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Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad

The UK unveils a £7.8 billion cross-government space strategy through 2030 covering launch, satellite connectivity, space domain awareness, and defense capabilities.

The UK government consolidated £7.8 billion of cross-departmental spending into a new space strategy to 2030, formally replacing the 2021 National Space Strategy. Allocations include £880 million for space control and ISR, £2.8 billion for satellite connectivity including the SKYNET system and C-LEO program, £149 million for ESA space safety including the Vigil mission, and £30 million for SaxaVord Spaceport. The government pegs the domestic space sector at £18.6 billion and 55,000 jobs, while the £8.35 billion Skynet 6 upgrade was rated red by NISTA over workforce and supplier problems.

The Register · Security · 7d agoOther

UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it

UK ministers rejected Lords amendments that would have brought AI vendors into the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill's scope.

Cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra told the Grand Committee that regulating frontier AI developers through the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would not prevent misuse by hostile actors, pointing instead to the AI Security Institute and the voluntary AI Cyber Security Code of Practice, which informed the ETSI EN 304 223 standard. Rejected amendments included requirements for AI vendors to demonstrate red lines such as evading human oversight, and last-resort powers to shut down a datacenter or widely deployed AI system during emergencies. The bill instead extends the NIS 2018 regime to managed service providers, datacenter operators and designated critical suppliers, imposing duties on regulated organizations rather than technology providers.

The Register · Security · 13d agoAI policy

Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

Polling shows two-thirds of Brits distrust any government, current or future, with access to their encrypted chats.

Polling reported by The Register finds two-thirds of Britons do not trust the current government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats. The result adds public-sentiment context to UK debates over lawful access to end-to-end encrypted messaging. No incident, vulnerability, or legislation is described in the excerpt.

The Register · Security · 16d agoPolicy & legal

UK government seeks powers to secretly block risky tech suppliers

UK amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would let ministers secretly ban risky tech suppliers across critical sectors.

The UK government published amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill creating 'vendor-related directions' that allow ministers to order companies in critical sectors to stop buying from a supplier, restrict its products, or remove installed equipment on national security grounds. The powers extend beyond telecoms to managed service providers, data centers, digital infrastructure and the energy, water, transport and health sectors, adapting the mechanism used to restrict Huawei in UK 5G while removing some transparency safeguards. Ministers would not have to publicly name the vendor, could withhold details on national security or commercial grounds, and could bar recipients and consultees from discussing the orders, though the government would report annually to Parliament on directions issued. The amendments will be considered at committee stage in the House of Lords in September.

The Record · 20d agoPolicy & legal

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