The UK government will launch two new apps – gov.uk App and gov.uk Wallet – enabling UK citizens to store ID and interact with services from their smartphones.

Popular short-form video app TikTok was temporarily banned for US users yesterday following the culmination of its owner’s legal challenge to the Supreme Court.

European Commission opens additional non-compliance investigation against Apple under the Digital Markets Act.

The ride-hailing app firm made $1.1bn last year for the first time since it became a public company in 2019.

The two trends that have gained traction in the energy sector in recent years are the topics of personnel safety in protection relay testing and the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.

A cyber attack on the UK’s legal aid systems in April was able to extract a ‘large amount of information’ relating to applicants including criminal records.

Although quantum technology is still very much in its infancy, its commercial applications are already available.

The UK government has set out proposals for the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, which is due to be brought before parliament later this year.

Reddit is now more popular than X (formerly Twitter) in the UK, while Gen Z (18-24) women are spending over an hour longer each day online than men of same age, new data from Ofcom has shown.

The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against Facebook and Instagram over concerns the online platforms are not doing enough to counter the spread of election disinformation.

Meta has confirmed that users in the EU, EEA and Switzerland will be able to unlink their Facebook and Instagram accounts in order to comply with the EU’s incoming Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Google parent Alphabet, Meta and Qualcomm have formed an alliance to push for open digital ecosystems in response to the European Union’s new laws regulating competition in the online world.

The new rules would require a 'skilled' person to write a report for Ofcom before the regulator can require tech firms to scan encrypted messages.

WhatsApp, Signal and other encrypted messaging services have signed an open letter warning against the ‘unprecedented threat’ to privacy posed by the UK's Online Safety Bill.

WhatsApp would rather be blocked in the UK than undermine its encrypted-messaging system under the Online Safety Bill, the company has said.

Generative AI services such as ChatGPT are major carbon (CO₂) emitters due to their intensive energy usage, but a study has found that some AI prompts could cause 50 times more emissions than others depending on what is asked.

The HS2 railway project will face further delays beyond its expected 2033 completion date because of a “litany of failure”, transport secretary Heidi Alexander has told the Commons.

Repurposing abandoned coal mines as solar energy facilities could add a hefty 15% to the world’s capacity or 300GW in total, a report from the Global Energy Monitor has found.

Four unmanned sailing vessels have been deployed for a three-month mission with the Danish Ministry of Defence, which is trialling new technology to boost its surveillance capabilities.

Robots will be used to remotely and autonomously sort and segregate radioactive waste at the defunct nuclear sites.

The new Janet Harvey Hall at BAE Systems’ shipyard in Govan, located on the south bank of the River Clyde, will be used to assemble and outfit Royal Navy warships.

To better understand how passengers may experience future travel by air taxi, Nasa researchers have carried out studies using a vertical motion simulator.

The UK government has launched its long-awaited industrial strategy, with industry welcoming support through trade investment, skills training and lower energy prices.