Day Headlines in Computers News: 2025-09-17
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UK Tech Prosperity Deal: Business spend in AI set to grow (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-09-17 12:00:00)
The UK-US tech deal promises vast amounts of AI capacity and technology infrastructure, which will be needed as businesses ramp up their AI spend
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Microsoft scores win against Office 365 credential thieves (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-09-17 11:25:00)
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit disrupts a major phishing-as-a-service operation that targeted and stole Office 365 usernames and credentials
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Microsoft to invest $30bn in expanding its operations and AI infrastructure footprint in UK (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-09-17 11:15:00)
Microsoft is making its biggest ever investment in building out its AI and general operations in the UK, citing the government’s commitment to making it easier for big tech to thrive in the country
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Virgin Media O2 creates single team to challenge fixed wholesale market (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-09-17 10:45:00)
Leading UK operator places wholesale teams covering consumer and business segments into single structure
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Hamas lawyer challenges police after they seized legal files from phone in Schedule 7 stop (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-09-17 10:30:00)
A UK solicitor hired by Hamas to challenge its proscription in the UK as a terrorist organisation argues police acted unlawfully by seizing a phone containing confidential legally privileged material about his clients
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Federated Wireless, Cisco validate commercial standard power for Wi-Fi 6E, 7 (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-09-17 09:45:00)
Networking and IT giant throws weight behind creating path to emerging wireless standard
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Government confirms North East as location of second AI growth zone (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-09-17 07:26:00)
UK government has selected two sites near to Newcastle as the home of its second AI growth zone, with one of them confirmed to be housing compute infrastructure for OpenAI's Stargate UK initiative
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NCC: How RaaS team-ups help Scattered Spider enhance its attacks (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-09-17 04:30:00)
Scattered Spider’s alliances with ransomware-as-a-service gangs act as a force multiplier for the scope, and number, of its cyber attacks, according to NCC Group analysts
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GSA: NTN operator–satellite partnerships now in 80 territories (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-09-17 04:24:00)
Study shows Starlink leading the satellite landscape with 44 partnerships, followed by AST SpaceMobile and Lynk, while in spectrum Ka-band remains most widely used frequency range, supporting both feeder and service links