Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology at The Pensions Regulator (TPR), is building strong IT foundations as part of a five-year strategy to help transform the organisation from a compliance-based to a risk-based regulator. He explains what that change will mean in practice over the next few years. “As a regulator, we’ll obviously…
RSplaneta/Shutterstock One feature that makes Android so special is the freedom to sideload APK (Android Package Kit) files, letting you install compatible apps outside the Play Store. The good news is that sideloading Android apps isn’t going away. However, Google is introducing new restrictions on how you sideload APKs, with developers now having to register…
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The government has published guidance for software engineers working in government departments on how they should use artificial intelligence (AI)-based coding assistants. The Government Digital Service (GDS) AI coding assistants for developers in HMG document warns that if a production service is developed, maintained and deployed from a single environment, using AI coding assistants may…
AMD’s FSR 4 performance is slightly weaker than FSR 3, based on new FidelityFX SDK 2.0 demo testThe performance difference is only 5%, which isn’t significant, but can be at much lower frame rates or weaker GPUsFSR 4 may still be the best choice for RDNA 4 GPU usersAMD’s FSR upscaling technology has come a…
Enterprise software development has seen several revolutions, which began with the big bang waterfall approach of project delivery and progressed to agile methodologies. Then came the “shift-left” mantra, whereby developers were given greater and greater responsibility to deliver their code into a production environment, leading to DevOps. These changes in approach have been needed to…
Jhvephoto/Getty Images This year marks our formal introduction to the agentic phase of the AI revolution. AI agents are models that can perform more complex tasks than simply answering questions. These agents can work on behalf of the user and speed up workflows significantly. ChatGPT Agent is the best example of that so far. Announced recently,…
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OpenAI has updated its large language model (LLM) in ChatGPT to GPT-5, which it says takes a significant step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). In a blog post, the company said GPT-5 delivers leaps in accuracy, speed, reasoning, context recognition, structured thinking and problem-solving. “We anticipate early adoption to drive industry leadership on what’s possible…
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Google’s AI-powered coding agent, Jules, is officially out of beta. The service, which is designed to integrate directly with GitHub, was first announced in December 2024 as a Google Labs project. It then made the jump to beta testers in May, after Google showcased it during I/O 2025. Now, after a few more months in…
Researchers from Cybernews have stumbled upon what might be the second largest data breach in history. Containing over 16 billion username and password combinations, the newly found massive database is dwarfed only by a 2024 data breach that contained 26 billion logins.One might be tempted to think these databases contain old, irrelevant information. They might…
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In April 2025, at the ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop in Cadarache, something remarkable unfolded. In a room filled with scientists, engineers and software visionaries, the line between big science and commercial innovation began to blur. Three organisations – Microsoft Research, Arena and Brigantium Engineering – shared how artificial intelligence (AI), already transforming everything from…
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