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• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Digital IDs edge closer to practical reality for UK businesses

  Industries and policymakers are strongly aligned on the need for digital company IDs for UK businesses, as progress is made towards the implementation of a practical standard

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  MPs ask Lloyds Bank for more information about ‘alarming’ breach

  Treasury Committee chair requests more information about the IT problem experienced by Lloyds Bank

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Contactless payment limit removal will happen overnight, but change won’t

  Banks will be able to set their own contactless card payment limits from 19 March, following rule change by Financial Conduct Authority

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Alibaba joins AI agent race with Wukong launch

  Following the viral success of OpenClaw and product launches from Nvidia and Tencent, Alibaba has unveiled an agentic AI platform that integrates with DingTalk to orchestrate business workflows

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Nordea to slash 1,500 jobs as AI impact grows

  Nordic bank to reduce headcount as it continues to introduce changes to meet its 2030 targets

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Health workers call for Palantir to be booted from NHS contracts

  Health justice charity Medact warns that Palantir’s involvement in NHS data systems is a threat to patients and healthcare organisations

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Lendi Group standardises on MongoDB for AI-ready data layer

  Following a merger that left the Australian fintech with a fragmented data architecture, Lendi Group has consolidated its databases onto MongoDB Atlas to reduce microservices sprawl and power AI-driven broker tools

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Funding and procurement to target UK quantum innovation

  The government has ambitions to make the UK the first country to deliver quantum computing at scale, and has set aside £1bn to drive R&D

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Everpure’s Evergreen One for AI brings Exa flash and GPU-based service-level agreements

  Nvidia GTC is the occasion for beta launch of its Datastream appliance that marries software to ingest and manage AI data pipelines with Everpure storage and GPU resources

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Companies House restarts online services following cyber breach

  Companies House was forced to pull its WebFiling service offline at the weekend after it emerged that a flawed update was putting data at risk of exposure

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  SuperMicro takes on server leaders as AMD pushes on-premise AI

  Lenovo and HPE pushed down as SuperMicro sees 134% AI growth, while AMD pushes on-premise Agent Computer

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  UK government unveils gigabit broadband upgrade tracker

  As full-fibre broadband deployments maintain steady pace across the nation, UK government introduces tool to allow businesses across England and Wales to discover if they are due a government-backed broadband upgrade

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Whitehall unable to reduce consultancy spend amid digital skills shortages

  Digital transformation projects rely heavily on external consultants, and while government aims to reduce costs, it holds no accurate data on how much it spends on consultancy services

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  UK Atomic Energy Authority readies fusion simulation AI supercomputer

  The AMD Epyc and Instinct-powered Dell hardware will deliver 6.74 exaflops to power digital twins to support nuclear fusion research

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Revealed: How HMRC has been quietly building surveillance capabilities

  HMRC has bought phone scanning equipment and analysis software capable of extracting data from mobile devices as it steps up its electronic intelligence gathering capabilities, an investigation by Computer Weekly reveals

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  Interpol obliterates cyber criminal infrastructure

  A major Interpol operation has resulted in the seizure of thousands of malicious cyber criminal IP addresses and servers, and multiple arrests

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  UK falls behind on supercomputing amid slow investment, NAO warns

  While UKRI has improved its oversight of research and innovation, funding remains fragmented and has been too slow to replace supercomputers

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions

  Report from MPs warns of unknown number of unsafe subpostmasters convictions based on multiple pre-Horizon systems

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  Lloyds banking app ‘glitch’ shows transactions of strangers

  Customers of Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank experienced a glitch this morning, where details of other customers’ transactions were displayed in their online banking apps

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  The UK government’s digital identity scheme: Dystopian nightmare or modernised public services?

  Critics and supporters of digital ID are honing their arguments for the government’s consultation – but it’s the public that will decide. How should you choose?

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  Enormous AI growth zone datacentre gets planning approval

  North Lincolnshire Council approves 1GW datacentre with nearby electricity generation, but environmental campaigners say the developers did their sums wrong

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  What it takes to succeed with AI

  With research showing the use of AI may temporarily reduce productivity, Cloudera’s Vini Cardoso urges businesses to adopt an organisation-wide platform approach driven by measurable value and trusted data

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Met Office ‘supercomputing as a service’ one year old

  Artificial intelligence is not key to the weather picture, as the forecasting and climate prediction agency lauds the benefits of moving from on-site supercomputers to cloud computing for scientific modelling

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  UK government announces package to get more women in tech

  The UK government aims to add billions of pounds to the economy through getting more women into the tech sector

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Mastercard bots target C-suite roles

  Card giant offers SMEs a virtual chief financial officer through artificial intelligence technology, with other C-suite roles to follow

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Iran war a melting pot for other cyber threats

  State-backed cyber threat actors from non-combatant states are taking advantage of the Israeli-US war on Iran to fulfil their own goals, according to Proofpoint analysts

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  UK government reforms could see datacentres jump grid connection queue

  With electricity grid demand ballooning, the UK government plans for consultation and reform to ensure feasible and prioritised projects get the thumbs up

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Cyber industry welcomes women, but challenges persist

  Three-quarters of women working in security say they feel comfortable in the field, but women are still much more likely to be laid off and face persistent challenges around career advancement, according to a report

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Salesforce tracks possible ShinyHunters campaign targeting its users

  Salesforce warns users of an uptick in malicious activity targeting Experience Cloud customers with misconfigured user settings via an open source tool

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Oracle cost-cutting points to AI infrastructure gamble

  Over the past few weeks, cracks have started to appear in the tech sector’s growth plans for artificial intelligence

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Child rapist could have profiled victims through unaudited access to NHS databases

  NHS analyst’s conviction for child sexual abuse offences raises concerns over unaudited access to patient data

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Zendesk to acquire Forethought in major agentic AI play

  Zendesk is acquiring Forethought to bolster its agentic AI chops with specialised and self-learning AI agents capable of managing complex customer service workflows

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Welsh government boosts funding for cyber education

  The Welsh government’s Tech Valleys programme is providing three-quarters of a million pounds to help reach thousands of primary school children with security education and careers guidance

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Neurons over silicon: Singapore plans first biological datacentre

  DayOne and Cortical Labs are bringing ‘wetware’ computing to the city-state, using living neurons grown from stem cells to support the demand for AI while addressing sustainability concerns

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server

  Zero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Whitehall launches digital ID consultation

  Eight-week consultation aims to get the public’s view on how the proposed digital ID system would work, and contemplates introducing a universal unique identifier linked to the ID

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Met Police to ‘trial’ handheld facial recognition tech

  London Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals in a scrutiny session with London Assembly members that the Met is set to trial a facial recognition phone app for police officers

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Microsoft Cowork: One data store for all your M365 assets

  MIcrosoft has revealed the next stage of its plans to place its software at the heart of enterprise data, which is now powered by agentic AI

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  Open banking presents £43bn opportunity for UK economy if warnings are heeded

  Open banking has already delivered billions of pounds to the UK economy and has huge future potential, but industry leaders warn against complacency

• March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

  AI chooses nuclear escalation in 95% of simulated crises

  With artificial intelligence increasingly deployed in analysis and decision-making in armed conflict, research shows AI systems will not naturally default to ‘safe’ outcomes in nuclear crises

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  UK to launch cyber fraud squad in April

  The UK’s Online Crime Centre, launching next month, will bring together government, police, intelligence agencies, banks, mobile networks and tech firms to take coordinated action against cyber fraud

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  Trump looks to power up post-quantum, AI security

  The US has unveiled a six-pillar national cyber security strategy, with developing technological areas such as post-quantum cryptography and artificial intelligence front and centre

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  Interview: Nick Pearson, CIO, Ricoh Europe

  Working for a company undergoing a major pivot in its business model means variety and opportunity for the supplier’s tech chief

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  AI factory builder Nscale announces another $2bn of funding

  Nscale has a pipeline of 1.3GW of capacity across the UK, Norway and the US, with contracted supply of 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, and is name-checked as a British supplier of AI factories

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  DBS rewires operating models for AI reasoning era

  The bank expects AI tools to evolve from being a copilot to an autopilot as it undergoes organisational transformation to prepare its workforce for agentic AI

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Scattered Spider attack on TfL affected 10 million people

  The 2024 Scattered Spider attack on Transport for London affected approximately 10 million people, many of whom remain blissfully unaware their data was compromised

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Lloyds Bank to sell more customer data and cut costs by 35%

  High street giant will increase proportion of total staff that work in technology and data

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Stephen Lawrence detective calls for better checks after child’s Instagram account ‘memorialised’

  Former detective Clive Driscoll, who secured convictions in the Stephen Lawrence case, calls for better checks after Instagram ‘memorialised’ the account of a child without the family’s knowledge

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Regulate AWS and Microsoft, says UK cloud provider survey

  Open Cloud Coalition survey, commissioned ahead of the CMA’s decision on measures against the two hyperscale giants, finds competing cloud providers demand regulation