UK competition regulator looks into Google’s AI search
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed what it describes as a “package of measures” to improve how Google delivers search services in the…
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FCA launches review as ‘non-human intelligence’ surpassing human reasoning is plausible
The UK’s financial services sector regulator has announced a review of the potential long-term impacts of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) as the sector faces the…
Nationwide expands Amazon Web Services partnership to delve deeper into AI
Nationwide Building Society is using a cloud platform from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to support its digital innovation and…
Wave of ShinyHunters vishing attacks spreading fast
A new and distinct wave of voice phishing (vishing) attacks attributed to the notorious ShinyHunters hacking collective is spreading fast, with defenders urged to be…
Broken decryptor leaves Sicarii ransomware victims adrift
A coding error, possibly introduced thanks to over-reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) vibe coding tools, has rendered an emergent strain of ransomware an acutely dangerous…
UK government’s National Data Library works up steam
The UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has completed what it calls the “discovery phase” of its bid to create a National…
Peer demands independent investigation into DWP’s prosecution of subpostmasters
The government should commit to a thorough independent investigation of the prosecutions of subpostmasters by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), a campaigning peer…
Alan Turing Institute fellowship programme boosted by $1m from Meta
Building on the CustomerFirst unit, which was unveiled last week, the UK government has announced that Meta is investing $1m through the Alan Turing Institute…
Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to UK dissident targeted with Pegasus spyware
A judge has ordered the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to pay compensation of £3m to a London-based dissident who was subject to “grossly intrusive”…
Three-quarters of UK IT teams beset by outages due to missing alerts
Three-quarters of UK IT professionals say they had outages due to missing alerts in 2025, according to research from Splunk, published last year and being…
The need to build and protect UK digital sovereignty
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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…