Kenyan AI workers form Data Labelers Association
Artificial intelligence (AI) workers in Kenya have launched the Data Labelers Association (DLA) to fight for fair pay, mental health support and better overall working…
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Gartner: CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives
Around the world, security leaders say they are struggling to balance the need to appropriately secure their data and the need to maximise efficient use…
Government launches consultation on plan to streamline business through e-invoicing
The government has asked businesses for comment on a UK approach to electronic invoicing (e-invoicing), which is part of its plan to grow the economy.…
Government renames AI Safety Institute and teams up with Anthropic
Peter Kyle, secretary of state for Science, Innovation and Technology will use the Munich Security Conference as a platform to re-name the UK’s AI Safety…
UK accused of political ‘foreign cyberattack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple
An unprecedented letter from the US Congress, released today, accuses the UK of “a foreign cyberattack waged through political means”. The claim refers to a…
Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data
Over a hundred cyber security experts, companies and civil society groups have signed a letter calling for the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper to drop demands…
EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins
As the European Union (EU) prepares to respond to Trump’s 25% tariff on aluminium and steel, a widely reported paper from Goldman Sachs has suggested…
Baltic skills programme to help reduce European skills gap via Africa
IT professionals in Africa are being connected to tech businesses in the Baltic region as part of a European Commission-funded project. Through a focus on…
Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage
Oxford Semantic Technologies, is an example of what Matt Clifford, chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), was thinking about when he drafted…
UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers
The UK government has sanctioned Russian entity Zservers, as well as six individual members of the cyber group and its UK representative, XHOST. In a…
AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched
Two major artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives have been launched at the AI Action Summit in Paris, focused on promoting sustainable and “public-interest” applications of the…
Microsoft’s February 2025 Patch Tuesday corrects 57 bugs, three critical
Microsoft followed up its massive January Patch Tuesday update containing fixes for 159 vulnerabilities with a more modest crop this month. This time, it released fixes…