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- Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflowson April 17, 2026 at 3:19 pm
NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation.
- North Korean social engineering campaign targets macOS userson April 17, 2026 at 2:13 pm
A MacOS-focused social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korea-based threat actor Sapphire Sleet has been exposed by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Unit.
- UK government seeks collaborators for AI tutoring tools for schoolson April 17, 2026 at 8:53 am
To build on plans to introduce AI tutoring tools in schools, the UK government is searching for companies to develop educational resources
- Oslo’s robots aren’t yet taking over, but are already punching above their weighton April 17, 2026 at 8:42 am
The Norwegian capital’s leading innovators have got the ecosystem up and running, and are now calling for greater access to risk capital to take it to the next level
- AI, energy, and the new rules of cloud sustainability competitionon April 17, 2026 at 6:07 am
AI has made cloud infrastructure core to enterprise architecture – more valuable, strategic, and resource-intensive. It has also made vague sustainability claims less defensible
- Welcome to agentic AI. Welcome to per-agent licensingon April 17, 2026 at 4:56 am
Microsoft seems to have a new wheeze: Charging per-agent. Having made Copilot pervasive in the Microsoft stack, it looks like customers may face per-agent billing
- Privacy, power, and encryption: why end-to-end security matterson April 16, 2026 at 1:55 pm
Governments may continue to look for ways to restrict end-to-end encryption, but the greater danger lies in demanding insecurity by design that would undermining trust, resilience, and the security of the global communications ecosystem.
- UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startupson April 16, 2026 at 1:30 pm
The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of startups backed to boost economic growth and national security
- CYBERUK ’26: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber proson April 16, 2026 at 12:13 pm
Ahead of next week’s CYBERUK conference, the CyberUp Campaign for reform of the UK’s hacking laws urges the government to keep focus, and proposes a four-pillar framework that would protect cyber professionals from prosecution
- Interview: Bernard Seiser, vice-president of digital, data and IT, AOP Healthon April 16, 2026 at 11:42 am
With long experience of tech in the life sciences sector, AOP’s digital leader is building a foundation for further data insights in all areas of the business
- Finance regulators to address AI risks after MPs say they are ‘not doing enough’on April 16, 2026 at 11:00 am
After a Treasury committee stated that public and finance systems are ‘exposed to potential serious harm’ from AI because regulators are ‘not doing enough’ to manage risks, finance regulators say they will take action to address concerns
- Cyber Essentials closes the MFA loophole but leaves some organisations adrifton April 16, 2026 at 9:03 am
Some organisations risk losing their Cyber Essentials certifications because of difficulties implementing multi-factor authentication, but there is a solution.
- Dubai rolls out AI training for 50,000 government staffon April 16, 2026 at 8:07 am
An initiative under Digital Dubai, in partnership with government HR and AI bodies, reflects the wider UAE strategy to embed artificial intelligence across public services, workforce development and economic diversification plans
- One year on from the M&S cyber attack: What did we learn?on April 16, 2026 at 7:30 am
A year on from the Marks & Spencer cyber attack, we look back at the incident, consider the lessons learned and ask if the retail sector is any more secure today
- UK government’s £500m sovereign AI fund bids to commercialise researchon April 16, 2026 at 5:35 am
The UK government is launching a £500m Sovereign AI Unit to boost artificial intelligence startups and drive economic growth through strategic and long-term investments
- UAE education builds digital resilience as regional tensions accelerate shift to remote learningon April 16, 2026 at 4:37 am
Ankabut CEO Tarek Jundi outlines how national infrastructure, AI-driven platforms and distance-learning capabilities are helping schools and universities maintain continuity amid geopolitical uncertainty
- UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says governmenton April 15, 2026 at 4:53 pm
Technology secretary Liz Kendall urges Britain’s business community to sit up and pay attention to emerging AI threats, following the debut of Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos
- Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood riskon April 15, 2026 at 9:30 am
AI-based tool developed with Snowflake improves policymakers’ understanding of properties at risk of flooding
- Danske Bank upgrade error exposed 20,000 customer addresseson April 15, 2026 at 9:23 am
Danish bank revealed details of a customer data leak last year which affected thousands of customers
- Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline?on April 15, 2026 at 8:20 am
Looking at datacentre development internationally, we see how the UK faces apparent relative decline, how countries are responding to the AI age, and what MW vs GDP can tell us




