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• May 01, 2026 01 May'26

  Scottish government publishes AI guidance for schools

  Scotland has issued national guidance on the use of AI in the country’s schools, aiming to support safe use of the technology for teachers and pupils

• April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26

  Almost half of UK businesses hit by cyber attacks

  The government’s annual cyber security report reveals UK businesses are still struggling with the impact of attacks and breaches

• April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26

  Global study reveals biggest risks of AI in finance sector

  University of Cambridge study reveals the risks facing the finance sector as it adopts artificial intelligence

• April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26

  Cloud revenues up 35% YoY in a hot market that’s accelerating

  Synergy Research figures put Q1 cloud revenues at $129bn. Meanwhile, AWS, Microsoft and Google have 63% of the world market, which shows an acceleration delta of 13%

• April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26

  Umbrella companies not working for IT contractors, survey finds

  IT skills market impacted as contractors forced to use umbrellas or opt out altogether, while tax compliance remains deeply uncertain, with late payments and payslip inaccuracy rife

• April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26

  MPs call on UK government to learn from central bank’s IT project success story

  Members of a parliamentary committee want the wider government to learn from success of Bank of England project

• April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26

  MP committees to double up on Capita’s civil service pension crisis

  Parliamentary committees to hold joint hearing to investigate the problems experienced in Civil Service Pension Scheme

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  Court of Appeal rejects Post Office Capture case delay request

  Three convictions based on the Capture system have reached the Court of Appeal, which has rejected the Post Office’s request to delay its response, advancing long-awaited justice for affected subpostmasters

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  Vect ransomware actually destructive wiper malware

  Analysis of a form of ransomware called Vect has uncovered a serious flaw that breaks its core functionality and turns it from a locker to a wiper

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  UK data watchdog accused of dragging feet on eVisa investigation

  Despite longstanding data protection issues with the Home Office’s electronic visa system being flagged five months ago, the UK’s data regulator is yet to take any action

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  Liz Kendall talks up work with ‘middle power nations’ on sovereign tech

  The technology secretary speaks about the importance of forging alliances to make UK tech more resilient to geopolitical pressure

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  Zero waste drives datacentre sustainability shift in UAE

  Khazna’s DXB8 becomes the first datacentre globally certified for zero waste, highlighting how circular operations are emerging alongside power, cooling and AI infrastructure as a core design priority

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  Government funds self-learning AI company

  The £500m UK government Sovereign AI Unit co-invests with the British Business Bank to help AI company Ineffable Intelligence create self-learning algorithms

• April 27, 2026 27 Apr'26

  Was Capita’s Royal Mail pension contract a botch too far?

  The Cabinet Office’s decision to end Capita’s contract to administer the Royal Mail pension follows heavy criticism of the supplier’s work on the civil service pension contract

• April 26, 2026 26 Apr'26

  UKtech50 2026 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK technology is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list

• April 24, 2026 24 Apr'26

  Science, Innovation and Technology committee chair questions UK’s tech sovereignty approach

  House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee chair Chi Onwurah questions the UK’s approach to tech sovereignty

• April 24, 2026 24 Apr'26

  Government should drop Capita from civil service scheme after it loses Royal Mail role, says union

  Union representing civil servants said that when outsourcing suppliers fail, they should be dropped

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  AI adoption is rapid but many stuck at basic levels, says AWS

  The UK could unlock £35bn of productivity – equivalent to the economy of Manchester – if organisations can move from basic use of AI to productive, often agentic, modes of working

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Government terminates Capita’s Royal Mail pension contract

  Contract termination comes as Capita’s failings in a separate government pension scheme hit the headlines

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  UK government beats drum for fintech industry at Fintech Week

  UK government announces open banking strategies during London Fintech Week, including regulation and £1m investment

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  More finance firms join FCA’s AI testing initiative

  Barclays, Experian and UBS join the FCA’s live AI testing initiative, exploring cutting-edge technologies like agentic AI and SLMs to ensure safe, responsible innovation in UK financial markets

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  ‘Platitudes’ hide struggle as Post Office scandal redress scheme closing date announced

  Scheme for group that took the Post Office to court and exposed the widest miscarriage of justice in history to be completed by the year’s end

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Scottish Labour’s 2026 manifesto vows to upskill and invest in tech

  Ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament Election, Labour promises digital and tech NHS funding worth £680m, ‘digital playgrounds’ and to create a digital skills passport

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows

  NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, which are set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Capita lacked ‘detail and thoroughness’ in planning botched Civil Service Pension Scheme takeover

  CEO of former civil service pension administrator claims Capita’s pre-takeover processes were inadequate

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups

  The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of startups backed to boost economic growth and national security

