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• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  NHS publishes tech-laden cancer plan

  The 10-year plan promises to transform cancer care through use of artificial intelligence, robotic surgeries and access to genomic testing, all wrapped up in the NHS App as the front door

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  Australia’s CommBank partners business school to research artificial intelligence

  CommBank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence, as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  Minister responds to criticism of Post Office Capture redress scheme

  Redress claim on ‘pause’ as UK government agrees to look at complaints about scheme for those who suffered hardship from using the Post Office Capture system

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Why sovereign and agentic AI will define next phase of Middle East’s digital transformation

  Organisations shift from artificial intelligence pilots to operational deployment as governments prioritise digital sovereignty and infrastructure control

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  DWP rejigs operating model for data transformation by 2030

  The Department for Work and Pensions’ 2023-2030 data strategy aims to modernise systems, slash costs by 20%, promote data sharing, and embed a data culture in a hub and spoke model

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Post Office offered bailout to cover £104.4m IR35 tax bill linked to Horizon IT scandal

  The Department for Business and Trade offers to pay the £104.4m the Post Office owes HMRC for incorrectly assessing the IR35 status of the ‘unusually large’ population of contractors it engaged to assist with the fallout from the Horizon IT scandal

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  SolarWinds RCE bug makes Cisa list as exploitation spreads

  Exploitation of CVE-2025-40551, an RCE flaw affecting SolarWinds Web Help Desk, appears to be spreading, with defenders on high alert

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  UK government must get its hands dirty on security, report says

  As the UK government develops its National Cyber Action Plan, a report from the Rusi think tank urges Westminster to take a more interventionist approach

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  Banks reduce reliance on OpenAI as strategies mature

  Banks are increasingly using alternative AI providers as Anthropic and Google eat into OpenAI’s dominance

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Ransomware gangs focus on winning hearts and minds

  Ransomware-as-a-service operations are increasingly seeking to forge connections with employees, contractors and trusted partners of their target organisations as an alternative to straight-up hacking, says NCC

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  CGI’s artificial intelligence boss knows his job title won’t exist for long

  IT service provider is using AI to increase throughput while applying it to ‘big ticket’ challenges externally

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Banks on the hook for £173m in APP fraud reimbursement

  Banks paid 88% losses claimed by customers that fell victim to authorised push payment fraud last year

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Kendall names Barnsley as UK’s first tech town

  The UK government has named Barnsley as the nation’s first ‘tech town’, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  HMRC chooses cloud SAP S/4Hana for tax system overhaul

  HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Birmingham Oracle project: Data cleansing and resourcing issues

  Councillors at audit committee urged to ensure strong project governance, adequate tech staffing levels and change management procedures

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Police intercept evidence from Sky ECC cryptophone network ‘unreliable’, Antwerp court told

  Intercepted communications data used to prosecute drug crime gangs is unreliable and does not conform to international standards of evidence, according to an expert report presented to a court in Antwerp

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  History repeats itself in Post Office Capture redress scheme with low-ball offers made

  Early signs show that former Post Office Capture users face derisory initial compensation offers and face impossible appeals process

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Police Digital Service future remains uncertain as ‘radical’ Home Office policing reform unveiled

  The UK government’s long-awaited ‘radical’ policing reform whitepaper has finally dropped, but there is a distinct lack of detail in it about how exactly the Police Digital Service will fit into its vision for a nationally led policing sector

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans

  The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Sir Alan Bates slams ‘nonsense’ reported about his financial redress settlement

  Campaigning subpostmaster speaks out about the highly inaccurate claims about the compensation he received

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Ex-directors of firm linked to Satoshi Nakamoto imposter sue over whistleblowing retaliation claims

  Two former directors of London tech company nChain, associated with a computer scientist who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, have told an employment tribunal they were dismissed in retaliation for whistleblowing

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Metropolitan Police needs effective constraints on live facial recognition use, court hears

  The Metropolitan Police has defended its use of live facial recognition against a legal challenge that claims there are no effective constraints on where it can deploy the technology

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Security now one of the UK’s fastest-growing career paths

  The number of people working in the cyber security field has almost trebled in the 2020s, with one cyber professional for every 68 businesses in the UK

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  UK government signs more partners to boost AI skills across the country

  The government is seeking to educate 10 million adults in the UK on how to use artificial intelligence tools to streamline their work

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Troubleshooter steps in as Capita and civil service bosses apologise for pension scheme problems

  High volumes of customer calls, backlogs and complex requests blamed for shaky start to life on civil service pension scheme for Capita

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Sonia Patel to become interim UK government chief technology officer

  NHS England’s chief technology officer has taken on the same role for government on an interim 12-month fixed-term contract

