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MPs: Met Office needs more powerful supercomputer

...forecasting, but does not have the supercomputing power to run these models, Science and Technology Committee MPs wrote in the Snecience in the Met Office... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

MPs: Police need to learn about e-crime

...should share more information with the public about online threats, the Commons Science and Technology committee said in a report released on Thursday. "The internet... Read more

2 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

PCeU to be rolled into National Crime Agency

...e-Crime Unit," Brokenshire told ZDNet UK at the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee enquiry into cybercrime on Monday. "How we are able... Read more

15 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MPs: Tech hubs should be 'Turing Centres'

...UK Andrew Miller, Labour MP and chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, said that the Technology and Innovation Centres (TICs) should... Read more

17 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

GCHQ tech sale discussions are 'at early stage'

...has said. UK security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones told the Commons Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday that the government was mulling the idea... Read more

2 December, 2010

Cyber agency: Gov't contracts hinder threat response

...said on Wednesday. "The threat landscape changes rapidly," Marsh told the Commons Science and Technology Committee. "To react to that as change happens — it's... Read more

19 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Whitehall official outlines cybersecurity funding plan

...committee on Wednesday. Steve Marsh, deputy director of OCS, told the Commons Science and Technology Committee that the £650m was in addition to existing funding... Read more

17 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Lords inquiry looks again at internet security

...The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has announced a follow-up inquiry to its Personal... Read more

21 February, 2008 by Kable

Lords to debate gov't progress on internet security

...on from the publication of two reports by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, in August 2007 and July 2008. The initial inquiry... Read more

6 October, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Lords: Government doesn't get internet threat

...the internet posed by cybercrime, according to the influential House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. Lord Erroll, a member of the committee, hit out... Read more

31 October, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Fresh calls for data-breach law

...Thursday, Lord Harris of Haringey said: "I support the recommendation the [Lords Science and Technology] Committee made that there should be a data-breach notification... Read more

14 September, 2007 by Tom Espiner
Lords a-leaping at internet security

Lords a-leaping at internet security

...to be lurching towards disaster. Over at parliament, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee will continue to examine internet security in the UK... Read more

22 January, 2007 by Graeme Wearden
Countdown to Vista is nearly over

Countdown to Vista is nearly over

The Week Ahead: Bill Gates comes to London for Microsoft's biggest launch in years Read more

29 January, 2007 by Graeme Wearden

Lords lashes out at government's personal internet security retort

...hit out at the government's reaction to a House of Lords Science and Technology Committee report into personal internet security. The government reaction was... Read more

30 October, 2007

Lords criticise nanotech secrecy in food industry

...House of Lords committee. Lord Krebs, chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, warned on Thursday that the industry risks lowering public... Read more

8 January, 2010 by Tom Espiner

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