8+ hour, 2+ min ago  (664+ words) The UK's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused the government of lacking the "modernising ambition" to use technology to fight tax fraud and error, as taxpayers continue to lose anywhere between "55bn and "81bn per annum, the bulk of them in the…...

15+ hour, 12+ min ago  (566+ words) The European Parliament has voted against proposals that would allow social media and tech companies to continue to scan the content of private messages of EU citizens for illegal content. A majority of MEPs voted on Thursday 26 March to reject…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1744+ words) MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) were in new territory as they looked for lessons learned from a government IT project that was a resounding success. At a meeting to discuss the Bank of England's replacement of its core…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (631+ words) Bill Chizek - stock.adobe.com The US government has formally launched a new Bureau of Emerging Threats within the State Department to protect and mitigate against threats posed to America's national security by cyber attacks, the weaponisation of space, and…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (807+ words) RocknRoller Studios - stock.adob The UK government's Digital Inclusion Action Plan has helped more than a million people access online and digital services in its first year. The initiative, launched in early 2025, aims to bridge the digital inclusion gap in…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1049+ words) The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has moved to ban consumer-grade routers made outside the US following a determination that such hardware poses an unacceptable risk to the security of the country and its citizens and residents. The determination " made…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (602+ words) The Irish government has released a National Strategy on the Resilience of Critical Entities, a comprehensive framework designed to protect essential public services " including digital and web infrastructure and datacentres " and critical national infrastructure (CNI) from cyber attacks and other…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (354+ words) A proposed 300MW datacentre on a landfill in Buckinghamshire has been given Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) status, in a move dubbed "anti-democratic" by environmental campaigners. The site is at a Veolia-run site at Wapseys Wood near Gerards Cross, on which…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (316+ words) 1." Adoption: Securing Public Uptake in the UK Current levels of motivation among citizens are low, driven by unclear benefits and confusion about the purpose of digital identity. Large segments of the population'older adults, those without smartphones or reliable internet access,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (875+ words) The UK government has said it will not implement its plan to allow artificial intelligence (AI) firms to use copyrighted material without explicit permission for now, but has not ruled out some form of copyright exemption down the line. In…...