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• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Civil society: Police facial recognition must be strictly limited

  Digital rights groups map out ‘minimum, necessary’ human rights protections to be included in UK government’s upcoming legal framework for police facial recognition

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  UK government publishes guidelines to ‘end era of outsourcing’ – will IT be in scope?

  New strategy will see UK government apply Public Interest Test to outsourcing contracts worth £1m or more

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Chilling effects of surveillance threaten democracy, UN finds

  United Nations study finds the chilling effects of pervasive digital surveillance in modern life undermines an entire web of interconnected and interdependent human rights, representing a systemic threat to democratic norms and political ...

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  nLighten completes £15m refurbishment of Bristol ‘edge’ datacentre

  European datacentre operator doubles potential AI-ready power capacity to 1.2MW with dry cooling at Bristol site as part of a wider £100m-plus UK modernisation programme

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Tesco offloads VMware and CA software as Broadcom case rolls on

  The contract and licensing dispute with Broadcom over its right to use VMware and CA Technologies has led retailer Tesco to begin an accelerated migration

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  UK information commissioner John Edwards resigns after HR investigation

  The UK’s information commissioner has resigned following an HR investigation, saying there were occasions when he exercised ‘poor judgement’ and made ‘inappropriate attempts at humour’

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Scotland officially launches own NHS app

  People in Scotland are able to download the first version of the MyCare.scot app on their smartphones, following the roll-out of the web-based version

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Google Cloud boosts for enterprise agentic at London Summit

  Hyperscaler prioritises process automation in UK showcase, with frontier models, agent platforms and development tools to the fore, with customers such as Unilever in the spotlight

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  4G persists as 5G availability and usage gap widens across Europe

  Research reveals that the vast majority of Europe’s connectivity is still over 4G, and while the performance uplift of 5G Standalone is real, deployment in the region is localised to just 11 networks

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Keysight’s chief technologist on the path to 6G

  Balaji Raghothaman, Keysight’s chief technologist for 6G, discusses what it takes for the telecoms industry to move to 6G, from supporting AI workloads to integrating with satellites connectivity and driving enterprise use cases

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  Rising memory costs reshape smartphone economics

  Smartphone trade-in market data reveals new dynamics as higher device prices drive greater reliance on trade-ins and refurbished units

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  US suspension of Anthropic models prompts AI sovereignty calls

  The US government’s control order to suspend access to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models raises concerns about the UK’s over-reliance on American tech

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  Interview: Emmanuel Frenehard, chief digital officer, Sanofi

  Leading technology in a quest to find life-changing answers to challenging scientific questions brings an extra level of motivation for the pharma giant’s digital chief

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  Snapdragon START kicks off next phase of personal AI with XR smart glasses

  Qualcomm launches AI-based programme to enable brands to design and scale personal AI devices, starting with smart glasses

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  Gulf CIOs shift focus from recovery to cyber resilience as regional threats intensify

  Commvault’s Yahya Kassab says organisations across the Gulf are reassessing recovery strategies, AI risks and cloud investments amid growing cyber threats

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  CMA puts in place fair ranking measures on Google Search

  Google will need to rank organic searches objectively and will be required under UK law to share data with third-party services

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  Emerging tech is top growth priority for UK finance firms

  Increasing numbers of banks see emerging technology as a priority of growth with artificial intelligence top of the list

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  F1 Japanese Grand Prix podiums with 5G SA and mmWave use cases

  Ericsson and SoftBank reveal Formula One success in balancing diverse communication services on a single 5G network through the convergence of network slicing and mmWave

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  Applied Materials unveils integrated visual system for next-gen smart glasses

  Co-optimised smart glasses system designed to bring high-performance augmented reality displays to market faster, featuring improved visual performance, integration and scalable manufacturing

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  UAE’s push towards agentic AI raises stakes for governance and accountability

  As the UAE accelerates plans to embed autonomous AI into government services, experts warn that governance frameworks must evolve from policy documents into operational controls that ensure transparency, accountability and trust

