OpenAI ‘pauses’ Stargate UK: Sudden setback or calculated move?
OpenAI has paused plans for its Stargate UK investment, which was to take place in concert with artificial intelligence (AI) datacentre builder Nscale and in…
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Businesses are paying the price for CISO burnout
Burnout among chief information security officers (CISOs) is not just a personal disaster for those concerned. It also constitutes a high, and costly, risk for…
Breaking the stranglehold: Responses to data sovereignty risk
In January 2026, 45 UK MPs submitted an Early Day Motion entitled “UK digital sovereignty strategy”. The motion pointed to the dependency of government services,…
European Union deep tech plan too late for quantum champions IQM and Pasqal
Europe’s two largest quantum computing firms announced plans to go public on the US stock market just as the European Commission was finalising urgent plans…
UK Navy deters Russian submarines near critical undersea cables
The Royal Navy has deterred Russian submarines identified in the vicinity of undersea cables and other critical under water infrastructure. A Russian attack submarine and…
Interview: Researching quantum algorithms for today’s devices
While the billion-dollar question is about when quantum computing will become commercially viable, among the problems being tackled at the moment is how to make…
Hyperscaler datacentres set to dominate by 2031
Immense concentration continues apace in the cloud industry, with hyperscalers expected to comprise 67% of global datacentre capacity by 2031, or 14 times the capacity…
Keir Starmer was warned about Post Office prosecution practices as director of public prosecutions
Keir Starmer was asked to “take a closer look” at the Post Office’s prosecution practices in 2011 in his role as director of public prosecutions…
Capita’s troubled Civil Service Pension Scheme hit by data breach
The financial data of just under 140 members of the UK Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) has been exposed following a data breach affecting its…
Azure customers up in arms over ‘full’ UK South region
Microsoft Azure is refusing capacity to cloud customers in the company’s UK South (UKS) region, with issues around the availability of Azure virtual machines (VMs)…
Navigating the opaque fog of public cloud carbon footprints
For the better part of a decade the move to public cloud was sold as the ultimate environmental win. The logic was simple. Hyperscalers operate…
Sustainability accounting can be difficult, but can differentiate
Discussions around the sustainability of public cloud platforms have become increasingly prominent in recent years. Hyperscale providers now publish a growing volume of data, dashboards…