UK councils bat away DDoS barrage from pro-Russia keyboard warriors Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine Cyber-crime01 Nov 2024 | 16
UK immigration seeks tech support, development partner for border crossing systems After years of delay, new systems with 'diverse tech stacks' need a hand in £195M deal On-Prem29 Oct 2024 | 16
UK’s new Minister for Science and Technology comes to US touting Britain's AI benefits Interview $82B in investment shows we've still got it as a nation Public Sector28 Oct 2024 | 15
'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive To Wales now, where crypto bro sues to be allowed to excavate landfill site Bootnotes16 Oct 2024 | 84
Post Office seeks more Horizon support as it continues hunt for replacement Someone has got to keep those back end systems running On-Prem15 Oct 2024 | 22
Britain opens floodgates to US datacenter investment Who needs climate goals and planning permission anyway? Systems15 Oct 2024 | 20
Keir Starmer tells regulators to chill as Microsoft exec takes wheel of advisory council What could possibly go wrong? Public Sector15 Oct 2024 | 82
Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig What's harder? Convincing people to invest in a beleaguered security business or a tiny island everybody hates? Public Sector11 Oct 2024 | 53
The .io domain isn't going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty UK-Mauritius handshake holds but Chagos Islands shift could eventually phase out the ccTLD Off-Prem10 Oct 2024 | 49
Hold my Pimms! Wimbledon turns to tech for line-ball calls Humans dumped by famously fusty tennis tournament Personal Tech10 Oct 2024 | 27
UK Regulatory Innovation Office vows to slash red tape – but we've heard it all before Comment The real issue is a reluctance to invest Public Sector09 Oct 2024 | 38
Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can't be bothered to do much about it Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 38
Blackstone invests £10B to build Europe's 'biggest AI datacenter' in UK Construction slated to begin next year at site of failed BritishVolt plant Systems26 Sep 2024 | 17
Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations Updated See it, say it… not sorted just yet as network access remains offline Cyber-crime26 Sep 2024 | 62
UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter' Access to account info needed to tackle benefit fraud, latest bill claims Security26 Sep 2024 | 146
Northern Ireland cops whose info was leaked in 2023 may get £240M+ damages Officers put in danger when republican dissidents grabbed hold of their names and details Legal25 Sep 2024 | 2
Cybercrooks strut away with haute couture Harvey Nichols data Nothing high-end about the sparsely detailed, poorly publicized breach Cyber-crime20 Sep 2024 | 10
UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group 4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Security19 Sep 2024 | 13
Objections to datacenter builds may be overruled now they are 'Critical National Infrastructure' Well you wouldn't get far protesting a water system or a power grid, right? On-Prem17 Sep 2024 | 34
Meta back at it, harvesting Britons' public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training I wanna know 🎵 What you're feeling 🎵 Tell me what's on your mind Personal Tech14 Sep 2024 | 33
UK watchdog fears Voda-Three merger will balloon phone bills for customers Analysts claim it would be better for competition though Networks13 Sep 2024 | 36
MI6, CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven enemies Spy bosses use first-ever joint article to bemoan how Russia and China use tech to mess with the world AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 55
UK trio pleads guilty to running $10M MFA bypass biz Updated Crew bragged they could help crooks raid victims' bank accounts Cyber-crime03 Sep 2024 | 14
Body of IT tycoon Mike Lynch recovered after superyacht sinks Updated Search for others missing, including his 18-year-old daughter, continues On-Prem21 Aug 2024 | 67
B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident Company continues to investigate root cause VMware Explore19 Aug 2024 | 8
From windfarms to Amazon Prime, UK plans to long range test six drone services BVLOS operations to modernize airspace Edge + IoT16 Aug 2024 | 50
UK's 'electricity superhighway' gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up 500 km transmission cable promises enough power for two million homes, or a heck of a lotta GPUs On-Prem14 Aug 2024 | 130
UK semi industry exposed to supply chain risk, China state ownership Report suggests govt get cracking on a proper ownership structure survey and ... hang on, did they forget the Midlands? Systems13 Aug 2024 | 14
UK Royal Mint mining PCBs for precious metals in e-waste recovery effort There's gold in them thar boards Personal Tech08 Aug 2024 | 66
UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer Shortsighted or a chance to refocus? Tech sector is not happy HPC05 Aug 2024 | 45
Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots The technology remains highly controversial despite widespread rollout Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 292
