Day Headlines in Computers News: 2026-10-13
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Microsoft CVE volumes on relentless upward trajectory (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 17:30:00)
Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday drop breaks yet another record, with over 1,400 flaws listed.
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Journalists subject to unlawful surveillance seek legal costs after ‘unreasonable conduct’ by PSNI (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 14:05:00)
Court of Appeal to decide whether Investigatory Powers Tribunal has powers to award compensation for legal costs to victims of unlawful surveillance
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NCA cracks down on foreign cyber fraudsters (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 12:25:00)
Almost 30 arrests and four million online profiles were removed in an NCA-hosted operation targeting fraudsters in Ghana and Nigeria.
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Gigaclear completes broadband build four months ahead of schedule (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 11:42:00)
UK altnet announces full-fibre broadband upgrade four months earlier than scheduled, empowering communities in North Oxfordshire’s hardest-to-reach rural communities, with cutting-edge connectivity
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Starling Bank claims first banking AI trained on UK sovereign cloud (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 11:35:00)
Starling says ‘transactional foundation model’ will train on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions on Civo’s UK cloud – but the data tokenises in Google Cloud first
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IMF warns of cyber threat to digitally connected financial markets (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 11:13:00)
Interconnected services plus software from key suppliers and greater digitisation presents a large attack surface for AI-powered attacks
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Bayer Leverkusen kicks on with connectivity in Wi-Fi 7 first (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 10:00:00)
Wi-Fi 7 network said to deliver an immersive, ‘frictionless’ fan experience, from instant entry to uninterrupted engagement, bringing ‘seamless’ operations at scale
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Data dive: The carbon bill for the UK’s datacentre boom (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 08:30:00)
The UK’s existing datacentres emit about 1.5 million tonnes of CO2e a year. A 14.6GW committed pipeline would add about 12 million tonnes a year – or 38 million tonnes if it all runs on gas
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Colt expands global network investment to power wave of AI growth (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 07:25:00)
Hyperscalers, neoscalers and wholesale providers looking to make global AI ambitions a reality targeted in ongoing network expansion
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AI minister talks up tech independence (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 06:45:00)
In a speech on Monday, AI minister Kanishka Narayan discussed his views on tech sovereignty and why AI firms need to be more cautious
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Firms can’t count their AI agents, let alone switch them off (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 06:36:00)
RSA’s CEO wants AI agents managed like employees, but other security leaders differ on how far that should go
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Enterprises are growing the use of AI – but proving what it earns is the harder part (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-13 05:05:00)
At the World Summit AI conference, Santander, Axa, ABN Amro, AMD and Albert Heijn explained how they are trying to turn AI projects into demonstrable value they can prove