UK finance regulator tie-up with Nvidia allows firms to experiment with AI
The UK’s financial services regulator has teamed up with Nvidia to provide an environment to enable finance firms to test out artificial intelligence (AI) safely.…
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UK defence scheme invests in future cyber tech Cheri
SCI Semiconductors, a Cambridge-based tech company working on Capability Hardware Enhanced Risc Instructions (Cheri) systems to manage cyber defences, is to receive funding from the…
IBM reorients storage to cloud, containers and as-a-service
In this storage supplier profile, we look at IBM, which has perhaps the longest history of all the storage players, and in IT much more…
IBM updates path to fault-tolerant quantum computing
IBM has updated its roadmap for building large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, setting the stage for practical and scalable quantum computing. A quantum computer of this…
HMRC paid Fujitsu £315m last year, but Post Office supplier’s UK business faces gradual decline
Fujitsu received £315m from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in 12 months, while victims of the Post Office scandal, which the IT giant had a…
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…
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…