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Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility

PUBLIC SECTOR Whitehall has scattered science, AI, and digital government across a thicket of competing ministerial portfolios

Public Sector11 Sep 2026 | 28

Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in

PUBLIC SECTOR TUC warns against letting algorithms call the shots in the workplace

Public Sector11 Sep 2026 | 4

Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled

PUBLIC SECTOR Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation

Public Sector10 Sep 2026 | 58

UK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customers

PUBLIC SECTOR Procurement officials promise to police the scandal-hit supplier's voluntary bidding moratorium

Public Sector09 Sep 2026 | 15

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing

public sector Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month

Public Sector09 Sep 2026 | 6

US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why

PUBLIC SECTOR DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale

Public Sector06 Sep 2026 | 80

Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'

PUBLIC SECTOR Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America

Public Sector02 Sep 2026 | 15

UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme

AI AND ML Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy

AI and ML02 Sep 2026 | 11

Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition

PUBLIC SECTOR Japanese supplier remains in place despite scrutiny over its Horizon role

Public Sector02 Sep 2026 | 6

UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on

PUBLIC SECTOR Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt

Public Sector02 Sep 2026 | 97

Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential

AI and ML Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants

AI and ML27 Aug 2026 | 16

AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down

PUBLIC SECTOR F- for AI in test of reducing burden of teacher workload

Public Sector27 Aug 2026 | 25

Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR

Public sector Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality

Public Sector26 Aug 2026 | 134

Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown

public sector French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model

Legal26 Aug 2026 | 5

HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp

public sector Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era

Software25 Aug 2026 | 39

£37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years

PUBLIC SECTOR HMRC insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement

Public Sector20 Aug 2026 | 11

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Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility

Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in

Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled

UK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customers

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing

UK energy operator sticks with Palantir in £21M direct award

Whitehall's latest plan to get things done: Less Whitehall

Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad

Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction'

US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why

Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'

UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme

Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition

UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on

Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential

AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down

Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR

Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown

HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp

£37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years

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DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean

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Microsoft annoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language

Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script

Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm

AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money

Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on

UK taxman discovers low code doesn't mean low cost with £657M awards

UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails

Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures

UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice

Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo

Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake

NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure

Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall

Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze

Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims

Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic

Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions

US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns

UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years

Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge

South Korea making its own security-centric AI model

MPs fear Treasury cold feet could sink Whitehall's £1.15B shared services push

South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot

EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope

Capita hears demand for pension scheme cleanup 'loud and clear' – but won't say yes

UK.gov withholds £10M payment from Capita over pensions project fiasco, as dispute continues

MPs tell NHS to start packing Palantir's bags ahead of 2027 contract break

NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits

Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract

UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies

Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals

UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts

Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids

Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions

British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems

As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains

Use of HMRC's taxing IR35 status tool drops 71% in two years

India blocks Telegram ahead of scandal-hit medical school entrance exam

Transport for London keeps Capita behind wheel of road charging ops in £912M extension

UK Cabinet Office hiring AI and innovation 'influencer' to build 'AI-first culture' in civil service

UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts

NHS Palantir claims face scrutiny after data suggests uneven results

Capita is about to sail past deadline to fix civil service pensions scheme

Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site

UK Treasury hunts CTO on salary that may not compute for top tech talent

Palantir's NHS data deal called in for a second opinion

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked