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…
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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…
Ransomware, reputation, risk: Black Hat Europe in review, 2026 in view
Common failures in security that enable vulnerabilities to be exploited, as well as the politicisation of technology leading to its use by nation-states for cyber…
UK government ‘blindly accepted’ Iver datacentre environmental assurances, it is claimed
The UK government is facing scrutiny for failing to do its due diligence on the environmental impacts of hyperscale datacentres, after admitting its decision to…
JPMorgan CEO urges slowdown of AI roll-out to ‘save society’
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns that the rapid roll-out of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout society will cause “civil unrest” unless governments and companies work together…