Marks and Spencer (M&S) leadership believes that it may take at least another month to fully recover following a ransomware attack that it now looks likely will cost it a minimum of £300m. It has also emerged that the incident may have begun through the systems of a third-party supplier of IT services, where tech…
M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July Read More »
More and more of our personal data seems to leak online with each passing day, and while it’s easy to become numb to that reality, some data breaches are more concerning than others. To that point, the discovery of a publicly exposed database by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler of Website Planet this week is one…
184 million logins exposed in ‘dream come true for cyber criminals’ Read More »
AI has been dominating the news cycle once again, and not just because Google unloaded an incredible number of new Gemini and Gemini-powered tools and AI experiences when the company hosted its annual I/O developer conference this week.A day before the main I/O 2025 keynote, Microsoft’s Build conference also produced plenty of AI news. More…
ChatGPT got a makeover, but all of your AI tools are still there Read More »
Not providing enough practical experience in science classes will have a direct impact on whether children work in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) roles in the future, research suggests. EngineeringUK and The Royal Society’s Science education tracker asked hundreds of science teachers about delivering hands-on lessons and found there has been a decline in…
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT has appointed Sharron Gunn as its new group chief executive officer. Gunn takes over leadership from interim CEO Rob Deri, and she has been working for BCS since February to transform its learning and development and membership divisions. She previously worked for 23 years at the Institute of Chartered…
Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide Building Society are set to roll out a generative AI (GenAI) tool that has been specifically designed for the UK finance sector. The tool, known as FinLLM, was developed in the UK by Aveni alongside the two financial services companies, with both also investing money in the firm. The large language…
Lloyds and Nationwide to use UK finance sector LLM Read More »
Apple’s much-anticipated AR Glasses are expected to be released in 2026. According to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, the company’s engineers are ramping up work on the glasses as Apple aims to take on the popular Meta and Ray-Ban partnership.People familiar with the matter told the publication that Cupertino plans to produce prototypes of the Apple AR…
Apple’s futuristic AR Glasses may launch next year with these 5 features Read More »
In the same report about Apple’s upcoming AR Glasses, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reveals that Apple shelved plans for an Apple Watch with a built-in camera. While it wasn’t expected to be used for wrist selfies, it’s probably for the best that Apple decided to move on from that idea.The journalist writes: “The company had actively been…
Apple ditches Apple Watch camera plans because it was a terrible idea Read More »
The government has announced £5.5m of funding to support projects that will be streamlined by the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) to cut bureaucracy. The RIO, headed by David Willetts, was set up by the government to cut red tape, remove barriers to innovation and accelerate the time it takes to bring emerging technologies to market.…
DSIT makes £5.5m of funding available to new projects Read More »
It’s been a massive week for AI, as some of the main players made several big announcements. Google I/O 2025 might have been the expected highlight, but Microsoft also hosted its Build conference a day earlier.After the first I/O day, we got an unexpected AI shock on Wednesday when OpenAI confirmed it’s developing its own…
Claude 4 AI will try to report you to authorities if it thinks you’re doing shady stuff Read More »
