The once-peerless BBC has followed in the footsteps of American media by normalizing extremism. Now it's planning programming changes so that fascists will trust it more. Downside is that people who want integrity from their media organizations will trust it not at all […]

Read it. Know it. We are witnessing it now. History will write of it as the Charlie Kirk effect and Trump's Nazi regime.

This time we look at China’s advance in decarbonisation, India’s efforts to get a slice of the semiconductor pie and why the robots are coming to Japanese convenience stores. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/the-robots-are-coming-to-7-eleven #technews #asia #china #japan #india #robot […]

The UK's flagship programme to embed AI into NHS hospitals is facing significant hurdles, with a new study revealing that implementing the technology is far more difficult than policymakers anticipated […]

European policymakers are edging towards a decision that could force technology firms to scan encrypted messages in a bid to tackle child abuse material, reviving a debate that cuts to the heart of online privacy and security […]

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

OpenAI is preparing to launch an AI-powered jobs platform that could place the company in direct competition with LinkedIn, even though Microsoft, LinkedIn’s parent company, remains its largest financial backer […]

Burger King's parent company has come under fire for allegedly using copyright law to suppress a researcher who uncovered serious security flaws in its drive-through ordering technology […]

The painting whose immediate censorship in situ ensured it would be widely seen around the world in photographs. If it was a #Banksy, the UK destroyed an artwork worth the price of a very nice house […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Tesco is suing Broadcom and technology reseller Computacenter in a dispute over VMware software licences that it says could disrupt its ability to keep food on shelves. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/cloud/tesco-sues-broadcom-over-vmware-licensing-warns-food-supply-could-be-hit […]

A recent three-month trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot within a UK government department has found no definitive evidence of improved productivity, despite some promising results for specific tasks […]

Sainsbury's, the UK's second largest supermarket chain, has begun an eight-week trial of facial recognition technology in two of its stores as part of its efforts to address the escalating problem of shoplifting and retail crime […]

Why so tetchy Cleggy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAYM1arUzXY #clegg #nickclegg #newsagents #neta #maitliss

A hacking collective calling itself "Scattered LapSus Hunters," has threatened to leak Google databases unless the company sacks two senior employees. Whilst the group has yet to provide any evidence that it holds Google data, Google has recently disclosed a third-party security breach involving […]

Responding to the growing demand from organisations worldwide to reduce their dependency on US cloud providers, German software giant SAP has announced plans to invest more than €20 billion over the next decade in sovereign cloud infrastructure, research and development and personnel […]

All three top stories on the BBC News app are about migration. The top story on #R4Today just now was also about migration. Is this (as the #R4Today presenter has just claimed) the media reflecting the public’s interest, or is it in fact the public parroting back […] [Original post on toot.wales]

New research has found that leading LLMs falter dramatically when exam questions are subtly reworded, raising doubts about whether these systems are truly capable of clinical reasoning […]

Not one major American news organization has had the spine to lay out, as succinctly and convincingly as historian Garrett Graff does here, our dread new reality -- much less lift a finger to save democracy. The United States has gone fascist […]

From pass to pass... #footpathfriday #landscapephotography #naturephotography #alps #mountains #hiking

Google has disclosed new figures on the energy consumption of its AI-powered search assistant, Gemini, as debate intensifies over the environmental impact of AI. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/google-publishes-data-on-energy-use-of-ai-search-queries #google #ai #gemini #search #technews

Colt Technology Services has confirmed that data was stolen in a recent cyberattack that disrupted its operations. The admission comes as the Warlock ransomware gang begins auctioning what it claims are over a million stolen documents on its dark web site […]

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the offence taken in China at the US commerce secretary’s statements, Modi’s plans to make India a chip superpower and Accenture’s big Aussie cyber buy […]

China is set to introduce a new visa category aimed at attracting young foreign science and technology professionals, in a bid to strengthen its innovation capacity and global talent strategy […]

Human resources software giant Workday has disclosed a data breach following a social engineering attack that compromised a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform […]

England’s commercial datacentres are using far less water than many assume, according to a new report published by industry group techUK in collaboration with the Environment Agency. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/england-s-datacentres-use-minimal-water-in-cooling-operations-report […]

Ex-Israeli intelligence chief said 50 Palestinians must die for every 7 October victim ‘It does not matter if they are children,’ said Aharon Haliva in recorded comments calling the death toll ‘necessary’ […]

A good historical tour. “The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero. Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

