break current encryption, organisations will need to overhaul their cyber defences Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 May 2025
Rev speaks out on the big future of small language models
This is a guest post written by Miguel del Rio Fernandez, senior speech scientist at Rev, a company known for its speech-to-text service for the legal trade and elsewhere. If you were to stop a ... Continue Reading
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News
09 May 2025
Interview: Amanda Stent, head of AI strategy and research, Bloomberg
Hallucinating AI, which lies through its teeth, keeps Amanda Stent busy at data analytics and intelligence giant Bloomberg Continue Reading
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News
06 May 2025
EU acts to mend ailing AI competitiveness
Lack of private investors, malformed markets and over-regulation present a big challenge for European officials trying to turn the continent into a global AI superpower Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 May 2025
Red Hat: AI is not about size, it’s about fit for purpose
This is a guest post written by Robbie Jerrom, senior principal technologist for AI, AI BU Red Hat. Jerrom writes in full as follows… In enterprise AI deployments, model size is frequently equated ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 May 2025
It's the end of coding as we know it
During a fireside chat at LlamaCon 2025, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg asked Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella about the use of AI for coding. Nadella responded that up to 30% of the code in Microsoft’s ... Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2025
Tariffs could cost Meta $8bn in extra datacentre costs
The owner of Facebook and WhatsApp has forecast an increase in CapEx due to higher IT infrastructure costs to power its AI strategy Continue Reading
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30 Apr 2025
Current SaaS delivery model a risk management nightmare, says CISO
JPMorgan Chase security chief Patrick Opet laments the state of SaaS security in an open letter to the industry and calls on software providers to do more to enhance resilience Continue Reading
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News
30 Apr 2025
FCA wants ‘safe place’ for finance firms to test artificial intelligence
Financial services regulator proposes artificial intelligence testing environment as part of its AI Lab Continue Reading
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News
28 Apr 2025
Fujitsu UK staff will get bonus despite Post Office scandal fallout
Employees will receive bonuses as Fujitsu UK reaches sales target - suggesting that its pause on bidding for public sector business has had limited impact Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Apr 2025
Dataiku champions AI agent creation mechanisms
In the apparent landgrab that appears to currently be fixating the enterprise software industry, everybody wants to tell us how smart they are in terms of applying agentic AI services to ... Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Apr 2025
Enterprise strategies for API management
Application programming interfaces are the connective tissue of the modern enterprise, driving innovation and integration. But managing them effectively requires enterprises to consider governance, security and lifecycle management while preparing for emerging threats and technologies like AI Continue Reading
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News
23 Apr 2025
Amid uncertainty, Armis becomes newest CVE numbering authority
Amid an uncertain future for vulnerability research, exposure management company Armis has been given the authority to assign CVE IDs to newly discovered vulnerabilities Continue Reading
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News
22 Apr 2025
Fujitsu targets private AI with Japanese LLM on Nutanix
Fujitsu’s Takane large language model, optimised for Japanese language and business use, is aimed at supporting private AI deployments Continue Reading
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News
22 Apr 2025
AI-powered APIs proving highly vulnerable to attack
The growth of AI is proving a double-edged sword for API security, presenting opportunities for defenders to enhance their resilience, but also more risks from AI-powered attacks, according to report Continue Reading
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News
21 Apr 2025
Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards
Citic Telecom, CapitaLand Investment and DBS Bank were among the region’s top industry innovators recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025 Continue Reading
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News
21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: M1 aims to become digital-native telco
The digital-first telco is running all its back-end systems on the cloud, enabling it to speed up decision-making and enhance customer service Continue Reading
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News
21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: Transforming cyber security with AI
Facing rising cyber threats and a shortage of experts, Citic Telecom International CPC developed an AI-powered penetration testing tool to automate security audits and reduce costs Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Apr 2025
ABBYY AI Summit 2025: Purpose-built AI for intelligent document processing
The Computer Weekly Developer Network attended the Abbyy AI Summit this week to get the low down on the digital workflow tools for developers in the document management space and beyond. Held at ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Apr 2025
SLM Series - Zencoder: Compact models maybe small, but they are mighty
SLM Series - Zencoder: Compact models maybe small, but they ARe mighty This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andrew Filev in his capacity as CEO of Zencoder. ... Continue Reading
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Definition
16 Apr 2025
What is a data type?
