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How far are criminal investigations inhibited by the wide availability of end-to-end encryption (E2E)? The Home Office and UK law enforcement agencies think the problem is urgent, hence the politically tricky decision to use a little-known feature of the Investigatory Powers legislation – the Technical Capability Notice – to seek to impose back-door conditions on…

More than five years after Covid-19 induced a massive shift in working practices, businesses are still actively refining their hybrid work and return-to-office strategies, meaning they are required to balance employee satisfaction and retention with critical business priorities such as productivity, operational efficiency and profitability, according to research from Cisco. Released during the Cisco Live…

Panel members on the AI as a Competitive Advantage session held at the AI Summit in London this week discussed the reality businesses face when trying to move artificial intelligence projects into production. Data presented in the Summit’s AI at Scale stream, suggests that 80% of proof-of-concept AI projects fail to move into production. While…

Meta launched the Meta AI app in late April to take on ChatGPT and other chatbots. Unlike rival apps, Meta AI comes with social features that nobody asked for. But Meta’s desire for Meta AI users to share their chats with others via a social feed isn’t surprising. Social media is how Meta makes its…

Two years after the merger of the two leading UK connectivity companies completed, VodafoneThree is now set to challenge the mobile arena and the UK’s broadband market by aiming to cover all homes with fibre or fibre-like speeds, boosting this ambition with a new partnership with Community Fibre. Vodafone and Three first announced plans to…

With WWDC 2025 behind us, developers are now testing the first iOS 26 beta. Meanwhile, many iPhone owners are wondering when they will have a chance to preview the upcoming features. Here’s everything you need to know about the availability of the iOS 26 public beta.Did Apple announce when users will be able to download…

If you visited adult sites on your Android device via incognito browsing sessions or a VPN while also logged into Facebook and Instagram, Meta might know about it. Not only that, Meta might know what you watched, what you clicked, and what you bought.Regardless of what you were doing on your device, if you did…

Artificial intelligence (AI) factories are producing intelligence at unprecedented scale, showing massive potential to fuel economic growth and innovation. To accelerate taking advantage of AI opportunities in their sector, operators Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor have announced a collaboration with Nvidia to develop and expand sovereign AI factories and edge infrastructure across Europe. The telcos…

Just days after launching a wholesale multi-gig broadband product designed to enable internet service providers (ISPs) to offer business customers connectivity with symmetrical speeds of 5.5Gbps, CityFibre has announced that it has tripled the availability of its dedicated, enterprise-grade Ethernet services to serve more than 260,000 UK businesses. The roll-out incorporates a dedicated business ethernet…

Technology leaders are baffled by a “cacophony” of “buzzwords, hype and confusion” over the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the founder and CEO of technology company Pegasystems. Alan Trefler, who is known for his prowess at chess and ping pong, as well as running a $1.5bn turnover tech company, spends much of his…