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UK broadband hits 2025 target with strong first quarter

Study from UK communications regulator finds gigabit broadband on track to become virtually universally available across country by 2023, with the number of full-fibre broadband connections in particular increasing to nine million in past six months
Interview: Amanda Stent, head of AI strategy, Bloomberg

Hallucinating AI, which lies through its teeth, keeps Amanda Stent busy at data analytics and intelligence giant Bloomberg
Government calls on tech companies to join crime-cutting campaign

The justice secretary met with 30 tech companies to discuss how technology can help to tackle prison violence and reduce reoffending rates
Apple to play modest role after datacentre heat breakthrough

Country at forefront of industrial heat recycling expects datacentres will take only modest role in heating homes after government paved way with widely celebrated law
Government launches £8.2m plan to encourage girls into AI

The government is investing in teacher training and student support to get more girls into maths classes, ultimately leading to AI careers
AI training gap puts Europe at a disadvantage

Forrester study finds that workers in the US are more likely than their European counterparts to have received AI training to support their job roles

Early days for small language models and AI at the edge

Small language models could be more cost-effective to deploy than LLMs, offering greater privacy and performing specific tasks better. But is it too early for SLMs?
Cloud storage for AI: Options, pros and cons

We look at cloud vs on-premise for AI workloads, why cloud is sometimes best, and the technologies speeding AI in the cloud such as parallelism and GPUDirect
How generative AI is playing out in the media industry

GenAI is proving a double-edged sword in society at large, but especially in the creative industries

Rev speaks out on the big future of small language models- CW Developer Network

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
Nutanix puts agentic AI anytime, any place (cloud) & anywhere- CW Developer Network

Nutanix has come forward with the latest version of its Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) service. This release is said to add deeper integration with capitalisation-focused GPU company Nvidia AI ... Continue Reading
UK government set to finally meet with digital identity providers - but will anything change?- Computer Weekly Editors Blog

Wednesday 14 May is set to be an important day in the long, slow, painful evolution of the use of digital identity in the UK. For the first time since the government announced its digital wallet ... Continue Reading
Risk of corporate hospitality to IT teams- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

The practice of making deals on golf courses seems to be alive and well. And it is IT leaders and their teams that are having to pick up the pieces following the agreed purchase of unsuitable tech ... Continue Reading

Navigating geopolitical risks of cloud deployments

Familiar cloud concerns are being overshadowed by geopolitical volatility, pushing IT strategy into the boardroom. Organisations must now assess the full spectrum of cross-border dependencies to build true resilience
Unspoken risk: Human factors undermine trusted platforms

A leak of information on American military operations caused a major political incident in March 2025. The Security Think Tank considers what can CISOs can learn from this potentially fatal error.
Security and verification concerns remain in Data Bill

With the long-awaited Data (Use & Access) Bill returning to the House of Commons on 7 May, there remain pros and cons in the bill in relation to financial crime and cyber security