In software programming, a data type refers to the type of value a variable has and what type of mathematical, relational or logical operations can be applied on it without causing an error. Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Apr 2025
Microsoft remains committed to AI in France
During its recent AI tour event in Paris, Microsoft reiterated its commitment to investing more than ever in France Continue Reading
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News
15 Apr 2025
Roadmap for commercial adoption of quantum computing gains clarity
There has been plenty going on in the world of quantum computing, suggesting that commercial systems are on the horizon Continue Reading
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News
14 Apr 2025
Computer and law experts respond to call for opinions on computer evidence
IT and legal experts have made submissions to a government consultation on the use of computer evidence in court Continue Reading
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News
14 Apr 2025
SUSE CEO champions open source choice
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen warns against suppliers diluting open source to lock in customers, and touts SUSE’s commitment to providing choice and support across multiple Linux and Kubernetes distributions Continue Reading
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Definition
11 Apr 2025
What is a compiler?
A compiler is a special program that translates a programming language's source code into machine code, bytecode or another programming language. Continue Reading
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News
11 Apr 2025
More than 100 Horizon victims are challenging Post Office offers on complex claims
Calls for advanced dispute resolution meetings by victims of the Post Office Horizon system have been ignored by the Department of Business and Trade Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Apr 2025
NTT details AI ‘inference chip’, enables real-time 4K video processing
NTT Corporation has unveiled and detailed a new AI inference chip. NTT announced and demonstrated this LSI (see below for definition) at Upgrade 2025, the company’s annual research and innovation ... Continue Reading
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News
10 Apr 2025
Lloyds Bank moves AI work onto Google Cloud platform
Banking group is cutting its emissions and accelerating the development of AI platforms by moving work onto Google Cloud Continue Reading
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Opinion
08 Apr 2025
It’s time to stop the victim-blaming and insist on safer software
Businesses spend too much time and money protecting themselves against flaws and vulnerabilities in modern software products, when they ought to raise their expectations and insist on better solutions from providers Continue Reading
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News
07 Apr 2025
Post Office can’t find evidence for over 1,000 Horizon scandal redress claimants
The Post Office has no evidence of errors for more than 1,000 subpostmasters applying for compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme Continue Reading
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News
07 Apr 2025
KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up
Developer overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2025
Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses
On 4 April 1975, Paul Allen and Bill Gates formed Microsoft, a company that defined the PC era and opened up computing for all Continue Reading
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News
03 Apr 2025
Virtual reality enterprise journey a marathon, not a sprint
IT supplier is using virtual reality in not-for-profit projects that demonstrate its wider potential Continue Reading
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Definition
01 Apr 2025
What is synthetic monitoring?
Synthetic monitoring is a proactive monitoring approach that uses scripted simulations of user interactions to assess the performance and availability of websites, applications and services. Continue Reading
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News
01 Apr 2025
Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging
People may try to lock up GPU resources even if they don’t need them all day – but not anymore, thanks to Nvidia KAI Scheduler Continue Reading
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News
31 Mar 2025
Understanding of ‘black box’ IT systems will reduce Post Office scandal-like risk
A Parliamentary committee has reported that leadership teams need to understand the ‘black box’ IT systems that underpin their organisations Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Mar 2025
Understanding RAG architecture and its fundamentals
Now seen as the ideal way to infuse generative AI into a business context, RAG architecture involves the implementation of various technological building blocks and practices - all involve trade-offs Continue Reading
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News
27 Mar 2025
Experts question court’s rejection of former Post Office manager’s Horizon appeal
Experts on the use of computer evidence question why Court of Appeal rejected former Post Office branch manager’s appeal against conviction Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Mar 2025
SLM series - Digital Workforce: Beyond hallucinations & anthropomorphisation
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rami Luisto, PhD, the healthcare AI lead data scientist at Digital Workforce. Luisto writes in full as follows... Large ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Mar 2025
Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI
The Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Mar 2025
SLM series - Memgraph: The SLM-knowledge graph combo
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dominik Tomicevic, CEO of Memgraph The original title in full for this piece is: From Better Reasoning to Faster QFS, An ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2025
Kroll reviewing Post Office Horizon’s current integrity and discrepancy identification
The Post Office appoints third party to review Horizon following concerns about current version of the system Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2025
MPs demand government reconsider response to Post Office compensation report
Select committee calls on government to ‘reflect and revise’ response to Post Office scandal compensation scheme Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Mar 2025
CIO interview: Sean Green, Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck University interim CIO got a taste for the ‘exciting’ and ‘challenging’ role of a tech leader in higher education while in his previous role at the University of East Anglia Continue Reading
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News
24 Mar 2025
APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft
Most Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on Continue Reading
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News
18 Mar 2025
Novel encryption technology tests add value to Finland’s quantum computer project
Tests carried out at Telia will support the building of a secure quantum network Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2025
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will win out Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2025
Minister asks for evidence of Post Office ECCO+ system problems
Subpostmaster federation is calling on former Post Office crown branch staff to come forward if they experienced problems with ECCO+ Continue Reading
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E-Zine
11 Mar 2025
Digitally mapping the world
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how digital twins are mapping our planet to guide strategic decisions such as environmental policies. Liverpool City Council explains how a digital overhaul will transform customer experience. And we find out what it takes to become a cyber security entrepreneur. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2025
Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play
Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation Continue Reading
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News
04 Mar 2025
Metropolitan Police concern puts brakes on Post Office Horizon data migration
The Post Office has paused its project to migrate all Horizon data from Fujitsu systems to its own while in discussions with Metropolitan Police Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Mar 2025
Nutanix details infrastructure for streamlined workload portability in era of containerization & AI
First, the cloud grew. Then, after a period of widespread adoption that eventually led to mass-market acceptance and a groundswell of platform-level standardisation that took us through the ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
04 Mar 2025
Cutting the costs of AI
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we analyse how the emergence of the DeepSeek AI model shows how the cost of deploying artificial intelligence is coming down. Samsung put a UK tech startup at the heart of its latest flagship smartphone launch – we talk to its founder. And we look at a transport industry project looking to optimise road haulage to reduce carbon emissions. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Mar 2025
SLM series - IBM: Why smaller AI models unlock value at the edge
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr Juan Bernabe-Moreno in his capacity as director of IBM Research Europe for the UK & Ireland. Bernabe-Moreno writes ... Continue Reading
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News
28 Feb 2025
Post Office makes first official apology to Capture users
The Post Office has written to former Capture user Ken Tooby to apologise for its failings which devastated his family’s lives Continue Reading
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News
27 Feb 2025
'Positive steps' in redress for Post Office Capture victims
Lawyers say progress has been made in efforts to provide financial redress and justice for former users of the Post Office's flawed Capture system Continue Reading
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News
27 Feb 2025
Peer demands Fujitsu cough up £300m interim payment towards Post Office scandal bill
Kevan Jones tells fellow peers in the House of Lords that Fujitsu should also be barred from bidding for public sector contracts Continue Reading
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News
27 Feb 2025
CVE volumes head towards 50,000 in 2025, analysts claim
Many trends, notably a big shift to open source tools, are behind an expected boom in the number of disclosed vulnerabilities Continue Reading
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Definition
27 Feb 2025
What is the Agile test automation pyramid?
