Why IoT Grows in Agriculture but Needs Tonic for Healthcare
IoT deployments are accelerating, with midsize firms expected to reach 76% adoption by 2025 and the technology projected to generate $5.5‑$12.6 trillion in global value by 2030. Agriculture has become the poster child for scale, using low‑cost sensors, LPWAN networks and analytics to cut inputs and lift yields. In contrast, healthcare pilots falter under zero‑tolerance safety, stringent security and legacy‑system integration hurdles. Mis‑aligned connectivity choices and unrealistic pilot assumptions further drive the high failure rate of IoT projects.
AI Cyber Attack Threatens Global Financial Crisis, Warns International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund warned that AI‑driven cyber attacks could spark a global financial crisis, citing the new Anthropic model Mythos that can locate software vulnerabilities at scale. The IMF highlighted the systemic risk posed by shared cloud services, where...
Neos Networks, Cornerstone and StonesThro Power UK Sovereign Edge Cloud
Neos Networks has partnered with Cornerstone and microscaler StonesThro to build a sovereign edge‑cloud network across the UK. By leveraging Neos’ national fibre backbone and Cornerstone’s infrastructure footprint, the trio will connect regional edge nodes that keep AI and compute...
Beyond Telesurgery: How Proximie Uses AI to Optimise Surgery Logistics
Proximie, an AWS‑partner, is turning operating‑room logistics into a data‑driven system by deploying ceiling‑mounted computer‑vision sensors and a hybrid edge‑to‑cloud architecture that handles 120 TB of video. The platform uses generative AI to predict procedure duration, enabling hospitals like St Thomas’ to...
AI to Help Mainframes Remain Business Critical in 2026
Mainframes remain critical, handling 90% of credit‑card transactions and supporting over 70% of global enterprises. Companies are shifting from risky big‑bang migrations to incremental, API‑enabled hybrid modernization that connects mainframes to cloud environments. AI models now run directly on mainframes,...
The Illusion of Digital Sovereignty and the Reality of Control
The article argues that digital sovereignty is often an illusion because most firms rely on external cloud platforms they cannot control. While 98% of IT leaders say sovereignty is a priority, half lack a formal strategy, and 94% deem open...
Extreme Connect 26: Agent ONE Takes Forward Network AI
Extreme Networks launched Agent ONE at its Connect 26 conference, introducing a four‑layer AI stack that embeds reasoning, context, procedures and execution directly into enterprise networks. The first product, Agent ONE Coworker, arrives in July 2026 and provides proactive, ambient assistance to...
First-Quarter Revenues Fall but VMO2 Sees Brighter Prospects for Fiscal Year
Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) posted a 3% year‑on‑year decline in Q1 2026 service revenue to £2.08 bn (≈$2.64 bn), while wholesale revenue rose 5.1% on stronger MVNO and lease activity. The company invested £500 m (≈$635 m) in fibre, 5G Standalone and launched O2...
DE-CIX Expands New York Metro Connectivity with Architecture Upgrades
DE‑CIX has completed a major upgrade of its New York metro platform, moving to a quad‑node architecture with two core nodes in New York City and two in New Jersey. The modernization adds support for 400 Gigabit Ethernet ports and introduces ROADM‑based smart switching...
Cyber Experts Take an Optimistic View of AI-Powered Hacking
The Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) highlighted Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, noting its advances in mathematics, software engineering and automated vulnerability detection. Researchers found that “dark‑AI” tools circulating on cyber‑crime forums have so far delivered little practical impact, largely...
HPE Expands ProLiant Edge Network Portfolio
HPE has broadened its ProLiant edge portfolio with the EL2000 chassis supporting up to 144 Intel Xeon 6 cores and the DL145 Gen11 server upgraded to AMD EPYC 8005 “Sorano” processors. Both platforms feature optional Environmental Ruggedisation kits that enable operation from...
T‑Mobile, Starlink Aim to Reinvent Business Internet From Ground up, Sky Down
T‑Mobile announced SuperBroadband, a hybrid 5G‑satellite service with Starlink aimed at business broadband. The solution combines T‑Mobile’s nationwide 5G network with SpaceX’s Starlink low‑Earth‑orbit satellites to deliver redundant, high‑availability connectivity for enterprises, especially in remote or underserved areas. It includes...