The UK government is moving forward with a wider rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across seven police forces, prompting debate over privacy, legal safeguards, and ethical deployment. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/uk-expands-live-facial-recognition #technews […]

The Home Office has permitted police to run facial recognition scans against images held in the UK’s passport and immigration databases without notifying Parliament or the public, say privacy campaigners […]

Google and Cisco, have disclosed separate data breaches stemming from voice phishing (vishing) attacks that compromised customer information stored in cloud-based CRM systems. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/google-and-cisco-confirm-data-breaches-linked-to-vishing #salesforce […]

Most cloud companies have pledged to return more water to communities than they consume by 2030. But datacentre water consumption is rising inline with corporate thirst for cloud services. How are CSPs doing at making targets for water conservation a reality? […]

If you find OpenStreetMap a bit difficult to plan off-road routes, try OpenRouteService OpenRouteService (ORS) is an open source route planner service that leverages OpenStreetMap data to provide a variety of routing and spatial analysis services. It actually uses a forked and modified version […]

As of today, people in the UK visiting sites likely to host pornographic, self-harm, eating disorder and suicide-related content will have to prove they are over 18. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/age-verification-comes-into-force-in-the-uk-for-risky-sites #osa #OnlineSafetyAct #uk […]

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China’s datacentre glut, a near-zero-carbon facility and a serious cyberattack in Singapore. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/cloud/china-centralise-cloud-computing-asian-tech-roundup #china #singapore #india […]

Microsoft has unveiled “Copilot Vision”, a successor to the controversial Recall feature, as part of its expanding suite of AI tools for Copilot+ PCs – and it's already drawing criticism for its privacy implications […]

No sector has seen greater change than automotive. Packed with intelligent sensors, AI, GPS, cameras and in-car software, today’s vehicles generate and transmit vast volumes of data. While this helps with seamless connectivity and smarter driving, it also creates serious security, privacy, and […]

A $500 billion plan to supercharge the USA's AI infrastructure has hit significant turbulence, with not a single deal signed yet. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/project-stargate-rocky-start #stargate #openai #softbank #technews

The 2025 Lovelace Report tells us that the cost of 40,000 to 60,000 women either switching tech jobs or deserting the sector altogether is estimated at £2 billion to £3.5 billion annually. https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2025/80-percent-women-in-tech-looking-for-exit #womenintech #uk #technews

A review of the legal challenges associated with generative AI training disputes emphasises the need for clarity from the UK government, legislature and courts. https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2025/scraping-surface-generative-ai-training-disputes #ai #legislation #copyright #uk #technews […]

OVHcloud Global Environmental Director Grégory Lebourg reveals how a vertically integrated operating model, advanced water-cooling technology, and circular economy practices deliver a cloud that doesn’t cost the earth […]

Every year between 40,000 and 60,000 women leave their technology jobs in UK. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/leadership-strategy/2025-lovelace-report-reveals-billions-lost-by-women-leaving-tech #technews #womenintech #uk

It struck me recently that, for all the hype, in the 18 months since I first wrote about AI agents I’ve yet to see one ‘in the wild’. https://main--computing-co-uk--thechannelcompany.aem.page/feature/2025/where-are-all-the-ai-agents #ai #agenticai #technews #hype #openuk

Google’s insists data it holds is secure and it won’t create lock-in for the UK government, but do the answers match the ambition? https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2025/exclusive-google-defends-uk-deal-data-sovereignty-concerns #google #uk #ukpol #technews #sovereignty

The Enshittification of American Power First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech. https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/ https://archive.is/JNwtO#selection-711.0-711.128 #trump […]

Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese hacker of vaccine secrets who was arrested in Italy last week, and fast-fashion ecommerce company Shein’s plans to go public […]

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/openai-perplexity-browsers-present-direct-challenge-to-google-chrome-s-dominance #google […]

Jack Dorsey has launched a messaging app which doesn’t need internet, central servers, phone numbers or email. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/jack-dorsey-launches-decentralised-messaging-app #bitchat #jackdorsey #decentralization #technews

A group of major European media organisations has launched ChatEurope - a chatbot aimed at combating online disinformation. https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/2025/european-media-consortium-launches-anti-disinformation-chatbot #technews #eurpoe #eu #genai #ai #llm #disinformation […]

UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle addressed his critics head-on at Google Cloud London today. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/peter-kyle-addresses-big-tech-criticisms #uk #ukpol #google #bigtech #peterkyle #ukgov #technews