Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1% Public Sector23 Jan 2026 | 58
House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16 As public consultation kicks off, members of UK Parliament's second chamber highlight damage to children Public Sector22 Jan 2026 | 84
England's Department of Health and Social Care offering £285k for new tech director Fancy it? As national health tech boss, you'd be one of the highest paid in the team Public Sector20 Jan 2026 | 8
Cop cops it after Copilot cops out: West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination Craig Guildford banned Israeli fans based on Microsoft's match report, told MPs 'we don't use AI,' then discovers... they did Offbeat19 Jan 2026 | 77
UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids Labour's latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer's amendment Public Sector19 Jan 2026 | 81
Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health Off-Prem19 Dec 2025 | 55
GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses Public Sector19 Dec 2025 | 42
BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants AI + ML18 Dec 2025 | 229
DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in 18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500 On-Prem18 Dec 2025 | 97
England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits Public Sector17 Dec 2025 | 66
UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installations Networks17 Dec 2025 | 49
MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war' Security16 Dec 2025 | 108
Care leavers mired in red tape trying to get their own records UK data watchdog demands public sector improves subject access request processing Legal09 Dec 2025 | 2
Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost Officials insist OBR relied on 'early estimate' and real figure won't emerge until next year Public Sector09 Dec 2025 | 49
UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance Networks08 Dec 2025 | 22
England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache Surrey to be divided into two new councils in first phase of countrywide reorg Public Sector31 Oct 2025 | 40
UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity 60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds PaaS + IaaS29 Oct 2025 | 17
Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog Public Sector27 Oct 2025 | 40
Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash Public Sector24 Oct 2025 | 127
Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 17
EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits Public Sector14 Oct 2025 | 47
Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead Public Sector01 Oct 2025 | 124
UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone? Public Sector01 Oct 2025 | 29
Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year Security30 Sep 2025 | 67
Digital ID, same place, different time: In this timeline, the result might surprise us Opinion Socio political backdrop is not what it once was.... Personal Tech29 Sep 2025 | 118
UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029 Prime Minister Starmer revives controversial scheme despite past denials, sparking civil liberties backlash Public Sector26 Sep 2025 | 310
EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners Biometric Entry/Exit System phased in from October to 29 Schengen countries Security25 Sep 2025 | 208
Check your own databases before asking to see our passport photos, Home Office tells UK cops Guidance follows privacy complaints over sharp increase in police searches of travel doc and visa pic libraries Databases25 Sep 2025 | 18
Campaigners urge UK PM Starmer to dump digital ID wheeze before it's announced Labour accused of sneaking in plans it denied before the general election Security24 Sep 2025 | 150
UK justice minister pressed as court system bug raises fears of hidden case files HMCTS expands investigation into IT flaw after whistleblowers draw Horizon comparisons Public Sector24 Sep 2025 | 9
Vaccine dreams: A trip to Oxford to see a biscuit tin, some bed pans and ChAdOx1 nCov-19 Geek's Guide to Britain No, not the title of an undiscovered Douglas Adams book, it's medical history in the UK Geek's Guide10 Sep 2021 | 29
The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different Geek's Guide to Britain Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits Geek's Guide05 May 2021 | 37
The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly Geek's Guide to Britain Farewell to St Paul's telco treasury Geek's Guide19 Sep 2019 | 61
GDP-arrrrrrgggghhh! A no-deal Brexit: So what are you going to do with all that lovely data? Feature What we know, plus potential ways to make that data flow Legal05 Sep 2019 | 115
Can you trust Huawei... or any other networks supplier for that matter? Price, bug-patching, security, control ... so many factors to consider Networks10 Jul 2019 | 30
What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters Geek's Guide to Britain Forget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery Geek's Guide18 Mar 2019 | 99
Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England Geek's Guide to Britain The world's first iron-framed building will return to service soon Geek's Guide27 Sep 2018 | 27
National ID cards might not mean much when up against incompetence of the UK Home Office Would they have prevented Windrush? The mind boggles Databases19 Jun 2018 | 141
UK government's cloud spending hits saturation: Love of Microsoft endures Still making it rain for MS SaaS10 May 2018 | 25
Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs Geek's Guide to Britain Inside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web Geek's Guide15 Feb 2018 | 45
We already give up our privacy to use phones, why not with cars too? The future of transport looks like a sensor-riddled computer Science14 Feb 2018 | 102
Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms Figures are growing but still puny compared to profits On-Prem22 Jan 2018 | 13
Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland Geek's Guide to Britain What Bernard Lovell did before Jodrell Bank Geek's Guide12 Jan 2018 | 39
Universal basic income is a great idea, which is also why it won't happen Maybe Zuck and Musk do have it all figured out, but powers that be will need to see some proof Legal15 Nov 2017 | 257
Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham Geek's Guide to Britain A star performer producing fission-free plasma power Geek's Guide25 Sep 2017 | 143
Pssst... wanna participate in a Google DeepMind AI pilot? Be careful Lessons from the NHS's 1.6 million data-records shovel AI + ML23 Aug 2017 | 20
Tech can do a lot, Prime Minister, but it can't save the NHS And it's not just a question of money, either Legal08 Jun 2017 | 175
How the Facebook money funnel is shaping British elections TV ads banned, but targeted Facebook videos have free rein Legal30 May 2017 | 90
Drugs, vodka, Volvo: The Scandinavian answer to Britain's future new border How Sweden and Norway turned to ANPR Legal11 May 2017 | 145
Trump, Brexit, and Cambridge Analytica – not quite the dystopia you're looking for Not EVIL, not FIRST, but yes... it's your data and they're using it Software07 Mar 2017 | 69
Cut off: Big government IT wallets snap shut on BT's fingers Reg Whitehall spend analysis reveals cash flowing away Networks07 Feb 2017 | 27
Facebook pimping for politicos despite fake news 'purge' Social giant works both sides of news street On-Prem17 Jan 2017 | 24
Big tech's grip loosens on UK.gov IT spend Victory for SMBs? Not quite, Reg research reveals Legal13 Jan 2017 | 5
Meet the Loughborough 'emo' boffins who predicted Trump's victory Social media tracking... yep, this is the future Software24 Nov 2016 | 18
World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit Papworth's timely backups saved the day Security04 Nov 2016 | 113
Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground Geek's Guide to Britain From Acorns to bedrooms Geek's Guide26 Sep 2016 | 54
Nul points: PM May's post-Brexit EU immigration options Comment What now as the Aussie system dream lies in tatters? Channel05 Sep 2016 | 110
Ireland's govt IT: Recession and job cuts forced us to adapt The road from 2008 bust, bailout and 'no new staff' OSes23 Aug 2016 | 25
What's Brexit? How Tech UK tore up its plans after June 23 EU workers, new markets: post-Brexit pressure on May & Co Channel25 Jul 2016 | 152
UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits Middle-class terror of engineering also part of problem Channel17 Jun 2016 | 130