News Archive | April 2026

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April 29th
- Inforcer launches new Copilot Manager to help MSPs scale AI services
- North Korean hackers are duping freelance developers with fake interviews to steal cryptocurrency and deliver malware — Sophos warns the 'Nickel Alley' group is using LinkedIn, Upwork, and Fiverr to target victims
- Liz Kendall: The UK is in prime position to become a global leader in AI — but greater tech industry support is needed to avoid falling behind
- AI is coming to Ubuntu: Canonical exec teases future AI features and agentic workflow capabilities for version 26.10 — but on a ‘strictly opt-in basis’
April 28th
- Kaseya shifts from AI ‘insights’ to autonomous action with new agentic platform
- Accenture has been trialling Microsoft Copilot since 2023 – now it’s rolling out the AI tool to all 743,000 staff
- Compromised open source package pushed malicious Elementary CLI release to developers
- Everything you need to know about the GitHub Copilot pricing changes
- Integris makes first international move with Australian MSP acquisition
April 27th
- Enterprises flock to AI PCs amid sharpened workforce productivity focus
- Node4 names new CEO and chair in double leadership swoop
- Google once again ramps up funding for Anthropic
- Pay up or expect attrition: 77% of cyber professionals missed out on pay rises last year – and almost half now plan to switch roles
April 24th
- Cohere's Aleph Alpha merger could create a transatlantic sovereign AI powerhouse
- Four things you need to know about OpenAI’s new workspace agents for ChatGPT – including how to build your own
- Threat actors ditch ‘spray and pray’ attacks in shift to targeted exploitation
- UK firms accelerate ‘sovereign AI’ plans amid concerns over dependence on overseas tech
- ‘We will not profiteer from this crisis’: Everpure CEO tells customers to brace for price hikes amid component shortages
April 23rd
- A ‘perfect storm’: NCSC chief issues warning over quantum threats, nation-state hackers, and the dangers of global ‘hacktivism’
- Claroty names John Ryan as new global channel chief
- ITPro NAB Best of Show 2026 Awards winners unveiled
- The NCSC says it’s time to switch to passkeys
- New framework allows EU firms to check if 'sovereign' cloud services are truly sovereign
- 'The goal for this year will be to automate all security processes': Google Cloud is betting on Wiz to usher in a new era of AI security
- UK organizations are failing to move past basic AI use-cases
April 22nd
- Google Cloud Next 2026: all the live updates as they happen
- "While the engineers slept, the agents kept building": AWS UK chief touts big gains with AI-powered coding
- Google Cloud announces eighth-generation TPUs, boasting AI training and inference leaps
- Google expands Gemini Enterprise, consolidates Vertex AI services to simplify agent deployment
- "For years, Microsoft's practices have had real financial impact on both public and private organizations" – Microsoft faces new legal challenge over licensing practices
- The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is the ultra-repairable laptop that lets you ditch Windows – and Copilot
- "Consumer messaging apps were never designed to handle sensitive communications" – Government decision-makers are confused about messaging security, BlackBerry report finds
- ServiceNow wraps up $7.75 billion Armis acquisition
April 21st
- Enterprises are preparing for a post-quantum world – experts worry it could be too late for many
- UK firms ponder offshoring AI workloads as energy costs surge
- Cisco is expanding its sovereign infrastructure suite for EMEA customers
- Everything we know about the Vercel data breach so far
- ‘Steve Jobs was never going to be an easy act to follow’: How Tim Cook transformed Apple into a ‘durable’ tech industry powerhouse
April 20th
- Zoom launches new verification features to tackle AI impersonation
- Brit pleads guilty amid Scattered Spider hacking spree claims
- UK firms are grappling with mismatched AI productivity gains – employees are more efficient, but business performance is stagnating
- UK Semiconductor Centre names new international partnerships chief
- European Commission awards digital sovereignty contracts, backs Google Cloud involvement
April 17th
- Surging memory costs are scuppering digital transformation projects
- Brother UK taps Mike Brown to spearhead channel growth
- Tycoon 2FA is down, but not out – researchers warn the phishing as a service operation is still a huge threat to businesses
- ‘We experimented with efforts to differentially reduce these capabilities’: Anthropic toned down Opus 4.7’s cyber uses in wake of Claude Mythos release
- ‘This isn’t a pipeline problem; it’s a leadership one’: Women are leaving tech roles at the peak of their careers – and taking vital skills elsewhere
- SugarCRM rebrands in AI-driven CRM and channel push
April 16th
- Cisco extends Webex data residency to UK
- AI is now a ‘standard part of the attacker toolkit’
- NIST is overhauling the National Vulnerability Database due to skyrocketing reports – experts worry it will ‘leave many CVEs on the table’
- UK government targets 'sovereign AI' gains with new £500 million startup funding scheme
- ‘AI is not making IT simpler – it's making it more consequential’: IT workers are feeling the heat as AI raises expectations
April 15th
- Has another OpenAI Stargate project hit the rocks?
