Startup Carbon3.ai sets sights on building UK-wide sovereign ‘national grid for AI’
Startup Carbon3.ai is on a mission to help the UK government achieve its goal of building a sustainable and sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) compute resource…
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Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit preview: Preparing for emerging tech
This year’s Top 10 emerging technologies in 2025 report from Forrester has positioned generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as a technology IT leaders need to consider…
Amnesty: AI surveillance risks ‘supercharging’ US deportations
Automated artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tools are being deployed to track migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the US, raising serious human rights concerns, according…
ShinyHunters linked to breach of French luxury goods house
Kering, the France-based parent of luxury brands such as Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga and Gucci, has admitted the personal data of customers has been compromised following…
Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit preview: Digital sovereignty in the public cloud
Given that corporate IT relies heavily on cloud-based infrastructure and services delivered via the public cloud, access to the data held in the cloud is…
Arqit to support NCSC’s post-quantum cryptography pilot
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has enlisted quantum-safe encryption pioneer Arqit Quantum to help lead on the UK’s looming migration to post-quantum cryptography. The…
MI5 unlawfully monitored the phone of BBC journalist Vincent Kearney
The Security Service MI5 has admitted to unlawfully spying on the phone of former BBC investigative journalist Vincent Kearney. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) heard…
‘Utter madness’ as Post Office paid law firm double the cost of scandal public inquiry
Taxpayers paid one legal firm double the amount in fees to represent the Post Office in the Horizon scandal statutory public inquiry than they paid…
Go big or go home: Should UK IT buyers favour US clouds or homegrown providers?
Governments across the continent are increasingly championing the use of local, homegrown providers and tightening the rules on where the data of their citizens can…
EU Data Act comes into force amid fears of regulation fatigue
The European Union (EU) Data Act comes into force today (12 September 2025), giving, says the European Commission, citizens control over data generated by their…
GDS publishes guidance on AI coding assistants
The government has published guidance for software engineers working in government departments on how they should use artificial intelligence (AI)-based coding assistants. The Government Digital…
The ‘people, process and technology’ triangle is key to AI success
Debojyoti ‘Debo’ Dutta admits that his deep domain experience means he is just “a little biased” when it comes to talking about the overwhelming theme…