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All election candidates offered cyber protection support
For the first time – and amid rising concerns about the safety of politicians –
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Frontline services impacted by cyberattack in ‘major IT incident’ affecting London hospitals
Guy’s, St Thomas’ and King’s College hospitals – which treat a cumulative 10,000 patients each
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DWP develops data tool to simulate ‘future world and how we can prepare for it’
The department is working to create a system that could process economic and societal data
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Government rolls out online hub for evaluations
Evaluation Registry has been launched and made mandatory for all Whitehall departments, but the publicly
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HMRC offers £100k for leader to ‘spearhead channel shift’
The tax agency is advertising for a senior manager to take on responsibility for delivering
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Number of ICO-registered organisations rises 160% since GDPR
According to stats released by outgoing data and digital infrastructure minister Julia Lopez, the number
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Scottish national innovation centre unveils tool that could support early dementia detection
CENSIS, a specialist facility based in Glasgow University, has launched an Internet of Things system
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‘A significant gap between HMRC’s perceptions and what taxpayers can do online’
Three professional bodies for tax and finance professionals have made submissions to parliament, warning that
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‘It might take over the world’ – schoolchildren issue warning over government AI
Children taking part in a project that works with schools to gather pupils’ feedback on
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Local government bodies call for ‘centralised mechanism’ to support and fund AI
In a submission to parliament’s Public Accounts Committee – shortly before its dissolution – LGA,
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Labour flags up 40 candidates that ‘understand tech and its transformative potential’
The party’s Labour Digital movement has namechecked election candidates that it believes share its vision
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MPs lament ‘insufficient’ work on government data sharing
The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee has identified ‘significant data gaps’ in various policy
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‘Technical fault’ with online system allowed 67 couples to divorce early
Affected couples have been alerted and offered support while judges review cases, as ministers acknowledge
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DWP signs £3m project-management deal to support cloud migration
The Department for Work and Pensions has retained a specialist supplier to provide planning, oversight
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Government-backed upgrade takes fibre broadband to Scottish towns and villages
Scottish Government is working alongside telecoms firm Openreach to supply regions across the country with
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Four-day outage of HMRC and Defra data-sharing service caused ‘no significant border delays’, minister claims
A power issue with a datacentre used by the environment department led to ALVS service
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MoJ progress trials of ‘human-in-the-loop generative AI’
The ministry is seeking to work with a specialist provider to help fulfil an exploratory
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Cabinet Office clarifies ‘negotiated settlement’ over tech contract
The department’s chief had previously indicated that deal had been terminated for ‘non-performance’, but has