North Korea is stepping up attacks on the banking industry, says CISA
North Korean hackers have revived an audacious scam to steal billions of dollars from banks in more than three dozen countries, US cyber analysts h…
Ministers urge councils to speed up building of 5G infrastructure
Ministers have written to local authorities asking that they help speed up the rollout of gigabit broadband and 5G mobile coverage by expediting th…
Five must-read stories from the intersection of tech, business and politics
From rumours of a private equity buy-out of BT, to the renewed search for a government chief digital officer, here are the key developments so far …
A BT private equity buy-out would sound the death knell for full fibre broadband
A perfect storm of factors has pushed BT into a vulnerable position – and the vultures of private equity are circling. This month, the company̵…
OneWeb Satellites director dashes hopes that £400m deal will lead to UK reshoring
A director of the company that builds OneWeb’s satellites has cast doubt on speculation that the government’s new £400m stake in the fi…
UK army plans to scrap tanks in favour of cyber warfare tech
The British army is thinking about scrapping its greying fleet of 227 Challenger 2 tanks in a push to modernise its arsenal for the dystopian futur…
Home Office hands IBM £7m police database deal without competitive tender
The Home Office has handed IBM a £7m contract to support the development of a controversial police ‘mega-database’ that has been beset …
The biggest govtech deals of the week (24/08/20)
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…
UK will keep the ‘Facebook tax’ for now, says the Treasury
The UK government says it will keep the digital services tax (DST) until there is an international framework for taxing tech giants, contradicting …
UK renews search for ‘government chief digital officer’ as Fiona Deans takes reins at GDS
The government is renewing its search for a chief digital officer to work across Whitehall after two previous recruitment drives failed to attract …
Five must-read stories from the intersection of tech, business and politics
From MPs slamming the ICO over data protection failures, to the impending dangers of a police “mega-database”, here are five key techno…
‘Customers didn’t heed our advice on remote working, then they all needed help at once,’ says Nutbourne CEO
Nutbourne was co-founded by two best friends who had been burned by a number of bad experiences with managed services providers over the years. Mar…
ICO challenged by MPs over failure on ‘unlawful’ Test and Trace programme
A cross-party group of more than 20 MPs have banded together to challenge the UK’s data watchdog over its failure to enforce data protection …
Privacy group warns of Home Office ‘mega-database’ on the horizon
A new ‘mega-database’ for law enforcement could have calamitous consequences for civil liberties if not subject to parliamentary scruti…
Ofqual advisor: Prioritising grade inflation was a political decision
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has attempted to deflect responsibility from the government amid the chaos of the A-level results debacle, but…
CIO Town Hall Live features Northumbrian Water and Johnson Matthey CIOs
Northumbrian Water CIO Nigel Watson and Johnson Matthey CIO Paul Coby are the expert speakers at the CIO Town Hall Live event on Wednesday 9 Septem…
Met Police will continue to use facial recognition tech despite ‘unlawful’ ruling in Wales
The Met Police has communicated – via a quietly appended paragraph on its website – its intention to continue using facial recognition technology i…
Five must-read stories from the intersection of tech, business and politics
From the flawed A-levels algorithm to another US crackdown on Huawei, here are the key technology stories of the week so far. How the A-levels resu…
Covid-19 contact tracing to be taken over by new public health body
Boris Johnson’s government has announced it is scrapping Public Health England and replacing it with an entirely new body: the National Insti…
New US restrictions on Huawei set to disrupt global tech sector
The US has introduced more restrictions on Huawei in an effort to limit its ability to obtain computer chips made using US technology, even if they…
Arm co-founder: Nvidia sale is because Softbank over-invested in firm
Co-founder and ex-president of Arm Holdings Tudor Brown says that SoftBank’s projected sale of the chip company to Nvidia is the result of a …