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ISSUE DATE:  January 27, 2026
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Landmark legal challenge against police facial recognition begins
The High Court will examine whether the Metropolitan Police is acting lawfully with its deployments of live facial recognition, in the UK’s first judicial review of how the technology is being used.
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Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision
Prosecutors have been told they cannot rely on intercept evidence from the Sky ECC encrypted phone network in the absence of other evidence, unless they disclose the raw intercept data to defendants in decision that could have a significant impact on future prosecutions.
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Dawn supercomputer gets sixfold boost thanks to £36m funding injection
The government is ploughing in public money to build out one of the UK’s most powerful supercomputers.
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US punts renewal of threat data sharing law to September
US lawmakers have extended the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 for another nine months, buying time to enact a replacement for the legislation.
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Microsoft introduces AI accelerator for US Azure customers
The company has developed Maia 200, an AI accelerator that promises to boost inference workloads.
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STT GDC launches HVDC testbed to address AI’s power demands
The FutureGrid Accelerator on Jurong Island will test the use of high-voltage direct current power systems, as traditional alternating current power systems can no longer address the growing energy needs of AI datacentres.
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Tech nationalism: The need to build and protect UK digital sovereignty
This week’s edition of the Computer Weekly ezine has a focus on digital sovereignty, as we delve into why the Open Rights Group thinks it is high time the UK government has a formalised strategy, championing homegrown tech providers. The last in our recent run of buyer’s guides also touches on this topic. Elsewhere, we hear from the CISO of online retailer Zalando about how she’s drawing on her career in tech to reshape the firm’s approach to security. Rounding out the ezine, we find out how the adoption of AI is affecting employee autonomy in the workplace. Read the issue now.
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