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Government bank project a ‘full-spectrum disaster’

National Savings and Investments is unable to tell Public Accounts Committee the cost of its modernisation programme
Regulators warn over EU plan to ‘narrow’ privacy rights

European data protection supervisors warn the European Commission against narrowing the privacy protections for personal data as it gears up for a swathe of data protection reforms.
Capita blames ‘backlog’ on civil service pension failure

Capita is to ‘fast-track’ any technology, including artificial intelligence, that can help it clear a backlog in civil service pension work
LLMs provide unreliable answers about public services, ODI finds

Research questions AI’s trustworthiness in giving people accurate information about government services
Power issues flagged as major EU datacentre growth inhibitor

The latest report into trends across the European datacentre market shines a light on how power supply issues are affecting growth
European Commission: TikTok’s addictive design breaches EU law

In a preliminary ruling, European Commission says TikTok’s additive design features are in breach of laws designed to create safer digital spaces

AI enters its ‘grassroots backlash’ era

As artificial intelligence permeates aspects of the economy and society, individuals and civic groups are devising creative ways to rebel - but any impact on AI’s development, adoption and regulation is unclear
From chaos to clarity: How AI is redefining construction at scale

Klemensas Mecejus from ai71 explains why predictive, agent-based AI could finally crack construction’s productivity and cost overrun problem, and why the Middle East is poised to leap ahead
Why the UK needs to rethink the Investigatory Powers Act and allow intercept evidence in court

The UK needs clear and unambiguous laws around the use of digital evidence in court. The law has become tangled following rulings in the country’s EncroChat prosecutions. It’s time to allow intercept data to be used as evidence in legal cases

Legacy IT? No problem- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Maybe it’s time to press the pause button on artificial intelligence (AI). While the industry is dead set on promoting the benefits of multi-agent AI systems, the CIOs in many organisations ... Continue Reading
Kubernetes infrastructure now saved from 'minor repair bulldozer'- Open Source Insider

The Kubernetes community has released the latest version of Cluster API at version number 1.12 and it is described as a "significant update" for developers. A Kubernetes “sub-project” focused on ... Continue Reading
Cloudera offers AI inferencing progression & unified data access - CW Developer Network

Cloudera has this month developed its expansion to Cloudera AI Inference and Cloudera Data Warehouse with Trino to on-premises environments. The company says this move will empower customers to ... Continue Reading
Salience Labs goes all-in on all-optical networking with photonics switches for AI infrastructure- CW Developer Network

Oxfordshire-headquartered Salience Labs is hoping to tap into a market that some analysts say could represent as much of a leap in computing power as the emerging field of quantum itself does. The ... Continue Reading

Without governance, agentic AI could destroy social media

If organisations using agentic and generative AI don’t codify ethics and oversight now, the future may be filled with AI agents using generative AI to communicate with other agents, destroying trust in social media
How GenAI is breaking cyber security awareness tactics

With threat actors exploiting the growing use of generative AI tools and the prevalence of shadow AI, organisations must strengthen their security programmes and culture to manage the rising risk
Smaller, safer AI models may be key to unlocking business value

While AI presents a significant opportunity to further the way we do business, what if it’s time to consider a new direction? What if the safest and most effective path for AI isn’t to go larger, but smaller instead?