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• October 30, 2026 30 Oct'26

  Tencent plugs WorkBuddy into enterprise systems

  Tencent has unveiled an AI office suite built around its WorkBuddy agent, which now reaches into core business systems, as its cloud unit takes its agent products to international markets

• October 29, 2026 29 Oct'26

  UK surveillance watchdog ‘disappointed’ over government investigatory powers failings

  Operational pressures do not reduce the need for lawful and consistent safeguards, says Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO)

• October 29, 2026 29 Oct'26

  Datacentre covenant pleases developers more than campaigners

  Campaigners dismiss the Budget covenant as a voluntary smokescreen, while developers warn that priority grid access means little without the substations to deliver it

• October 29, 2026 29 Oct'26

  UK government drafts national policy statement for datacentres

  The draft policy opens England’s fast-track NSIP regime to schemes of 100MW and above, with a presumption of consent and consultation running to 8 January 2027

• October 29, 2026 29 Oct'26

  Kazakhstan and Nvidia look to open new chapter in physical AI

  Artificial intelligence hardware leader hails Central Asian country’s plans to become a global physical AI hub, tapping vast natural energy resources, heavy industry and a fast-growing local AI ecosystem

• October 29, 2026 29 Oct'26

  Controversial Fujitsu contract extension on the cards at Post Office

  Fujitsu’s controversial contract with the Post Office was set to end in March 2027, extension likely

• October 29, 2026 29 Oct'26

  RETN expands Sofia connectivity and adds IP transit customers

  Business communications provider opens connectivity hub for Southeast Europe with Sofia PoP and expands ability to serve customers across the region

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  Tencent eyes European firms with open-weight models and sovereign cloud

  Fred Sun, general manager of Tencent Cloud Europe, says enterprises in the region now want model choice and tighter control over where their data goes

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  Lapsed US snooping law still running as senators object

  FISA 702 is one of two key US laws that undermine data sovereignty and allow the US to access foreign data without the subject knowing. Senators demand release of a secret ruling

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  Airbus takes off with contract for two additional Galileo satellites

  Leading aerospace manufacturer announced two extra next-generation satellites to augment navigation capabilities for European security and defence

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  AI is forcing a rethink of jobs, skills and leadership, experts warn at Dubai festival

  Speakers at Dubai’s AI Festival called for education systems and employers to prioritise critical thinking, adaptability and human judgement as artificial intelligence reshapes the workplace and threatens traditional career pathways

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  Autumn Budget 2026: UK chancellor ties datacentre grid access to community tests

  Healey’s Autumn Budget covenant makes grid priority and on-site generation conditional on community investment, jobs and water protection, weeks after MSPs paused Scotland’s pipeline

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  Autumn Budget 2026: Chancellor sets aside funds for UK tech

  In his Autumn Budget, chancellor John Healey announced more funding for sovereign tech and AI safety

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  DE-CIX unveils Thailand’s first regionally interconnected internet exchange

  Internet exchange in Bangkok to integrate Thailand into established Southeast Asian interconnection platform with aim on strengthening regional digital connectivity

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  UK broadband major and altnet expand gigabit footprint

  VMO2 starts 2Gbps broadband roll-out over gigabit cable network, while alternative network provider launches super-speed 5,000Mbps broadband across network in Midlands

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  Austrian doctors to swap emails and phone calls for encrypted messages

  Austria is following Germany’s lead by introducing a sovereign encrypted messaging service for healthcare professionals

• October 28, 2026 28 Oct'26

  Aera addresses decision-making using enterprise AI

  Aera Technology has been looking at how agentic AI should handle the complexity and trade-offs of enterprise decision-making

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  PHP2Shell: US updates Kev catalogue as exploits spread

  After live exploitation of PHP2Shell was verified at the weekend, the US Cisa cyber agency has updated its vulnerability catalogue, urging organisations to prioritise their fixes

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  OpenAI’s Altman: Only way out of patch apocalypse is through

  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to the keynote stage at Oracle AI World, calling for the security community to keep focus in the face of AI-enabled vulnerability discovery

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  HPE unifies visibility across premier wired, wireless, SASE estates

  Networking tech provider simplifies full stack deployment, management and troubleshooting with self-driving agentic operations to optimise user and application experiences from edge to cloud

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  MWC Doha aims to position Middle East as global hub for AI and digital infrastructure

  GSMA’s Jawad Abbassi says the event will bring together telecoms operators, policymakers and technology leaders as Gulf countries accelerate investment in 5G, AI and datacentres

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  Azure licensing lock-in limits choice

  A survey of US users has found that businesses are paying significantly more to host Microsoft apps on non-Microsoft public clouds

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  TechEd 2026: SAP fronts tabular data model in space as it bids to make autonomous enterprise real

  At TechEd 2026 in Berlin, SAP unveiled AI developments including deploying its RPT-2 tabular data AI model aboard the International Space Station

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  Tata Communications invests more than $400m to build AI superhighway

  Digital ecosystem enabler looks to create 10,000km of AI-ready connectivity infrastructure linking India’s key datacentre and highest growth AI corridors

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  Autumn Budget 2026: Healey sets out AI funding

  The chancellor wants to boost UK tech sovereignty and has unveiled plans to support chip development, AI defence and biosecurity

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  Autonomous transport offers ‘golden opportunity’ for UK ports, supply chains

