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Hundreds of GP Websites Gone Overnight: What Supplier Insolvency Really Looks Like

This week, up to 600 GP practices across England and Wales lost their websites after the company that provided them went into administration. Patients can ...
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The Social Media Ban Will Check Adults Too. So Who Ends Up Holding Your Passport?

This morning Ofcom published its assessment of how social media firms could check that their users are 16 or over when the under-16s ban comes ...
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Open car boot at dusk packed with jump leads, a torch and a blanket, the government's winter car kit advice

Be Ready — But For What, Exactly?

A more sceptical read of the government’s new resilience campaign than the headlines gave it The instinct behind the government’s new Be Ready campaign is ...
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Who’s Allowed to Pull the Plug?

What this week’s internet-wide PHP scramble actually tests On Tuesday, the people who look after the software plumbing most of the web runs on had ...
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118 people and a Chief Resilience Officer: reading the BCI Future of Resilience Report 2026

The BCI’s latest research arrived with a confident covering email. The BCI Future of Resilience Report 2026, produced with the support of F24, describes “a ...
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Retail stockroom CCTV monitors beside a QR code on a clipboard, illustrating a shadow IT workaround that bypassed data protection sign-off

What the Met Police’s Auror Reprimand Really Teaches About Shadow IT

A LinkedIn Celebration, Six Months Before an Enforcement Notice In April, Auror’s co-founder and the Metropolitan Police’s official account posted on LinkedIn about a retail ...
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