Day Headlines in Computers News: 2026-09-07
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Activist takes data protection watchdog to court after Europol ‘unlawfully’ processed personal data (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-09-07 12:30:00)
Europe’s data protection supervisor (EDPS) faces court action over claims it failed to properly investigate Europol for ‘unlawfully’ processing the data of a human rights activist -
UK gov selects Open Cosmos as sovereign comms framework provider (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-09-07 08:42:00)
Oxfordshire space company approved to provide deployable comms to the UK government’s Tactical Communications framework, mapped to series of upcoming contracts over the next eight years -
Orange acquires Dome tech to boost private 5G core offer (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-09-07 08:36:00)
Telco swoops for tech developed by Obvios to strengthen sovereign connectivity offering for defence, public safety and critical infrastructure organisations -
Power: The UK’s next digital infrastructure bottleneck (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-09-07 04:15:00)
The UK has been investing billions into cloud computing, artificial intelligence and digital transformation. One increasingly scarce resource is becoming key to determining whether many of these ambitions become reality – electricity -
Climate resilience reveals key enterprise networking blind spot (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-09-07 04:10:00)
Climate risk has moved from being an environmental externality to being a direct risk to productivity, continuity and the balance sheet – and network infrastructures are very much in the firing line -
Interview: The tech stack helping ‘q-commerce’ scale at Tesco (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-09-07 04:00:00)
Computer Weekly gets the lowdown on the tech stack supporting one of Tesco’s fastest-growing business areas from the man overseeing digital customer experience for grocery home shopping at the UK’s largest retailer -
CW@60: The long gestation of a data nerd and agent overseer (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-09-07 03:00:00)
Computer Weekly's acting datacentre and cloud editor – and data journalist – Antony Adshead traces his tech evolution from green-screen mainframes and DIY coding to steering agentic AI