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Computing's Tom Allen and Penny Horwood talk to tech execs about their challenges, their passions and, of course, their technology - from AI to zero-days, and everything in between.

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Inside the News: Cyber, Satellites and the Sovereignty Question

October 19, 2026

Tom Allen (0:00)

No one wants to hear it, but we have to face facts that, as we've reported several times, and as people have told us, we are at war.

Penny Horwood (0:08)

Yes.

Tom Allen (0:08)

We may not be in a hot war or a physical kinetic war, but cyber war with Russia, we are currently in a state of war. Yeah, I agree. And as most of the West, to be honest.

Welcome back to Inside the News, a very special edition of Ctrl Alt Lead, where Penny and I discuss, analyze, and dissect all the recent important tech news that's been going on in the world. So Penny, we're going to start today with the ASOS attack that happened a couple of weeks ago. What do we know about it?

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