The UK’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will not help reduce illegal migration or stop people working illegally, and could instead set up the infrastructure for exclusion and mass surveillance, MPs have been told. On 26 September 2025, UK prime minister Keir Starmer announced that the government planned to introduce a mandatory national digital ID scheme,…

Alex Photo Stock/Shutterstock Windows has access to a vast selection of free, paid, open-source, and proprietary applications. While you can find many of these in the bundled Microsoft Store, others are scattered across the different corners of the web. This makes app discovery slightly harder for even the savviest of users. As a result, many…

The UK’s broadband sector has quietly witnessed a tipping point as fibre-based connections direct to premises superseded kerb-side connectivity for the first time, according to analyst Point Topic, while two of the country’s leading independent broadband service providers (altnets) have geared up fibre offerings for businesses. The Point Topic survey found that the UK broadband market…

Opera Neon just got another big upgrade. The AI agentic browser now offers updated models, new features, and an all-new Deep Research feature that can produce structured reports in about a minute. Following Google’s introduction of the new Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro, Opera now allows users to choose the AI model that…

The UK and Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) Connect 25 conference has opened in Birmingham with a keynote session recognising the challenges business face. The user group itself has adapted to changes in the technology market such as the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in business applications and the economic climate that has a profound…

Dominic Redmond, group CIO of recruitment firm PageGroup, is a digital leader driven by a desire to help his team and the rest of the business use data to boost operational processes and customer services. Having started his career as a project manager, Redmond delivered major initiatives for Xerox and Aon that touched on the…

Data is critically important to almost any business – it’s the lifeblood that makes an organisation function. But managing, leveraging and realising the commercial advantage of data is also hard.  If fully leveraging data is difficult enough, the bar is only getting higher – with AI changing the game. Traditionally, approaches to data have been…

Cyber attacks are a constant in the IT press, but every now and again they cut through to the front pages of national newspapers and evening bulletins. The recent attack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) gained international attention due to the combination of its recognisable name and the wide-ranging effects. The fallout from this incident…

If 2024 and 2025 were the years organisations felt the strain of tightening budgets, 2026 is the year those decisions will fully manifest in their cyber risk exposure. Across both the private and public sectors, years of belt-tightening have led to reduced headcount, ageing infrastructure and postponed modernisation. Analyst reports show growth in cyber security…

Gunnar Glasneck, data workstream lead at tobacco company, Imperial Brands, describes his role as the data tower lead. He is responsible for data migration, as well the implementation of the company’s SAP analytical cloud. Computer Weekly met up with Glasneck during the UK and Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) conference in Birmingham at the start…