Financial services leaders believe AI impact will be bigger than Big Bang
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology will have a greater impact on the finance sector than the sweeping changes made in 1986, known as the Big Bang.…
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PAC warns that UKRI is not delivering value for money
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are spending £9.2bn of taxpayers’ money on UK innovation. But,…
Prime minister announces thousands of tech-based work experience places for UK’s youth
The UK government is creating 10,000 work experience opportunities in the tech sector as the prime minister sets out to remove one of the “biggest…
ClickFix scams pose growing risk to education sector, Jisc says
As the Fresher’s Week hangovers fade and students across country turn their focus to the new academic year, so-called ClickFix social engineering scams targeting Britain’s…
Capita postpones investor event to focus on CSPS fix
Capita cannot hold an event for shareholders, investors and market watchers because it wants to focus on fixing the botched administration of the Civil Service…
Suspect Post Office systems that came before Horizon to be investigated by the government
The government expects to report on the impact of pre-Horizon software system errors on subpostmasters by spring next year. It said it is currently looking…
Can Britain’s grid keep up with the datacentre boom?
Ramping datacentre demand is putting a new kind of pressure on the UK’s energy grid. Developers are jostling for position in an increasingly saturated connection…
Microsoft Frontier Tour London: Agentic AI governance in the spotlight
During the opening keynote at the company’s Frontier Tour event in London, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed how the company would be addressing the growing…
AI accelerates path from IT compromise to OT targeting
Commercial AI is not yet inventing novel ways to disrupt industrial processes. It is helping non-specialist attackers interpret unfamiliar environments and operationalise known techniques far…
MPs ask finance regulators how they will deal with Google Cloud after outage
MPs have asked regulators for details of how they will respond to a Google Cloud outage now the IT supplier falls within their regulatory remit…
The drift towards AI totalitarianism
Public anxiety around artificial intelligence (AI) is boiling over. Fuelled by frontier models’ summer hacking spree and former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s doom-laden resignation post…
Botched PHP2Shell disclosure revealed as panic continues
A worldwide cyber panic sparked by the discovery and disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities – dubbed PHP2Shell – in the core PHP code underpinning almost…