Why AI Agents Are Triggering a Rethink of Enterprise Identity
Enterprises are rethinking identity management as AI agents become integral to automation. Traditional token‑based access, which assumes a one‑time authentication, no longer protects against evolving threats. Organizations are moving toward continuous, context‑aware verification that treats humans, workloads, and LLM‑driven agents...
Vect Ransomware Actually Destructive Wiper Malware
Check Point Research uncovered that the Vect ransomware, promoted through a partnership with the TeamPCP gang and BreachForums, contains a critical flaw that turns it into a data‑wiper for files larger than 128 KB. The flaw destroys the decryption information, meaning...
UK Data Watchdog Accused of Dragging Feet on eVisa Investigation
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been reviewing a joint letter from the Open Rights Group and 18 civil‑society organisations urging a formal probe into the Home Office’s eVisa system. Although the ICO opened a case in December 2025,...
Eseye Boosts Global IoT Resilience with SGP.32 eSIM Orchestration
Eseye has integrated the GSMA‑defined SGP.32 remote SIM provisioning standard into its AnyNet+ eSIM and Infinity Connectivity Management platforms. The upgrade enables hands‑off, large‑scale management of eSIM profiles for IoT devices lacking user interfaces, adding multi‑IMSI support, intelligent network fallback...
Capital Injection, Acquisition Further Render Networks in Critical Infrastructure
Render Networks announced $13.2 million private‑equity growth funding and the acquisition of GIS‑software firm mPower Innovations, extending its platform to electric utilities. The capital, raised from existing shareholders with Black Kite Partners advising, will accelerate its AI‑first product roadmap built on...
Google Cloud Next: It’s Time to Create Value, Not Slop, From the AI Boom
Google Cloud Next highlighted the rapid shift from AI pilots to production, with CEO Thomas Kurian noting three‑quarters of customers now run AI workloads. The event unveiled the Gemini Agent Platform, new TPU 8i and TPU 8t chips, and a $200 billion capex pledge...
AI Drives Software Productivity – and Challenges – for Motorway
Motorway has rebuilt its software development process around AWS Kiro, an agentic AI‑first IDE, delivering a four‑fold boost in engineering output and generating over a million lines of code each month. The shift embraces code disposability, using AI to iterate...
SITA Launches Campus Network to Keep Airport Operations Connected
SITA announced the Campus Network, a fully managed LAN/WLAN service for airports and transport hubs, powered by HPE Aruba Networking. The solution covers over 150 countries, handling design, installation, and support to reduce complexity and cost for airline IT teams....
Chinese Hackers Using Compromised Networks to Spy on Western Companies, Says Five Eyes
Chinese-linked hacking groups are now exploiting vast networks of compromised internet‑connected devices—such as routers, printers and webcams—to mask espionage operations against Western firms. The Five Eyes alliance, together with ten other nations, warned that these botnets, some exceeding 200,000 endpoints,...
A&K Travel Journeys with Colt for Global Quantum-Safe Network
Travel operator A&K Travel Group has partnered with Colt Technology Services to build a global, quantum‑safe network for its portfolio of luxury travel brands. The solution incorporates Arqit’s quantum‑resistant encryption, enabling secure, low‑latency connectivity across more than 100 countries, including...
A Tsunami of Flaws: When Frontier AI and Patch Tuesday Collide
Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday released over 160 vulnerabilities, the second‑largest monthly batch on record. The surge coincides with the debut of Anthropic’s frontier‑model AI, Mythos, under Project Glasswing, which claims to discover thousands of zero‑days. Experts warn that AI‑driven bug...
Blackbox Replaces Two Racks of HPE Storage with 8U of Everpure
Blackbox Hosting has replaced its two full racks of HPE 3PAR arrays with eight rack units of Everpure FlashArray hardware, consolidating 998 TB of provisioned storage into two 4U boxes. The new Pure Storage solution delivers a 10:1 data‑reduction ratio and...
