Day Headlines in Computers News: 2026-05-06
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UK financial security experts participate in sector-wide hackathon (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 15:52:00)
Teams of security pros from UK financial services organisations came together at the end of April to participate in a hackathon exercise. -
Police wrongly identified solicitor Fahad Ansari as Hamas member during Schedule 7 phone seizure (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 12:54:00)
A police officer wrongly described a solicitor acting for Hamas in an appeal against its proscribed status in the UK as a Hamas member during Schedule 7 phone seizure -
UK High Court dismisses facial-recognition judicial review case (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 12:24:00)
The Metropolitan Police has won a judicial review case that argued its live facial-recognition policy was unlawful -
Broadcom updates VCF to address on-premise AI (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 12:15:00)
VMware is being repositioned as a platform to lower the total cost of hosting artificial intelligence workloads in private clouds -
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill prompts ethical concerns (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 09:29:00)
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is intended to improve school standards, child safety and social care. However, recent amendments to the bill lead to ethical concerns regarding personal data -
Beyond telesurgery: How Proximie uses AI to optimise surgery logistics (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 08:36:00)
AWS customer Proximie delivers AI-driven operating theatre logistics and tele-surgery. We spoke to its engineering vice-president about the challenges of cloud in a life or death environment -
AI to help mainframes remain business critical in 2026 (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 06:32:00)
Mainframes are very much still vital for performance- and security-conscious use cases. To optimise TCO, AI and hybrid cloud can help them retain their advantages -
Cloud and data sovereignty caught in a paradox (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 06:19:00)
We asked the hyperscalers how they would respond to US court-ordered eavesdropping on foreign citizen data – and got responses that highlight a paradoxical situation -
Is cloud data sovereignty all just a case of ‘Trust me, bro’? (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 06:18:00)
Hyperscaler cloud is inherently global. Does that make data sovereignty unattainable – especially given the powers US courts hold? We grilled the hyperscalers in an attempt to find out -
The illusion of digital sovereignty and the reality of control (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 04:47:00)
Digital sovereignty is hugely important to IT leaders but in most cases systems have been built on foundations they don’t control. Open standards are key to organisational agility -
Extreme Connect 26: Agent ONE takes forward network AI (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-05-06 04:09:00)
Network firm launches ‘smarter, faster, autonomous’ approach to enterprise networking, with its operating model moving from assistive AI to autonomous, always-on operations