For some time now, networking and security strategies have been slowly merging for years. Driven by hybrid work, cloud migration and rising security challenges that demand simplified, end-to-end architectures, the shifting of software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) to secure access service edge (SASE) is now reshaping enterprise connectivity strategies, according to a study from GlobalData. The…

buradaki/Shutterstock On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in the press; unmanned Mars missions aren’t exactly novel, as the American space agency has sent over a dozen satellites and rovers…

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The UK’s broadband sector has quietly witnessed a tipping point as fibre-based connections direct to premises superseded kerb-side connectivity for the first time, according to analyst Point Topic, while two of the country’s leading independent broadband service providers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…