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”…
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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…
Sovereign cloud and AI services tipped for take-off in 2026
Interest in sovereign cloud services has followed a bumpy trajectory over the past decade, both in the public sector and private enterprises. In the early…
US punts renewal of threat data sharing law to September
The United States’ Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 – CISA 2015 – which came within a hair’s breadth of lapsing for good at the…
Overcoming tech career barriers faced by underrepresented groups
Conversations around diversity in the UK’s technology sector have evolved over the past decade, from a focus on increasing the number of women in tech…
Inside the trend of tech ‘spinouts’ solving real-world problems
Silicon Valley has created the impression of the archetypal technology company as founded by smart, young guns in a garage who tinker around to find…