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Calls for Better Network After Village Goes Offline
Large parts of Charlwood in Surrey lost broadband in an outage that left residents unable to work or carry out everyday tasks, prompting MP Chris Coghlan to demand better mobile coverage for rural communities.
Police Using AI Risks Making Discrimination Worse, Researchers Warn
A prize winning essay and the research behind it warn that AI tools used by police, from crime hotspot prediction to facial recognition, can amplify existing bias unless forces check their data and keep humans firmly in charge.
An Annoying Buzz: The Search for Stealthier Drones
As drone delivery spreads across American neighbourhoods, residents complain about a persistent high pitched buzz overhead, and engineers are testing new propeller designs, enclosed rotors and smarter flight paths to quiet the machines down.
Facial recognition cameras return to Suffolk town centres next week
Suffolk Police will deploy live facial recognition cameras in Ipswich, Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds next week, following an August trial in which the technology scanned 80,000 faces and helped make four arrests.
Elvis Presley music rights owners sue Anthropic over AI training
The owners of Elvis Presley's music rights have sued Anthropic, claiming the AI company used 274 of his songs without permission to train its Claude chatbot and seeking up to $41.1 million in damages.
Fed-Up Driver Builds AI Litter Tracker and Logs 28,000 Roadside Reports
A Shropshire software boss who got tired of looking at filthy verges has built an app that photographs roadside litter every 10 seconds and uses AI to grade it, and the reports are now stacking up across the country.
UK AI Minister Warns Against Leaving AI to "Tech Bros and Oligarchs"
The UK's first cabinet minister for AI, Kanishka Narayan, has said Britain must build state capability over artificial intelligence rather than leaving its fate to technology billionaires.
Canterbury Council Approves Plans for Landfill-Powered AI Data Centre
Canterbury City Council has narrowly approved plans for an AI data centre beside Shelford Landfill, in a decision that tests whether waste-generated power can ease Britain's data-centre energy crunch.
UK working to identify exposure after global cyber-security warning over PHP flaws
The UK government says it is actively working to identify and patch exposure to two critical PHP vulnerabilities, as the global scramble to secure the flaw — which was being probed by hackers before the official warning — enters a new phase.
Meta ordered to pay record $25 billion in New Mexico privacy case
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion — one of the largest corporate penalties in US history — after a jury found the company misled Facebook users about how their personal data was collected and shared.
Websites taken offline worldwide as critical PHP flaws force an emergency security scramble
Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP — the programming language behind most of the world's websites — have forced governments across Europe to take websites offline as a precaution ahead of an emergency patch released on Wednesday.
Microsoft pulls out of Nscale's £2bn Loughton data centre as UK grid power slips into the 2030s
Microsoft has terminated its agreement to anchor Nscale's planned £2 billion AI data centre in Loughton, Essex, after the electricity grid connection needed to power tens of thousands of Nvidia chips was delayed into the 2030s.
Revolut outage hits 'multiple services' as thousands of users report app issues
Revolut customers across the UK and beyond woke up to a broken banking app on Tuesday morning, as a disruption took down card payments, transfers, ATM withdrawals, currency exchange and stock trading — an incident tied to a wider Google Cloud failure in the London region.