M&S One Year On: Turning Anticipation Into Secure by Design
A year after the M&S cyber breach, retailers are moving from prevention to rapid response, treating cyber incidents as core business risks. The attack highlighted how third‑party suppliers can become the weakest link, exposing vast customer data and driving costly...
Business Leaders Marked Down on AI Workforce Strategy
A new Accenture‑backed YouGov poll shows 31% of workers expect their jobs to become unrecognisable or vanish by 2030, up from half that figure 18 months ago. While 79% anticipate needing to reskill, only a quarter of firms have conducted...
Software Billing Gap: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast
Usage‑based pricing is becoming the norm for SaaS and AI services, but many vendors struggle to capture and bill actual consumption accurately. Griff Parry, CEO of m3ter, argues that moving from cost‑based to value‑based and even outcome‑based pricing can better...
Storage Implications of a Modern IT Architecture
IT leaders are accelerating container adoption, with 71% planning to shift VMs to Kubernetes and 58% targeting stateful workloads such as databases. Persistent storage has become a critical challenge, especially for edge, AI and satellite applications that require data resilience....
Don't Debate Digital ID, Trial It - the Isle of Wight Could Settle the Argument
The piece urges the UK to run a voluntary digital‑identity pilot on the Isle of Wight, a self‑contained community of about 140,000 residents, before any national rollout. Past attempts such as Gov.uk Verify burned roughly £220 m (≈$280 m) with little impact,...
April Patch Tuesday Brings Zero-Days in Defender, SharePoint Server
Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped more than 160 Microsoft updates, including two actively‑exploited zero‑day flaws. The SharePoint Server XSS (CVE‑2026‑32201) can be triggered without authentication, while the Defender elevation‑of‑privilege bug (CVE‑2026‑33825) has public proof‑of‑concept code. A third zero‑day in Chromium’s...
UK Government Accelerates Autonomous Vehicle Development Funding
The UK government has allocated £150 million (about $190 million) to the CAM Pathfinder programme, funding eight feasibility studies that explore autonomous‑vehicle applications across buses, taxis, freight, airports, hospitals and dedicated corridors. The initiative is part of a broader industrial strategy that...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Publisher Rockstar Hit by Hackers Again
Rockstar Games suffered a second breach when the ShinyHunters gang used stolen authentication tokens to masquerade as a legitimate user of the AI analytics platform Anodot and infiltrate the company’s Snowflake data warehouse. The attackers accessed a limited set of...
Qualcomm Expands Strategic Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Immersive Eyewear Collaborations
Qualcomm Technologies announced expanded collaborations with Bosch and Snap’s Specs Inc to advance advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and immersive eyewear using Snapdragon platforms. Bosch has already shipped more than 10 million Snapdragon Cockpit computers and will now integrate Snapdragon Ride Flex SoCs...
Datacentre Developers Tout Benefits to Local Communities, but Do They Deliver?
Developers of AI‑driven data centres in the UK claim community benefits, but local businesses in Southall argue the reality falls short. A KKR‑backed developer, GTR, is contributing roughly $960,000 to a local economy plan and pledging up to $25.6 million for...
Go West! US Datacentres Head for Available and Cheap Energy
US datacenter construction is moving from coastal hubs to the country’s interior, with Texas and the Midwest becoming the primary targets. Synergy Research notes 1,360 operational sites globally at the end of 2025, 580 of which are in the US,...
Pure/AVK Self-Powered Dublin Datacentre Dodges Grid Constraints
Pure Data Centres (PureDC) and AVK‑SEG have finished Europe’s first microgrid‑powered datacentre in Dublin, supplying 54 MW from a hybrid LNG and sustainably sourced hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) system. The site achieved 100 % decarbonisation of its natural‑gas use in 2025 by...
Breaking the Stranglehold: Responses to Data Sovereignty Risk
In January 2026, 45 UK MPs tabled an Early Day Motion demanding a digital‑sovereignty strategy after data showed that 95% of public‑sector organisations rely on US hyperscalers, with the five biggest spenders—MoD, HMRC, Home Office, DWP and NHS England—pouring roughly $1.36 bn,...
