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• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  ‘Inherent sovereignty is a fallacy’ says Beyond.pl AI factory exec

  Beyond.pl built central Europe’s first sovereign AI factory on Everpure and Nvidia kit – now its CEO argues the real issue is operational sovereignty, not where the box sits

• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  Post Office process redress scheme pays out £4m so far

  Post Office Process Review scheme, set up to redress subpostmaster losses caused by non-Horizon processes, products and policies, closes

• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  Half of Brits struggle to spot AI scams

  Artificial intelligence-based scams are increasing in number and sophistication, according to National Trading Standards findings

• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  Trust Bank cuts incident triage time to two minutes with AI agents

  The Singapore digital bank is running AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to work out the likely cause of an incident before engineers join the call, with humans still deciding on the fix

• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  Cyber security without humans? The rise of agentic AI

  The next evolution of cyber security may be autonomous, but industry leaders warn that trust, governance and human judgement can't be automated

• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  Sweden boosts cyber threat security defences amid AI advances

  Sweden is strengthening its national security defences against cyber attacks

• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  Saudi Arabia’s next AI challenge is turning infrastructure into capability

  Magna AI executive says governance, operational ownership and sovereign control will determine whether organisations can scale artificial intelligence beyond pilots

• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  Everpure adds data management capabilities for production AI

  Everpure’s data management updates for production AI feature native MCP support, GPU acceleration and token optimisation to break down enterprise data silos

• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures

  An Everpure survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across eight countries finds 90% recognise the risk, yet 64% lack a formal strategy to close ‘the sovereignty gap’

• September 30, 2026 30 Sep'26

  Token bills to push most enterprise AI workloads onto open-weight models

  With AI agents consuming tokens at an alarming rate, most enterprises have blown their AI budgets – and McKinsey expects cheaper open-weight models to handle the bulk of routine work

• September 29, 2026 29 Sep'26

  Cyber authorities issue alerts over exploitation of Citrix vulns

  The latest vulnerabilities to be uncovered in the frequently targeted Citrix NetScaler product lines were being exploited well before disclosure, prompting disquiet

• September 29, 2026 29 Sep'26

  Only 30% of Metropolitan Police officers have completed mandatory data training

  Metropolitan Police senior officers admit that only 30% of the force has completed mandatory data protection training following a series of high-profile data incidents

• September 29, 2026 29 Sep'26

  Dutch datacentre sector pitches itself as relief for an overloaded grid

  European datacentre associations argue that building datacentres where renewable power is generated could ease grid congestion in the Netherlands and beyond

• September 29, 2026 29 Sep'26

  US university implements campus-wide Cisco network refresh

  University of Notre Dame modernises network infrastructure to create resilient network to support the growing demands of AI, immersive research and bandwidth-intensive learning applications

• September 29, 2026 29 Sep'26

  Private 4G/5G network takes off at Ontario International Airport

  Southern California’s most popular airport looks to scale for the future with an advanced private wireless network to support security operations and future innovation

• September 28, 2026 28 Sep'26

  Kiteworks lifts shutdown order after incident-free weekend

  Kiteworks customers are back up and running after a highly unusual preemptive shutdown that came amid indications of an impending cyber attack

• September 28, 2026 28 Sep'26

  Are AI coders more trouble than they’re worth?

  More and more code is being produced by AI tools. A poll finds that software teams are struggling to keep pace

• September 28, 2026 28 Sep'26

  Ofcom directs Openreach to withdraw broadband customer offer

  UK’s leading broadband provider dealt blow by national comms regulator regarding offer to attract customers, but gains approval for others in sales basket

• September 28, 2026 28 Sep'26

  Oktane 2026: The industry is ready to talk about AI kill switches

  The concept of an AI kill switch – a means to terminate out-of-control agents – sounds dramatic, but security leaders are now starting to talk openly and pragmatically about why they are needed and how to use them

