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Fractile expansion demonstrates UK growth opportunity AI chip firm’s £100m expansion and facility in Bristol is being used to showcase the government’s AI opportunity plan in action
Russia’s cyber attacks on Polish utilities draws NCSC alert A series of Russian cyber attacks targeting Poland's energy infrastructure has prompted a new warning from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
NTT Data deepens Middle East cloud push with acquisition of UAE-based Zero&One Deal highlights growing strategic importance of the UAE as global technology firms race to scale cloud, AI and digital services across the region
UAE’s TII challenges big tech dominance with open source Falcon AI models Through its Falcon models and an open, efficiency-driven research strategy, the Technology Innovation Institute is positioning the UAE as a producer of foundational AI, not merely a consumer of global platforms
US bid for Dutch ID infrastructure raises sovereignty concerns Kyndryl’s proposed takeover shows how critical systems become exposed to foreign control without an overarching policy decision
What Predicts (AI‐Mediated) Informal Digital Learning of English in the Global South? The Case of... ABSTRACT
Background
Amid Bangladesh's national efforts to enhance digital inclusion, rural university students continue to face persistent infrastructural and educational inequalities that limit their access to quality English learning opportunities. While informal digital environments increasingly support learners' out-of-class English development, little is ...
Australia’s CommBank partners business school to research artificial intelligence CommBank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence, as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector
AWS Q4 results: Public cloud giant continues to reap rewards of enterprise demand for AI... Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services claims the final quarter of 2025 saw it achieve its fastest rate of growth in 13 quarters
AI and Echoes From the Dot-Com Era: Hype, Hope, and Hard Lessons We discuss the important role of speculative investing to invent and advance new technologies, and in particular, artificial intelligence (AI). AI is experiencing an unprecedented investment surge, driven by tangible adoption, real productivity gains, and the pursuit of artificial general ...
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Parental AI Investment Behaviours and AI‐Mediated Informal Digital Learning of English: The Chain Mediating Role... ABSTRACT
Background
The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has popularised AI-Mediated Informal Digital Learning of English (AI-IDLE). Whilst research in this area is growing, social influencing factors, especially the role of parents as significant others, remain underexplored.
Objectives
Guided by the Situational Expectancy-Value ...
Author Webinar Series | Jonathon Wright | AI-driven software quality
Author Webinar Series | Jonathon Wright | AI-driven software quality Featuring Jonathon Wright, one of the authors of Artificial Intelligence and Software Testing, this session delves into the intersection of AI-driven tooling and software testing, exploring how these fast-emerging technologies are reshaping traditional testing practices.
In this webinar, Jonathon examines the ...
AGM Resolutions and Council elections 2026
AGM Resolutions and Council elections 2026 Hear from Eliot Smith MBCS, Jo Stansfield MBCS and Joseph Arday MBCS about the importance for BCS members to vote on the AGM Resolutions and Council elections!
Game‐Making for Cultural Change and Empowered Youth Participation ABSTRACT
Background
Game-making has the potential to foster cultural participation and empowerment, yet its role as a form of culture-making remains underexplored. Existing approaches to cultural engagement often overlook the creative and participatory possibilities of game-making for addressing pressing cultural challenges and ...
The Interplay of Automated Formative Feedback and Instructional Prompts in Developing Summarising Skills ABSTRACT
Background
Summarising has been shown to be an effective learning strategy as it enhances cognitive skills, communication abilities and information processing. Effective summarising skills are therefore an important academic asset for university students. Yet, undergraduates struggle to employ effective summarising strategies, ...
Applying a Think‐Pair‐Share (TPS) Structure to Asynchronous Online Discussions (AODs): A Mixed Methods Study ABSTRACT
Background
Asynchronous Online Discussion (AOD) has been frequently employed in higher education as a vital component of online learning activities. However, previous research has highlighted that students in AODs often exhibit a lack of frequent interaction and high-quality dialogues.
Objectives
This research seeks ...
UK IT Industry Awards 2025: The highlights
UK IT Industry Awards 2025: The highlights Over 1000 industry professionals joined Computing and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for a night of celebration.
Here are the highlights! Find out more about the awards: https://www.bcs.org/events/awards-and-competitions/uk-it-industry-awards/
From automation to thinking: The role of AGI in discourse analysis of computer-supported collaborative learning... Publication date: July 2026Source: Computers & Education, Volume 247Author(s): Tien-Chih Chang, Alice R.P. Li, Chia-Yu Wang, John J.H. Lin

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