China, Russia and Iran ‘attempting to illegally acquire’ US technology, top DHS official says

The head of a top unit at the Department of Homeland Security says in a new interview that “sensitive” materials are showing up overseas — in Iranian weapons — in the latest warning about how US adversaries are believed to be trying to steal American technology .

“The Iranian drones that are being recovered on the battlefield in Ukraine, that are being recovered on the battlefield throughout the Middle East, they do have sensitive US communications systems and they have sensitive microelectronics,” Jim Mancuso, the assistant director of the Global Trade Division at Homeland Security Investigations, told ABC News.

Iran,

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Spring Budget puts UK on fast-track to becoming science and technology superpower

Alongside tax cuts for workers, harnessing technology to benefit the public sector was at the heart of the Chancellor’s Spring Budget that will deliver the long-term change our country needs to deliver a brighter future for Britain, and improve economic security and opportunity for everyone.

An £800 million reform package will free-up time for staff at the frontline of public services including cutting results waiting times in the NHS and slashing admin tasks for the police.

In a further boost for the UK’s world-class life sciences sector, charities including Cancer Research UK will receive £45 million to help launch the

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