Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to UK dissident targeted with Pegasus spyware | Computer Weekly
A judge has ordered the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to pay compensation of £3m to a London-based dissident...
Broken decryptor leaves Sicarii ransomware victims adrift | Computer Weekly
A coding error, possibly introduced thanks to over-reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) vibe coding tools, has rendered an emergent...
Three-quarters of UK IT teams beset by outages due to missing alerts | Computer Weekly
Three-quarters of UK IT professionals say they had outages due to missing alerts in 2025, according to research from...
The need to build and protect UK digital sovereignty
Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 27 January 2026 Tech nationalism: The need to build and protect...
Landmark legal challenge against police facial recognition begins | Computer Weekly
A judicial review against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition (LFR) will argue the force is unlawfully...
Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision | Computer Weekly
A Spanish court has raised questions about the validity and reliability of intercepted phone data, acquitting multiple defendants of...
AI claims are cheap: The challenge is to work out what’s real | Computer Weekly
AI security tooling is already mainstream, and 2026 will only amplify the noise. Expect more ‘AI-washed’ claims, bigger promises,...
Microsoft introduces AI accelerator for US Azure customers | Computer Weekly
Microsoft has announced that Azure’s US central datacentre region is the first to receive a new artificial intelligence (AI)...
Dawn supercomputer gets sixfold boost thanks to £36m funding injection | Computer Weekly
The government has announced it is ploughing £36m into the Dawn supercomputer, which will lead to a sixfold increase...
Sovereign cloud and AI services tipped for take-off in 2026 | Computer Weekly
Interest in sovereign cloud services has followed a bumpy trajectory over the past decade, both in the public sector...
