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Waymo says it hopes to launch its London robotaxi service as soon as September, after an April pilot; the UK government plans to change regulations in H2 2026 (www.bbc.com)
8 hours ago London

Chinese media: China executed 11 members of the Ming mafia family that ran online scam centres in Myanmar; five Bai family members are also sentenced to death (www.bbc.com)
10 hours ago China

A look at AI-powered tools and apps like Aira Explorer that are helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time (www.bbc.com)
1 day ago AI

The UK government drops plans for mandatory digital IDs to work in the country, marking a reversal from when the UK first announced the policy in September 2025 (www.bbc.com)
15 days ago

The UK plans to bring into force a law this week that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, as Ofcom investigates X (www.bbc.com)
17 days ago

UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (www.bbc.com)
27 days ago Tax

China's draft AI rules have measures to protect kids, like time limits and parental consent, ban gambling promotion content, and add suicide chats restrictions (www.bbc.com)
30 days ago China AI Ban

Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine (www.bbc.com)
2025-12-6

Sundar Pichai says there is some “irrationality” in the AI boom, the industry can “overshoot” in investment cycles, and “no company is going to be immune” (www.bbc.com)
2025-11-18 AI

The UK proposes an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill allowing “authorized testers” to proactively assess AI models for their ability to generate CSAM (www.bbc.com)
2025-11-12 AI

An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after spending ~10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (www.bbc.com)
2025-11-10 Interview FBI Ukraine

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, accusing the company of “flagrantly ignoring” safety laws and calling it a “breeding ground for predators” (www.bbc.com)
2025-11-7 Texas

A Chinese court sentences five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations, convicting 21 in total (www.bbc.com)
2025-11-6 China

The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 “nationally significant” cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, and “highly significant” cyberattacks rose by 50% (www.bbc.com)
2025-10-14

UK police dismantle an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40K stolen smartphones from the UK to China, arrest 18 suspects, and recover 2,000 phones (www.bbc.com)
2025-10-7 China

A look at major UK businesses hit by cyberattacks in 2025; a government survey estimates 43% of businesses and 30% of charities were hit in the past 12 months (www.bbc.com)
2025-10-6

NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a “total internet blackout” as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice (www.bbc.com)
2025-9-30 Afghanistan

The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones (www.bbc.com)
2025-9-26 Immigration

The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 (www.bbc.com)
2025-9-25 AI

UK's National Crime Agency says it's arrested a man in connection with a cyberattack that has caused days of disruption at Heathrow and other European airports (www.bbc.com)
2025-9-24 Europe

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (www.bbc.com)
2025-9-9 China

An investigation finds spammers are deploying Holocaust-themed AI slop images across Facebook, in an attempt to game Meta's content monetization program (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-29 Facebook AI

Apple says the UK CMA's proposed “EU-style” regulation is “bad for users and bad for developers”, “undermines” privacy and security, and “hampers” innovation (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-28 Apple

French prosecutors open an investigation into Australian video platform Kick over the death of a content creator who was violently abused during livestreams (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-26 France Australia

YouTube used AI to make changes in some videos without telling the creators; YouTube says it's an experiment to unblur, denoise, and improve quality (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-26 AI YouTube

How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a woman's voice, lost to motor neuron disease, from just eight seconds of audio on a VHS tape (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-24 AI

Kick says it is “urgently reviewing” the circumstances of the death of a French livestreamer who was subjected to violence and sleep deprivation during streams (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-20 France

Barbour ABI: the UK's data center count, currently 477, is set to jump by ~100 over the next five years, with more than half in London and neighboring counties (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-17 London

In the UK, X and Reddit are blocking wide-ranging content, including about parliamentary debates, Ukraine, and Gaza, to comply with the Online Safety Act (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-2 Ukraine Reddit

Google will roll out AI Mode in the UK in the coming days after launching in the US and India; the optional feature will appear as a tab and in the search box (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-29 India Google AI

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