Teachers surprised pension service not fully returned after migration blackout
The two-week blackout for the switchover of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme from Capita to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was not the final stage expected by…
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UK government responds to facial recognition consultation
The UK government has reiterated its intention to bring forward a new legislative framework for police use of biometrics, but has so far refrained from…
UK government ‘house of cards’ heavily reliant on US AI models
The artificial intelligence (AI) tools used by the UK government rely almost exclusively on models from US tech firms, raising questions over contingency planning. According…
Home Office plans £881.6m AWS deal, at nearly three times spend rate
The Home Office plans to renew its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud hosting at a potential cost of £881.6m over two years – nearly three…
Minority groups oppose ‘routine’ police facial recognition
Facial recognition technology (FRT) should not become a “routine or firsthand policing tool” in the UK, the Home Office-commissioned study into the views of minority…
SailPoint: Anarchy reigns over enterprise agentic AI
Some 89% of enterprises in EMEA have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) agents, but 99% of these lack the identity security tools to govern them, according…
OECD: AI compute now a strategic asset as UK bets £2bn
Artificial intelligence (AI) compute has become a strategic national asset, with venture capital for AI infrastructure more than doubling year-on-year to $123.9bn in 2025. Meanwhile,…
Capita last UK firm among government strategic tech suppliers
Capita is now the only UK-headquartered company among the 12 tech firms on the UK government’s strategic suppliers list. The other 11 technology suppliers on…
The invisible maths behind cloud carbon accounting
Enterprise carbon dashboards offer a soothing narrative. Every month, CIOs receive automated reports that show declining Scope 2 emissions, falling carbon intensity per virtual core,…
Mastercard meets ‘responsibility’ through SME cyber security training
Mastercard has launched free cyber security training to UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as the firm’s own research reveals over three million of them…
Data dive: Datacentre electricity – how much, where, why regions matter
The UK’s datacentres used 1.8% of all Great Britain’s grid electricity in 2024. That proportion had increased from 1.2% in 2020. That electricity draw was…
UK abattoirs caught up in cyber attack against European supermarkets
British meat processing companies have been hit by the cyber attack that targeted supermarket fridges and freezers across Europe. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)…