Day Headlines in Computers News: 2025-07-08
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UK among worst performers in Europe for fundamental 5G metrics (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 11:45:00)
Study from mobile network testing firm uncovers gaps in UK 5G performance compared with European leaders with ‘significant’ disparity between theoretical population coverage and the daily reality for millions of users
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AI for Good: Signal president warns of agentic AI security flaw (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 11:16:00)
Secure by design is a mantra of the tech sector, but not if it’s agentic AI, which wants ‘root’ access to everything
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SEC and SolarWinds to settle lawsuit over 2020 breach (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 10:36:00)
The US SEC and SolarWinds have reached a settlement in principle to resolve litigation over alleged security failings that led to the 2020 compromise of the supplier’s Orion platform by Russian cyber spies
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Interview: Steve Riley, head of IT operations and service management, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 10:00:00)
As the British Grand Prix rolled into Silverstone for the annual jamboree of Formula One motor racing, we caught up with the Mercedes F1 team to find out how technology has advanced in the year since the last race
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Interview: Vivek Bharadwaj, CIO, Happy Socks (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 08:49:00)
The clothing manufacturer’s IT chief has a foot in every aspect of the tech stack – and is placing data and AI at the centre of future digital strategy
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Google slams claims it’s ‘misleading’ the public with its GHG emissions data (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 08:15:00)
Internet search giant Google stands accused of “cherry-picking” data from its environmental sustainability report to portray itself as a “good climate actor”, after campaigners from Kairos Fellowship picked holes in the publication
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What’s the latest with retail mobile apps? (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 08:07:00)
Mamas and Papas, MandM and Ocado are among the retailers launching or relaunching mobile apps this year, but what digital experiences are consumers looking for in 2025 and how best can they be enabled by tech?
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Vodafone sees Glastonbury mobile data traffic usage rise 25% (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 07:00:00)
Official connectivity partner of the UK’s leading music festival reveals massive year-on-year uptick in mobile data traffic, and strong demand for official app and embedded subscriber identity module offer
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NHS trust accused of ‘at best cavalier, at worst deceitful’ behaviour after deleting emails (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 05:48:00)
A London hospital trust faces allegations it withheld key evidence from a tribunal hearing after one of its directors attempted to destroy more than 90,000 emails
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Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the private sector (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-07-08 04:45:00)
In the second of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil and how private sector customers have at least some flexibility in how to absorb their impacts