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Forces have scanned millions of faces this year and ministers plan a national rollout, but biometrics regulators caution that the legal framework is struggling to keep pace with the technology.
Banning under-16s from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube answers a real public anxiety, but a law the government cannot enforce risks becoming a comforting fiction that lets the platforms off the hook.
The Health and Social Care Secretary has set out plans to accelerate the digitisation of the NHS, telling the ConfedExpo conference that the service cannot manage its way out of pressure but must reform through technology.
MPs want ministers to walk away from a £330m contract over the firm's 'values'. The instinct is understandable, but ditching a working system on principle alone would be a serious mistake unless we are honest about what replaces it.
The government is fast-tracking reforms to bring standalone AI chatbots within the scope of online safety rules, after an Ofcom investigation exposed a gap that left some tools outside the law entirely.
The UK has unveiled a new system to track satellites, debris and potentially hostile objects in orbit, alongside the first images from a powerful military telescope, as ministers warn space is becoming a contested frontier.
Ministers are rolling out artificial intelligence tools to local planning departments in a bid to halve decision times, part of a wider package of reforms designed to accelerate housebuilding across England.
The IT reseller blamed delayed corporate spending and changes to Microsoft's enterprise programme as it cautioned that first-half profit would fall short.