OpenUK works with UKRI on open source guidance for public sector
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has begun a collaboration with OpenUK to offer open source guidance for the public sector. OpenUK, which is a non-profit…
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Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act promises to fill Meta’s coffers
US president Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act could see Meta, one of the world’s most valuable companies, have an effective tax rate of…
Post Office scandal investigator warns public inquiry about Horizon defect at large for years
A Horizon system “operational defect” brought to the attention of the Post Office in 2019, but left unresolved, could be at the root of unexplained…
Ericsson and SAR unite to drive 5G-powered rail transformation in Saudi Arabia
Ericsson and the Saudi Railway Company (SAR) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deploy 5G-enabled technologies across the national rail network. The partnership…
Microsoft CEO speaks of global cloud factory as Azure stalls
On the day CEO Satya Nadella discussed Microsoft’s “planet-scale cloud and AI factory,” Azure cloud – the IT infrastructure underpinning this – was offline for…
US senators seek to prohibit minors from using AI chatbots
Legislation introduced in the US Congress could require artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot operators to put in place age verification processes and stop under 18s from…
Equinix acquires DC01UK’s mega-datacentre site in Hertfordshire and plots £3.9bn investment
DC01UK has confirmed that colocation giant Equinix has acquired the 85-acre plot of green belt land in Hertfordshire it secured planning permission for transforming into…
Peer angry as sales figures suggest Fujitsu has weathered Post Office scandal storm
Fujitsu grew its UK public sector business over the last 12 months despite widespread criticism for its role in the Post Office scandal. The sales…
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…
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.…