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A survey of 2,018 senior IT decision-makers in the US and UK, conducted by Censuswide for Origina and published with Thinkers50 in the report The Software Tax, finds large enterprises spend an average of 28% of software budgets on upgrades, migrations and licensing changes they would not have chosen. 95% of respondents paid for a vendor-d…
Techscaler, the Scottish Government's startup programme run by CodeBase, is funding Scottish founders to attend the Blue Earth Summit in London (14-16 October 2026) and the InvestHer Summit in Paris (27-28 October 2026). The aim is to build investor relationships and support international growth. The article is business and funding news a…
Glasgow-based medtech firm Nami Surgical has raised £3.4m in a funding round extension led by £2m from the Scottish National Investment Bank. Existing investors Eos Advisory, Scottish Enterprise and the Investment Fund for Scotland (managed by Maven Capital Partners, delivered by the British Business Bank) also participated. The funds wil…
NVIDIA announced a five-year compute donation worth $250 million ($50 million a year) to strengthen UK research on agentic AI safety and security. Most of the compute will go to the wider UK AI safety and security research community. A share is earmarked for the British Open-Ended Learning and Discovery Lab (BOLD) at the University of Oxf…
Starling is building a transactional foundation model (TFM) with NVIDIA support, which it says is the first banking model trained and hosted in a UK sovereign cloud. The model will run on infrastructure from UK-owned provider Civo and be trained on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions. Starling plans to put it into production in e…
The second CymruSec cross-sector cybersecurity conference takes place on 22 October 2026 at Cardiff City Stadium in Wales. It is a free-to-attend event focused on shared learning, emerging threats, new research, changing adversarial tactics and practical ways to improve resilience and response. Speakers come from organisations including M…
An interview with Jaymie Thomas, Co-founder of AI Wales, urges Welsh SMEs to begin AI adoption with small, measurable projects and not to delay out of fear of falling behind. The article is industry commentary and describes no specific incident, threat actor or vulnerability. Its main security-relevant point is "shadow AI": Deloitte's 202…
Analysis by Bridewell of reports to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found more than 26,000 data breaches caused by human error between 2020 and 2025. Annual human-error breaches rose from 3,847 to 5,496 (+43%). The leading cause is data emailed to the wrong recipient (11,214 incidents, up 62% from 1,519 in 2020 to 2,459 in …
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published Sound Practices for Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence on 15 October 2026. It sets out 12 voluntary practices for financial institutions: four on organisation-wide governance and eight on managing AI across its lifecycle. The report raises concerns about generative and agentic AI,…
Accenture's Tech Talent Tracker reports that UK demand for AI skills rose 51% in six months to nearly 100,000 vacancies. London accounts for 70% of AI-related listings, which points to a regional divide. Overall technology job listings rose 21%, with Manchester (+35%), Bristol (+25%) and Birmingham (+17%) growing fastest outside the capit…
The organizers of DIGIT Expo 2026 released a partial agenda for two stages of Scotland's largest enterprise technology event, to be held on 19 November at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC). Speakers include representatives from Microsoft, Multiverse, IBM, Skyscanner, Adobe, FanDuel and Wayve. Stage 1 centres on practica…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a reprimand and enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after officers and staff shared personal information through the unapproved third-party platform Auror without adequate data protection safeguards. The platform was used between March 2023 and September 2024, w…
A Bank of Scotland (Lloyds Banking Group) survey found that 66% of Scottish businesses recruited early careers talent in the past year, and 90% of those expect to hire more in the next year. 89% of Scottish firms are confident they can secure funding for skills investment, the highest in the UK against an 80% national average. Employers c…
CymruSec 2026, billed as Wales' leading cross-sector cyber security event, takes place on Thursday 22 October at Cardiff City Stadium. Final places remain for delegates. The agenda covers the evolving threat landscape, AI-driven cybercrime, identity security, agentic threat hunting and organisational resilience. Speakers come from industr…
This is an interview-based industry feature with no threat activity. Clare Johnson, founder of Women in Cyber Unlimited and Head of Capability at ITSUS Consulting, says that eight years on, greater awareness of gender inequality has not produced meaningful progress in cyber security. The UK Government's Cyber Security Skills in the UK Lab…
