Chief executive Melanie Perkins describes job cuts as ‘without doubt the hardest moment in our thirteen-year history’ in email to staffGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCanva is cutting or relocating more than 1,200 jobs, representing 22% of its global workforce, as part of a major restructure that includes laying off staff who helped build the Australian-founded design platform.The changes mirror a trend across the technology sector, where software companies are fighting to stay competitive against cheaper artificial intelligence disrupters while aggressively embedding AI tools themselves. Continue reading...
TSB data shows that purchase fraud losses among its customers are up 4% this year
Cybersecurity experts say national impact ‘minimal’ but incidents may represent the ‘foothills’ of a wider threat Food suppliers in the UK have been hit by cyber-attacks after hackers raised the temperatures of supermarket freezers across Europe.The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NSCS) said it was working with the affected companies but the national impact was minimal. Continue reading...
World’s largest crypto exchange faces fallout from angry customers, and Lula wins with WhatsAppThis was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Sign up to receive it hereThis week in tech, we’re discussing the fallout from the multibillion-dollar hack of Binance and the significance of Lula’s political mobilization on WhatsApp.And if you’ll be at Web Summit in Lisbon next week, drop me a line! I’ll be there moderating panels on open-source AI and human agency in the age of AI agents.Tell us: have you been affected by the Binance hack?Polymarket temporarily suspends trading on international platform due to security incidentHow crypto hacking funds isolated North Korea’s nuclear programmeGhost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernaturalComputerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readingsThe staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualizedBillionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midtermsHow tech became the villain of the US midtermsThe ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax Continue reading...
In October 2026, MI5 revealed it was spending more on countering state threats than it did during the Cold War. The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank explores the changing nature of state-backed cyber threats.
Almost £10m of funding is being made available to help qualifying SMEs achieve Cyber Essentials certification.
Refrigerators at three meat processors in the UK were hit by cyber attacks amid warnings from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre to protect internet-facing industrial devices
Drax’s FTSE 250 owner strikes £20bn deal to build infrastructure in what it says is site’s ‘next chapter’Britain’s most polluting power plant could soon power the country’s largest datacentre under a £20bn deal to build AI infrastructure on the site of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire.The power plant’s FTSE 250 owner has struck a deal with the infrastructure investor Brookfield and and the AI infrastructure platform Radiant to develop a datacentre with an eventual capacity of more than 1 gigawatt that could begin operations by early 2028. Continue reading...
The Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) was the world’s first business computer and ran the world’s first automated business process
iPhone maker says decision to raise prices has offset some of impact, as revenues are stronger than expectedBusiness live – latest updatesApple has warned of an “unprecedented” rise in memory chip prices, as it battles with datacentres to lay its hands on supplies.The iPhone maker’s shares fell in after-hours trading after it told investors that the higher prices will eat into its profit margins. Continue reading...
The government-backed project aims to make home buying and selling easier through digital technology
Exclusive: Nonexistent precedent cited in alleged child rape case adds to dozens of AI-related errors plaguing court proceedingsA senior crown prosecutor acting in a high court case cited an imaginary legal precedent in an error that has sparked fresh concerns about AI hallucinations infecting the justice system.Ravinder Dhillon, representing the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), referenced an entirely made-up case during a dispute over whether a child should be prosecuted for the rape of his younger sister, court documents have revealed. Continue reading...
In a worst-case scenario, self-replicating artificial intelligence could launch cyber attacks at will against UK targets by 2028
A series of cyber attacks targeting supermarket cold chain equipment has highlighted a lack of attention paid to the resilience of operational technology
Prospect to hold workplace sessions and recruit members under agreement with tech companyTrade unions are expected to make further inroads into big tech companies in the UK after new rights for unions to access workplaces came into force, with Google UK signing an agreement on Monday.The Prospect union has reached an agreement with Google to begin organising among about 7,000 workers across its UK operations, including YouTube but excluding DeepMind. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Gap between NHS claim and trusts’ comments described as ‘very misleading’ by senior health officialMore than two dozen hospital trusts the NHS claims have benefited from Palantir’s medical data platform are not using all or most of the AI-powered technology, the Guardian can reveal.The 29 hospital trusts that NHS England publicly lists as “realising benefits” from the controversial £330m federated data platform (FDP) have said the system is not live or they are not using any of its applications. The apparent gap between the NHS claim and the trusts’ understanding was described as “very misleading” by one senior health official. Continue reading...