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• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  UK government to introduce online porn age checks

  World-first regulations will see age verification introduced in July and enforced by the British Board of Film Classification. Non-compliant sites risk withdrawal of payment services or being blocked

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  HM Land Registry completes blockchain trial

  HM Land Registry’s blockchain project is part of a wider digital transformation initiative which aims to simplify and speed up the process of buying and selling property

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Government says no conflict of interest in trial despite Post Office chairman’s dual role

  BEIS refutes MP’s suggestion of Post Office chairman’s conflict of interest in group litigation case involving Horizon IT system

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Middle East CIOs optimistic as budgets increase and digital transformations expand

  Cyber security and risk management will see the biggest increase in spending, but digital transformation of businesses is a major driver of investment, survey shows

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  TfL suspends Wi-Fi service as Extinction Rebellion spreads

  Transport for London has cut off its public Virgin Media Wi-Fi service to disrupt climate change protests

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Home Office curbs bulk emails following data breach

  Department has introduced new rules for mass messaging after exposing email addresses of EU settled status scheme applicants

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Findings published from three-month pilot for NHS App

  Biometric login functionality and additional repeat prescription ordering capability are among the enhancements made in response to user feedback to the NHS App

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  MP questions government over Post Office Horizon case

  Labour MP asks the government about the costs associated with the Post Office Horizon legal battle

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Dutch national weather service adopts cloud to expand service offerings

  The migration of legacy systems to an AWS set-up will precede the design of a real-time early warning centre for the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Post-Brexit IT talent shortages concern UK CIOs

  Finding and training tech staff remains an issue and is set to get worse after the UK leaves the European Union, says Barclaycard study

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  NHS launches care home availability portal

  New tool is aimed at optimising hospital occupancy and saving social care staff “hours of phoning around”

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  NCSC seeks new breed of cyber security startups

  The UK intelligence community is seeking to promote a new breed of technology startup to help detect, respond to and facilitate rapid recoveries from cyber attacks on the UK

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  UK government launches cloud sustainability probe

  Government departments are being asked to provide information about the energy footprint of the cloud services they use

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  Mott MacDonald builds smart cities on Azure cloud

  The Microsoft cloud will be used to run digital twins of city infrastructure to help city planners manage infrastructure more effectively

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  Police local cyber crime units get multimillion pound boost

  UK policing marks the completion of the local phase of a national cyber crime programme to complement regional and national response capabilities