  Report highlights challenges and opportunities facing UK ports as increasing numbers of shipping hubs incorporate connected and automated mobility offerings into their operations

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  AI World: AI vulnerability surge brings change for Oracle’s cyber practice

  With CVE volumes spiking amid AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, Oracle is responding with cyber initiatives and practices for its customers

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  AI World: Oracle sets agents loose on Fusion Cloud apps

  On the opening day of its annual AI World conference, Oracle brought a wide range of agentic innovations to bear on its Fusion Cloud application suite

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  SuiteWorld 2026: The end of ERP as we know it, says NetSuite executive

  NetSuite co-founder and executive vice-president Evan Goldberg says AI is moving business software beyond menu navigation, while expanding access to the platform for startups

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  Gulf organisations must balance data sovereignty with AI accessibility, says Seagate

  Sameer Bhatia, senior regional director for India, the Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Seagate Technology, discusses how organisations in the Gulf can build scalable AI infrastructure while balancing data governance, storage density, energy ...

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  Capita ‘comprehensively failed’ on Civil Service pension artificial intelligence promise

  Minister says she will ‘hold Capita’s feet to the fire’ as MPs wade in with distressing stories from affected constituents

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  O2 and Nokia claim first live deployment of 5G AI-RAN in UK

  UK’s first live deployment of AI-powered RAN technology uses predictive AI to automatically optimise 5G radio resources based on changing network demand and conditions

• October 27, 2026 27 Oct'26

  AWS wins direct while Azure is obscured: The UK’s £9bn cloud spend

  Of £8.96bn in UK public sector cloud contracts, only £1.64bn traces cleanly to hyperscalers. BidSkim data reveals how AWS takes the direct route while Microsoft Azure hides behind resellers

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  EU makes progress towards PHP patching, UK lags behind

  Five days into the PHP2Shell incident, and patch rates are creeping upwards, but the majority of publicly visible PHP hosts remain exposed

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  UK secrecy over AI in immigration and asylum decisions under fire

  Home Office seeks technical fixes to immigration and asylum while invoking national security to avoid disclosing the growing use of AI in decision making, claims report  

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  Employees must be empowered to refuse AI tools at work, says UTAW

  Tech worker union says meaningful consultation over artificial intelligence deployments and new rights of refusal are needed to protect workers from the negative impacts of the technology’s proliferation in their workplaces

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  6G-Rocket launches at University of Oulu for AI-native RAN

  Finland-based 6G development programme looks to move beyond simulations and demonstrate practical AI-based radio access network technologies in GPU-accelerated testbeds

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  ‘Blackmail’ call as Warwickshire council approves £9m Microsoft renewal

  Warwickshire County Council approves a three-year Microsoft 365 renewal worth about £9m, up £375,000 a year, as the council’s former leader calls the licence model ‘blackmail’

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  National Parks UK taps VodafoneThree for wildfire resilience programme

  Programme to strengthen long-term resilience in UK natural landscapes bringing together emergency services, government and industry to bolster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  Portsmouth Water turns tap on fibre broadband sensing to reduce leaks

  Fibre-based broadband technology will help find leaks more quickly and maintain leakage performance standards set by south of England water authority

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  Egypt’s next tech opportunity: Turning engineering talent into global innovation

  From a growing pool of software engineers and government-backed skills programmes to AI-driven product development, Egypt is positioning itself as a serious technology destination for international businesses

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  How Luxembourg built a secure sovereign instant messaging service for residents

  Luxembourg is rolling out a secure encrypted messaging service based on the open source Matrix protocol, for use by government, businesses and citizens, offering a sovereign alternative to WhatsApp and Signal

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  Lost in the post: Subpostmasters could miss out on redress

  Subpostmasters and their families left out of Post Office scandal redress schemes as deadlines pass

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  Toshiba looks to deliver quantum-safe networks at scale

  Carrier-grade platform enables businesses to integrate quantum-safe protection across existing networks with reduced complexity, footprint and cost

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  Singtel reins in AI sprawl with sovereign inferencing platform

  Moving siloed AI projects onto one governed platform has let Singtel scale AI quickly, and its virtual agent now handles most customer calls without human help

• October 26, 2026 26 Oct'26

  Pronto Software maps out AI agent plans as it turns 50

  The Australian ERP supplier is integrating AI agents and open source models into its software, as customers such as Pedders, Haymes Paint and Ted’s Cameras work out where the technology fits

• October 25, 2026 25 Oct'26

  Red Hat opens Singapore AI centre to take customers beyond pilots

  The facility, backed by Singapore’s Economic Development Board, will station forward-deployed engineers in the region to help organisations such as defence agency DSTA bring AI projects into production

• October 25, 2026 25 Oct'26

  Financial services leaders believe AI impact will be bigger than Big Bang

  KPMG survey reveals belief that artificial intelligence will shake up the finance sector more than the 1986 financial Big Bang

• October 23, 2026 23 Oct'26

  Microsoft Frontier Tour London: Agentic AI governance in the spotlight

  During the London event, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella outlined his view of how agentic AI needs to be managed as part of enterprise IT

• October 23, 2026 23 Oct'26

  UK utilities report connectivity safety fears through network downtime

  Research finds that despite nearly all utility companies in the UK having connectivity infrastructure in place, nearly all are experiencing downtime, with wide gap between connectivity coverage and performance