Driving licence data could be used for police facial recognition
Human rights group Liberty has said the UK government’s proposed Crime and Policing Bill will transform the country’s driving licence database into a de-facto facial…
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Government announces inevitable end to Payments Services Regulator
The government has canned the Payments Services Regulator (PSR) to reduce red tape as part of its Plan for Change. PSR activities will be transitioned…
IR35 reforms: HMRC’s assessment of private sector impacts called into question
The news that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has collected £1bn more in tax than expected from the 2021 private sector roll-out of the IR35…
Salesforce execs at TDX 25: Agentforce a whole system AI play
At the TDX 2025 developer conference in San Francisco, Salesforce executives presented its Agentforce agentic AI technology as a “whole system” approach, where large language…
Apple slated in CMA mobile browser investigation
The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) final report into the mobile browser market has found innovation is being held back by a lack of competition,…
iPhone, iPad update fixes critical WebKit flaw
Apple has released updated versions of its iOS and iPadOS mobile operating system (OS) that address a potentially dangerous vulnerability that appears to have been…
Report hails benefits of ‘socially integrating’ datacentres into local communities
Datacentre developers should be doing more to ensure local communities are reaping the full benefits that having a server farm on their doorstep can bring,…
March Patch Tuesday brings 57 fixes, multiple zero-days
Microsoft has dropped a grand total of 57 fixes to mark the third Patch Tuesday update of 2025 – rising to closer to 70 when…
Dutch police disrupt half of ransomware operations, finds embedded PHD student
Dutch police interventions successfully disrupt approximately half of the ransomware groups they target, according to PhD research at the University of Twente. Conducted by Tom…
Musk claims of Ukraine DDoS attack derided by cyber community
Tech oligarch Elon Musk has drawn criticism from cyber security experts following unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine was behind an apparent distributed denial of service (DDoS)…
Secret London tribunal to hear appeal in Apple vs government battle over encryption
A secret tribunal is due to meet at the High Court in London this week to hear tech giant Apple appeal against a Home Office…
Perimeter security appliances source of most ransomware hits
Compromised or vulnerable perimeter security appliances and devices – especially virtual private networks (VPNs) – formed the initial access vector in over half of observed…