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• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Black Hat MEA: Saudi Vision 2030 fuels surge in cyber security innovation

  Global cyber firms are racing to support the Kingdom’s mega-projects, but building trusted partnerships remains key, says Exabeam CEO Pete Harteveld

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  UK prosecution of alleged Chinese spies was ‘shambolic’ says Parliamentary committee

  The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy reports that China was engaged in malicious cyber attacks against UK Parliament and democratic institutions

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Use of digital ID in UK achieves statutory status

  A formal regime of certification and governance is now in place for digital identity services – just as the UK government presses ahead with its controversial plan for a national ID scheme

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches after third system appeal

  Post Office scandal campaigner reveals she had her suspicions over a third Post Office system, as review of convictions based on APS/APT looks likely to bring thousands more subpostmasters into scope

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  CIO interview: Innovation in reworking business processes

  David Holton, chief transformation officer at Cambridge and Counties Bank, talks IT modernisation and agentic AI

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Former Post Office legal boss won’t escape police reach

  Police say they will question those who evaded the public inquiry, naming former Post Office legal boss Jane MacLeod as an example

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Interview: Dominic Redmond, group CIO, PageGroup

  The recruitment firm’s IT chief is looking to use data-enabled technologies, including automation and artificial intelligence, to enhance workplace activities and boost employee productivity

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear

  It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Google Cloud withdraws complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing tactics

  More than a year has passed since Google filed a complaint with the European Commission, outlining its concerns over Microsoft’s licensing tactics, and now the internet search giant has withdrawn it

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO, Checkout.com

  Checkout.com’s chief technology officer has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry, and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it

• November 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

  CCRC refers case based on third faulty Post Office system

  The latest Post Office prosecution to be sent to the Court of Appeal involves a third IT system in a 2001 case, after previous referrals for people convicted due to flaws in Horizon and Capture software

• November 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

  Budget 2025: Extra NHS IT cash welcome, but plan lacks clarity

  Industry and healthcare leaders are concerned that NHS tech funding is too focused on already approved platforms, fails to tackle core issues and lacks a clear delivery plan

• November 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

  UK government commits to Loan Charge settlement reforms in wake of independent review into policy

  The UK government has agreed to follow through on recommendations made by an independent review of how to resolve the Loan Charge that could wipe thousands of pounds off tax bills for those affected

• November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  SAP selects Tata Consultancy Services to transform its IT operations

  Software firm agrees five-year IT transformation project with Indian outsourcing giant, taking relationship up to 20 years

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  London councils endure wave of cyber attacks, shared IT services hit

  Four London councils – Kensington and Chelsea; Hackney; Westminster; and Hammersmith and Fulham – have suffered cyber attacks, disrupting services and prompting NCSC-supported investigation

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  Budget 2025: £300m extra for NHS IT and a £1.8bn budget for digital ID cards

  The Autumn Budget contained little by the way of new policies in digital and technology, but handed out some cash to help progress in digitising public services and to support growing tech businesses

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  US breach reinforces need to plug third-party security weaknesses

  Cyber breach at US financial sector tech provider highlights the risk of third-party vulnerabilities in finance ecosystems

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Antwerp court adjourns high-profile drugs case amid questions over Sky ECC intercept

  Defence lawyers ask court to adjourn after unexplained changes found in evidence files containing intercepted messages from Sky ECC encrypted phone network infiltrated by French and Dutch police

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Tech central to swingeing job cuts at ABN Amro

  Simplification enabled by the use of the latest technologies underpins Dutch bank’s plan to cut thousands of jobs

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Big tech backers put Nordic AI bid into perspective

  Nordic countries declare plan to become world leaders in artificial intelligence by joining forces

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Scotland digital strategy promises government app in 2026

  Joint local and central government digital strategy includes plans for a personalised public services app, ethical AI framework and increased public sector data sharing

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  UK digital bank Revolut sees value jump £23bn in a year

  UK-headquartered fintech firm sees its valuation increase dramatically with its latest share sale

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Government launches GDS Local

  Councils will get support from a dedicated unit to transform local digital services, alongside an online platform for public sector digital and data professionals

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Interview: Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight, RAC

  Real-time data insights and artificial intelligence are central to supporting the RAC’s motoring services and to getting drivers back on the road as quickly as possible

• November 21, 2025 21 Nov'25

  Dutch voters grasp digital urgency better than their politicians

  A grassroots campaign has propelled digitally competent candidates into the Dutch parliament, despite party leaders placing them low on electoral lists

