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HMRC is putting up to five hundred million pounds on the table to overhaul the UK's National Insurance and PAYE system. The contract runs up to seven years and covers both running the existing platform and modernising it — a significant public sector bet on getting ageing tax infrastructure fit for the future.
Meanwhile, an Amazon security engineer has turned heads by using Claude Opus to reverse engineer consumer peripherals from Asus, Insta three sixty, and Elgato — modifying firmware on a webcam, microphone, and more in just hours. The engineer says the results were impressive, but the ease of it all, quote, scares me — a candid reminder that the same tools that empower tinkerers can empower bad actors.
And in the world of AI-assisted development, Cursor has launched Origin, a git-based code hosting platform built directly into its editor and positioned as a GitHub alternative for teams already living inside Cursor. Rolling out in early beta across Pro, Teams, and Enterprise plans, it signals Cursor's ambition to own more of the development workflow end to end.
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