Science minister Patrick Vallance has unveiled £4m in funding to support technology projects that can help manage the UK’s electricity grid. Vallance has called on technology and artificial intelligence (AI) specialists to design ways to help reduce electricity bills by working on how to cut peak demand for grid electricity by two gigawatts. According to…
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“Technology people just look at the problem differently,” says Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer at Thomson Reuters. “They think about how the business can use technology to solve the problem versus traditional management techniques.” That’s why she’s on a mission to use digital systems to transform internal processes and customer services at the…
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Developers often adopt generative AI (GenAI) because it helps them to code faster, yet the tooling has potential to expose organisations to unaccounted for risks – especially if use is unauthorised or best practice ignored. “With GenAI, we see both amazing results and stunningly stupid results for the same dev team, and that tells us…
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Driven by an ever-escalating number of high-profile cyber attacks and other emerging risks, worldwide spending on cyber security products and services by end-user organisations continues to rise, and looks set to surpass $200bn (£150bn) during 2025, according to Gartner. Throughout the forecast period, the expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) by…
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The UK government is investing £1m in accelerating the growth of regional tech clusters outside of London, in acknowledgement of the fact that “tech innovation does not stop at the M25”. The roll-out of the Regional Tech Booster programme is being overseen by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and will see tech…
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With the Bristol Isambard-AI supercomputer now live, the UK government has unveiled a roadmap to delivering 420 Exaflops of compute power by 2030. The £1bn set aside in the spending review is being used to increase the UK’s compute infrastructure and drive forward artificial intelligence (AI) development. The government’s goal is to reduce the UK’s…
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The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are not good value for money. Technology secretary Peter Kyle outlined the government’s ambitions on this front…
British and French researchers are teaming up to work on improving the resilience of various technology tools and systems used by critical national infrastructure (CNI) suppliers – including utilities and emergency services – against various security threats. The technology in scope of the agreement, announced during a state visit from French president Emmanuel Macron, includes…
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The UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) is failing to address “algorithmically accelerated misinformation” on social media platforms, leaving the public vulnerable to a repeat of the 2024 Southport riots, MPs have warned.Following an inquiry into online misinformation and harmful algorithms, the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (SITC) has identified “major holes” in the UK’s online safety…
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The UK government will create “a proper, clear governance framework” to regulate the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, the home secretary has told Lords, marking a shift in policy. In an appearance before the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee (JHAC) on 8 July, home secretary Yvette Cooper confirmed the government is…
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