The UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy. Currently going through the committee stage of Parliamentary scrutiny, the Data Use and Access Bill (DUAB) will amend…
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The government is under-prepared for a catastrophic cyber attack and still dogged by legacy IT, but making progress, the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has heard. The committee, chaired by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Conservative MP for North Cotswolds, took testimony on 10 March from four high-ranking government IT leaders about the cyber resilience…
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Human rights group Liberty has said the UK government’s proposed Crime and Policing Bill will transform the country’s driving licence database into a de-facto facial recognition database, enabling police to access the biometric information of millions of people who have never committed a crime. Introduced to Parliament on 25 February 2025, the Home Office-sponsored bill…
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Over the past 20 to 30 years, the intelligence community has generated a stream of cyber security leaders – private cyber security companies are littered with former operatives of the American and British intelligence services. But in Israel’s case, the intelligence-to-cyber pipeline has produced arguably the highest density of cyber security startups and organisations in…
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Despite investor scepticism, prominent quantum computing stocks have seen a notable rise at the beginning of 2025. Even prominent tech leaders like Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg stating the field won’t be profitable hasn’t stopped investors and the wider public from being excited. In cyber security, however, quantum computing offers both unprecedented capabilities and significant…
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As the Data Bill continues its legislative journey through the House of Lords, it’s important to also consider where all that data “lives”, including what it costs to house it. Datacentres, until relatively recently, were a bit of a niche interest, known little outside the technology world. Now, if not everywhere, they are certainly moving…
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Nvidia’s Reflex 2 reveal packed a nugget of info about the RTX 5090Team Green shared that the flagship GPU can run Valorant at 800+ fpsThe graphics card does this with an input lag of under 3ms, tooAmong Nvidia’s cluster of CES 2025 revelations, including new RTX 5000 graphics cards, there were several nuggets that hugged…
In the latest deliberations on the Data Use and Access Bill in the House of Lords, I set out two amendments to offer well overdue updating to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990. In preparing for committee stage of the bill I remain incredibly grateful to everyone involved with the CyberUp campaign, their analysis…
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Two amendments to the Data (Access and Use) Bill that would have established a statutory legal defence for security professionals and ethical hackers to protect them from prosecution under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act (CMA) have failed to make it beyond a House of Lords committee hearing after being withdrawn. The 34-year-old CMA broadly defines…
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Inno3D has leaked that Nvidia has “advanced DLSS technology” to show off at CES 2025This may be DLSS 4, as it makes sense to reveal it alongside RTX 5000 GPUsNew neural rendering capabilities are also set to be aired which could be even more intriguingInno3D has again been leaking material relating to Nvidia’s upcoming revelations…