The Agile test automation pyramid is a graphical strategy guide for implementing automated software testing. Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2025
Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models
The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2025
IoT and SaaS will underpin government legislation introduced to protect rivers
Tech platform will enable water companies, regulators and the public to monitor pollution levels in rivers Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Feb 2025
SLM series - Syndicode: How to use the right (model) tool for the job
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Volodymyr Murzak in his role as solution architect and tech lead at software development company Syndicode. Syndicode is a software ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
25 Feb 2025
Rethinking the route to net zero
In this week’s Computer Weekly, our latest buyer’s guide looks at the need to apply innovative and long-term thinking to reducing carbon emissions in IT. We find out how retailer Dunelm is benefiting from a programme to attract, retain and support women in tech. And Volvo Cars explains why the future for its vehicles is software-defined. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
24 Feb 2025
HMRC working to resolve system glitch that doubles self-assessment tax rebates
A communications glitch in systems processing tax self-assessments has seen rebates duplicated in ‘very niche scenarios’ Continue Reading
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News
20 Feb 2025
Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car
Nvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack Continue Reading
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News
20 Feb 2025
How organisations can secure AI agents
Dan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Feb 2025
A path to better data engineering
Data engineering requires expertise in programming and data management, and now IT leaders need to include large language models in their data strategy Continue Reading
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News
12 Feb 2025
CCRC reviewing 17 Post Office convictions with potential Capture software involvement
Statutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2025
The story behind Alps, Europe’s second largest computer
The director of CSCS and professor of computational physics at ETH, Thomas Schulthess, explains the development of one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, Alps, in Switzerland Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Feb 2025
UAE eyes quantum computing for financial services
Middle East financial firms are investing heavily in quantum computing, with one of the world’s top quantum research centres in Abu Dhabi Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Feb 2025
SLM series: Editorial brief & scope
There are language models and there are language models. While, at the time of writing at least, there is little talk of medium language models (Ed: give it a month, it’s bound to happen) we ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
07 Feb 2025
Secure software procurement in 2025: A call for accountability
Outgoing CISA chief Jen Easterly called on buyers to demand better security standards from their software suppliers. The Security Think Tank considers what better means, and what best practice for secure software procurement looks like in 2025. Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Feb 2025
DACH’s venture capital prominence: an outlier, or the start of a golden age?
The DACH region is attracting venture capital investment with startups in Austria and Switzerland benefiting, but will it be sustained? Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2025
As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK
James Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but Oracle Java is no longer the preferred choice Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2025
Swedish commission delivers roadmap to drive artificial intelligence reforms
Sweden will invest in artificial intelligence in an effort to catch up with global leaders in the field Continue Reading
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News
05 Feb 2025
Crowd-source testing helps drive Webex accessibility
Conferencing software Webex has a number of accessibility features built-in and has worked with Applause to test how well these work Continue Reading
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News
05 Feb 2025
MPs to scrutinise use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector
MPs launch inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the financial services sector Continue Reading
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News
05 Feb 2025
APAC organisations to ramp up tech spending in 2025
Organisations across the region are prioritising cyber security, customer experience and application development, even as they navigate cloud repatriation and a growing skills gap in AI and security Continue Reading
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Opinion
04 Feb 2025
“Unsafe At Any Speed”. Comparing automobiles to code risk
Outgoing CISA chief Jen Easterly called on buyers to demand better security standards from their software suppliers. The Security Think Tank considers what better means, and what best practice for secure software procurement looks like in 2025. Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Feb 2025
Vigilant buyers are the best recipe for accountable suppliers
In January 2025, outgoing CISA chief Jen Easterly called on IT buyers to demand better security standards from their software suppliers. The Security Think Tank considers what better means, and what does best practice for secure software procurement looks like in 2025. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2025
ServiceNow vaunts agentic AI and announces 22% annual revenue growth
ServiceNow has declared full-year revenue close to $11bn, representing 22% year-on-year growth, as it announces a battery of agentic AI product updates Continue Reading