UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach
ICO says probe unnecessary after reviewing ministry's handling of leak
Security22 Oct 2025 | 31
Public Sector
UK rethinks offshoring ban for £8M online procurement system
Cabinet Office signals it might let supplier ship work abroad after 'unforeseeable' event
Public Sector20 Oct 2025 | 33
UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch
Once more into the, er, breach?
Public Sector20 Oct 2025 | 154
Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall
US biz lobby claims president overstepped his authority with proclamation demanding hefty visa fee
Legal17 Oct 2025 | 60
Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity
Energy secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters
On-Prem17 Oct 2025 | 131
Senator presses Cisco over firewall flaws that burned US agency
Bill Cassidy letter asks if Switchzilla sat on critical flaws before feds were forced into emergency patching
Public Sector16 Oct 2025 | 6
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
Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records
ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response
Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2025 | 30
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses
Applications15 Oct 2025 | 50
UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told
Think tank cautions that without job cuts or capital savings, the math doesn't add up
Public Sector15 Oct 2025 | 40
CISA cuts more staff and reassigns others as government stays shut down
America's main cybersecurity agency has lost almost 1,000 people this year
Public Sector14 Oct 2025 | 6
Microsoft seeding Washington schools with free AI to get kids and teachers hooked
To the slop trough, kiddos!
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 18
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
EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems
Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits
Public Sector14 Oct 2025 | 47
Fujitsu pumps £280M into UK arm to keep lights on after Horizon scandal
Parent firm's cash keeps division afloat as Post Office inquiry nears final report
Public Sector13 Oct 2025 | 18
Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again
Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off
Applications13 Oct 2025 | 9
UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders
Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher
Supercomputing Month13 Oct 2025 | 7
Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls
Xi to the left of me, Trump is to the right; Huang I am, stuck in the middle with GPUs
Public Sector10 Oct 2025 | 22
50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity
Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos
Science10 Oct 2025 | 23
Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian'
Exclusive Houston, we have a custody battle
Science09 Oct 2025 | 114
Nextcloud withdraws European Commission OneDrive bundling complaint
Blames 'lack of interest' from the EU policy enforcer for towel throwing
Public Sector09 Oct 2025 | 10
UK Home Office doubles down on Oracle with £54M cloud contract
Department also wedded to Big Red in shared service applications
Public Sector08 Oct 2025 | 7
China is building a thriving semi industry off US leftovers, export controls be damned
House Committee on China wants more comprehensive ban on chipmaking equipment exports to Middle Kingdom
Public Sector07 Oct 2025 | 52
FCC kicks off 'Space Month' with vow to fast-track satellite licensing
Agency aims to replace its default 'no' with default 'yes' while overhauling rules for operators
Public Sector07 Oct 2025 | 7
Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones
Space sensors and UAVs at sea top MoD's list in new wave of cutting-edge projects
Edge + IoT07 Oct 2025 | 9
UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project
Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrations
Public Sector07 Oct 2025 | 46
Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report
Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot
AI + ML06 Oct 2025 | 23
ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads
Draft solicitation calls for nearly 30 contractors to mine social media and other open-source data
Public Sector03 Oct 2025 | 60
UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest
Even spy-tech biz Palantir says 'steady on' as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched
Public Sector03 Oct 2025 | 139
How the ONS data-sharing dream ended in budget cuts and three rival platforms
Analysis UK Treasury called time on troubled integration scheme after £240M sunk
Public Sector03 Oct 2025 | 7
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
EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers
Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate
Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2025 | 18
Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects
Updated Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humanity
AI + ML02 Oct 2025 | 12
US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex federal CISO tells The Register
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2025 | 35
Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach
Exclusive Uncle Sam can't quit Redmond
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2025 | 14
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
Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike
Coursework 'gone forever' as 10% report critical damage
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2025 | 10
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
Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline
No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery
Networks01 Oct 2025 | 56
Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers
‘Phantom Taurus’ created custom malware to hunt secrets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2025 | 8
'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab
Updated Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts
Public Sector30 Sep 2025 | 11
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
UK splurges £4.4M on drones, e-planes, and other flights of fancy
Taxpayer cash fuels 14 projects from NHS blood-hauling UAVs to posh eVTOL shuttles
Public Sector30 Sep 2025 | 19
Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it
Interview Most orgs still on Windows 10, so maybe don't get ill after October 14
OSes30 Sep 2025 | 13
YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump 'censorship' case go away
Alphabet's vid-streamer will fund construction of a ballroom The Donald adores
Legal30 Sep 2025 | 67
Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments
The federal government's not the only thing shutting down on Oct. 1
Public Sector30 Sep 2025 | 7
FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again
Jet maker only gets to issue certs every other week, though, freeing up FAA inspectors to do more poking around
Public Sector29 Sep 2025 | 23
UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X
Ed Miliband takes aim at social media overlord for promoting violence and disinformation
Public Sector29 Sep 2025 | 67
Jaguar Land Rover gets £1.5B government jump-start after cyber breakdown
Hundreds of thousands of workers in financial despair supported with landmark loan
Cyber-crime29 Sep 2025 | 31
Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs
Alleges bias and security problems
Public Sector29 Sep 2025 | 88
Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing
Comment The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he’s out of office
Systems28 Sep 2025 | 67
Cyber threat-sharing law set to shut down, along with US government
Act passed in 2015 is due to lapse unless a continuing resolution passes - and that's unlikely
Security26 Sep 2025 | 9
Federal agencies DOGE questions about what cost-cutting team is doing
Oversight efforts have been rebuffed, says Democratic report, 'putting Americans' personal data at risk'
Public Sector26 Sep 2025 | 25
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
AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42
Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors
Public Sector25 Sep 2025 | 19
DARPA wants AI to know when it's being an energy hog
New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw
AI + ML25 Sep 2025 | 1
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
Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know
As ban on under-16s using some sites looms, cyber-safety regulator sends Microsoft’s code locker a letter
Legal25 Sep 2025 | 47
US Navy: I can't quit you, Azure
AWS, Google, and Oracle admitted they can't support current setup
PaaS + IaaS24 Sep 2025 | 33
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
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