Enormous AI growth zone datacentre gets planning approval
Planning permission has been approved for what is reported to be one of the UK’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) datacentres, a 1GW project in north…
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The UK government’s digital identity scheme: Dystopian nightmare or modernised public services?
The Rashomon Effect is a narrative technique pioneered by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, whereby each act of a story shows the same scene from the…
Vulnerability reports: Increase in quantity, decrease in quality?
The concept of the bug bounty is relatively simple: a researcher probes networks and applications for potential vulnerabilities, finds one, and reports it to the…
This rise of the splinternet? Data sovereignty risks and responses
When US president Trump implemented sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in February 2025, it wasn’t long before ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan found…
Lloyds banking app ‘glitch’ shows transactions of strangers
Customers of Lloyds Banking Group have reported being able to see transactions made by other customers on their banking apps. Users of the group’s banking…
MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions
MPs have called for “urgent legislation” to overturn Post Office convictions based on its Capture software and warned that “unsafe” convictions based on other pre-Horizon…
UK government ‘flying blind’ with poor data in charting regional growth
The government is “flying blind” when it comes to economic growth in the UK’s regions, due to a lack of decent data. according to the…
How CISOs can build a truly unified and resilient security platform
As security leaders rush to implement the latest AI threat detection tool or zero-trust framework, they too often overlook that the traditional office network, once…
Interpol obliterates cyber criminal infrastructure
In a serious setback to the cyber criminal underground, an Interpol-led operation spanning 72 countries and territories has successfully neutralised more than 45,000 malicious IP…
Why AI Is shifting power left
For decades, large organisations have run on professional gatekeepers. IT decided which tools were approved, procurement decided what was compliant, legal decided what was safe.…
Confidence in AI-powered cyber must be earned, not assumed
AI already underpins detection, investigation and response across the security stack, and its role will only expand. The question for CISOs is no longer whether…
Oracle cost-cutting points to AI infrastructure gamble
The questions asked during Oracle’s Q3 FY26 earnings call is indicative of the legitimate concerns investors have over whether spending vast sums of money on…