- AI and Data are reshaping the MSP landscape, but hackers are getting in on the hot AI action
- AI agents using Anthropic MCP could be a vector for supply chain attacks, claim researchers
- Brace yourselves for a vulnerability explosion, Forescout warns
- Security leaders overconfident about ransomware recovery
- AI demand soars as traditional deal sizes shrink, Kaseya reports
April 14th
- Most organizations make a mess of handling digital disruption
- Legacy tech isn’t just harming productivity and finances, it’s affecting workforce morale – research shows 20% of workers are ‘exhausted’ and ‘demoralized’ by outdated tools
- Only 34% of cyber professionals plan to stay in their current role
- Gas-powered data centers could more than double Microsoft's emissions
- Digital rights organizers warn UK is too reliant on big tech, urge digital sovereignty
April 13th
- Wiz: 80% of cloud breaches are caused by basic mistakes
- OpenAI announces first permanent London office in UK expansion push
- SailPoint names new CPO in identity security growth drive
- Just 20% of companies are lapping up 75% of AI’s financial gains
- Microsoft touts “cost effective” cloud PC prices for small businesses as hardware prices spike
April 10th
- Developers are slacking on AI-generated code safety – here's why it could come back to haunt them
- Dynatrace eyes IT observability gains with Bindplane acquisition
- AI is raising the stakes for cyber professionals – Claude Mythos just took things to another level
- Zephyr Energy hackers swiped £700,000 after redirecting a contractor payment
- Global semiconductor revenue set to hit 20-year high
- Lloyds Bank touts quantum potential in anti-fraud activities
April 9th
- OpenAI hits the brakes on Stargate UK infrastructure project, citing energy costs and regulatory concerns
- Agent identity governance can't keeping up with adoption rates – and it’s creating a security nightmare
- ‘AI isn’t replacing human talent’: UK tech workers are insulated from automation – at least for now
- AND Digital builds on US market momentum with new strategy and operations chief
- Enterprises need to stop shoehorning AI where it isn’t needed
April 8th
- ROI is about more than profitability when it comes to AI adoption – here’s what enterprises are looking for
- Alteryx appoints new CIO in AI transformation push
- NCSC issues alert over Russian hacker campaign targeting SOHO routers
- Marc Benioff thinks AI isn't quite ready to replace software engineers
- More than half of enterprises are using devices with out-of-date operating systems – and it’s leaving them wide open to attacks
April 7th
- Anthropic is worried hackers could abuse its Claude Mythos AI model – so it's asking big tech partners to test it behind closed doors
- Anthropic pens multi-gigawatt TPU deal with Google and Broadcom as Claude demand picks up
- German authorities want your help finding the hackers behind GandCrab and REvil
- Enterprises are ‘paralyzed by a lack of understanding’ with AI adoption – and there's one key factor that decides success
- Lenovo revamps channel framework to support partner growth
- 'That language is no longer reflective of how Copilot is used today': Microsoft says Copilot isn't just for 'entertainment purposes only'
April 3rd
- Microsoft and NCSC issue alerts over hacker campaigns targeting WhatsApp, Signal messaging apps
- Advania UK strengthens senior leadership team with double appointment
April 2nd
- Cisco Wireless CTO: Mastering connectivity is the key to driving AI success and enterprise productivity – but beware of the ‘wireless AI paradox’
- 95% of organizations don’t fully trust their cybersecurity vendors – here’s why
- Everything we know about the Hasbro hack so far
- ‘Skipping a beat on resilience investment isn’t an option any more’ as IT outage costs soar
- Brother UK hires new commercial chief amid channel strategy shake-up
- Proton is launching its own ‘private alternative’ to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
- IBM strikes Arm deal in AI-focused hardware push
April 1st
- 78% of UK manufacturers have experienced a cyber incident in the last year – and more than half have taken a revenue hit
- ‘There was a manual deploy step that should have been better automated’: Claude Code creator confirms cause of massive source code leak
- Everest Group taps Ross Tisnovsky to lead CIO practice expansion
- Microsoft, Amazon cloud practice changes spark mixed industry reaction
- ‘The build pipeline is becoming the new frontline’: Axios npm compromise highlights growing software supply chain risks, experts warn
- IT admins are scrambling for alternatives in the wake of Microsoft’s MDT retirement