Cabinet secretary Michael Gove dismissed conspiracy theories linking 5G to Covid-19 as “dangerous nonsense̶…
UK government won’t use NSO Group coronavirus tracking technology
Yesterday, a flurry of publications reported that NSO Group – the Israeli company whose spyware was allegedly u…
How will the NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app work and when will it go live?
The NHS is in the process of rolling out an app that will trace who people have been in contact with, and alert them …
New MI5 director wants to tap UK tech sector for AI expertise
MI5’s newly appointed director general, Ken McCallum, has signalled an interest in working more closely with the priv…
How a supercomputer network of 700,000 PCs is helping to find a Covid-19 cure
The race to find a coronavirus vaccine is on, with about 35 companies and academic institutions across the world work…
US closer to cutting off Huawei’s global chip supply
Senior officials in the Trump administration agreed to new measures to restrict the global supply of chips to Huawei …
Why the FBI’s fitness app probably wasn’t made to spy on you
This week, the FBI had a message for Americans cooped-up in quarantine. It decided to jump on the home fitness bandwa…
DWP’s IT system unable to cope with influx of coronavirus-impacted welfare claimants
The Department of Work and Pensions has been inundated with new welfare claimants affected by the coronavirus pandemi…
China to ramp up its 5G network construction following coronavirus shutdown
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has announced it will be supporting telecom operators …
UK courts start conducting trials over Skype amid coronavirus lockdown
UK courts are aiming to ramp up their video conferencing and remote technology capabilities in order to continue hold…