Hacker News with Generative AI: Public Sector

The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed from the Start (foreignpolicy.com)
The United Kingdom’s Labour government believes that this is not merely possible, but vital. The AI Opportunities Action Plan intends to spend billions of British pounds putting artificial intelligence into every corner of the public sector in the hope for unparalleled efficiency and to save a fortune in staffing costs. Tedious administrative paperwork will be passed to machines. Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised the plan will bring “a decade of national renewal.”
NHS job cuts: Up to 7k posts to go as Wes Streeting takes charge (thetimes.com)
GSA to reduce tech services arm by 50%, eliminate non-statutory work (fedscoop.com)
All non-critical and non-statutorily required work will cease at the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services as part of a 50% reduction of the office, according to Director Thomas Shedd.
GSA Eliminates 18F (werd.io)
"The General Services Administration deleted 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their technology, early Saturday morning."
Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments (theguardian.com)
Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making ransomware payments under government proposals to tackle hackers.
Fusion power is getting closer (economist.com)
Two developments in the coming year will mark a decisive shift from the public to the private sector in the decades-old quest to generate cheap and abundant power from nuclear fusion.
Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know (theregister.com)
At the start of September, Transport for London was hit by a major cyber attack.
Why do big digital projects in the public sector fail? (newstatesman.com)
Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory for Public Sector (itsfoss.com)
Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector (europa.eu)
Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council's estimates in SAP rip-'n-replace (theregister.com)