The final stages of the Data (Use and Access) Bill were more eventful than expected. Interventions from figures like Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa brought rare attention to the issue, tapping into growing public unease about artificial intelligence. Many people see the potential of AI but are also concerned about its impact on the…
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The UK’s Data Use and Access Bill has become law, with the government claiming it will “save working people money and time” while injecting £10bn into the British economy over the next decade. The bill attainted royal assent to become an act on 19 July 2025, and will now amend the country’s implementation of both…
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The Nintendo Switch 2 is already a huge success. Nintendo is selling more units than it can manufacture, and it’s likely the high demand will hold for quite a while. The original Switch (and the upgraded versions) sold incredibly well, so Nintendo has a massive user base ready to upgrade to a more powerful version…
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The Scattered Spider/Dragonforce cyber attacks that struck Marks & Spencer and Co-op during the spring have been classed as a Category 2 cyber event on the UK Cyber Monitoring Centre’s (CMC’s) recently launched ‘hurricane scale’, with total costs likely to end up somewhere between £270m and £440m. The CMC – an arm’s-length body set up…
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The number of Cyber Essentials badges issued via the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) backed security certification scheme continues to increase but at a slower pace than is really needed to secure the resilience of Britain’s business community. This is according to new statistics – covering the January to March 2025 quarter – published on…
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iPad users have plenty of reasons to be excited when iPadOS 26 arrives this fall. Even though it took Apple a long time to unlock the tablet’s full potential, it’s finally happening with iPadOS 26. Among the new features, Apple is adding a new window tiling system and more Mac-like capabilities, such as window controls,…
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In this storage supplier profile, we look at IBM, which has perhaps the longest history of all the storage players, and in IT much more widely, in servers, services and the cloud. We find the company well set on its ongoing efforts to reorient after a period of declining revenues. That reorientation manifests itself as…
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SCI Semiconductors, a Cambridge-based tech company working on Capability Hardware Enhanced Risc Instructions (Cheri) systems to manage cyber defences, is to receive funding from the UK government’s Defence Technology Exploitation Programme (DTEP) to continue its work on embedding the emergent technology into military systems. Cheri, which has been in development for some time, is capable…
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Tariffs proposed by the US government threaten to upend trading relationships across the world, with IT procurement already feeling the effects. And the tariff situation has changed many times since Donald Trump took office. Since the president announced plans to levy charges on imports to the US, there have been retaliatory moves by trading partners…
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Cisco has introduced a network architecture attributed with delivering a platform relevant for the new world of work, offering simplicity and speed, and powering the campuses, branches and industrial networks of the future. Kicking off its Cisco Live 2025 annual showcase, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins stressed that every business is having to evolve at “an…
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