Facial recognition endangers us all without a clear legal basis
On 27 January 2024, the Justice and Home Affairs Committee in the House of Lords became the latest voice to question the legality of police…
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UK plc going backwards on cyber maturity, Cisco report claims
UK organisations appear to be going backwards when it comes to their levels of cyber security maturity, with just 2% of organisations attaining the levels…
Government lifts chip strategy with a bit more cash
The government has unveiled £16.6m of funding, which it said has been earmarked for the development of semiconductors that power electric cars and the green…
HM Treasury builds out its data science team
The UK’s HM Treasury has expanded its headcount of data scientists as part of its plans to drive “data transformation” across the department. According to…
Sellafield to be prosecuted over alleged cyber compliance failure
Sellafield Ltd, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority-backed organisation currently working to wind up operations at the troubled Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, is to be prosecuted…
Podcast: What is distributed cloud storage and what are its benefits?
In this podcast, we look at distributed cloud storage with Enrico Signoretti, vice-president of product and partnerships at Cubbit. We talk about how storage has…
Ofgem begins consultation on dynamic price caps
Ofgem, the UK’s energy regulator, has launched a consultation into the feasibility of introducing a more dynamic price cap on energy prices. This would be…
Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation
Threat actors operating at the behest of government backers are significantly more likely to be behind the exploitation of newly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities than financially…
Ransomware gang leaks data stolen from Scottish NHS board
The scope of a recent cyber incident at NHS Dumfries and Galloway, which initially came to light earlier in March 2024, may be on the…
HMRC’s online IR35 status checker tool CEST not updated in five years, FOI confirms
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has sought to dismiss concerns about its online IR35 status checker tool not being updated for five years by emphasising…
Generative AI: Databricks unveils open source large language model
Data and artificial intelligence (AI) company Databricks has unveiled DBRX, a general-purpose large language model (LLM) that it claims can outperform other open source models.…
Lord Holmes: UK cannot ‘wait and see’ to regulate AI
The UK government’s “wait and see” approach to regulating artificial intelligence (AI) is not good enough when real harms are happening right now, says Conservative…