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Hostile states launched 200 attacks on UK infrastructure in five months, says NCSC chief
Hackers will use AI-enabled cyber capabilities to exploit known vulnerabilities in legacy technology at scale by 2028, says National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne
Lot 2 of the contract to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon EPOS system has still not been signed off
UK companies can seize £50bn prize by industrialising AI, claims Celonis
Celonis claims FTSE 100 firms could save £4.4bn by closing ‘execution gaps’ in workflows through process intelligence software, potentially rising to £50bn with agentic AI
Cabinet Office states Capita set to miss Civil Service Pension Scheme deadline
Outsourcing firm’s botched takeover of civil service pension administration has seen scheme members experience financial hardship
Google Cloud Summit: UK to deploy AI-powered planning system
The UK planning system is being reworked with artificial intelligence and computer vision to provide data in a consistent format
NPL to run world’s first quantum standards network
National Quantum Standards Network will be overseen by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, with the aim of establishing the rules of the road for quantum computing and accelerating British innovation
Digital ID must not deepen exclusion
UK government plans for a national digital identity scheme risk embedding further inequalities and barriers to public services for the 19 million people currently experiencing digital exclusion
Scottish minister clarifies police facial-recognition approach
The Scottish government has confirmed its intention to ensure police use of facial recognition is lawful before deployments start taking place, unlike in England and Wales where the technology has been rolled out in a ‘legal vacuum’ without any formal scrutiny or debate
MPs call for UK government to back sovereign IT
Amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill calls for the government to publish a ‘digital sovereignty strategy’ to promote domestic technology
NHS trusts operating on fewer patients with Palantir FDP, warns Foxglove
Around 30% of English hospitals that use Palantir’s FDP tools for scheduling are carrying out fewer procedures than before adoption, according to data from campaign group Foxglove
US mortgage provider moves beyond ‘superficial AI integrations’
Pennymac Financial Services is using generative artificial intelligence tools from Amazon Web Services to bring borrowing up to date
Interview: Ashwin Ballal, CIO, Freshworks
After a career in marketing, engineering, product and operations, a CIO role seemed unlikely for Ashwin Ballal – until he tried it
UK data regulator slammed over lack of action on complaints
The UK data regulator is being threatened with legal action after it was accused of ‘ignoring’ thousands of data protection complaints, with critics describing its new approach to complaint triage and investigation as akin to a ‘digital bin’ for the public’s concerns
Nordea Liv Norway migrates 58 million transactions to the cloud
Life and pensions provider migrates to the cloud as part of wider multi-year transformation project
The great datacentre backlash: The industry response
In part two of a two-part series looking at attitudes to datacentres, we look at how developers and operators have responded to the wave of anti-datacentre sentiment sweeping through communities and what their plan is to avoid further escalation