The UK government has committed to wiping thousands of pounds off the outstanding settlements of everyone who remains in scope of the Loan Charge, in response to the latest independent review into the controversial disguised remuneration policy. The retroactive tax policy has left thousands of IT contractors living under the shadow of life-changing tax bills…

Software development is associated with the idea of not reinventing the wheel, which means developers often select components or software libraries with pre-built functionality, rather than write code to achieve the same result. There are many benefits of this approach. For example, a software component that is widely deployed is likely to have undergone extensive…

Google Cloud has confirmed the withdrawal of a complaint it filed with the European Commission (EC) in September 2024, relating to Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing strategy, whereby it charges customers higher fees for wanting to run its software in competing cloud environments. The issue has seen Microsoft repeatedly come in for criticism and scrutiny from…

Analysis from GlobalData is forecasting that fixed wireless access (FWA) service revenue in Hong Kong is expected to increase at a “healthy” compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6% between 2025 and 2030. The latest Hong Kong Total Fixed Communications Forecast set out to quantify current and future demand and spending on mobile services for the…

For some time now, networking and security strategies have been slowly merging for years. Driven by hybrid work, cloud migration and rising security challenges that demand simplified, end-to-end architectures, the shifting of software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) to secure access service edge (SASE) is now reshaping enterprise connectivity strategies, according to a study from GlobalData. The…

buradaki/Shutterstock On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in the press; unmanned Mars missions aren’t exactly novel, as the American space agency has sent over a dozen satellites and rovers…

The UK’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will not help reduce illegal migration or stop people working illegally, and could instead set up the infrastructure for exclusion and mass surveillance, MPs have been told. On 26 September 2025, UK prime minister Keir Starmer announced that the government planned to introduce a mandatory national digital ID scheme,…

Alex Photo Stock/Shutterstock Windows has access to a vast selection of free, paid, open-source, and proprietary applications. While you can find many of these in the bundled Microsoft Store, others are scattered across the different corners of the web. This makes app discovery slightly harder for even the savviest of users. As a result, many…

The UK’s broadband sector has quietly witnessed a tipping point as fibre-based connections direct to premises superseded kerb-side connectivity for the first time, according to analyst Point Topic, while two of the country’s leading independent broadband service providers (altnets) have geared up fibre offerings for businesses. The Point Topic survey found that the UK broadband market…

Opera Neon just got another big upgrade. The AI agentic browser now offers updated models, new features, and an all-new Deep Research feature that can produce structured reports in about a minute. Following Google’s introduction of the new Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro, Opera now allows users to choose the AI model that…