Dubai rolls out AI training for 50,000 government staff
Dubai has launched a large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) workforce initiative to transform how government employees use and apply emerging technologies in public service delivery, marking…
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Privacy, power, and encryption: why end-to-end security matters
Privacy is not a modern invention; it is part of the human condition of trust, dissent, and intimacy. Every society has developed ways to communicate…
Welcome to agentic AI. Welcome to per-agent licensing
Amid the artificial intelligence (AI) frenzy of investment and hype of across Big Tech these past two years there has been one overarching yet unanswered…
Capita lacked ‘detail and thoroughness’ in planning botched Civil Service Pension Scheme takeover
Capita did not take advantage of MyCSP’s 12 years’ experience administering the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) during its takeover, according to the boss of…
AI, energy, and the new rules of cloud sustainability competition
The cloud industry has long promoted a reassuring sustainability narrative: Hyperscalers are more efficient and renewables for energy are growing, which means shifting workloads off‑premises…
North Korean social engineering campaign targets macOS users
A North Korean social engineering campaign targeting macOS users tricked its victims into manually executing malicious files by impersonating a software update led to the…
Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows
The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the process of shaking up the way in which it handles common vulnerabilities and…
Oslo’s robots aren’t yet taking over, but are already punching above their weight
After establishing a robotics ecosystem, leading innovators from Norway’s capital are calling for more open access to risk capital so that they can take the…
UK government seeks collaborators for AI tutoring tools for schools
The UK government is looking for education tech (EdTech) and artificial intelligence (AI) companies to help with its push to create AI tutoring tools for…
Finance regulators to address AI risks after MPs say they are ‘not doing enough’
UK financial services regulators are taking action to reduce the risks posed by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the finance sector. The Bank…
Interview: Bernard Seiser, vice-president of digital, data and IT, AOP Health
For Bernard Seiser, being vice-president of digital, data and IT at healthcare specialist AOP Health is the latest leg in a digital leadership journey that’s…
CYBERUK ’26: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber pros
The increasingly long-in-the-tooth Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990 remains an albatross around the neck of British cyber security professionals, and even though the UK…