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Reinventing the Arabic newsroom: How Al-Masry Al-Youm is harnessing AI, data, and cloud to transform

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Over the past decade, the role of chief information officer at Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt’s largest independent Arabic-language daily newspaper, has undergone a profound transformation. Omar Badr, who has led the organisation’s technology strategy since 2012, reflects on a journey that has taken the newspaper from early-generation digital systems to a fully integrated, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven,…

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Finance regulator wants mortgage brokers to use artificial intelligence

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Mortgage brokers are being spurred by the finance watchdog to use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to improve services to customers. As part of its plan to build the “mortgage market of the future”, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) outlined four areas of focus. One of these, which looks at innovation and disclosure, will increase…

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Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation

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The Home Office has formally opened a consultation on the use of facial recognition by UK police, saying the government is committed to introducing a legal framework that sets out clear rules for the technology. Initially announced by policing minister Sarah Jones in early October 2025, the 10-week consultation will allow interested parties and members…

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Many AI Experts Don’t Trust AI Chatbots – Here’s Why

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Kenneth Cheung/Getty Images Artificial Intelligence (AI) took the world by storm when OpenAI released its chatbot, dubbed ChatGPT, for public use back in November 2022. Since then, multiple companies have launched their own chatbots to try to claim a piece of the growing market. Even with multiple players in the market, ChatGPT receives over 2.5…

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Interview: Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology, The Pensions Regulator

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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…

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Chip makers warn of a looming shortage in DRAM and SSD

4 minutes of reading / Acer, AI, Lenovo, Samsung, SK Hynix, Tech, Technology / By

Chip manufacturers are warning of a shortage in DRAM, NAND and probably HBM memory chips because demand from cloud providers is outstripping supply. The problem is compounded by the Trump administration’s recent ban on Chinese factories manufacturing these components. The largest component manufacturer, Samsung, announced last week in the Korean press that it was going…

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Budget 2025: £300m extra for NHS IT and a £1.8bn budget for digital ID cards

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The UK government’s Autumn Budget contained no major announcements of significance to the tech sector, but there were a few developments that continue progress on existing digital policies. Chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves announced £300m of additional capital investment in NHS technology, intended to “boost productivity, support staff and improve patient outcomes, driving the…

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SAP selects Tata Consultancy Services to transform its IT operations

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SAP has signed a five-year outsourcing agreement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to support it in its strategy to transform its internal IT through enterprise-wide cloud and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The German business software giant has worked with TCS for 20 years, which has included a project to transform SAP’s business model from licence-maintenance-based…

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Interview: Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight, RAC

8 minutes of reading / AI, API, Azure, Cloud, data science, Microsoft, Tech, Technology / By

Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight at the RAC, says the key to exploiting data assets is twofold – understanding the business problem and having a great team that’s capable of finding the right technological solutions. “I need people who are empowered, keen, enthusiastic and willing to share knowledge,” he says, outlining the importance…

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Google wins multimillion-pound contract to supply sovereign cloud services to Nato

3 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, digital transformation, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Tech, Technology / By

Google Cloud has secured another multimillion-pound contract to supply a military organisation with secure sovereign cloud capabilities, several months after inking a similar deal with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). The public cloud giant has agreed a deal to supply the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) with its air-gapped Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) setup,…

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