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
Government of the United Kingdom
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
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
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 | 15
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
UK launches SKYNET – not a doomsday plot, just shopping for improved satellite comms
They really need to start branding these things better
Networks05 Jun 2023 | 14
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
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 | 138
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 | 418
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
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 | 45
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
Public Sector19 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
Public Sector17 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
Public Sector12 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 | 42
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
