Day Headlines in Computers News: 2026-10-27
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PHP2Shell: US updates Kev catalogue as exploits spread (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 14:15:00)
After live exploitation of PHP2Shell was verified at the weekend, the US' Cisa cyber agency updates its vulnerability catalogue, urging organisations to prioritise their fixes.
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OpenAI’s Altman: Only way out of patch apocalypse is through (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 14:00:00)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to the keynote stage at Oracle AI World, calling for the security community to keep focus in the face of AI-enabled vulnerability discovery.
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HPE unifies visibility across premier wired, wireless, SASE estates (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 12:45:00)
Networking tech provider simplifies full stack deployment, management and troubleshooting with self-driving agentic operations to optimise user and application experiences from edge to cloud
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Azure licensing lock-in limits choice (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 12:15:00)
A survey of US users has found that businesses are paying significantly more to host Microsoft apps on non-Microsoft public clouds
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Why measuring your public cloud carbon footprint is so hard (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 10:33:00)
Cloud carbon data is complex, attributed, and often opaque. Buyers must look past dashboard totals to understand allocation, electricity accounting, and embodied emissions
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Tata Communications invests more than $400m to build AI superhighway (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 10:30:00)
Digital ecosystem enabler looks to create 10,000km of AI-ready connectivity infrastructure linking India’s key datacentre and highest growth AI corridors
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Autumn Budget 2026: Healey sets out AI funding (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 08:20:00)
The chancellor wants to boost UK tech sovereignty and has unveiled plans to support chip development, AI defence and biosecurity
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Autonomous transport offers ‘golden opportunity’ for UK ports, supply chains (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 08:15:00)
Report highlights challenges and opportunities facing UK ports as increasing numbers of shipping hubs incorporate connected and automated mobility offerings into their operations
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AI World: AI vulnerability surge brings change for Oracle’s cyber practice (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 06:45:00)
With CVE volumes spiking amid AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, Oracle is responding with cyber initiatives and practices for its customers
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AI World: Oracle sets agents loose on Fusion Cloud apps (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 06:42:00)
On the opening day of its annual AI World conference, Oracle brought a wide range of agentic innovations to bear on its Fusion Cloud application suite
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O2 and Nokia claim first live deployment of 5G AI-RAN in UK (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 06:00:00)
UK’s first live deployment of AI-powered RAN technology uses predictive AI to automatically optimise 5G radio resources based on changing network demand and conditions
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AWS wins direct while Azure is obscured: The UK’s £9bn cloud spend (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-10-27 05:10:00)
Of £8.96bn in UK public sector cloud contracts, only £1.64bn traces cleanly to hyperscalers. BidSkim data reveals how AWS takes the direct route while Microsoft Azure hides behind resellers