Labour ministers face US tarriff pressure 

Sir Keir Starmer’s government is quietly trying to wriggle out of a diplomatic bust-up with Donald Trump’s White House over its attempt to force the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple to open up its locked-down customer data.

More than 200 pirate domains blocked

A fresh wave of site blocking has hit the UK’s already long list of outlawed pirate domains, but this time there’s an unexpected new enforcer. Cloudflare, normally seen as a neutral web infrastructure provider, is now showing “Error 451 – Unavailable for Legal Reasons” to users trying to access dozens of domains linked to streaming and download piracy.

Slower than Switzerland, flakier than France, and jittery as a caffeinated squirrel

The UK’s 5G networks are among the worst in Europe when it comes to real-world performance, according to the latest research by network testing firm MedUX.

Billion-pound pledge won't fix years of underinvestment*

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang took the stage at London Tech Week and told the UK it’s miles behind on the digital infrastructure needed to make its AI ambitions real.

Silicon Valley’s favourite techno-futurist wants your iris

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project has decided that what Britons need in 2025 is to queue up in London and have their eyeballs scanned by a shiny metal orb.

Job's Mob and Google accused of dragging their feet to protect profits

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Google are getting a proper earful from furious British MPs for stalling a basic anti-theft fix that could stop criminals cashing in on stolen smartphones.

Ministry of Justice project aims to predict future killers

Britain's justice boffins are hatching a Minority Report scheme to create a “murder prediction” tool using personal data to flag those it deems most likely to kill—critics say it’s straight out of dystopia.

Fear being cancelled instead of greened.

Nearly half of UK business leaders are reportedly too afraid to examine their own emissions data—presumably for fear it might confirm that their companies have been contributing to global warming at a rate similar to that of a Tesco rotisserie chicken.

It does seem a bit hypocritical

The UK government has quietly binned its encryption advice just weeks after demanding a backdoor into the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s iCloud storage.

We get to do what we like now

Apple, the self-proclaimed guardian of user privacy, is throwing a tantrum over the UK's "back door" into its oh-so-secure iCloud systems.