Online retail accessibility is failing disabled customers
More than 80% of customers with disabilities are unable to complete an online retail journey without help due to accessibility issues, according to research. Design…
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How IAM providers are preparing for agentic AI
There is a very real sense that every organisation dabbling with artificial intelligence (AI) – in particular, agentic AI – is heading directly into an IT…
Inclusion in engineering needs the same rigour as other critical systems
Engineering and technology thrive on precision. When systems must perform under pressure, operate flawlessly at scale, and withstand every stress test thrown at them, the…
Pegasystems CEO and founder Alan Trefler on AI agent ‘madness’
Mainstream software suppliers are pursuing a “philosophy of madness” by persuading enterprises to deploy thousands of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, says Alan Trefler, the CEO…
Cost the major barrier in AI’s race to space
Space-based datacentres (SBDC) are achievable in five to 10 years, but financial feasibility is the biggest bottleneck to its adoption, according to a white paper…
MWC 2026 Shanghai: Huawei bets on token economy as telecoms seeks new AI revenues
For decades, mobile operators have built their business around a relatively simple proposition: connecting people, devices and enterprises. Every new generation of mobile technology, from…
Canvas breach hit 160 UK unis but caused limited damage
The April 2026 cyber incident that hit Infrastructure Holding’s Canvas learning management system (LMS) is now thought to have affected approximately 160 British higher education…
Metropolitan Police chief warns against law updates amid substantial tech expansion
Metropolitan Police commissioner Mark Rowley has set out the force’s plan to drastically upscale its use of artificial intelligence (AI), live facial recognition (LFR) and…
Former ICO boss found using ‘vulgar’ language with female staff
Evidence of “vulgar and highly sexualised language” was found by an independent investigation into the UK’s former information commissioner John Edwards, leading to his resignation…
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…
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…