Broken decryptor leaves Sicarii ransomware victims adrift
A coding error, possibly introduced thanks to over-reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) vibe coding tools, has rendered an emergent strain of ransomware an acutely dangerous…
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UK government’s National Data Library works up steam
The UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has completed what it calls the “discovery phase” of its bid to create a National…
Peer demands independent investigation into DWP’s prosecution of subpostmasters
The government should commit to a thorough independent investigation of the prosecutions of subpostmasters by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), a campaigning peer…
Alan Turing Institute fellowship programme boosted by $1m from Meta
Building on the CustomerFirst unit, which was unveiled last week, the UK government has announced that Meta is investing $1m through the Alan Turing Institute…
Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to UK dissident targeted with Pegasus spyware
A judge has ordered the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to pay compensation of £3m to a London-based dissident who was subject to “grossly intrusive”…
Three-quarters of UK IT teams beset by outages due to missing alerts
Three-quarters of UK IT professionals say they had outages due to missing alerts in 2025, according to research from Splunk, published last year and being…
The need to build and protect UK digital sovereignty
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Landmark legal challenge against police facial recognition begins
A judicial review against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition (LFR) will argue the force is unlawfully deploying the technology across London, without…
Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision
A Spanish court has raised questions about the validity and reliability of intercepted phone data, acquitting multiple defendants of drug trafficking charges in a case…
AI claims are cheap: The challenge is to work out what’s real
AI security tooling is already mainstream, and 2026 will only amplify the noise. Expect more ‘AI-washed’ claims, bigger promises, and rising fear, uncertainty and doubt…
Microsoft introduces AI accelerator for US Azure customers
Microsoft has announced that Azure’s US central datacentre region is the first to receive a new artificial intelligence (AI) inference accelerator, Maia 200. Microsoft describes…
Dawn supercomputer gets sixfold boost thanks to £36m funding injection
The government has announced it is ploughing £36m into the Dawn supercomputer, which will lead to a sixfold increase in performance and make it one…