UK plans to revamp national cyber defense tools are already in motion Work aims to build on the success of NCSC's 2016 initiative – and private sector will play a part Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 8
UK crimebusters shut down global call-spoofing outfit that claimed 170K-plus victims Suspected devs behind Russian Coms cuffed – now to find the users of the nastyware Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 11
Revamped UK cybersecurity bill couldn't come soon enough, but details are patchy Analysis Long overdue updates include expanded mandatory security incident reporting Malware Month30 Jul 2024 | 28
UK and India sign broad tech collaboration pact Pick a hot market – AI, quantum, chips, 6G – and the pair have a plan to work on it together Public Sector26 Jul 2024 | 12
Serco appoints former GDS leader Tom Read to digital leadership role Read also served at UK's MoJ, where outsourcer paid fine over electronic tagging fiasco Public Sector22 Jul 2024 | 7
Capgemini wins deal with UK tax collector worth up to £574M Love affair between HMRC and French outsourcer set to last 25 years Software19 Jul 2024 | 13
Samsung buys UK AI startup to give its products the personal touch Oxford Semantic could help your fridge and smartphone pick up on your proclivities AI + ML18 Jul 2024 | 15
Craig Wright admits he isn't the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK Aussie definitely not Satoshi Nakamoto, faces £6M legal bill and possible perjury trial Security17 Jul 2024 | 86
UK minister recalls two planning decisions which blocked datacenter investment Deputy leader to act after promise of more business-friendly planning process On-Prem09 Jul 2024 | 66
UK CMA says public sector will be in cloud services probe after all Nothing is as juicy as a nice fat tender, amirite tech giants? PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2024 | 1
Advania acquires Servium as part of IT services outfit expansion plans Exclusive CEO tells The Reg about plumping the portfolio and AI PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2024 |
High-flying drones on a leash could blow traditional wind turbines away Bristol researcher granted £375K to improve airborne wind energy systems Science05 Jun 2024 | 40
UK may not hit goal of 95% mobile coverage, commons committee warns Sitting in a not-spot in the countryside? It's not great news Networks03 Jun 2024 | 68
Parliamentarians urge next UK govt to consider ban on smartphones for under-16s Digital age of consent at 13 not even enforced, committee finds Personal Tech28 May 2024 | 82
UK PM Sunak calls election, leaving Brits cringing over memory of his Musk love-in Man who promised the Unicorn Kingdom must now face judgement from the real thing Public Sector23 May 2024 | 328
UK law gives green light to self-driving cars from 2026 Underground tunnel testing now available for autonomous vehicles Personal Tech22 May 2024 | 90
Top AI players pledge to pull the plug on models that present intolerable risk Seoul Summit follows up Bletchley Declaration with more non-binding and vague promises AI + ML22 May 2024 | 15
Stifling Beijing in cyberspace is now British intelligence’s number-one mission CyberUK Annual conference of cyber intel unit shows UK's alarm over China blaring louder than ever Cyber-crime16 May 2024 | 22
Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger Reg Standards Bureau Testing wind turbine blades the size of three rusty angel wingspans Bootnotes16 May 2024 | 90
Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names What next, trouble at tmill? Software07 May 2024 | 273
End-to-end encryption may be the bane of cops, but they can't close that Pandora's Box interview Internet Society's Robin Wilton tells us the war on privacy won't be won by the plod Security05 May 2024 | 84
Not a Genius move: Resurrecting war hero Alan Turing as your 'chief AI officer' Comment Chatbot vendor should end the campaign and apologize AI + ML02 May 2024 | 156
Watchdog reveals lingering Google Privacy Sandbox worries Ad tech rewrite to replace web cookies still not to regulatory taste Security29 Apr 2024 | 10
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Research24 Apr 2024 | 109
Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware Networks19 Apr 2024 | 282
UK unions publish AI bill to protect workers from 'risks and harms' of tech TUC questions government's approach so far AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 3
Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability Legal12 Apr 2024 | 18
Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system? £75 million in the offing in government tender PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2024 | 109
UK businesses shockingly unaware of how to handle security threats Many decide to make no changes after detecting a breach Cyber-crime09 Apr 2024 | 23
Microsoft puts ex-DeepMind boffin in charge of London AI hub Follows £2.5 billion pledge to 'upskill' British workers for the new world order AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 2
Local councils struggle with ill-fitting software despite spending billions with suppliers Even when tech crew gets the tweaks approved, vendor lead times are bonkers, says report Public Sector05 Apr 2024 | 94