Physical AI Device Shipments to Reach 145 Million Units by 2035
Counterpoint Research forecasts that cumulative shipments of physical AI devices—including vehicles, robots, drones and AI cameras—will reach 145 million units between 2025 and 2035. Service robots are expected to account for the largest volume, while humanoid robots could grow sevenfold to...
Interview: Researching Quantum Algorithms for Today’s Devices
Quantum computers today remain noisy, limiting the number of logical, error‑free qubits despite hardware that can host hundreds of physical qubits. Universal Quantum’s algorithm scientist Lucy Robson is building error‑correction protocols and trapped‑ion algorithms to speed up drug‑discovery simulations, focusing on...
Russian Cyber Spies Targeting Consumer, Soho Routers
The UK National Cyber Security Centre and Microsoft have uncovered a large‑scale DNS hijacking operation run by Russian APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, targeting vulnerable consumer and small‑office routers. The campaign, active since August 2025, has compromised over 200 organisations and...
Sustainability Accounting Can Be Difficult, but Can Differentiate
Enterprises are drawn to public‑cloud sustainability claims that highlight data‑center efficiency and renewable energy use. However, providers’ reporting methods differ, making it hard to translate high‑level metrics into verifiable carbon footprints for individual organizations. The hidden lifecycle emissions of hardware—manufacturing,...
What You Need to Know Before Emissions Regulators Come Knocking
Regulators worldwide are tightening climate‑related financial disclosure, forcing companies to inventory Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, especially those tied to IT infrastructure. The IFRS standards have been transposed into law across major economies, and cloud providers now publish detailed emissions dashboards, though...
Navigating the Opaque Fog of Public Cloud Carbon Footprints
The promise that public cloud automatically reduces emissions is eroding as providers use inconsistent metrics. AWS, Microsoft, and Google rely on market‑based reporting, renewable credits, or emerging 24/7 carbon‑free claims, making true carbon accounting opaque. Additionally, embodied carbon from AI‑focused...
Wilson Connectivity, Autonomous Systems Team for In-Building Wireless Service
Wilson Connectivity has teamed with Autonomous Systems to launch an automated, AI‑ready network‑lifecycle management service for in‑building wireless infrastructure. The offering blends Wilson’s three‑decade expertise in DAS, private 5G and CBRS with Autonomous’s cloud‑based monitoring platform, delivering real‑time visibility and active...
Net Insight Introduces Programmable Video Production Network
Net Insight unveiled programmable Trust Boundaries, a new layer that creates deterministic IP demarcation points for live‑media workflows. Integrated into the Open Media Platform and powered by Nimbra Live Intelligence, the solution supports uncompressed video and JPEG XS at up to...
Wireless AI Paradox Emerges as Wi-Fi Evolves Into Strategic Growth Engine
Cisco's State of Wireless 2026 report, based on 6,098 decision‑makers, reveals a “wireless AI paradox”: AI drives the biggest ROI while also creating security and talent challenges. Enterprises that treat Wi‑Fi as a strategic asset see compounding benefits—78% report efficiency...
AI-Driven Operating Model Key to Cloud-Native, Autonomous Networks
The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) released a briefing titled "Cloud native next chapter – agentic AI‑based operating models" that maps cloud‑native maturity to AI readiness for telecom operators. The document defines five progressive AI adoption levels aligned with...
SpaceLocker Launches First Shared Satellite Mission
SpaceLocker has moved from an in‑orbit hosting service to a full satellite operator with its first owned CubeSat, Out of the Box. The 16U, 20‑kg platform carries five European payloads using a patented universal space port that works like a...
How the UK’s ‘Neet’ Youth Can Power the Digital Economy
Nearly one in eight UK youths aged 16‑24 are classified as NEET, representing almost one million people whose potential is untapped for the country’s expanding digital economy. A mentorship and apprenticeship program helped Angel from Croydon transition from uncertainty to...
Delta In-Flight Connectivity Takes Off with Amazon Leo
Delta Air Lines has partnered with Amazon to equip its fleet with high‑speed, low‑latency internet via Amazon Leo, the company’s low‑Earth‑orbit satellite service. The rollout will begin in 2028 with an initial installation on 500 aircraft, expanding Delta’s existing AWS‑based...