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  CyberUK 2026: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber pros

  Ahead of next week’s CyberUK conference, the CyberUp Campaign for reform of the UK’s hacking laws urges the government to keep focus and proposes a four-pillar framework that would protect cyber professionals from prosecution

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  Finance regulators to address AI risks after MPs say they are ‘not doing enough’

  After a Treasury committee stated that public and finance systems are ‘exposed to potential serious harm’ from AI because regulators are ‘not doing enough’ to manage risks, finance regulators say they will take action to address concerns

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  Dubai rolls out AI training for 50,000 government staff

  An initiative under Digital Dubai, in partnership with government HR and AI bodies, reflects the wider UAE strategy to embed artificial intelligence across public services, workforce development and economic diversification plans

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  UK government’s £500m sovereign AI fund bids to commercialise research

  The UK government is launching a £500m Sovereign AI Unit to boost artificial intelligence startups and drive economic growth through strategic and long-term investments

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  UAE education builds digital resilience as regional tensions accelerate shift to remote learning

  Ankabut CEO Tarek Jundi outlines how national infrastructure, AI-driven platforms and distance-learning capabilities are helping schools and universities maintain continuity amid geopolitical uncertainty

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says government

  Technology secretary Liz Kendall urges Britain’s business community to sit up and pay attention to emerging AI threats, following the debut of Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk

  AI-based tool developed with Snowflake improves policymakers’ understanding of properties at risk of flooding

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  April Patch Tuesday brings zero-days in Defender, SharePoint Server

  Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update may be one of the largest in history, with more than 160 issues in scope

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  Department for Transport shows how its AI system avoids bias

  A report looking at a system to extract themes from public consultations highlights human and LLM-based checks

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  Finance regulator outlines its open finance vision

  Financial Conduct Authority wants small businesses and consumers to be able to use their data to get better finance deals

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  UK financial regulators rush to assess risks of Anthropic AI model

  Banks called in by regulators as latest artificial intelligence model identifies thousands of software vulnerabilities

• April 10, 2026 10 Apr'26

  OpenAI ‘pauses’ Stargate UK: Sudden setback or calculated move?

  OpenAI’s decision to pause Stargate UK, much vaunted and based on a memorandum of understanding with government, cites energy costs and regulation, but may be driven by wider uncertainties

• April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26

  UK Navy deters Russian submarines near critical undersea cables

  Operation by Navy and RAF tracks Russian submarine operations close to critical undersea cables

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Capita’s troubled Civil Service Pension Scheme hit by data breach

  A data breach affecting 138 members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme piles pressure on the service’s administrator, Capita, amid ongoing issues

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Azure customers up in arms over ‘full’ UK South region

  Microsoft customers report being refused capacity, migration projects stuck halfway, and accusations that AI is being prioritised over ‘bread and butter’ offerings

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Keir Starmer was warned about Post Office prosecution practices as director of public prosecutions

  A Horizon scandal victim wrote to Keir Starmer in 2011, when he was director of public prosecutions for the CPS, alerting him to the Post Office’s controversial prosecution practices

• April 07, 2026 07 Apr'26

  Russian cyber spies targeting consumer, Soho routers

  The UK’s NCSC and Microsoft have shared details of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting vulnerable network routers, orchestrated by Russian state actor Fancy Bear

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  NHS digital drive hit by usability gaps despite progress, national survey finds

  The shift from analogue to digital across the NHS is hindered by usability issues in electronic patient record (EPR), but the newly launched frontline productivity programme could be the answer

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Fujitsu injects another £80m into UK arm amid Post Office scandal fallout

  IT services provider’s UK arm has received a further £80m from parent company headquarters in Japan

• April 01, 2026 01 Apr'26

  Post Office scandal supplier Fujitsu to cut nearly 10% of UK workforce

  Troubled IT supplier announces voluntary redundancy programme with hundreds of UK jobs set to be cut

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  High Court dismisses judicial review against eVisa system

  The High Court rules that the Home Office is acting lawfully in refusing to issue alterative proof of immigration status outside of its electronic visa system, but both the judge and the department accepts that those affected by data quality and ...

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  UK government lacks ambition to fight tax fraud, says PAC

  The Public Accounts Committee says the UK government has dropped the ball on the use of data analytics to tackle tax fraud and error, as the public purse haemorrhages billions of pounds

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  Flaws in government procurement show in HMRC £473m AWS award

  After a rushed contract award with only one bidder and a tender notice ‘for hyperscalers only’, critics call for live oversight on government contracts, claiming the procurement is unfair and likely to be expensive

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  Second Post Office Capture conviction referred to appeal court

  Conviction of 30 years has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission