Labour fleshes out R&D funding
The government has fleshed out details of how it plans to spend £55bn on research and development (R&D) out of the £86bn committed as part…
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AWS emerges as ‘sole bidder’ for HMRC’s £500m datacentre migration project as rivals exit
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the last supplier standing in the controversial £500m race to become the hyperscaler responsible for overseeing a 10-year datacentre exit…
Scope of US state-level privacy laws expands rapidly in 2025
The number of individual US states with local data privacy legislation on their statute books has expanded rapidly in 2025, with nine more state laws…
Post Office Capture redress scheme ‘went down like lead balloon’ and is ‘discriminatory’
A former subpostmaster who suffered at the hands of the Post Office’s faulty Capture accounting software has said the announced compensation scheme “discriminates” against claimants.…
Vintage rail freight system showcases 50-year-old innovation
Fifty years ago, three IBM System 370 mainframes powered a pioneering scheduling system run by the UK’s national rail operator, British Rail. Called Total Operations…
Saudi Arabia partners with Humain and Qualcomm to power next global AI frontier
Ahead of the ninth edition of the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Humain and Qualcomm Technologies announced a landmark partnership to deploy advanced…
Saudi Arabia launches AI health coach to transform preventive care
Saudi Arabia’s push to transform its healthcare system has taken a bold technological leap. The Ministry of Health (MoH), in partnership with Lean Business Services…
UK citizens raise red flags over environmental impacts of datacentres in poll
More than three-quarters (78%) of UK consumers are of the view that new datacentres should only be built if the developers commit to powering them…
Alan Turing Institute refocuses on security following Peter Kyle intervention
The Alan Turing Institute (ATI) has begun a significant organisational transformation, which will see it pivot towards major challenges in defence and national security. In…
Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI
Amazon confirms plans to mass lay off 14,000 corporate employees amid an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cost-cutting drive. On 28 October 2025, Amazon’s senior vice-president of…
Effective cyber sanctions require a joined-up approach, says Rusi
Over the past few years, the UK, US and other Western states have become comfortable calling out the actions of and applying sanctions to both…
Pulling the plug: A way to halt a cyber attacker in your network?
There’s a cyber attack under way. An intruder is inside your network: moving freely, collecting data, and setting up a command-and-control (C&C) node for future…