On March 29th, 2026 with 121 comments
Apple unveiled new device-level age restrictions in the UK on Wednesday. "After downloading a new update, users will now have to confirm that they are 18 or...
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On March 18th, 2026 with 46 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Britain plans to consider requiring labels on AI-generated content to protect consumers from disinformation...
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On February 24th, 2026 with 44 comments
The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in Great Britain would exceed the national current peak electricity consumption, according to an...
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On February 22nd, 2026 with 38 comments
Besides running tech operations at the UK's Post Office, their interim CTO is also removing and replacing Fujitsu's Horizon system, which Computer Weekly...
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On February 17th, 2026 with 24 comments
Residents of Potters Bar, a small town just north of London, are trying to block what would be one of Europe's largest data centers from being built on 85...
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On February 17th, 2026 with 100 comments
Britain has lost more than 14,000 pubs since 2009, a decline from roughly 54,000 registered public houses and bars to under 40,000 by 2022, according to a new...
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On February 11th, 2026 with 57 comments
The UK's Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the country's largest court reporting archive [non-paywalled source], a database built by data...
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On January 30th, 2026 with 18 comments
The UK government paid consulting firm PwC $5.65 million to build its new AI Skills Hub, a site meant to help 10 million workers gain AI skills by 2030 that...
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On January 29th, 2026 with 190 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The UK could introduce a universal basic income (UBI) to protect workers in industries that are being...
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On January 26th, 2026 with 75 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Telegraph: China hacked the mobile phones of senior officials in Downing Street for several years, The Telegraph...
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On January 26th, 2026 with 32 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Video game developer and distributor Valve must face a 656 million-pound ($897.7 million) lawsuit in Britain, which...
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On January 26th, 2026 with 54 comments
The UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of AI and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests. From a report: British...
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On January 23rd, 2026 with 17 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the Guardian: The financial campaigner James Daley has launched a 1.5 billion pound (approximately $1.5...
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On January 20th, 2026 with 25 comments
The UK government has launched a public consultation on whether to ban social media use for children under 16, drawing inspiration from Australia's recently...
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On January 16th, 2026 with 7 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: The prospect of Britain realigning its financial rules with the European Union has passed, and the country should avoid...
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On January 14th, 2026 with 33 comments
The UK government has abandoned its controversial plan to require workers to sign up for a mandatory digital ID system to prove their eligibility to work in...
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On January 1st, 2026 with 56 comments
A UK-based company has successfully powered up a microwave-sized space factory in orbit, proving it can run a 1,000C furnace to manufacture ultra-pure...
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On December 18th, 2025 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Actors have voted to refuse digital scanning to prevent their likeness being used by artificial...
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On December 18th, 2025 with 86 comments
Bruce66423 writes: A man boarded a flight at Heathrow without a ticket, boarding pass or passport. 'The unnamed individual walked onto the 7.20am British...
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On December 16th, 2025 with 121 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Mark Carney says that amid a fundamental shift to the nature of globalization, his government will...
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On December 4th, 2025 with 58 comments
A London Assembly report warns that surging demand from "energy-hungry" data centers is straining the electricity grid and delaying new housing developments....
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On December 2nd, 2025 with 24 comments
The UK government plans to ban political donations made in cryptocurrency over fears of anonymity, foreign influence, and traceability issues, though the ban...
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On December 1st, 2025 with 47 comments
"The car-sharing company, first launched in the U.S. in 2000, has been active in the UK since 2010 and has just under half a million members," writes Slashdot...
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On December 1st, 2025 with 51 comments
The British government said it opposes attempts to cool the planet by spraying millions of tons of dust into the atmosphere -- but did not close the door to a...
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On November 27th, 2025 with 195 comments
The UK government will levy a pay-per-mile tax on electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles starting April 2028, UK's finance minister Rachel Reeves announced, a...
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On November 27th, 2025 with 52 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Call-handling agents powered by AI are to be trialled by Staffordshire Police in a bid to cut waiting times...
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On November 25th, 2025 with 54 comments
The UK is seeking to fast-track new atomic development to meet soaring energy demands driven by AI and electrification. According to a new report published by...
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On November 25th, 2025 with 45 comments
Up to 3 million low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of automation and AI, according to a report by a leading educational research...
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On November 24th, 2025 with 55 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:
James and Owen were among 41 students who took a coding module at the University of Staffordshire...
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On November 22nd, 2025 with 113 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from Sky News:
A new wind record has been set for Britain, with enough electricity generated from turbines to power 22...
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
