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NHS quango warns of risk to GP patient data after website vendor collapse

Hundreds of practices hit by small health tech firm going into administration

GSA left sensitive Google Drive files open to staff, contractors

Auditors have flagged similar security failures since 2014

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Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create

Whitehall wants agents guarding critical infrastructure as part of a wider £600M spending spree

Google's Waltham Cross datacenter in Hertfordshire

Want to build a UK datacenter? Please hold while Whitehall transfers you

Minister insists responsibilities are clear as construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate departments

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PHP2Shell puts dozens of UK government services out of service

Ministers report 32 unavailable and four partly disrupted, but no confirmed compromise

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UK government hasn't the foggiest how much it's spending on digital transformation

Years of promises, but officials unable to put a figure on investment

Philippine government suspends top tech official for alleged misconduct

Founder of offshore software development firm investigated for possibly giving his former outfit government contracts

MPs urge UK government to play venture capitalist with taxpayer-funded tech

Watchdog says Whitehall is too timid about taking stakes in British startups, leaving taxpayers at risk of missing out when they strike gold

A close-up thumb in front of a digital fingerprint recognition overlay.

Whitehall shuts the front door on digital ID but leaves the back open

Ministers may have scrapped the national scheme, but One Login, digital wallets and 80-plus planned credentials are still very much alive

Capita set to miss legal deadline on 93,000 civil servants' pension fixes, claims union

PCS says outsourcer still stuck in design phase while retirees wait for McCloud corrections

UK government chases AI while aging IT leaves it exposed, PAC chair warns

Whitehall's digital staffing falls short of its own target as ministers leave the skills gap unresolved

CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many

Nick Andersen wants to work with private industry on security, but the Trump admin has taken an axe to such efforts.

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UK Cabinet Office takes £7.8M hit to kill off recruitment system

Department told to ditch it to get back in line with Shared Services Strategy, plus faces £8.9M fine for IR35 shambles

Home Office paperwork lies on a desk with a crest and printed text visible.

Home Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checks

Ministers promised faster decisions, but campaigners say the technology is making mistakes while asylum processing times are getting worse

South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all cyber-attacks

'Complete security paradigm refresh' needed for the AI era

Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running

Six-year deal covers management and security, with options to add cloud and digital workplace services

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UK spending watchdog opens investigation into Capita's pension fiasco

Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline

Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data

Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures

Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal

Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP

Singapore’s government creates a dating app

Team that gave the world Bluetooth COVID tracking swipes right on algorithmic matchmaking

Go on, you know you want to. Type 'hotdog' into America.gov to redeem your complimentary virtual wiener. Condiments sold separately.

Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners

Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.

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Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations

Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'

Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core

Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website

Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush

RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations

Healthcare campaigners turn up the heat on Palantir at Labour conference

Protesters want ministers to reject an extension of the US spy-tech firm's £330M NHS data platform deal

HM Revenue and Customs document placed over British pound banknotes

HMRC bets up to £2.4B on Salesforce for taxpayer CRM overhaul

Ten-year deal covers customer records, case management, portals, analytics, and AI, with extensions possible to 2041

OpenAI’s dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon

Admits its agents side-swiped four Australian government sites

UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants

Whitehall unit will examine critical contracts after Capita pensions fiasco strengthens case for bringing work in-house

HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B

Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 2036

City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues

Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger

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OpenAI agents ‘infiltrated Australian government website’

Canberra is fuming after AI lab sent the news to a generic unattended email address

Campaigners tell Burnham not to trade away the UK's tech tax to please Trump

Letter lands ahead of the PM's first face-to-face meeting with the US president

GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in

Mike Bracken says the dash to adopt sovereign AI risks giving more control to a handful of tech suppliers

Tom Watson stands indoors in Leeds, wearing glasses and a dark shirt, with a city scene behind him.

Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point

US spy-tech firm insists its new UK senior vice president is there to 'build things, not to open doors'

Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up

Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed

Government Digital Service move 'grinds gears' in UK's e-government

As team responsible for tech strategy shunted to third department in three years, experts fear exodus of talent

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Gov.uk still struggling with IT contractor tax rules

IR35 rules not getting easier for government departments

COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it

Australia Taxation Office sees footling with Copilot as a way to develop ‘muscles’ for real AI work

Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility

Whitehall has scattered science, AI, and digital government across a thicket of competing ministerial portfolios

Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in

TUC warns against letting algorithms call the shots in the workplace

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Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled

Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation

UK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customers

Procurement officials promise to police the scandal-hit supplier's voluntary bidding moratorium

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing

Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month

UK energy operator sticks with Palantir in £21M direct award

Proprietary platform keeps incumbent in place while NESO prepares a future competition

Whitehall's latest plan to get things done: Less Whitehall

Ministers declare war on an 'industry of dither and delay' as consultations, legal caution, and judicial reviews get the chop

Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad

Cross-government plan combines civil ambitions with an increasingly military view of orbit

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Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction'

MPs welcome move but still want answers over how the conflict of interest was allowed to arise

US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why

DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale

Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'

Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America

UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme

Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy

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Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition

Japanese supplier remains in place despite scrutiny over its Horizon role

UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on

Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt

Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential

Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants

AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down

F- for AI in test of reducing burden of teacher workload

Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR

Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality

Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown

French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model

HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp

Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era

£37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years

HMRC insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement

UK taxman discovers low code doesn't mean low cost with £657M awards

Those legacy systems won't fix themselves

UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails

Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact

Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures

Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak

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UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice

Global players dominate the market. Will public sector buyers give local suppliers a look-in?

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Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo

Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency

Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

PLUS: DeepSeek to double peak hour prices for new model; Australia hikes fines for Big Tech; Japan’s next moonshot to ride local rocket; and more!

Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake

Meanwhile, the other state-backed foundry, Intel, wraps up RAMP-C defense test chip program

NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure

Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise

Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall

Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency

Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze

Supplier says the Horizon-era pause only stops it chasing work from new government customers

Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims

Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect

Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic

And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack