Labour announces plans to overhaul digital government
The UK government has announced wide-ranging plans to overhaul the way technology is funded, implemented and acquired across the public sector to accelerate the development…
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Government plans to revamp digital services to save £45bn
The government is pushing the idea of using more digital tools and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the efficiency of the public sector. The new…
Telehouse research highlights UK knowledge gap about what datacentres do
Despite the government repeatedly hyping up the importance of the datacentre market to the UK economy, research shows the general public remains largely unaware of…
The death of the piggy bank marks coming of age of a fintech
Those Beyond started life as the tech lab of fintech unicorn Thought Machine, supplying cloud-based core banking systems to the world’s biggest banks. Now, after…
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
Video-sharing platform TikTok will ‘go dark’ in the United States at midnight on Sunday 19 January after the Supreme Court upheld a nationwide ban on…
£150m AI framework agreement set to drive NHS forward
NHS Shared Business Services has issued a tender worth £150m, split into six lots, covering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging and…
Researchers say AI fails to describe complexities of Holocaust
Existing artificial intelligence (AI) models available in the public domain fail to provide “complexities and nuances of the past”, and merely offer oversimplified stories about…
Why CIO tenures are getting shorter …. and why it matters
It is widely acknowledged that CIOs (and other tech leaders such as CTOs) on average spend a relatively short time in their roles compared to…
Cyber innovation to address rising regulatory, threat burden
The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, presenting security leaders with unprecedented challenges. As threats increase in volume and complexity, exacerbated by geopolitical tensions and cyber…
Lords debate government approach to automated decision-making
The UK government has expressed “reservations” about legislative proposals from Lord Tim Clement-Jones to improve the scrutiny of algorithmic decision-making tools in the public sector,…
Enterprises need to make better choices to reduce GenAI emissions
The mounting environmental impacts of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems can be significantly reduced if businesses “choose the right model” for their use cases and…
A guide to DORA compliance
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force on 16 January 2023. Following a two-year implementation period, from 17 January 2025, financial organisations must…