A spectre of trust haunted last week’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The supplier behind the conference, Salesforce, has long vaunted its trustworthiness as a software-as-a-service provider. Its thesis is that as a cloud supplier, trusted with its customers’ data and applications, Salesforce has had to put a premium on trust from its inception. It…
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French local authorities are to replace WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams with open source encrypted messaging software as part of a long-term move away from software produced by big US tech companies. Four French local authorities have taken part in a trial of a WhatsApp-style messaging service based on the Matrix open source protocol, which will…
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The UK government has agreed to fully fund the police investigation into criminality associated with the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. Yesterday (24 September), Computer Weekly highlighted the national police investigation’s desperate need for extra funds and compared it with the hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money received by law firms representing the…
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Kiteworks has warned users of its products to shut down their managed file transfer (MFT) servers immediately after apparently being alerted to the existence of a highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability. The company, formerly known as Accellion, bills itself as providing a secure control plane for data exchange. However, thanks to the utility of its core…
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An investigative journalist has filed a High Court claim against the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) after police unlawfully obtained communications data in a covert attempt to identify a confidential journalistic source. A High Court judge has granted the journalist, identified as YZL, anonymity to protect the identity of their sources and because of…
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Amid a string of high-profile data breaches and cyber incidents linked to advanced, frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models, identity specialist Okta broke new ground at its Oktane 2026 conference in Las Vegas, becoming one of the first cyber companies to launch an explicitly defined AI kill switch as part of a series of enhancements to…
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Those buying an RTX 5090 at Micro Center now have to fill out a declaration formThis includes having a government-issued photo ID scanned by the retailerSome approve of the policy as it’s an anti-scalping measure, but others view it as an annoyance or a pointless moveIf you’re buying an Nvidia RTX 5090, or a PC…
Managed file transfer (MFT) services provider Kiteworks has rescinded a temporary shutdown recommendation asking its customers to turn off their appliances for six hours on the morning of Saturday 26 September, after no security incidents took place. In a statement published on Sunday 27 September, the company said its recommendation was lifted for all customers…
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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in critical infrastructure, government services and enterprise operations, the question of how to secure increasingly autonomous AI systems is becoming as important as how quickly they can be deployed. Nvidia is seeking to address that challenge through the newly launched Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry coalition that brings…
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…
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