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Fujitsu boss ‘falls on his sword’ before settling with Post Office scandal victims

  Fujitsu's European chief Paul Patterson is stepping down from his role amid the troubles brought on by the supplier’s central role in the Post Office scandal

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Scotland gets AI growth zone boost in Lanarkshire

  CoreWeave is building a 500MW AI cloud, providing the region with 800 high-paid jobs in artificial intelligence

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  UK government to develop AI tutoring tools

  Schools will soon have access to free AI tools to help provide 1:1 tutoring to students, potentially levelling the playing field for those from disadvantaged backgrounds

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  ENEC, TII and Aspire test autonomous aerial systems for critical infrastructure security

  Abu Dhabi proof-of-concept project evaluates whether drone-based patrols are mature enough for safety-critical environments

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  FCA launches review as ‘non-human intelligence’ surpassing human reasoning is plausible

  The Financial Conduct Authority will consider the impact of emerging artificial intelligence adoption in the financial services sector

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Nationwide expands Amazon Web Services partnership to delve deeper into AI

  Nationwide will have access to artificial intelligence-powered tools to help staff in their everyday interactions with its members

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Transfer learning and governance help bridge healthcare AI divide

  Singapore researchers show how adapting pre-trained AI models can solve data scarcity issues in countries with limited resources. Separately, they have proposed forming an international consortium to build consensus on AI governance in medicine

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Wave of ShinyHunters vishing attacks spreading fast

  The ShinyHunters hacking collective that caused chaos in 2025 is ramping up a new voice phishing campaign, with several potential victims already identified

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  UK government’s National Data Library works up steam

  Department for Science, Innovation and Technology finishes ‘discovery phase’ of £100m National Data Library programme, including pilot projects

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Alan Turing Institute fellowship programme boosted by $1m from Meta

  The funding from Meta will be used to support experts in the development artificial intelligence to improve UK public services

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Peer demands independent investigation into DWP’s prosecution of subpostmasters

  The DWP’s promised review of subpostmaster prosecutions doesn’t satisfy the demands of politicians and campaigners

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to UK dissident targeted with Pegasus spyware

  A court has found that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia subjected a London-based human rights activist to abuse and physical violence after infecting his phone with Pegasus spyware

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Broken decryptor leaves Sicarii ransomware victims adrift

  A coding error in an emergent strain of ransomware leaves victims unable to recover their data, even if they cooperate with the hackers’ demands

• January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26

  Landmark legal challenge against police facial recognition begins

  The High Court will examine whether the Metropolitan Police is acting lawfully with its deployments of live facial recognition, in the UK’s first judicial review of how the technology is being used

• January 26, 2026 26 Jan'26

  Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision

  Prosecutors have been told they cannot rely on intercept evidence from the Sky ECC encrypted phone network in the absence of other evidence, unless they disclose the raw intercept data to defendants in decision that could have a significant impact ...

• January 23, 2026 23 Jan'26

  Ransomware, reputation, risk: Black Hat Europe in review, 2026 in view

  Black Hat Europe made clear that cyber security can no longer be separated from politics, economics and behaviour, as ransomware, AI and long-standing security failures combine

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  Macquarie Bank rolls out AI agent to personalise customer support

  Australian bank launches a 24/7 intelligent assistant capable of asynchronous human hand-off, joining the country’s major financial institutions in the race to deploy AI-powered services

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  JPMorgan CEO urges slowdown of AI roll-out to ‘save society’

  The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence will prompt ‘civil unrest’ if governments and companies fail to protect workers from its displacing effects, says JPMorgan boss

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  DWP review of Post Office worker prosecutions yet to start, months after announcement

  The DWP said in August that it would carry out an independent review of prosecutions of subpostmasters, but it has yet to appoint a reviewer

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  Sportswear firm Under Armour falls victim to data breach

  Details of over 70 million customers of US sportswear giant Under Armour were leaked following a supposed ransomware attack by the Everest gang

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  Davos 2026: Smart thinking needed for sovereign AI investment

  Policy-makers need to figure out how they can carve a niche in a world dominated by China and the US

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  Dell Technologies Forum Dubai highlights AI as the next great economic accelerator

  At its flagship regional event, Dell Technologies set out how AI leadership, data readiness and skills development are shaping digital transformation across the UAE and the wider Middle East

• January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

  UK government begins trials of digital driving licence

  The digital version of the physical driving licence will be made available through an app-based digital wallet, with testing underway before wider roll-out later this year

• January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26

  UK and China reach out across cyber no-man's land

  London and Beijing have supposedly conducted high-level talks seeking to establish a joint security forum to help de-escalate potential cyber flashpoints, according to reports