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  OpenAI deepens Japan footprint with Hitachi deal

  Hitachi will use OpenAI’s Codex agent to unpick ageing mission-critical systems and gain early access to its frontier AI models in a slew of high-profile Japanese partnerships for the US AI lab

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Hostile states launched nearly 200 attacks on UK infrastructure in 12 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

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Uplink traffic gains momentum as 5G subscriptions top three billion

  Research from Ericsson counts 162 million new 5G subscriptions in the first quarter of 2026, bringing the total to 3.1 billion, with steadily growing service offerings based on 5G SA network slicing

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  HSBC pens artificial intelligence deal with Google Cloud

  HSBC and Google Cloud agree a multi-year contract to support UK bank’s adoption of artificial intelligence

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Motorola Solutions looks to boost public safety with expanded Assist AI

  Tech firm rolls out mission-critical AI for public safety use cases to reduce administrative burden and accelerate incident response

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Post Office delays signing Horizon software replacement contract

  Lot 2 of the contract to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon EPOS system has still not been signed off

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Everpure aims to bridge AI data gap with Universal Data Intelligence

  Storage-to-data-management firm expands Enterprise Data Cloud at Accelerate 2026 with OneTouch integration and AI pipeline automation to combat enterprise data sprawl

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  KDDI inks Aeris IoT accelerator connectivity management agreement

  Contract will see internet of things accelerator platform deliver unified global IoT solutions for automotive manufacturers and utilities, allowing scale without complexity and providing agentic AI capability

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  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

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  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

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  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

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  HPE Discover 2026: Neri heralds ‘unique’ placement to transcend network bottleneck

  CEO talks up HPE’s self-driving future, as well as partnerships with eight companies in its mission to blaze the trail for hybrid classical-quantum applications

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  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

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  2026 World Cup billed as ‘largest entertainment attack surface in history’

  With the tournament underway across North America, Palo Alto Networks warns that temporary supplier ecosystems, vulnerable municipal infrastructure and geopolitical tensions are creating risks for enterprises and fans

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  STT GDC launches 30MW datacentre in South Korea

  The Singapore-based datacentre operator has entered the South Korean market with STT Seoul 1, a hyperscale-ready facility built though a joint venture with Hyosung Heavy Industries

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  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 ...

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  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

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  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

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  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

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  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

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  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...

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  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

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  Insurance industry AI recruitment correlates with success

  Research shows that insurers have accelerated recruitment of artificial intelligence professionals

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  XR market rewriting its own rules as smart glasses use surges

  Research finds that eyewear-form-factor devices are no longer the niche in extended reality, they are the market as devices encompassing AR, XR, MR and VR grew 86% annually in Q1 2026

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  Cisco: 36 months to modernise networks before AI overwhelms capacity

  Research finds capacity and performance the top network challenge for UK organisations, with 81% of respondents saying their network does not have room to house evolving AI demands

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  Amnesty calls for ban on AI risk-profiling systems

  Amnesty International says AI-driven risk profiling systems are discriminatory and may lead to misleading results that violate international human rights law

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  How AngelHack uses hackathons to ease AI adoption

  From internal hackathons to accelerator programmes, Singapore’s AngelHack is empowering everyday employees to build their own AI applications while expanding its reach in the US, Brazil and Australia

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  Ineffable Intelligence strikes Google Cloud deal for Vera Rubin GPU power

  London-based ‘anti-LLM’ developer led by AlphaGo founder David Silver selects Google Cloud Vera Rubin GPU infrastructure to build reinforcement learning ‘superlearners’

• June 15, 2026 15 Jun'26

  Post Office Capture appeal objections not ‘right, just or fair’

  Influential advisory group tells Post Office there is a ‘clear case’ that Capture convictions are unsafe

• June 15, 2026 15 Jun'26

  Data dive: Dodgy data derails datacentre water debate

  The Government Digital Sustainability Alliance reports that we are on track for a massive water supply shortfall. The dataset it used suggests not. We look at the datacentre water use debate