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Scotland’s fintech cluster more than doubles in five years

FinTech Scotland has reported that the number of firms in the sector has grown from 120 to 260 since 2020

X limits Grok AI image generation feature to paid users after reports of sexualised deepfakes

Earlier this week, the tool had been acting on requests by some X users to make “sexualised images of children” and undress women

eCom Scotland joins Offshore Energies UK to help transfer oil and gas knowledge to renewables sector

Glasgow City Council to tackle digital exclusion with new housing plan

Associate Feature: Digital solutions can help solve the workforce crisis

HMRC seizes NFTs for first time in tax fraud case

Classic videogame Lemmings celebrated in new documentary

Tayside project wins backing for 5G data collection pilot

Heriot-Watt researchers to investigate impact of digitised services on ethnic minorities

Government makes £6m investment in public sector tech accelerator CivTech

Schools and industry team up to address the digital skills gap

FutureX secures grant from government fund to take tech teams to Silicon Valley

Auditor General: Sepa data breach shows the importance of tight cyber security

Public sector bodies must be cyber resilient by 2030, according to UK Government plan

Edinburgh begins roll-out of project that will give free iPad to 40,000 school pupils

Finalists for Holyrood Connect Digital Health and Care Awards revealed

Associate Feature: Connecting Scotland

Alan Turing Institute leads as UK pilots development of AI governance standards

UK Government to hand regulation of crypto currencies to City watchdog the FCA

Demand outstrips supply for Scottish Government’s SME DigitalBoost fund

UK firms fear greater exposure to cyber attacks in wake of home-working revolution

Sepa takes steps to lower its carbon footprint using online learning

Scotland sees 27 per cent rise in number of fintech firms in past year

Comment: With innovation diplomacy, Scotland has sparked a new approach to tackling world problems

Organisations urged to take action to prevent 'log4shell' cyber attacks

New national cyber strategy aimed at protecting UK against ransomware attacks