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With products and services based on the next generation of mobile set for launch in five years’ time, global tech firm Ericsson has underlined its continued support for a UK government-backed research unit designed to boost the country’s future wireless connectivity capabilities, in particular 6G networks. Launched in 2022, the UK-based research centre is advancing…

Microsoft’s “harmful” cloud licensing practices need to be swiftly and directly remediated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to prevent irreparable harm being done to the UK cloud services market, a university law professor has warned.In a 36-page academic paper, Peter Whelan, a law professor at the University of Leeds, warns the UK competition watchdog…

When we talk about technology, we tend to default to speed, power, and scale. Faster processors. Bigger data. Smarter algorithms. But in a world facing complex and connecting challenges – from strained healthcare systems to the climate crisis and rising skills gaps – the most important question is no longer what technology can do. It’s…

Digital Catapult has announced its accreditation as the only European open testing and integration centre (OTIC) in the UK awarded by the O-RAN Alliance of mobile operators, suppliers, and research and academic institutions. OTICs are set up to provide a collaborative, open environment to support the growth of the Open RAN ecosystem by enabling rigorous…

A cyber security incident at Australian airline Qantas originating through the compromise of a third-party contact centre is being tentatively linked to an ongoing campaign of cyber attacks orchestrated by the hacking collective known as Scattered Spider, which previously targeted British high street retailers in April and May. On Friday 27 June, analysts at Google…

Google has pushed an emergency update to the widely used Chrome browser after identifying an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the product, the fourth found so far in 2025. Tracked as CVE-2025-6554, it is described as a type confusion flaw in the Google-developed V8 JavaScript engine that compiles and executes JavaScript code in Chromium-based browsers.…

If you’re wondering what Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has been up to after founding Bluesky, he’s actually been working on a project to offer offline communication through Bluetooth patterns. On X this week, he announced Bitchat, a Bluetooth mesh chat app.With a TestFlight beta currently underway, he said the app is in review to be…

AI operating systems are inevitable. That much has been clear to me since ChatGPT went viral in late 2022. That was the moment when an AI tool arrived that we could talk to using conversational language via text. The future was easy to predict from there.You’d talk to the AI via voice and give it…

Apple has struggled to find its footing in the world of generative AI so far, but the company isn’t giving up on becoming a true competitor in the industry anytime soon. To that point, signs of an AI-powered “Support Assistant” for the Apple Support app were uncovered in Apple’s code this week by MacRumors contributor…

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has reiterated and extended previous warnings over the activities of Iranian threat actors targeting Western interests, following attacks on the Middle Eastern state’s alleged nuclear weapons programme conducted by Israel and the US. The US strikes on 22 June prompted a swift alert from the Department…