Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer
System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander
AI + ML06 Feb 2026 | 149
United Kingdom
Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach
Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fears
Security04 Feb 2026 | 3
Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working
Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold
Databases29 Jan 2026 | 86
High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep
Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law
Security27 Jan 2026 | 28
UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card
Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and 'robust' verification
Public Sector26 Jan 2026 | 84
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 | 66
NARROWER TOPICS
Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls
Mind the cyber gap – similar flaws highlighted multiple years in a row
Security22 Jan 2026 | 5
Best of British: UK's infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture
Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice
Security21 Jan 2026 | 7
£45B savings remain theoretical as UK digital roadmap delayed again
Promised plan keeps slipping as ministers talk up future efficiency
Public Sector20 Jan 2026 | 17
Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach
Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice
Security15 Jan 2026 | 24
Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix
Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fine
AI + ML15 Jan 2026 | 21
UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos
Lawyers say Musk's platform may face punishment under Online Safety Act priority offenses
AI + ML08 Jan 2026 | 123
Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT
Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton
Cyber-crime06 Jan 2026 | 26
Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems
Jacob Riggs is set to swap London for Sydney some time in the next year
Security02 Jan 2026 | 43
LockBit takedown architect gets New Year award from King Charles
Gavin Webb orchestrated Operation Cronos as it pulled off the legendary disruption sting
Cyber-crime02 Jan 2026 | 14
Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time
Airline deploys AI travel agent and it hasn't been a disaster
AI + ML23 Dec 2025 | 14
NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits
UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos
Public Sector19 Dec 2025 | 23
Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau
Are pasties a proxy for weight? Or a cypher for circumference?
Offbeat19 Dec 2025 | 129
Delay to European Central Bank messaging project cost the Bank of England £23M
Watchdog links schedule change to replanning of UK payments system overhaul
Public Sector15 Dec 2025 | 7
Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack
Exclusive Workers frustrated with security-first changes to workflows and teething issues
Cyber-crime11 Dec 2025 | 3
UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act
As Portugal gives researchers a pass under cybersecurity law
Security09 Dec 2025 | 55
UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain
Brit astro Tim Peake's much-vaunted mission to the ISS a distant memory
Science02 Dec 2025 | 18
Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records
Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable'
Networks28 Nov 2025 | 15
Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack
Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recover
Cyber-crime27 Nov 2025 | 23
DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials
Costs a tenner a shot instead of £1M per anti-aircraft missile
Public Sector24 Nov 2025 | 90
Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase
Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation
Legal12 Nov 2025 | 36
UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotely
Norwegian testers claim maker has remote access, while UK importer says supplier complies with the law
Security11 Nov 2025 | 74
Cyber insurers paid out over twice as much for UK ransomware attacks last year
Massive increase in policy claims… and data doesn’t even cover the major attacks of 2025
Cyber-crime11 Nov 2025 | 13
Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims
Insurance giant’s UK arm says cybercriminals misattributed the real victim
Cyber-crime10 Nov 2025 | 9
Bank of England says JLR's cyberattack contributed to UK's unexpectedly slower GDP growth
This kind of material economic impact from online crooks thought to be a UK-first
Cyber-crime07 Nov 2025 | 48
M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump
Retailer's tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials
Cyber-crime05 Nov 2025 | 18
UK judge delivers a 'damp squib' in Getty AI training case, no clear precedent set
Experts disagree about what the ruling means for AI training on copyrighted material
Legal04 Nov 2025 | 32
Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales
Plans for investing in AI and service transformation held up as treasury pulls plug, NAO finds
Public Sector04 Nov 2025 | 18
Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests
But question marks remain over the tech’s biases
Security03 Nov 2025 | 35
O2 cranks prices mid-contract, essentially telling customers to like it or lump it
Updated Ofcom 'disappointed' by decision that 'goes against the spirit of our rules'
Networks31 Oct 2025 | 82
Equinix revealed as occupant of £3.9B UK datacenter campus
Investment will fund 250 MW, three-facility campus near London as AI and cloud demand surge
On-Prem30 Oct 2025 | 15
Postcode Lottery's lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other's info
Biz says 'technical error' caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users
Security30 Oct 2025 | 22
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
UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI
Meanwhile, civil services claims 75,000 days could be saved by the tech each year
Public Sector23 Oct 2025 | 73
Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case
Eight-year telco blunder had a profound impact on three wrongly accused in Wales
Networks17 Oct 2025 | 120
Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030
Minister pins hopes on low Earth orbit satellites to plug crap rail connectivity
Networks16 Oct 2025 | 17
British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%
Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing
Cyber-crime14 Oct 2025 | 37
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist
Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork
Security13 Oct 2025 | 134
UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details
Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K members
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2025 | 21
Telecoms wholesaler ICUK restores services after two-day DDoS pelting
No idea who's behind it, just happy it's over
Cybersecurity Month08 Oct 2025 | 4
Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall
No confirmed date but workers expected to return in the coming days
Cyber-crime06 Oct 2025 | 14
UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home
One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times
Public Sector02 Oct 2025 | 50
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
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
£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run
Zhimin Qian recruited takeaway worker to launder funds through property overseas
Legal30 Sep 2025 | 7
UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests
Baroness Manningham-Buller cites Kremlin sabotage, cyberattacks, and assassinations as signs of an undeclared conflict
Security29 Sep 2025 | 113
Harrods blames its supplier after crims steal 430k customers’ data in fresh attack
Attackers make contact but negotiations fall on deaf ears
Cyber-crime29 Sep 2025 | 12
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
Brits warned as illegal robo-callers with offshored call centers fined half a million
It’s amazing the number of calls Jo, Helen, and Ian get through
Security26 Sep 2025 | 62
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.gov ditching 'Red' risk data sharing project after slashing £0.5B budget in half
Meanwhile Lotus Notes still lurks in some Office of National Statistics systems, for now
Public Sector23 Sep 2025 | 5
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil
It's one small sip for man...
Science22 Sep 2025 | 77
FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security
Lloyds Data and AI lead doesn't want devs downloading models from the likes of Hugging Face – too risky
AI + ML22 Sep 2025 | 8
MI6 reveals 'Silent Courier' dark web portal upgrade it hopes will help it recruit new spies
YouTube vids explain digital tradecraft to reach spooks over Tor or VPN without blowing your cover
Security19 Sep 2025 | 15
US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty
Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more
Public Sector17 Sep 2025 | 45
Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached
Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town
On-Prem17 Sep 2025 | 7
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