UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground The NIMBYs are fed up, and it's an election year Networks15 Mar 2024 | 51
Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised SaaS13 Mar 2024 | 26
Bank's struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog Software07 Mar 2024 | 19
Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is Don't hold your breath Systems05 Mar 2024 | 31
UK tax agency's digital services not good enough to take strain off phone lines Watchdog says taxpayer assistance is getting worse Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 26
AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets 'Computer-says-no' to be replaced by summaries written by LLMs trained on government data Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 55
Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech PaaS + IaaS26 Feb 2024 | 41
Crowning glory of GOV.UK websites updated, sparking frontend upgrades Logowatch His Majesty’s Royal Cypher adopted the Tudor Crown, so a new icon was needed Public Sector22 Feb 2024 | 64
UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely SaaS15 Feb 2024 | 33
Infosys enjoyed a boom in UK government invoices in 2023 Linked to the prime minister's wife, the Indian firm achieves contract wins in open and fair process On-Prem13 Feb 2024 | 33
Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree Watchdog orders a rethink in time for the next emergency Public Sector09 Feb 2024 | 152
AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan Cheerio to cheeky Chardonnay chancers Bootnotes25 Jan 2024 | 27
Motorola loses appeal to kill price cap on UK Airwave emergency services contract Tribunal nixes appeal from provider of network that cops and firefighters can't seem to migrate from... Personal Tech09 Jan 2024 | 16
UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims Renewed focus follows TV drama Software08 Jan 2024 | 181
New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law Meanwhile, finding a public charge point that works and doesn't require a second mortgage remains a challenge Offbeat04 Jan 2024 | 376
Fujitsu wins flood contract extension despite starring in TV drama about its failures Deal expanded from £4.5M to £19.5M over 7 years as critics point to shortcomings Software04 Jan 2024 | 41
UK government lays out plan to divert people's broken gizmos from landfill Right to repair meets right to recycle Public Sector02 Jan 2024 | 122
UK will be HQ for high-flying next-gen fighter jet treaty with Italy, Japan Global Combat Air Program aims to replace Eurofighter Typhoon and Mitsubishi F-2 Public Sector18 Dec 2023 | 71
UK mulls next-gen satellite subsidies for Brit companies Almost £100M in handouts available for LEO connectivity projects Networks11 Dec 2023 | 16
Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully Security07 Dec 2023 | 21
UK government denies China/Russia nuke plant hack claim Report suggests Sellafield compromised since 2015, response seems worryingly ignorant of Stuxnet Security05 Dec 2023 | 26
Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir Updated Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead Databases01 Dec 2023 | 10
UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives Security29 Nov 2023 | 80
Taxing times: UK missed out on £1.75B because of digitization delays Public Accounts Committee slams progress and questions plans Public Sector24 Nov 2023 | 25
No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI Today's story was brought to you by the words politician and silly AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 62
Francis Maude mulls mulligan on muddled merger of UK govt tech services Former Whitehall axe wielder wants Cabinet Office to undo his great work Public Sector17 Nov 2023 | 21
To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 54
Datacenter would spoil beautiful view ... of former industrial waste dump Not in my backyard, says Buckinghamshire Council Systems10 Nov 2023 | 53
UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters A load of hot air? On-Prem06 Nov 2023 | 189
UK govt finds £225M for Isambard-AI supercomputer powered by Nvidia 5,448 GraceHopper superchips and 200PFLOPS gets you somewhere in the global public top ten HPC01 Nov 2023 | 25
UK policing minister urges doubling down on face-scanning tech 'No question' it will solve more crimes, Tory MP claims Security31 Oct 2023 | 49
The UK government? On the right track with its semiconductor strategy? Oh, you're not joking Public Sector31 Oct 2023 | 88
UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy Crumbs compared to the billions thrown about in US and Europe Systems13 Oct 2023 | 27
UK government embarks on bargain bin hunt for AI policy wonk Con: You won't get a Menlo Park salary. Pro: You won't have to meet Zuck Public Sector13 Oct 2023 | 14
Contract for England's controversial health data platform delayed NHS also launches £2M project to engage patients with data strategy Databases29 Sep 2023 | 14
UK Online Safety Bill to become law – and encryption busting clause is still there Admits it's 'not technically feasible' ... but with no promise not to invoke it Networks20 Sep 2023 | 91
UK courts award CGI £60M deal to keep ancient tech alive Legacy – sorry 'heritage' – support contract includes case managements systems Applications19 Sep 2023 | 4
Britcoin or Britcon? Bank of England grilled on Digital Pound privacy concerns At least the economists seem to have a better grip on tech than Online Safety Bill pushers... Offbeat18 Sep 2023 | 54
UK government hurt by delays in legacy tech upgrades, skills shortages Plus: Spending watchdog slams 'counter-productive staffing cuts' in technology On-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 19
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101
Kyndryl bags short-lived HMRC mainframe contract Tax collector's DALAS waits in wings to tackle humongous legacy estate On-Prem08 Sep 2023 | 14
Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster Authority effectively bankrupt as ERP car crash adds to equal pay liability Databases05 Sep 2023 | 238
Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree Could be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2023 | 7
NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement Databases29 Aug 2023 | 8
UK health service has £1.5B to put toward Digital Workplace Solutions 2: Electric Boogaloo Four-year deal set to start next summer On-Prem24 Aug 2023 | 11
Palantir lobbied UK pensions department for its software to tackle fraud Approach follows successful contracts in the health sector Software09 Aug 2023 | 20
UK government's semiconductor brain trust meets for the first time Actually listening to the experts? We'll believe it when we see it Systems03 Aug 2023 | 14
Digital revolution at HMRC left 99,000 UK taxpayers on hold over five-day fiasco Technology resilience gets red rating in tax collector's annual report On-Prem25 Jul 2023 | 17
Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal Rishi Sunak fails to secure place in €95.5B program before Parliament packs up for holiday Science20 Jul 2023 | 117
Meet the guy trying to drag HM Treasury's data strategy into the 21st century Interview John Kelly is building approach around Microsoft, but there's room for flexibility Databases19 Jul 2023 | 13
Boris Johnson pleads ignorance, which just might work Infosec in brief Also: More high-profile MOVEit victims; CVSS 4.0 coming soon; and a long list of critical vulnerabilities Security17 Jul 2023 | 79
'There has never been a realistic plan' for UK's £11B Emergency Services Network Commercial and technical risks yet to be addressed by Home Office, spending watchdog says Networks14 Jul 2023 | 56
UK government's newest department to lead mega ERP procurement Tender designed to bring together 48k users running Oracle, Microsoft and more into 1 SaaS system Databases07 Jul 2023 | 19
Experts scoff at UK Lords' suggestion that AI could one day make battlefield decisions Conservative peer admits he can't tell between dogs and cats either AI + ML30 Jun 2023 | 45
TCS bags £234M Teachers' Pensions deal as Capita set to end 29-year run Indian firm nabs 10-year contract, taking pensions wins to £1.73B PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 12
Wind tunnels for fluid dynamics boffins among UKRI's £72M funding Funds will focus on energy, transportation, astronomy, and healthcare Science26 Jun 2023 | 25
Without competition, TCS wins back UK pensions body in £1.5B mega-deal In what could be a 28-year relationship, UK Nest takes TCS back after sacking off France’s Atos from admin work PaaS + IaaS22 Jun 2023 | 15
UK smart meter rollout years late and less than two thirds complete Sub-£5 monthly saving per household on £13.5B energy reduction project Offbeat15 Jun 2023 | 271
Multi-tasking blunder leaves UK tax digitization plans 3 years late, 5 times over budget Public spending watchdog says scale of task was massively underestimated Software13 Jun 2023 | 44
Yeah, Rishi, it's AI that'll make Britain great again DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic promise to give Blighty priority access to their models for safety research AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 78
UK government to set deadline for removal of Chinese surveillance cams And compile a list of vendors considered threats to national security Security08 Jun 2023 | 40
UK government proposes legislation to regulate umbrella companies 'Mixed bag' of solutions await tech workers forced into IR35 alternatives Legal07 Jun 2023 | 28