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Russia report reveals Kremlin’s “symbiotic relationship” with cyber criminals
The Russian government has become a “highly capable cyber actor” by striking secretive partnerships with cyber-criminal gangs, accordin…
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TikTok’s Huawei moment: is the app really a threat to the UK?
In February, the wildly popular social media app TikTok launched a recruitment drive in Europe. The network, which is owned by the Chinese firm Byt…
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UK tech sector “lagging behind” in diversity as study reveals only one in five company officers are female
The UK tech sector “lags behind other parts of the world” when it comes to representation, campaigners have said. The comments came after NS Tech f…
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The biggest govtech deals of the week (20/7/20)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with GlobalData, we’ve dri…
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Covid-19 Test and Trace programme is unlawful, government admits
The government has been forced to concede that England’s “world-beating” Test and Trace programme has been operating unlawfully s…
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WhatsApp’s case against NSO Group is going ahead – what next?
NSO Group’s attempt to get WhatsApp’s lawsuit thrown out has failed, and the case – which alleges the spyware company hacked 1,400 of t…
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AI chipmaker Graphcore releases “most complex processor ever made”
The British chipmaker Graphcore has won praise from analysts after releasing the second generation of its intelligence processing unit (IPU) chip, …
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Five must-read stories from the intersection of tech, business and politics
From Palantir’s new £1 million NHS deal to one of the most high-profile cyber attacks in history, here are the key developments from this wee…
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British Army CIO emphasises military automation must be “within legal and ethical framework”
British Army CIO Major General Jonathan Cole believes the use of “mechanical autonomy and autonomous decision-making needs to be made in a le…
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Will the MoJ’s plans for a £100m shared services framework prove more fruitful than those before it?
Government-wide shared services has a long and chequered history in procurement circles. But two years on from the revamped Shared Services Strateg…
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Could Twitter face legal fallout from the blue-tick hack?
For a brief period on Wednesday evening (15 July), Twitter was a quieter and more peaceful place. Verified accounts – the much-maligned “blue-tick”…
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Russia’s APT29 targeting British coronavirus vaccine research, says NCSC
British security officials have joined forces with their American and Canadian counterparts to link a series of cyber attacks on coronavirus vaccin…
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“A worrying prelude”: What the ECJ’s Privacy Shield ruling means for a UK data adequacy deal
Legal experts have warned that the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) surprise decision to invalidate an EU-US data sharing agreement will das…
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Revealed: Palantir secures £1m contract extension for NHS data store work
Peter Thiel’s controversial data analytics firm Palantir has secured a £1 million contract extension for its work on NHS England’s Covi…
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Five must-read stories from the intersection of tech, business and politics
From Huawei’s UK ban to an analysis of the biggest government tech deals, here are the key developments so far this week. Huawei out of the U…
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Inside the curious case of the Huawei dossier
Last week an explosive dossier was leaked to the Times and the Daily Mail alleging a sprawling influence campaign engineered by China, using teleco…
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Huawei out of the UK’s 5G network by 2027 – to the tune of £2bn
After several long weeks of uncertainty, the UK has offered a definitive ruling on Chinese telecomms company Huawei. Mobile operators will no longe…
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PDS CIO Tracey Jessup discusses creating digital demand at Houses of Parliament
Parliamentary Digital Service CIO Tracey Jessup said that recent initiatives to enable MPs and peers in Parliament to scrutinise government, and de…
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Amnesty decries Israeli court approval of NSO Group’s export licence
Amnesty International’s bid to block spyware company NSO Group’s international export licence has been shut down in a Tel Aviv court, a…
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Trump taking responsibility for Russia cyber attack could backfire
President Trump has laid claim to a 2018 cyber attack on Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) – framing it as evidence that he’s res…
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The biggest govtech deals of the week (13/7/20)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with GlobalData, we’ve dri…