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UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC

Published in UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC on 24.06.2026

The UK’s national museums and galleries have failed to heed the lessons of high-profile cyber attacks and remain highly vulnerable. The Public Accounts Committee is calling on DCMS to do more to help.

Digital surveillance tech facilitates ‘arbitrary’ border abuses

Published in UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC on 24.06.2026

Outsourcing migration processes to third countries via the transfer of powerful digital surveillance technologies is entrenching an ‘arbitrary and deterrent’ approach to border management that is hard to scrutinise and ultimately undermines the human rights of migrants

Met pushes ahead with major facial-recognition expansion

Published in UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC on 24.06.2026

Metropolitan Police set to roll out live facial recognition (LFR) in the West End and Soho, but critics say police are ‘rushing ahead’ without regulation

Cost the major barrier in AI’s race to space

Published in UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC on 24.06.2026

Space-based datacentres are becoming technically feasible in the next decade, with one in eight AI workloads running in space by 2040, according to Boston Consulting Group – but costs will pose a major barrier to its adoption

Pegasystems CEO and founder Alan Trefler on AI agent ‘madness’

Published in UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC on 24.06.2026

Pegasystems boss criticises big software suppliers for pushing enterprises to deploy unpredictable AI agents

CFIT is ‘shaking up business models’ with UK government backing

Published in UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC on 24.06.2026

The Center for Financial Innovation and Technology received further government backing in April

Inclusion in engineering needs the same rigour as other critical systems

Published in UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC on 24.06.2026

Engineering needs rigour to fix gender imbalances. By treating inclusion as a design challenge with intent and accountability, firms build better teams and more resilient system

Overwhelming support for Microsoft SMS designation in CMA responses

Published in UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC on 24.06.2026

Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs