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…
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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…
AI tools offer ‘near-real-time’ analysis of data from seized mobile phones and computers
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools developed by Israeli digital intelligence company Cellebrite will give police investigators the capability to interrogate call records, text messages, images and…
Digital IDs edge closer to practical reality for UK businesses
Work to translate the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology’s (CFIT’s) Digital Company ID blueprint into practical, real-world deployments of reusable digital identities for UK…
MPs asks Lloyds Bank for more information about ‘alarming’ breach
The chair of the Treasury Committee of MPs has written to Lloyds Banking Group boss demanding more information about an “alarming breach of confidentiality”. On…
Funding and procurement to target UK quantum innovation
The UK government has committed to investing £1bn over the next four years to enable the country to win the race to deliver quantum computing at…
SuperMicro takes on server leaders as AMD pushes on-premise AI
Market data from analyst IDC has shown that SuperMicro has leapfrogged established server makers Lenovo and HPE as the second-largest PC server maker behind Dell.…