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UK tax collector hands Capgemini £600M contact center deal, delays start of £2.4B CRM contract

public sector Another monster tech contract in the works for one of the usual suspects

Public Sector04 Jun 2026 | 21

Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record

public sector James Murray grilled on security of system that will allow over a million health workers to access NHS health DB

Public Sector03 Jun 2026 | 55

Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for

Public Sector Former UK PM demands modernization, and right wing party channels inner Musk to call for mass job cuts in public sector

Public Sector27 May 2026 | 23

UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a 'fiasco' after botched launch

Public Sector Government's 'rushed' plans damaged public confidence before ministers had even explained how the system would work

Public Sector23 May 2026 | 36

Irish Rail writes down €50M after train IT project goes off the rails

Public sector State-owned operator loses confidence in delayed traffic management system as politicians compare Ireland’s latest public-sector IT fiasco to 'Groundhog Day'

Public Sector22 May 2026 | 8

Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer

Public Sector He'll have to beat Nigel Farage in a Brexit-backing constituency first, though

Public Sector22 May 2026 | 95

Think tank to UK government: You can't build the future on systems from the past

Public Sector Legacy IT is getting worse, not better, and could trip up Whitehall's shiny digital plans, report warns

Public Sector21 May 2026 | 19

Smaller suppliers invited to pitch for £2.9B UK defense tech framework

Public Sector Government Commercial Agency wants DIPS 2 to reach beyond MoD buyers and the usual big-name suppliers

Public Sector20 May 2026 | 12

AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff

Public Sector Minister demands AI becomes ‘basic expectation for all public entities’

Public Sector20 May 2026 | 36

America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

Security I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'?

Security19 May 2026 | 55

Indra rides off with £1.96B Transport for London ticketing deal as Oyster heads for back-office overhaul

Public Sector Nothing says 'future of urban transit' like a defense contractor running your bus, tube, and train pass

Public Sector19 May 2026 | 35

Wanted: Digital chief for England's schools. Must enjoy data, AI, and concrete problems

Public Sector Are you ready to RAAC?

Public Sector17 May 2026 | 11

Britain's latest civil servant is a chatbot trained on GOV.UK misery

Public Sector Whitehall says the AI assistant will help citizens navigate public services faster; others may see it as a cheaper alternative to answering the phone

Public Sector15 May 2026 | 21

UK government prescribes Single Patient Record for NHS data chaos

Public Sector Doctors welcome joined-up care plan, but warn patient trust depends on safeguards, access controls, and knowing where Palantir fits in

Public Sector14 May 2026 | 25

Calling the cops just got extra AI as police seek to add tech to contact systems

Public sector AI already listening in to call handlers in real time, conducting live database searches

Public Sector14 May 2026 | 5

Royal Household seeks £3M finance system fit for a King

Public sector One seeks contractor to manage millions in taxpayer cash, will provide generous 20% off Windsor biscuit tins and tea towels

Public Sector13 May 2026 | 13

Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart

Public Sector Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin

Public Sector13 May 2026 | 12

London cops hail fixed facial recognition cams after suspects collared every 35 mins

Public sector Croydon trial helped secure 173 arrests, though civil liberties groups remain unconvinced

Public Sector13 May 2026 | 27

Civil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles

Public Sector Union demands government strips outsourcer of contract after delays, bereavement failures, and data breach

Public Sector13 May 2026 | 56

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

Public Sector Communist government plans personalized ‘data-driven decision-making based on real-time information’ by 2035

Public Sector13 May 2026 | 6

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

Public Sector Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement

Public Sector11 May 2026 | 7

UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform

Public Sector Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up

Public Sector09 May 2026 | 1

UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls

Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs

Public Sector08 May 2026 | 1

Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration

SAAS EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake

SaaS06 May 2026 | 5

NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

Software05 May 2026 | 42

Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

The Iran war has been great for business

Public Sector05 May 2026 | 55

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’

Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet

Public Sector03 May 2026 | 62

Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this?

Public Sector03 May 2026 | 40

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it

Off-Prem02 May 2026 | 49

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

Public Sector01 May 2026 | 9

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters

Public Sector01 May 2026 | 30

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed

Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year

Security01 May 2026 | 13

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it

Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right'

Public Sector01 May 2026 | 22

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops

Software30 Apr 2026 | 95

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops

Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves

Offbeat30 Apr 2026 | 85

EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online

'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses'

Applications29 Apr 2026 | 53

Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids

DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini

AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 10

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

£125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live

Public Sector28 Apr 2026 | 21

UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit

Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made

Public Sector28 Apr 2026 | 70

Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers

Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home

Legal28 Apr 2026 | 42

China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus

Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions

Legal28 Apr 2026 | 12

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown

After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck

Public Sector27 Apr 2026 | 34

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle

Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors

Public Sector27 Apr 2026 | 38

ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds

UK’s data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs

Public Sector27 Apr 2026 | 11

Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot

Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial

Public Sector27 Apr 2026 | 34

Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?

Public Sector24 Apr 2026 | 24

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network

Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency

Cyber-crime24 Apr 2026 | 13

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add up

PaaS + IaaS24 Apr 2026 | 137

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos

Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border

Security24 Apr 2026 | 36

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room

Nothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed

Public Sector24 Apr 2026 | 83

US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes

Three vendors matched to three sites

Public Sector23 Apr 2026 | 10

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir

Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things

Public Sector23 Apr 2026 | 20

Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals

Updated World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace

Cyber-crime23 Apr 2026 | 20

If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you

Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slim

Security23 Apr 2026 | 36

Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it

Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot

AI + ML23 Apr 2026 | 44

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor

Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers

Public Sector22 Apr 2026 | 34

Public Sector

UK tax collector hands Capgemini £600M contact center deal, delays start of £2.4B CRM contract

Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record

UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract

Peter Mandelson invited UK PM to meet Palantir's Thiel

ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal

London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked

Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for

UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a 'fiasco' after botched launch

Irish Rail writes down €50M after train IT project goes off the rails

Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer

Think tank to UK government: You can't build the future on systems from the past

Smaller suppliers invited to pitch for £2.9B UK defense tech framework

AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff

America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

Indra rides off with £1.96B Transport for London ticketing deal as Oyster heads for back-office overhaul

Wanted: Digital chief for England's schools. Must enjoy data, AI, and concrete problems

Britain's latest civil servant is a chatbot trained on GOV.UK misery

UK government prescribes Single Patient Record for NHS data chaos

Calling the cops just got extra AI as police seek to add tech to contact systems

Royal Household seeks £3M finance system fit for a King

Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart

London cops hail fixed facial recognition cams after suspects collared every 35 mins

Civil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform

UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls

Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration

NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’

Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops

EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online

Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit

Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers

China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle

ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds

Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot

Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room

US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir

Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals

If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you

Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor