IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects
Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ
Science26 May 2023 | 26
Government of the United Kingdom
Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder?
Opinion Beware over promising benefits and underestimating complexity
Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 137
UK told it must double low carbon investment to meet net zero targets
Complexity also a problem across 115 funding streams, watchdog says
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week23 May 2023 | 41
UK government prays that size doesn't matter as it chips in £1B for semiconductor sector
Domestic industry 'will never be wholly sovereign' say critics as Blighty hooks up with Japan
Systems19 May 2023 | 36
Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess
Opinion Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment
Science15 May 2023 | 417
Most of UK agriculture dept's customer interactions are paper based
Only 20% of biz apps directly supported, with 30% requiring 'hypercare' at farming org
Applications12 May 2023 | 31
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech
Building a wall... of code
Devops10 May 2023 | 166
Users complain over UK state-owned bank's services as Atos eyes the exit
Updated National Savings & Investment contracting for massive tech deals as customers complain of 2FA failure
Security05 May 2023 | 44
That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models
Figure not a typo, tho it will be paired with £900M 'BritGPT' supercomputer, which is a bit more like it
AI + ML25 Apr 2023 | 25
Florida folks dragged out of bed by false emergency texts
Laugh while you can, UK residents – you've got a nationwide emergency alert system test this weekend
Offbeat21 Apr 2023 | 158
UK pensions dept hands Softcat £250M for Microsoft subscriptions
Deal done as UK.gov negotiates new £12 billion framework
Software19 Apr 2023 | 17
UK government scraps smart motorway plans, cites high costs and low public confidence
14 projects canceled as Prime Minister Sunak fulfills a campaign promise
Offbeat17 Apr 2023 | 123
UK govt wants standalone 5G by 2030 but won't shell out to help hit target
Instead tech department working on 'range of measures' to foster investment
Networks12 Apr 2023 | 105
Tiny Brit tech firms win spots on £1.84B public sector contract. Kidding, it's the usual suspects
Collective deal to cover software needs for every rung of government
PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 23
Tech giants looking for ways to wriggle out of UK digital tax, watchdog warns
Delays to OECD plan means interim fix could be found wanting
Off-Prem05 Apr 2023 | 49
'Slow AI' needed to stop autonomous weapons making humans worse
It's you, hi, you're the problem, it's you
Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 20
Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals
Perfect timing – we could use another bank run
Legal15 Mar 2023 | 52
UK refreshes national security plan to stop more of China's secret-stealing cyber-tricks
A threat that needs two orgs to tackle it: the 'Integrated Security Fund' and the 'National Protective Security Authority'
CSO14 Mar 2023 | 43
UK datacenter biz Ark goes on date with private equity suitors
Government supplier said to be valued at $2.5B
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 1
Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm bought by HSBC for 1 British pound in rescue deal
$2.9 trillion-asset globo corp's local subsidiary buys Silicon Roundabout fave
Legal13 Mar 2023 | 49
UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement
Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 3
Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects
Very world-beating funding
Science08 Mar 2023 | 65
UK courts' £1.3B case management platform hit with failures
System caused issues in fitting electronic tags to dozens of criminals after new tech rolled out
On-Prem24 Feb 2023 | 17
UK health department contracts 'critical friend' for £480m data platform
As IT spending drops below promised billions, there's always room for those offering the right kind of feedback
Offbeat10 Feb 2023 | 8
UK PM splits govt department in 4, creates dedicated 'Science and Tech' bit
GDPR rejig and Online Safety Bill concerns, semiconductor strategy basically sorted then. Right? Right?
Science08 Feb 2023 | 98
Bank of England won't call it Britcoin but says digital pound 'likely to be needed in future'
Technical paper says blockchain probably isn't up to the job
Software08 Feb 2023 | 176
UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards
Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm
Databases06 Feb 2023 | 23
Atos and Nest part company two years into 18-year £1.5bn contract
Exclusive Insiders claim investment trust demanded design changes but didn't adjust deadlines, job cuts loom
On-Prem01 Feb 2023 | 28
UK spy agency violated Snooper's Charter with 'unlawful' data retention
Turns out even MI5 has to comply with retention rules
Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 38
UK govt Matrix has unenviable task of consolidating several different ERP systems
Software to support 46,000 users as group part of £900m program to simplify central government back end
Government Tech Week26 Jan 2023 | 16
Techies ask PM to 'prepare UK chip strategy as a matter of urgency'
Yeah, and make it something better than just asking Arm to dual-list in London...
