The ‘year of AI’: 2026 sees influx of ransomware attacks
Prior to taking up the role of senior vice-president of Halcyon’s Ransomware Research Centre, Cynthia Kaiser worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for…
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Why frontier AI must be stress-tested before CISOs trust it
The current debate around Anthropic’s Claude Mythos can be unnecessarily binary. Depending on who you ask, frontier AI models are anything from an existential cyber…
Met Palantir pilot: The DPIA that raises more questions than answers
An eight-to-12-week pilot that stretched to six months. Highly sensitive employee data – health records, criminal offence information, details of vulnerable individuals – processed by…
Finland drives AI growth amid low take-up concerns
Finland plans to ramp up funding for advanced technology-specific research and development projects and key state industrial development agencies in a bid to bolster innovation…
Boomi CEO shares vision of AI cost management
Boomi is hoping it can provide IT leaders with greater visibility on their token spend, something which is lacking across the industry. The company is…
Former Post Office legal boss referred to disciplinary council
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has referred a former Post Office general counsel to the Solicitors Disciplinary Council over her statutory public inquiry no show.…
Six companies selected as AI tutoring development partners
The UK government has selected six partner firms to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tutoring tools which will be offered free to pupils around the UK.…
Nationwide bets on VCF as Broadcom responds to Tesco
Nationwide Building Society has extended its contract with Broadcom covering VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The virtualisation platform forms the foundation for a fully integrated, enterprise-grade…
EU proposes tech-backed expansion of Europol policing agency
The European Commission has unveiled plans to double the budget of Europe’s policing agency, Europol, giving it new powers to collect and share personal data…
Met pushes ahead with major facial-recognition expansion
The Metropolitan Police will deploy static live facial-recognition (LFR) cameras across the West End and Soho by the end of 2026, despite increased pressure for…
Digital surveillance tech facilitates ‘arbitrary’ border abuses
The sharing of digital surveillance technologies by states looking to outsource their asylum and migration processes is contributing to human rights violations against people on…
UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC
Britain’s national museums and galleries are highly vulnerable to cyber threats and by-and-large, have failed to heed the prescient warnings from the 2023 British Library…