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• 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 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

  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

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Norway braced for foreign AI cyber attacks on vital petroleum computing

  Nordic petrostate is preparing for war and turning the spotlight on vulnerabilities in its critical industries, as adversaries look for ways to damage the most important oil and gas producer to the EU

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Enterprises warming to AI PCs amid growing cloud costs

  While global memory shortages will pose a threat to the broader PC market, AI PCs are gaining momentum across Asia as companies look to cut cloud costs, boost productivity and secure sensitive information

• March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26

  Quarter of social care staff don’t use technology to deliver care

  Government-commissioned survey finds 27% of care providers do not use any technology to provide care for patients

• March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26

  UK government departments not sold on shared services strategy, NAO report finds

  Eight years on from the launch of the government’s shared services strategy, there is no clear ownership, funding remains uncertain and some departments are yet to fully commit

• March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26

  Spyware suppliers exploit more zero-days than nation states

  Exploitation of zero-days by commercial surveillance and spyware developers outpaced exploitation by nation-state actors last year, according to a report

• March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26

  Government wants to build digital ID system in-house

  The Home Affairs Committee hearing on digital ID reveals consultation is due next week; there will be no central database; and while government wants to build the system in-house, it will not replace private digital ID providers

• March 04, 2026 04 Mar'26

  Iranian hacktivists muster their forces but state APTs lay low

  Hacktivist activity surrounding the Iran war is sky-high but Iran’s state-backed cyber espionage actors have yet to show their hands, giving security teams a valuable window of time to shore up their defences

• March 04, 2026 04 Mar'26

  Tycoon2FA phishing platform dismantled in major operation

  A Europol-led sting against the infamous Tycoon2FA MFA bypass phishing service has been successful, with operations disrupted and ringleaders and cyber criminal users identified

• March 04, 2026 04 Mar'26

  Civil service veteran ‘incandescent’ as wait for pension hits four months amid outsourcing mess

  Public servant of over 40 years, who has been waiting four months for pension payments to begin, says government has lost control

• March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

  National Grid, Nebius and Emerald hail datacentre power throttling

  In a UK-first trial, Emerald AI acts as intelligence in datacentre energy management to throttle demand at peak loads, including being able to respond rapidly to energy system stress

• March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

  Emerging markets prioritise top-line growth with agentic AI

  While firms in mature markets are using AI agents to automate routine tasks, those in emerging markets where the cost of the technology is higher than that of human labour are favouring revenue-generating use cases

• March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

  NCSC: No increase in cyber threat from Iran, but be prepared

  While cyber threat levels remain stable following the outbreak of war in the Middle East at the weekend, at-risk organisations in the UK should take steps to ward off potential reprisals from Iran-linked threat actors

• March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

  NS&I seeks Bank of England counsel over project disaster

  The Bank of England’s successful IT transformation, praised by the National Audit Office, is being used as a model for government departments, including NS&I, which faces a failing IT project

• March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

  AI transformation must start at the top, but boards remain divided

  While C-suite interest in AI has shifted from the ‘what’ to the ‘how’, Diligent CEO Brian Stafford warns that true enterprise transformation requires hands-on leadership from the board

• March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

  Virtual twins and AI companions target enterprise war rooms

  Dassault Systèmes claims platform can answer complex business questions in seconds, but approach requires rethinking enterprise data architecture

• March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

  Micron opens $2.75bn chip assembly plant in India

  Test and assembly site in Gujarat marks India’s first commercial semiconductor production following multibillion-dollar investments in US and Singapore to meet growing demand for storage and memory chips

• February 27, 2026 27 Feb'26

  Australia inks five-year deal with Microsoft to drive AI and cloud adoption

  The Digital Transformation Agency’s new agreement promises cost certainty, improved discounts, and a skills fund to support the government’s digital transformation agenda

• February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

  Qilin crew continues to dominate ransomware ecosystem

  The Qilin ransomware gang remained ‘top dog’ in January 2026, with over 100 observed cyber attacks to its name, amid a rapidly evolving and fragmenting cyber criminal ecosystem

• February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

  India AI Impact Summit: Open source gains ground, but sovereignty tensions persist

  While open source artificial intelligence gained unprecedented recognition during the latest global AI summit, divisions over governance, market concentration and regulatory power cast doubt on whether the technology will benefit society as a whole

• February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

  Khazna’s NexOps shift signals new operating model for AI-scale infrastructure

  Managing director Bart Holsters explains why hybrid insourcing, competence assurance and sovereign readiness are becoming essential as artificial intelligence pushes datacentres to their limits

