Essex Police halts live facial recognition over bias and accuracy risks
Essex Police has paused its use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after identifying potential accuracy and bias risks. The force’s suspension of its LFR…
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HSS ProService ‘Uber-ifies’ with functional programming and agentic AI
HSS ProService’s emergence as a fully digitised business has been underpinned by a marketplace system built on functional programming in Scala and Cats, plus agentic…
AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report
Artificial intelligence (AI) risk has entered the top tier of security concerns for the first time for 39% of organisations, according to a report from…
UK government puts brakes on opt-out copyright exemption for AI
The UK government has said it will not implement its plan to allow artificial intelligence (AI) firms to use copyrighted material without explicit permission for…
Cisa tells US organisations to harden endpoint management after Stryker attack
In the wake of a wave of cyber attacks over the past week, including an ongoing incident at medical technology firm Stryker, the US Cybersecurity…
Questions raised about Instagram memorialisation in Noah Donohoe inquest
A family has told an inquest that they were not responsible for memorialising the Instagram account of teenager Noah Donohoe after their family email account…
Government announces redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims
Family members of subpostmasters affected by the Post Office scandal can claim financial redress through a scheme due to be launched in the summer of…
Beyond integration theatre: Building stronger cyber platforms
Modern chief information security officers (CISOs) face a threat landscape defined by distributed systems, volatile supply chains, and expanding attack surfaces. Platform consolidation is often used…
UK MoD awards more than two dozen contracts for AI targeting systems
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded contracts to more than two dozen companies to develop autonomous targeting systems for the UK’s armed forces, but…
US lawmakers quiz Meta over ‘dangerous’ facial-recognition plans for smart glasses
US lawmakers have written to the social media company Meta demanding answers over proposals to introduce facial-recognition technology to its smart glasses, which the lawmakers…
Contactless payment limit removal will happen overnight, but change won’t
When UK citizens wake up on 19 March, there will no longer be a regulation that limits how much they can spend in a single…
Technology accelerating crime, boosts case for national police service, says NCA chief
Technology is accelerating crime, and making it more global and more harmful, the head of the UK’s National Crime agency said today. Graeme Biggar, the…