HMRC’s hunt for hyperscaler to lead £500m datacentre exit project

HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) £500m tender for a hyperscaler to manage a 10-year datacentre exit and cloud migration project for the government tax collection agency is anti-competitive and contradictory, it is claimed. With the deadline for those interested in participating in the tender for the contract coming up on Friday 23 May 2025, the…

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Enterprise to the fore as Zoom claims strong Q1

With its chief executive, Eric Yuan, somewhat fittingly delivering his financial update via a custom artificial intelligence (AI) avatar, Zoom Communications announced “solid” financial results for the first quarter of its 2026 financial year, with sustained enterprise momentum, strong profitability and the expansion of AI-powered solutions across its core platform. For the quarter ended 30…

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Police Digital Service board director quits several months after CISO

A senior figure from the Home Office has stepped down as a director at the Police Digital Service (PDS), several weeks after the organisation lost its chief information security officer (CISO) to the private sector. A Companies House filing confirms Bethan Page-Jones, the head of the Home Office’s national police capabilities unit, had her appointment terminated…

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Apple talks up App Store anti-fraud efforts as government scrutiny

As Apple faces losing control over the App Store in the US, the company published a press release revealing that it stopped over $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions and blocked nearly 2 million risky app submissions from reaching users in 2024.While it’s always interesting to see the company’s efforts to prevent fraud on the…

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AI storage: NAS vs SAN vs object for training and

Artificial intelligence (AI) relies on vast amounts of data. Enterprises that take on AI projects, especially for large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI), need to capture large volumes of data for model training as well as to store outputs from AI-enabled systems. That data, however, is unlikely to be in a single system…

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Labour puts Humphrey AI to work for council admin

The UK government has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI) suite, Humphrey, is being trialled by a number of local councils. Its AI tool, Minute, takes notes in meetings, and was recently used in one chaired by prime minister Keir Starmer. Part of Humphrey, the package of AI tools built to help civil servants deliver for…

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