• November 21, 2025 21 Nov'25

  UK digital ID scheme cash will come from existing funds

  UK Parliamentary committee hearing reveals there will be no permanent government chief digital officer going forward, and digital ID scheme will be funded by existing budgets

• November 21, 2025 21 Nov'25

  Subpostmaster was told no jury would believe Post Office had ‘dodgy computer’

  Academic research says the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters casts doubt on ‘golden thread’ of British justice, that people are innocent until proven guilty

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Swedish welfare authority suspends ‘discriminatory’ AI model

  A machine learning model used by Sweden’s social security agency to flag benefit fraud has been discontinued following investigations by media outlets and the country’s data protection watchdog

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Fujitsu milks £110m from HMRC in six months with hardly a public stir

  IT giant Fujitsu pockets £110m from deals with HMRC in six months since the end of March this year

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Finland uses tax reform to attract foreign tech investment

  Finland is attempting to attract more foreign technology investment through lower corporate tax

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Government-backed coalition to end gazumping in property market

  The government wants a digital platform that can address ‘inefficiencies’ causing stress for homeowners and inflicting huge costs to the economy

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Cloudflare contrite after worst outage since 2019

  Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince apologises for the firm’s worst outage in years and shares details of how a change to database system permissions caused a cascading effect that brought down some of the web’s biggest names

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Artificial intelligence helps Klarna double revenues with half the staff

  Swedish fintech has gradually replaced half of its staff with artificial intelligence and doubled its revenues

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Inside the Middle East tech ambition: How A2RL is shaping the future of AI-driven mobility

  Driverless cars push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, real-time decision-making and data-driven mobility at Yas Marina Circuit

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Ransomware resilience may be improving in the health sector

  A Sophos report on ransomware highlights resilience improvements among healthcare organisations but warns that the wider threat is still live and growing

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  European Commission launches AWS and Microsoft-focused cloud competition probes

  The European Commission has launched three investigations into how the continent’s cloud market operates, with two focused specifically on Microsoft and Amazon Web Services

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Cloudflare outage disrupts public web services

  An outage at web traffic management specialist Cloudflare has caused disruption across the internet

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  NHS signs another major IT deal with the Indian IT sector

  Five-year NHS deal sees Tata Consultancy Services continue to grow its UK public sector business

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  CCS under fire over ‘anti-SME’ supplier requirements for G-Cloud 15

  Government procurement chiefs have shared details of how IT suppliers can participate in G-Cloud 15, but concerns are being raised about changes that may render the framework inaccessible to SMEs

• November 17, 2025 17 Nov'25

  Technology innovation drives accountancy job changes

  IT has often driven changes in bookkeeping. Now, joined-up data and conversational AI is helping accountants revisit a previous era

• November 17, 2025 17 Nov'25

  UK investment bank IT outages cost £600k an hour

  Survey respondents say there are barriers to resilience for UK investment banks, including a skills shortage and internal resistance

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Cl0p claims ransomware hit on NHS

  Ransomware gangsters claim to have attacked the NHS, but clarity on the nature of the incident is yet to emerge

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack costs firm £485m in the quarter

  Jaguar Land Rover’s quarterly financial statement discloses a £485m loss due to the late August cyber attack that halted production for six weeks, damaging the UK economy

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  NS&I’s digital overhaul £1.3bn over budget

  NAO calls on the government-owned savings bank to come up with ‘realistic plan’ as digital transformation programme runs four years behind, and total costs rise to £3bn

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  MI5 made multiple applications for phone data to identify BBC journalist’s sources

  MI5 discloses it made and authorised unlawful ‘sequential applications’ for Vincent Kearney’s phone data during his time at the BBC, but will neither confirm nor deny whether it undertook further ‘lawful’ surveillance of BBC journalists

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Two-thirds of finance firms use suppliers for AI agent development

  Survey finds more banks and insurers are working with suppliers rather than going it alone when developing artificial intelligence agents

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Scottish government to launch cyber observatory

  The observatory will analyse and share warnings on public sector cyber threats, and identify emerging risks

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Abu Dhabi hits accelerator on autonomous mobility commercialisation

  Investment arm of Emirates development agency reveals 29 strategic partnerships to drive development of autonomous mobility in increasingly important region for smart mobility

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Post Office contract with Fujitsu has option to extend into 2028

  Extension agreement for controversial Horizon contract with Fujitsu has option that could take the relationship well into 2028

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme

  The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for people across the bloc