• February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26

  Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN users targeted in series of cyber attacks

  The NCSC, Cisa, and other Five Eyes agencies have warned of mass exploitation of vulnerabilities in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, which Cisco is attributing to an unknown threat actor called UAT-8616

• February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26

  Application exploitation back in vogue, says IBM cyber unit

  IBM’s X-Force unit observes an uptick in the exploitation of vulnerable public-facing software applications

• February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26

  UK government commits £483m to Post Office for IT transformation

  The UK government is to provide the next round of funding to support the Post Office’s move away from its controversial Fujitsu Horizon IT system

• February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26

  NUHS and GSMA Foundry team up on 5G and AI in healthcare

  Singapore’s National University Health System is working with GSMA Foundry, Ericsson and Singtel to drive the use of 5G-enabled robotics, ambient AI and holographic surgery in healthcare

• February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26

  Cyber association launches code of conduct for security pros

  ISC2’s Code of Professional Conduct will supposedly establish a worldwide framework dedicated to principled and ethical practices in the security trade

• February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26

  Microsoft CEO opens London AI Tour with Copilot push

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used his event keynote to showcase how the artificial intelligence in M365 is a foundation for agentic AI in the enterprise

• February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26

  UAE CIOs feel AI heat as 85% fear role risk within two years

  Technology leaders say careers, credibility and corporate resilience now hinge on delivering measurable artificial intelligence outcomes

• February 23, 2026 23 Feb'26

  Innovate UK cyber startup programme gets £10m funding booster

  Graduates of DSIT and Innovate UK's CyberASAP scheme to commercialise cutting-edge cyber research projects have raised nearly £50m in the past decade

• February 23, 2026 23 Feb'26

  €126bn in Dutch tech projects blocked by permits and grid limits

  Ex-ASML chief Peter Wennink’s deregulation solution triggers warnings from academics and government advisors

• February 20, 2026 20 Feb'26

  Interview: Ankur Anand, group CIO, Nash Squared

  Recruitment is one of the industries that is supposedly most likely to be transformed by AI, but the CIO of one top firm is looking more to how the technology can help its team enhance their own jobs

• February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

  ICO wins appeal over data protection obligations in Currys cyber attack

  The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has won an important appeal relating to data protection obligations arising from a 2017-18 cyber attack at electronics retailer Currys PC World

• February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

  PromptSpy Android malware may exploit Gemini AI

  A newly uncovered malware targeting the Android operating system seems to exploit Google’s Gemini GenAI tool to help it maintain persistence

• February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

  India AI Impact Summit begins

  The summit aims to democratise AI and bridge the growing divide between countries, but critics warn that it risks becoming a mere spectacle if the technology only serves the interests of power and profit

• February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

  Nvidia backs India’s sovereign AI push with gigawatt-scale infrastructure

  Chip giant unveils compute expansion with L&T, Yotta and E2E Networks at the India AI Impact Summit, paving the way for domestic heavyweights to build AI agents and physical AI applications

• February 18, 2026 18 Feb'26

  Flaws in Google and Microsoft products added to Cisa catalogue

  Cisa has added six CVEs to its Kev catalogue this week, including newly disclosed issues in Google Chromium and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, and some older flaws as well

• February 18, 2026 18 Feb'26

  0APT ransomware crew makes embarrassing splash

  A ransomware gang called 0APT has attracted attention, but many of its victims may not even be real, and its operators are being accused of over-egging their criminal pudding

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Western cyber alliances risk fragmenting in new world order

  The conduct of powerful nations is causing knock-on effects in the cyber world as long-standing security frameworks appear increasingly precarious

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  House of Lords committee concerned over digital forensics backlog

  Lords’ Science and Technology Committee warns policing and justice system is unequipped to make use of technologies such as AI, and calls on government to handle digital forensics backlog

• February 16, 2026 16 Feb'26

  Pascal Brier, Capgemini: AI will prove its enterprise truth this year

  Capgemini’s chief innovation officer says the 2025 rise and deployment of artificial intelligence agents put enterprise AI progress on hold, but laid the ground for acceleration to come

• February 16, 2026 16 Feb'26

  Interview: Richard Corbridge, CIO, Segro

  With a varied IT leadership career across healthcare, retail and central government, property development brought fresh challenges for the CIO – and a chance to share his experience in an industry not renowned for digital transformation

• February 16, 2026 16 Feb'26

  NatWest hails progress after £1.2bn spent on tech last year, but true AI transformation to come

  NatWest Bank describes the past 12 months of its tech transformation as ‘the year of [AI] deployment at scale’