On 22 September 2026, Computer Weekly turns 60. To mark the milestone, we asked some of our friends – experts, parliamentarians, IT leaders and suppliers – for their perspectives on how tech has changed their lives over six decades. What’s changed the most for you since then? My career in unified communications stretches back far…
CW@60: Christmas in the Falklands and the importance of keeping in touch Read More »
Modern chief information security officers (CISOs) face a threat landscape defined by distributed systems, volatile supply chains, and expanding attack surfaces. Platform consolidation is often used to reduce complexity, yet only architectures with deep integration across data, control, and identity planes achieve the intended security benefits. This makes the integration layer a dominant source of enterprise…
Beyond integration theatre: Building stronger cyber platforms Read More »
Computer Weekly’s list of the most influential women in UK technology has been running since 2012, launched to promote a discussion surrounding the role of women in the technology sector during a time when the lack of diversity in tech was only beginning to be considered. When it was launched, the list only featured 25…
Most Influential Women in UK Tech: The 2025 longlist Read More »
Dozens of technology firms are continuing to put the lives and livelihoods of supply chain workers at risk by failing to meet even the most basic due diligence expectations around forced labour and human rights abuses, finds sectoral analysis. Conducted by KnowTheChain (KTC) – a project run by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre…
Tech sector still failing to rid supply chains of forced labour Read More »
Workforce reductions are mounting across the tech sector globally as firms attempt to free up more resources for their artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. According to tracking website Layoffs.fyi, tech companies laid off more than 165,000 people in 2022 and 264,000 people in 2023, with the latest data showing that 410 tech firms have laid off…
Tech sector layoffs mount amid AI investment frenzy Read More »
Over the first seven-and-a-half months of 2024, the number of newly-disclosed common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) soared 30% year-on-year from 17,114 to 22,254, according to data published by Qualys researchers. However, out of this huge number of flaws, barely a hundredth – 204 or 0.9% – were weaponised by threat actors, said Qualys, the majority…
2024 seeing more CVEs than ever before, but few are weaponised Read More »
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Microsoft vulnerability dating back to 2018 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue after evidence emerged that it is being used in an attack chain by the China-backed APT41 advanced persistent threat group. CVE-2018-0824 was first addressed by Microsoft in the May 2018…
Chinese cyber attack sparks alert over six year old MS vuln Read More »
Amid the ongoing elections for the European Parliament, the Russia-aligned NoName057(16) cyber criminal operation says it is launching extensive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against internet infrastructure across Europe. The four-day election – the first to take place since Brexit – kicked off on Thursday 6 June in the Netherlands, although Estonia has been…
DDoS gang threatens to disrupt European elections Read More »
Artificial intelligence (AI) on the personal computer (PC) was a central focus of the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year. PC and chip manufacturers such as AMD, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Intel and Nvidia announced AI PC innovations to come in the so-called “year of the AI PC”. Approximately 50 models…
Forrester: Preparing for the era of the AI PC Read More »
In his keynote presentation at Nutanix Next 2024 in Barcelona, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami discussed the “elephant in the room”, which is the fact that Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has created what he describes as “a major change and new vendor reality”. Since completing the acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has made major changes to its…
Nutanix ramps up VMware opportunity Read More »
