The cyber law that could change everything
Midmarket businesses are the engine room of the UK economy. They account for roughly a third of private sector turnover and employ millions of people…
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AI won’t break your security, but your governance might
Frontier AI models such as Claude Mythos are accelerating vulnerability discovery, but the bigger risk is whether organisations can maintain cyber fundamentals and manage the…
SNP council backs datacentre halt and creates Burnham dilemma
The Scottish National Party’s (SNP) national council has passed a motion to freeze all new datacentre development in Scotland, which would create a constitutional and…
Capita civil service pension contract ‘prime candidate’ for insourcing, says government minister
Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said he would insource the civil service pension scheme (CSPS) tomorrow if it was possible, as Capita’s failures continue.…
UK regulator publishes ‘landmark’ AI review
A “landmark review” by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) describes artificial intelligence (AI) as a “defining force” that will change financial services to consumers, but…
Can the UK become a digital maker instead of a service taker?
Before the seeming ubiquity of the cloud platforms we’re accustomed to today, UK companies and our Government had a decades-long history of strong and healthy…
Asda’s supply chain woes bring lessons for IT project planning
Asda’s latest financial results have highlighted the business risks associated with large-scale IT implementations. Problems with the supermarket’s implementation of an SAP system, following its…
Capita’s rush to hit civil service pension deadline risking errors, say staff
Staff working on Capita’s botched civil service pension contract have concerns over data accuracy, data protection and the possible impacts for members scheme members. According…
Middle East urged to prioritise prevention as cyber workforce gap hits 300,000
The Middle East’s cyber security workforce shortage is deepening at a time when organisations are accelerating cloud adoption, deploying applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI)…
Platforms must shoulder burden of proof for social media design
The harms of social media design are so clear that the “burden of proof” for safer features must fall on the companies themselves, rather than…
Interview: Oracle NetSuite’s Evan Goldberg – SaaSpocalypse averted
Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, recently took a class in artificial intelligence (AI) at Stanford University to brush up on his knowledge, he…
Europe’s sovereignty ambitions stall at the procurement desk
Sachiko Muto, chair of OpenForum Europe and senior researcher at Rise Institute, has spent the better part of two decades telling European policymakers that open…