Government Tech Week26 Jan 2023 | 97
Brit civil service claims there's enough money for mammoth ERP refresh project
Business case and competition said to be helping to close the shortfall
Government Tech Week18 Jan 2023 | 21
Government tech spending in England more than doubles in five years
Researchers see pandemic boom in computer-related tech spend
Government Tech Week11 Jan 2023 | 6
Atos will be paid $29m over $1b UK Met Office supercomputer dispute
Settlement 'without admission of liability' followed court challenge to Microsoft mega-deal
HPC09 Jan 2023 | 29
Management of UK govt's £158b property estate held back by failed IT project
'Plague' of ageing, inadequate data systems strikes again as state struggles to cut £22b maintenance bill
Systems23 Dec 2022 | 22
Brit MPs pour cold water on hydrogen as mass replacement for fossil fuels
But gas likely to find a 'big niche' in rail, aviation, shipping, and industry
Science20 Dec 2022 | 151
French JV wins contract to upgrade NHS Oracle finance system
After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier
Databases15 Dec 2022 | 1
World's governments to keep spending to erase technical debt
Never mind the corporate sector slowdown, taxpayers' wallets open for business
On-Prem12 Dec 2022 | 4
Italy, Japan, UK to jointly launch sixth-gen fighter jet by 2035
Warplane project may include AI in the cockpit, and comes as tensions rise with China and Russia
Security09 Dec 2022 | 94
Inadequate IT partly to blame for NHS doctors losing 13.5 million working hours
Anyone who's ever been in the system will be very familiar with British medical professionals' complaints
On-Prem09 Dec 2022 | 115
Victims of IT scandal in UK postal service will get fresh compensation
Move follows award swallowed up by legal fees
Legal07 Dec 2022 | 76
Britain has likely missed the boat for having a semiconductor industry
Report concludes government needs to implement a chips strategy now – like the rest of the world
Systems30 Nov 2022 | 102
UK bans Chinese CCTV cameras on 'sensitive' government sites
Updated Agencies told to rip 'em off core networks and replace 'em whenever and wherever possible
Security25 Nov 2022 | 81
Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research
EU still fixated with Britain keeping its word on trading arrangement
Science22 Nov 2022 | 184
Twitter refugees seek asylum in an unusual place: The Matt Hancock app
Move over, Mastodon – bungling UK politician's platform finds thousands of new users amid Elon Musk chaos
Bootnotes17 Nov 2022 | 32
UK forces Chinese-owned company to offload Newport Wafer Fab
Owner 'shocked' to find itself in Dutch over national security concerns, promises to appeal
Systems17 Nov 2022 | 16
Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole
'Every major project' on the table, says government as Autumn Statement looms
Science07 Nov 2022 | 201
UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir system without patient consent
'You'll be hearing from us,' say privacy campaigners who previously forced the government to back down
Databases04 Nov 2022 | 99
Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anyway
Home Secretary 'nominally in charge' of nation's security apologizes for breach of tech protocols
Security01 Nov 2022 | 156
UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told
Larger and smaller reactors carry risks, island nation failed to keep pace with nuclear fleet closure
Science01 Nov 2022 | 254
UK.gov finds billions in cash for big data contracts
Project two years in the making aims to improve public services... or what's left of them
Databases26 Oct 2022 | 20
Government IT provider UKCloud goes into liquidation
Erstwhile national cloud hero drowns in unpaid debts
Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 40
New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard
Reg Standards Bureau We didn't have a time unit. That... is... a... disgrace
Bootnotes21 Oct 2022 | 159
Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce
What connects a decaying salad vegetable with something called 'the 1922 Committee'? Enter the wonderful and frightening world of British politics
Bootnotes20 Oct 2022 | 371
It's official: UK telcos legally obligated to remove Huawei kit
Immediate ban on new installations in 5G networks, all contravening gear must be gone by end of 2027
Networks13 Oct 2022 | 86
UK govt launches multibillion procurement for tax agency application services
First chunk of mega-frameworks go to market
Applications11 Oct 2022 | 5
Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister
Updated Amid inevitable talk of 'red tape' cutting at ruling party conference, data protection experts are concerned
Science06 Oct 2022 | 126
UK politico proposes site for prototype nuclear fusion plant
British minister famed for love of imperial measures picks a spot in center of industrial decline
Science05 Oct 2022 | 229
Arm job cuts hit UK harder than global rationalization
Anyone remember SoftBank's pledge to double headcount in Britain?
Personal Tech05 Oct 2022 | 10
UK.gov's decision on Newport Wafer Fab ownership delayed for third time
Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy yet to rule on sale of Brit biz to Chinese-owned Nexperia
Systems04 Oct 2022 | 20
Bye bye BoJo: Liz Truss named new UK prime minister
Can tech hold its own among an overflowing in-tray?
On-Prem05 Sep 2022 | 254
UK govt says contractors should challenge IR35 status via self-assessment
What could possibly go wrong?
On-Prem02 Sep 2022 | 38
Biting the hand that feeds IT
