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The government wants to make the UK the best place for tech and AI, opening pathways for global talent and venture capital funding

Barely 70 vulnerabilities make the cut for Microsoft's monthly security update, but an RCE flaw in WEBDAV and an EoP issue in Windows SMB Client still warrant close attention.

FCA wants to support organisations in testing their ideas for the use of artificial intelligence

In the first of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil in public sector IT procurement, the particular challenges faced by public sector procurement, and how the cloud and pay-as-you-go can help

Cambridge-based SCI Semiconductors is awarded DTEP funding to work on the application of defensive Cheri technology

Storage profile: We look at Big Blue’s storage offer, which spans file, block and object, on-premise, in the cloud, and mainframes, while also embracing containers and the cloud

While victims are made to fight for every penny they are owed, the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal is handed hundreds of millions of pounds by UK government

Two academic papers show how the company plans to provide quantum error correction using a technique that can run in real time

The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has given Microsoft just over a month to prepare a response to a group legal claim over its cloud licensing practices

Security breaches via third parties increased by 25% at Europe’s largest finance firms

The government has put up money to help drive the UK’s expertise in artificial intelligence

Children and teenagers are subjected to a vast array of surveillance technologies in schools. These are intended to keep them safe, but are we normalising surveillance for young people?

The government has now paid out more than £1bn to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal

Prime Minister unveiled plans to boost UK’s high-performance compute capacity 20-fold, along with funding to bolster skills

Barclays is doubling down on its adoption of artificial intelligence tools by moving to embrace Microsoft Copilot with a large-scale roll-out of the technology to 100,000 staff

The UK government is on a mission to rationalise the number of local councils through its devolution agenda, which will see authorities gain autonomy over their budgets. We weigh up the impact this could have on cloud adoption in local councils

US politicians are calling for Congress to rewrite the US Cloud Act to prevent the UK issuing orders to require US tech companies to introduce ‘backdoors’ in end-to-end encrypted messaging and storage

US tech giants are burning through unprecedented amounts of capital to develop artificial superintelligence, but authoritarian regimes around the world could keep the pursuit of a techno-utopian future alive when the bubble subsides

Ahead of the delivery of the UK government’s Industrial Strategy white paper, TechUK sets out how the tech sector can drive growth, and the steps the government should take to harness it

America’s tech giants are burning through unprecedented amounts of capital in their quest to develop artificial superintelligence, but a turn to authoritarian regimes in the US and around the world could keep their pursuit of a techno-utopian future alive when the bubble does subside