Microsoft given until 25 July to respond to UK cloud licensing legal claim
Microsoft has until 25 July 2025 to respond to a £2bn legal claim, filed on behalf of thousands of UK businesses that were allegedly overcharged…
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Are we normalising surveillance in schools?
A vast array of student information is collected under protective measures in secondary schools and colleges, yet the pupils are not always aware of what…
Compensation to Post Office scandal victims reaches £1bn milestone
More than 7,000 people have received over £1bn between them as part of the government’s promise to provide financial redress to victims of the Post…
Starmer opens London Tech Week with £1bn AI boost
London Tech Week 2025 has kicked off with a set of initiatives to bolster the UK’s sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Prime minister Keir Starmer…
Barclays rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 100,000 employees as AI adoption gathers pace
Barclays has signed an agreement with public cloud giant Microsoft that will see the latter’s generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tool Copilot rolled out to 100,000…
US lawmakers say UK has ‘gone too far’ by attacking Apple’s encryption
US lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to revisit its data-sharing agreement with the UK, following growing disquiet that a secret legal order issued…
Local council devolution: Could it accelerate the pace of local government cloud adoption?
But with Whitehall pushing a local government devolution agenda, fresh opportunities for local authorities to pick up the pace of their cloud migration plans could…
What happens if Silicon Valley’s AI investment bubble bursts?
The drumbeat of news around advances in artificial intelligence (AI) has become impossible to ignore. And yet it still doesn’t capture the colossal resources necessary…
In conflict: Putting Russia’s datacentre market under the microscope
When Russian troops invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Russia’s datacentre sector was one of the fastest-growing segments of the country’s IT industry, with annual…
UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics strategy, which the regulator says will support innovation while protecting people’s…
SXSW: An immersive experience is the future of AI
The recent teaser advert from OpenAI founder Sam Altman and Jony Ive, co-designer of the iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch and AirPods, was among the areas of…
HMRC phishing breach wholly avoidable, but hard to stop
A significant cyber breach at His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that saw scammers cheat the public purse out of approximately £47m has been met…