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  1. Helping young people explore STEM careers at Defra

    Defra digital, data, technology and security

  2. Defra launches AI tool – to answer staff questions about AI

    PublicTechnology

  3. Met Police plans use of AI video analytics to ‘improve investigative outcomes’

    PublicTechnology

  4. Just one in nine officials believes government ‘has right approach to procuring tech’

    PublicTechnology

  5. Architecture is for everyone: designing better public services together

    Technology in Government

  6. Site proposals accelerated by MHCLG online tool

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  7. Cross-government team publishes Quality Engineering Principles for digital services

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  8. Government bond moves towards digitisation

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  9. Gaelic digital platform gains government funding

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  10. Support your local newsletter

    Digital by Default

  11. RAVS mission patch

    Benjy Stanton

  12. Let’s get serious

    Acuity Design

  13. HMRC reveals Making Tax Digital exemptions and acknowledges ‘service does not currently accommodate a small number of customers’

    PublicTechnology

  14. Self-reinforcing quality / adopting verification pattern

    Will Larson

  15. Watchdog ‘extremely disappointed’ at government refusal to reinstate chief digital officer role

    PublicTechnology

  16. Study shows huge spike in civil servants’ use of AI in past year

    PublicTechnology

  17. Helping more people off the streets: how AI is improving StreetLink

    MHCLG Digital

  18. October 2026

    Digital by Default

  19. Digital Poverty Alliance tackles Fenland tech shortages

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  20. Scottish National LiDAR Programme maps out growth

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  21. Remote hearings trial to create flexibility

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  22. Airedale switches on Oracle EPR

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  23. Budget’s £700m AI splurge includes new GovAI unit and fightback against rogue agents

    PublicTechnology

  24. Modernising air quality information for the public

    Defra digital, data, technology and security

  25. Update on our APP replacement project

    Digital Luton

  26. Whatever comes next, it will be different! Dave Farley Keynote — Lean Agile Scotland 2026

    Mark Dalgarno

  27. Renewing the Technology Code of Practice to support better technology decisions

    Technology in Government

  28. Developed for the public sector and kept public: explaining open source licensing

    mySociety

  29. Budget 2026 puts AI and civil service reform at heart of public sector transformation

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  30. UKHSA selects video service for British Sign Language Users

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  31. North East Ambulance Service trials AVT

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  32. UK Space Agency backs seven climate data satellite projects

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  33. Jisc secures deal with Neos Networks for Janet network infrastructure

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  34. Staffs Police given formal ICO reprimand after disclosing abuse victim’s details

    PublicTechnology

  35. Smoking consultation plagued by ‘large-scale automated interference’ from AI bots

    PublicTechnology

  36. DSIT dissolution delivers ‘mainstreaming of digital responsibilities’, says top tech official

    PublicTechnology

  37. How We Did It: Shaping place-based learning into a localities approach

    New Local

  38. Norfolk hospital completes milestone robotic cancer operations

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  39. NHS adds prescription ready alerts to smartwatches and mobiles

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  40. NCSC seeks organisations to help research external attack surface risk management

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  41. MoD and QinetiQ launch Project Safari

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  42. Dealing with the recent PHP vulnerabilities

    dxw

  43. Defining What Good Looks Likes - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

    Product Talk — Teresa Torres

  44. Rewiring the Scottish state

    New Local

  45. Time to get rid of zombie pages

    Effortmark

  46. Nine technologies to be NHS tested in dementia diagnosis challenge

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  47. GIS innovation competition announced

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  48. Scrumconnect to support NHS Business Services Authority with AI adoption

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  49. HMCTS rolls out DAVE programme to modernise courtroom technology

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  50. Young prudes

    Works in Progress

  51. My week: update on Luton Council’s frontline and regulatory services

    Digital Luton

  52. NHS digital learning tool has deeper analysis

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  53. Scottish digital action plan revealed

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  54. Wales to improve user testing

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  55. FSCS adds AI to long-running Capgemini partnership

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  56. Lion: Brewing a new era of creativity and originality with innovation on tap

    SAP Australia and New Zealand Public Sector

  57. Weeknotes #196: storms, screens and sausage rolls

    Matt Curnow Weeknotes

  58. ‘Be bold’ is not a change strategy

    Adrian Ortega

  59. Designing an error dashboard, and contributing to the design community

    Benjy Stanton

  60. The future used to have an aerial

    Matt Curnow Weeknotes

  61. Weeknotes S23 Ep10

    Sam Villis

  62. Not faster, just more patient: pairing with an AI agent on infrastructure work

    dxw

  63. John @ Culture Crush 2026

    Context Studio

  64. Against supplements

    Works in Progress

  65. How We Did It: Prevention through an experimentation lens

    New Local

  66. MHCLG offers red team exercises to local government

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  67. Insolvency Service selects sovereign AI partner

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  68. Sharing Scottish licensing success

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  69. Virtual remand hearings launched in four police force areas

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  70. PHP security incident hits UK government

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  71. Designing with Strengths, not Deficits

    Justice Digital

  72. Standardising construction product data to improve building safety

    MHCLG Digital

  73. Digital architects meet to address shared technology challenges

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  74. New online service to report numberplate cloning

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  75. London crown court to test case readiness AI

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  76. Mayor's Office for Policing and Palantir settle High Court dispute

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  77. Plan for the election home stretch

    Center for Civic Design

  78. GDS opens sandbox to digital verification providers

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  79. Liverpool innovation zone wins international rising star awards

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  80. GDS launches Get Tech Certified 2026

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  81. Mind-Bending Experiences - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

    Product Talk — Teresa Torres

  82. Turning AI Ambition into Trusted Production with Control-M

    BMC Blogs

  83. Delivering Predictable Outcomes in the AI Era

    BMC Blogs

  84. Agentifying the Mainframe

    BMC Blogs

  85. ICO joins national cyber resilience programme

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  86. Manchester trust logs 50,000 minutes of video interpreting

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  87. Surgical tech firm wins Tees Valley innovation funding boost

    UKAuthority Local Digital

  88. Roman love

    Works in Progress

  89. Sichuan and the Sun Belt

    Works in Progress

  90. Opening GOV.UK Wallet sandbox to digital verification services

    Government Digital Service Blog

  91. Why are leaders in the Welsh public sector still talking about the basics as aspirations?

    Nia Campbell

  92. My week: interviews, apps, appetite for change and a mountain of boxes

    Digital Luton

  93. Come to Brazil

    Works in Progress

  94. SAP launches Supply Chain Centre of Excellence in ANZ

    SAP Australia and New Zealand Public Sector

  95. An honest review of Matt Pocock's Skills framework by Colin Eberhardt

    Scott Logic Blog

  96. Weeknotes #195: concrete, cans and conversations

    Matt Curnow Weeknotes

  97. Manual Matt – more misadventures with AI

    Digital by Default

  98. London, accessibility lab and that pesky Dependabot

    Benjy Stanton

  99. Speeding up code review with `small-change`

    Will Larson

  100. From messy data to meaningful connections: Introducing Splink 5

    Justice Digital