
UK and France ally over AI
Brexit backdoor remaining
While the UK government is frantically trying to show that it is really about Brexit, it is apparently doing deals with the French on artificial intelligence, data, cybersecurity, digital government and tech skills.

British ISPs banned from massaging broadband speed figures
You can’t claim speeds that most users don’t get
Broadband firms will no longer be able to advertise broadband speeds based numbers that only a few customers get.

Echo show shows up in UK
Took a while
Amazon's Echo Show is finally ready for British customers after being announced in May.

Russian hackers attack major UK sectors
GCHQ is on the case
The chief executive of Britain's GCHQ cyber security centre said today that its spooks are aware of attempts to disrupt the UK's energy, telecomms and media by attempted hacks.

Rudd demands social networks censor extremist speech
Thinks AI will sort it all out
Britain’s top internal security official is pressing social media companies to devise automatic systems to spot and block violent militant messaging before it is posted on their networks.

British women are hardcore gamers
Guinness says UK women dedicate a big chunk of their lives to gaming
British women in 2017 are spending a month of every year playing video games, according to new research.

Apple punishes UK fanboys for their iPhone support
You will have to pay £249 more than the rest of the world
Fruity Cargo cult Apple has decided that it really hates its UK fanboys and is making them pay £249 more than Americans for the new iPhone X.

UK boffin invents new fuel cell
Royal Navy sailor develops a new ‘green’ car device
A Royal Navy sailor who served on nuclear ‘Hunter Killer’ submarines has developed a fuel cell in his garage which could be the answer that the car industry has been looking for – at least for older petrol driven motors.

“Real people” don’t need encryption
Tory minister thinks it is not for the prols who want to be spied on
UK home secretary Amber Rudd has called on messaging apps like WhatsApp to ditch end-to-end encryption, arguing that it aids terrorists.

UK industrial software is compromised
Hackers have control of the code
British spooks have discovered that some industrial software companies in the UK are "likely to have been compromised" by hackers.