Computers in the City

IT support services for small and medium-sized companies in the City of London.

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Nation-state cyber activity is no longer a distant concern for larger organisations only. UK businesses need resilient controls and monitoring.https://t.co/ZzYhrLU8gf

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Construction robotics firm All3 has secured £18.5m in seed funding, pointing to growing demand for automation in physical industries.https://t.co/pcgRQaVztT

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The FCA’s expanded AI testing cohort shows financial services trying to move faster without losing control. Supervised testing matters.https://t.co/3yWWYn1fat

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Financial regulators may need stronger AI capabilities of their own, according to Cambridge research. Supervision has to keep pace with the market.https://t.co/ae816onaO1

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DCMS is recruiting a new digital and information chief, with cybersecurity and resilience listed as essential experience.https://t.co/hmUyWLfFfC

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EE is expanding 5G+ using advanced RAN coordination technology, aiming to optimise network performance as mobile demand grows.https://t.co/OHTwaqbwba

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AI infrastructure spending keeps climbing as cloud providers race to meet demand. For customers, that means capacity, cost control and lock-in all need watching.https://t.co/B4ZF7q2C8e

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European regulators continue to tighten scrutiny of Big Tech, with AI, competition and platform power all under the spotlight.https://t.co/UvqgXBYROC

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A record number of UK businesses have reportedly been hit by nation-state attacks as attackers make wider use of AI. Cyber resilience now needs to assume faster, more adaptive threats rather than just more of the same.https://t.co/ZzYhrLU8gf

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DSIT is asking for views on how to protect children’s digital wellbeing across social media, gaming and AI chatbots.https://t.co/GqEKu7kCm8

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The FCA’s Palantir deal is facing renewed scrutiny as lawmakers question how sensitive financial data should be handled and by whom. The policy question is becoming harder to ignore.https://t.co/aHY0pC71mI

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Over half of businesses reportedly do not know how quickly they could stop AI in a crisis. That is a governance gap, not just a technical one.https://t.co/61znskPcNQ

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Shadow AI is becoming a real security problem. Unmanaged agents and poorly governed tools can create blind spots faster than many teams can see them.https://t.co/yv8ZLUhXlY

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UK self-driving firm Oxa has raised fresh funding to scale deployments at ports and airports, where autonomy has clearer near-term use cases.https://t.co/drTEuZrRC5

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Small businesses are set to benefit from more than £7.4bn in government spending targets by 2028, with ministers promising better access to contracts. For SMEs, the real question is whether the procurement process becomes simpler as well as larger.https://t.co/x8eycpmWYg

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The FCA is defending its Palantir contract before lawmakers, keeping questions about public sector AI, data handling and vendor dependence firmly in view.https://t.co/bEliADP2oh

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Google has renamed its open-source ZetaSQL project to GoogleSQL, aligning the developer tooling with the SQL dialect branding used across BigQuery and Spanner.https://t.co/XdMSkcAFzS

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OpenAI plans to retire GPT-4o, and TechCrunch says the user backlash shows how quickly “companion” behaviours can create dependency. The piece also points to the safety trade-offs companies face when making assistants more emotionally engaging.https://t.co/BvSRbBqbtM

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US prosecutors say a former Google engineer stole thousands of pages of confidential AI infrastructure designs. It’s a sharp example of why monitoring, least privilege and export controls remain live issues in modern engineering teams.https://t.co/Nwkg6vBFTs

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Nokia says Europe and the US remain tightly linked on the chips, software and secure equipment. The takeaway is that “strategic autonomy” is complicated in practice, and operators will feel the impact when policy shifts collide with long planning cycles.https://t.co/7ICv2f0cik