• September 28, 2026 28 Sep'26

  UiPath’s Cartographer agent interviews staff to map how businesses run

  UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says the company’s Cartographer agent will capture the institutional knowledge AI agents lack by interviewing employees and learning from the corrections they make

• September 27, 2026 27 Sep'26

  Vast Data pitches confidential AI to APAC’s regulated industries

  DataEnclave, due in the coming months, protects artificial intelligence models and sensitive data while they are processed on GPUs, with Australian neocloud Sharon AI among the cloud providers lined up to offer it

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance

  Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in High Court claim for data protection breaches and harassment

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers

  An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  How Meta plans to deliver petabit connectivity between US and France

  Meta is working with NEC, Sumitomo Electric Industries and Orange to deliver petabit transoceanic cabling capacity

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation

  The national police investigation into the Post Office IT scandal has now received the full funding it requires

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

  French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust

  Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud?

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI

  Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Qualcomm sets out for future at beginning of agentic age

  Annual conference of leading mobile platform provider sees transition into harnessing the power of agentic technologies through end product line including PCs, phones, cars and advanced eyewear

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment

  Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas

• September 25, 2026 25 Sep'26

  Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal

  Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination

  Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  US military confirms existence of orbital weapons

  The US military has for the first time confirmed the existence of orbital weapons, but has not divulged details of their capabilities or whether they have been integrated with Space Force’s growing arsenal of AI systems

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath

  With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency

  A draft architecture published under the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy spells out what full software sovereignty requires and why full hardware sovereignty remains out of reach

• September 24, 2026 24 Sep'26

  Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin

  The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asia’s first enterprise to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Law firm paid £200m to support Post Office, while police investigating scandal are forced to beg

  There are concerns that a lack of funds for the police investigation could prevent the full Post Office scandal truth getting out

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  UK national centre will fight Russian disinformation, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham

  National Centre for Information Defence will disrupt information warfare from hostile states, UK prime minister Andy Burnham has announced

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Former subpostmaster demands extension to Post Office scandal claims deadline

  Subpostmasters can only make claims for losses through Post Office Process Review until September 30, but a former subpostmaster says there is a necessity to extend the deadline

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Informatica wants AI agents to stop making up the numbers

  Informatica, owned by Salesforce, is making its catalogue metadata machine-readable, and adding trust indicators to answers in Claude so customers can see where a figure comes from before they act on it

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Dubai and Microsoft launch real-time cyber resilience dashboard for government entities

  Purpose-built zero-trust platform gives Dubai Electronic Security Center continuous visibility into compliance with the emirate’s Information Security Regulation, replacing point-in-time assessments with live security insights

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Lumen lights up Intelligent Internet for AI demands

  Infrastructure provider looks to bring cloud-like agility to enterprises with internet model combining on-demand bandwidth, digital control and predictable costs

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  DE-CIX launches neutral internet exchange in southern Austria

  Southern Austria’s first neutral Internet Exchange based on edge containers designed to turn the state of Carinthia into a digital hub for the Alps-Adriatic region, backed by €5.7m state investment

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Telxius plugs in 800G coherent optical tech to boost network capacity

  Global connectivity provider evolves high-capacity international network with next-generation IP-over-DWDM technology to support growing cloud, AI and datacentre connectivity demands

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Huawei expands vision for agentic world of infrastructure

  Tech and networking giant unveils compute platform based on proprietary computing architecture and key interconnect technology that makes the system possible

• September 23, 2026 23 Sep'26

  Engineering Council licenses CIISec to assess cyber pros

  Partnership gives cyber pros the opportunity to achieve Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status from the Engineering Council

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch

  In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence

  Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  UK government defends ‘fundamentally flawed’ eVisa system

  The government has rejected a suggestion from the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the electronic visa system should move to a more stable, token-based process, rather than the current error-prone system that relies on real-time database checks

• September 22, 2026 22 Sep'26

  The Middle East’s AI race has a people problem

  Middle East firms are quickly snapping up AI hardware, but finding the right people to put it to work effectively in everyday operations is proving a lot more difficult