Even though the footprint of the UK’s alternative broadband providers (altnets) has doubled in less than two years, the sector is now moving from expansion to survival, with several operators facing commercial pressure that could trigger an expected consolidation wave, a study from Intelligens Consulting has found. The State of the UK fibre market 2025…

Mijansk786/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Purchasing electronics online requires shopping blind at times, which can make the purchase process uncomfortable when it comes time to check out. Big-ticket items like televisions and laptops may warrant some in-person use before making a long-term commitment, and even less-expensive electronics are worth…

Police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology reconfigures suspicion in subtle yet important ways, undermining so-called human-in-the-loop safeguards. Despite the long-standing controversies surrounding police use of LFR, the technology is now used in the UK to scan millions of people’s faces every year. While initial deployments were sparse, happening only every few months, they…

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has highlighted a potentially dangerous misunderstanding surrounding emergent prompt injection attacks against generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications, warning that many users are comparing them to more classical structured query language (SQL) injection attacks, and in doing so, putting their IT systems at risk of compromise. While they share…

Halfpoint/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. “Smart home” is a term that’s thrown around pretty loosely in 2025, and it carries a different meaning for everyone. To some, a smart home is just a normal house with a fancy security system. To others, it’s about buying every internet-connected device for…

The last year has seen some of the costliest cyber attacks on UK businesses to date. Attacks on Marks & Spencer cost the supermarket chain hundreds of millions in lost profits and led to empty shelves. The Jaguar Land Rover attack sent shockwaves throughout its supply chain, which ultimately dragged down UK GDP in the third…

Nicolas Ospina/Getty Images Keeping your laptop clean isn’t the most challenging task. It doesn’t take much more than a microfiber cloth to safely clean your MacBook’s screen and surfaces, but there’s one area that tends to prove a bit more troublesome when it comes time to remove dirt and muck: The trackpad. If you’re not…

Looking to help modernise and future-proof campus networks across a range of use cases and industries, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) and Nokia have strengthened their strategic partnership to deliver an end-to-end portfolio of network services designed to support the digital transformation of critical industries such as transportation, smart cities, energy and utilities, healthcare, and hospitality. The…

Governments should make software companies liable for developing insecure computer code. So says Katie Moussouris, the white hat hacker and security expert who first persuaded Microsoft and the Pentagon to offer financial rewards to security researchers who found and reported serious security vulnerabilities. Bug bounty schemes have since proliferated and have now become the norm for…

Freemixer/Getty Images The logical assumption about wearing headphones while driving is that it’s a big no-no. Not only might they distract you from what’s happening on the road, but covering your ears also makes it challenging to hear things around you, which is crucial while driving. You can have a conversation with someone via Bluetooth…