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• 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

  FairPrice to roll out AI-powered smart carts to more stores

  Shoppers can expect smart carts that slash checkout times to just 36 seconds, while supermarket staff will get an AI sidekick to automate daily operations

• 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 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  A tsunami of flaws: When frontier AI and Patch Tuesday collide

  Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday drop was the second-largest in history, falling just shy of an October 2025 record. What is behind the spike in vulnerability disclosures, and is there a connection to Anthropic’s bug-hunting Claude Mythos AI model?

• 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

  Sans Institute preps live systems for Nato cyber exercise

  Cyber training body the Sans Institute is preparing live power generation IT and OT systems for Nato’s annual Locked Shields blue team exercise, which this year appears more relevant than ever

• 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

  North Korean social engineering campaign targets MacOS users

  A MacOS-focused social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korea-based threat actor Sapphire Sleet has been exposed by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Unit

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Bank cyber teams on red alert as Anthropic promises them Mythos next week

  Artificial intelligence supplier promises UK banks opportunity to review AI model, which has already revealed thousands of security flaws

• 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

  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

  How the AI boom is reshaping tech cost management

  FinOps practitioners are stepping up to manage AI expenses, optimise token usage and align cost-saving measures with sustainability goals to improve returns from AI investments

• 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 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

  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 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  ‘Grand Theft Auto’ publisher Rockstar hit by hackers again

  The notorious ShinyHunters hacking collective menaces video game publisher Rockstar and says it will leak data on 14 April

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  In the AI race, a global bank bets on the human touch

  Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, Alvaro Garrido, says AI will transform finance, but the industry’s biggest vulnerabilities lie outside its own walls

• April 10, 2026 10 Apr'26

  Moscow champions digital sovereignty and AI-driven city management

  By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister

• 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

  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 01, 2026 01 Apr'26

  AI driving changes in Nordic financial services

  Traditional Nordic financial services businesses are reshaping to take on a new breed of competition

• 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 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  Shrinking PQC timeline highlights immediate risk to data security

  Google’s decision to move up its timeline for migration to post-quantum cryptography highlights that some of the cyber security risks posed by quantum computing are already reality

• March 30, 2026 30 Mar'26

  Stop Scams steps up to online fraud challenge

  After years of putting the building blocks in place, Stop Scams is ready and able to react quickly to fight emerging fraud threats

• 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

  Capita left to deal with 13,000 civil service pension cases over a year old

  More details of the Civil Services Pension Scheme administration backlog left to Capita revealed in parliamentary committee hearing

• March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26

  Bank of England IT project offers lessons for wider government

  The UK central bank’s core IT system replacement project surprised MPs, who were unaccustomed to reviewing success stories – its achievement could potentially serve as a model for future government IT initiatives

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  US government launches Bureau of Emerging Threats

  The US’ Bureau of Emerging Threats sits within the State Department and will supposedly help address national security threats arising from cyber attacks, the weaponisation of space and other emerging technologies

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Google targets 2029 for post-quantum cyber readiness

  Google sets out a timeline for its migration to post-quantum cryptography, saying it will complete its migration before the end of the 2020s

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Amazon Web Services bags Fujitsu’s HMRC loss

  US tech giant wins contract to run three datacentres for the government department after cutting ties with Fujitsu

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Emergency Microsoft, Oracle patches point to wider cyber issues

  Emergency out-of-band patches from Microsoft and Oracle signal underlying security issues around update cycles and patching, and identity security and zero-trust, says the community

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  Cyber pros must grasp the vibe coding nettle, says NCSC chief

  At RSA in San Francisco, NCSC chief exec Richard Horne says security professionals have an opportunity and a responsibility to get in front of the security issues raised by the popularity of ‘vibe coding’

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  HSBC gets its first artificial intelligence chief

  UK bank appoints its first executive position dedicated to artificial intelligence as the technology embeds across the sector

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  US government bans imported routers, raising tough questions

  The US communications regulator has enacted a ban on all router hardware made outside America citing security concerns, but experts say the move may risk creating more issues than it solves

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  QuikBot and EFGH bring real-time insurance to physical AI

  The two companies will embed insurance directly into the infrastructure governing autonomous robots, reducing claims processing and creating a trust layer for smart cities

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Irish government launches CNI resilience plan

  Ireland’s National Strategy on the Resilience of Critical Entities sets out a pathway to improved cyber resilience for the nation’s critical infrastructure, and establishes compliance with an EU directive

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  DWP finally seeks reviewer of its subpostmaster prosecutions

  Months after announcing review, the government has advertised for a reviewer to look over more than 100 prosecutions of subpostmasters by the Department of Work and Pensions

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  CUDA at 20: From billion-dollar gamble to agentic AI

  As Nvidia marks two decades of CUDA, its head of high-performance computing and hyperscale reflects on the platform’s journey, the power of software optimisation, and how the fusion of GPUs and LPUs will shape the future of AI

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Scotland launches five-year AI strategy

  Scottish deputy first minister says the country aims to become a leader in AI through responsibly harnessing the economic and social benefits of the technology

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Essex Police halts live facial recognition over bias and accuracy risks

  LFR deployments by Essex Police will not continue until risks associated with bias and inaccuracy have been reduced

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Cisa tells US organisations to harden endpoint management after Stryker attack

  Last week’s cyber attack on the systems of a US medical services company by Iranian hacktivists has prompted an alert from Cisa, urging organisations to reinforce their defensive posture

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  UK government puts brakes on opt-out copyright exemption for AI

  The UK government has ruled out forcing creatives to opt out of their intellectual property being used by artificial intelligence developers as its preferred solution to the AI-copyright controversy, but may still implement copyright exemptions later

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Government announces redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims

  Government offers two routes to financial redress for the families of victims of the Post Office scandal

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Zopa Bank continues its transformation with further growth

  UK digital challenger bank has 1.7 million customers, five years after it completed its transformation from a peer-to-peer lender

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  UK MoD awards more than two dozen contracts for AI targeting systems

  The UK Ministry of Defence is ramping up its investment into military artificial intelligence in a bid to increase the ‘lethality’ of the British armed forces

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  Fast followers will fall behind in the AI race, warns ServiceNow

  ServiceNow experts and customers highlight why acting at pace, deploying cross-system AI agents and governance are key in AI adoption