Fintech trade body calls on the government to establish a national centre to help businesses across different sectors fight fraud through data sharing. Innovate Finance said that current data sharing initiatives designed to fight fraud operate in silos, which means the country lacks the “critical mass” or “scale” needed to stop fraudsters. The call for…
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The government is turning its attention to ensuring its commitment to positioning the UK as an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower does not come at the expense of the environment or the nation’s energy security. It is a balancing act the UK’s newly formed AI Energy Council will be tasked with managing, while also exploring ways…
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The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has questioned tech experts on the government’s plans for the digital centre of government – or the new Government Digital Service (GDS). The committee examined the role of the new centre and whether the government’s digitisation of public services will be successful. Earlier this month, prime minister Keir Starmer…
Government needs to fix tech staff hiring process, says Whitehall’s AI boss Read More »
Over the past few months, the editorial team at Computer Weekly’s French sister title, LeMagIT, has been evaluating different versions of several free downloadable large language models (LLMs) on personal machines. These LLMs currently include Google’s Gemma 3, Meta’s Llama 3.3, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, several versions of Mistral (Mistral, Mistral Small 3.1, Mistral Nemo,…
What happened when a tech journalist experimented with AI on a PC? Read More »
Cloud computing’s rise is a success story under scrutiny. It has been nothing short of transformative, enabling businesses to scale operations, innovate rapidly, and optimise costs. It has become an essential pillar of modern enterprise IT, supporting mission-critical workloads across industries. From finance and healthcare to artificial intelligence (AI) and retail, the cloud is now…
Can regulatory oversight alone unlock cloud competition? Read More »
Google’s newest budget phone is finally ready for release. After an inexplicable delay due to a “component quality issue,” the company has confirmed the Pixel 9a release date: April 10 in the US, Canada, and the UK.The rest of the world will follow shortly after, with launches in Europe on April 14 and select Asian-Pacific…
Pixel 9a will arrive on April 10 missing some of Google’s best AI features Read More »
Microsoft has officially declared war on the password. In a sweeping update affecting more than a billion users, the company is making it clear—it’s time to ditch your Microsoft account password for good. This is just the latest move in Microsoft’s passkey update, which aims to move all users away from the security wyas of…
Microsoft wants you to delete your password and no, it’s not a gimmick Read More »
Yesterday’s Spring Statement had something to say about technology, centred on defence and AI in public services. Yet it’s clear that for the UK to unlock its undoubted potential as an AI superpower we have a major hurdle to overcome. The government data that is essential for creating game-changing LLMs is not yet AI-ready. The…
Unleashing the power of data: redefining UK industrial growth Read More »
It was only a matter of time before hackers started using artificial intelligence to attack artificial intelligence—and now that time has arrived. A new research breakthrough has made AI prompt injection attacks faster, easier, and scarily effective, even against supposedly secure systems like Google’s Gemini.Prompt injection attacks have been one of the most reliable ways…
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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