2025

HMRC consults on clamping down on tax avoidance schemes that ensnare IT contractors

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These types of setups have contributed to thousands of IT contractors across the UK being saddled with life-changing tax bills, and the UK government is in the middle of a concerted push to reduce the prevalence of these contrived salary payment mechanisms.The consultations were announced during the Spring Statement 2025, with the first seeking views…

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UK public expresses strong support for AI regulation

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Nearly three-quarters of the UK public say that introducing laws to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) would increase their comfort with the technology, amid rising public concern over the implications of its roll-out. In response to a national survey of more than 3,500 UK residents conducted by the Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing Institutes – which…

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RTX 5060 Ti could go on sale April 16 with RTX 5060 to follow in May – is Nvidia planning to get its affordable Blackwell GPUs out before AMD’s RX 9060?

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RTX 5060 Ti is apparently set to be ‘released’ come April 16, a new rumor insistsA further rumor backs up the theory of this being an on-sale date for the GPUIt looks like we’ll have to wait until May for the vanilla RTX 5060 to hit shelves, thoughWe have a supposed release date for Nvidia’s…

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Understanding RAG architecture and its fundamentals

9 minutes of reading / AI, API, Azure, Google, IBM, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

All the large language model (LLM) publishers and suppliers are focusing on the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) agents and agentic AI. These terms are confusing. All the more so as the players do not yet agree on how to develop and deploy them. This is much less true for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architectures…

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Apple slated in CMA mobile browser investigation

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The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) final report into the mobile browser market has found innovation is being held back by a lack of competition, which could be limiting growth in the UK. Margot Daly, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said: “Following our in-depth investigation, we have concluded that competition between different mobile…

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Blackwell launch gets even worse as Nvidia confirms some RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs are underperforming in games – here’s how to check if you’re affected

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Zotac has hiked pricing with RTX 5090 models on its US online storeTwo of those, including the top-end board, now cost $500 moreThis follows similar moves by Asus and MSI with the Blackwell flagship on their own online storesZotac is the latest third-party graphics card maker which currently seems to be inflating the price of…

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iPhone Fold might look like this quirky new foldable you probably can’t buy

4 minutes of reading / Apple, ChatGPT, Google, Huawei, iPad, iPhone, Qualcomm, Samsung, Snap, Tech / By

The first foldable iPhone is coming next year, barring some sort of really unfortunate event. After years of covering countless iPhone rumors, I’m comfortable saying that. We’ve reached a point in the rumor phase that precedes the launch of a big iPhone release where we see an increasing number of leaks from sources all saying…

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Major strike by Fujitsu staff at ‘cash cow’ HMRC

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Fujitsu staff supporting IT services contracts at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will strike for 22 days in protest after in-house colleagues in similar roles received significantly higher pay rises. Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union at the scandal-stained supplier will down tools at HMRC on 21 March and not return until…

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IR35 reforms: HMRC’s assessment of private sector impacts called into question

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The news that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has collected £1bn more in tax than expected from the 2021 private sector roll-out of the IR35 reforms should not be considered a sign of the initiative’s success, IT contractor market stakeholders claim. The government tax collection agency published figures in late February 2025 about the impact…

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