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AI afterburn: Why software quality is crashing in the rush for speed
8+ hour, 46+ min ago (808+ words) AI is good, but, that "goodness" comes with casualties, complexities and responsibilities. These caveats are (of course) driven by the need to ensure data provenance " and indeed data handling, wrangling, storage and retrieval " is properly catered for and managed on…...
Och AI the noo: What to expect from State of Open Con, Edinburgh
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (257+ words) Mercifully staged on British shores, the State of Open Con, Edinburgh, is held this week on Friday 5th June, so what can we expect? Speakers will cover security, investment in infrastructure and the future for Scotland. The event will include speakers…...
Wisdom AI Embedded Agentic Analytics puts colour into white-labelled AI
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (724+ words) Wisdom AI has announced its new Embedded Agentic Analytics service, an embeddable analytics platform that ships conversational BI, AI-powered dashboards and Analytics agents as a single white-labelled backend. Known as a company that straddles AI analytics and business intelligence, Wisdom…...
How safer AI applications could be built
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (839+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being positioned as the key to faster software development, smarter customer experiences and more efficient operations. In a year when AI capital spending is expected to reach $725bn in 2026, this surge in investment is driving business…...
Agentic AI is driving rethink of enterprise architecture and tokenomics
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (1099+ words) A year may sound like a long time in enterprise technology, but in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the last 12 months have completely rewritten the enterprise architecture playbook. Speaking to Computer Weekly on the sidelines of the Dell Technologies…...
Valkey 9. 1 grows up: "It's a database," says key maintainer
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (654+ words) The Valkey team has announced version 9. 1. 0 of its core software base. Valkey is an open-source, high-performance, in-memory data store used as a database, cache and message broker, created as an alternative to Redis." Speaking at the Percona Live 2026 conference this…...
Five-minute interview: Shawn Toldo, dbt Labs
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (171+ words) Brian Jackson - stock. adobe. com I lead the global partner ecosystem for dbt Labs, including partner strategy, programmes, strategic alliances and regional partner sales. What I love most about this role is the team around me. I get to work…...
IT project success: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (330+ words) A discussion on why, in spite of industry best practices, IT projects are still failing In his experience, in cases where IT projects fail to deliver a business impact, often it is because the workflows are not right. What this…...
CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI's influence grows | Computer Weekly
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (453+ words) The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is anticipating the "inevitable" emergence of an open source alternative to Nvidia's dominant Cuda parallel computing platform used to program graphics processing units (GPUs) as the industry seeks to avoid supplier lock-in for artificial…...
Acceldata x Lake architecture offers compute, governance, observability (and quality)
1+ week, 5+ day ago (607+ words) Agentic data management company Acceldata this week announced the general availability of its autonomous data & AI platform. The concept is simple enough" bring governed compute to wherever enterprise data lives. This platform enables developers to autonomously run data analytics and…...