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When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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£47 million was stolen by cybercriminals in a series of phishing attacks on HMRC where cybercriminals posed as taxpayers to claim repayments. HMRC were slow to report the incident. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/phishing-attacks-take-hmrc-for-47-million #technews #hmrc #uk […]

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If you make less than 51k the "Big Beautiful Bill" will make your after tax income decrease. Meanwhile the the most wealthy get the biggest tax cuts. I don't understand how this isn't obviously unpopular. It doesn't even have a token tax cut for working class people to act as a fig leaf for […]

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A coalition of seven leading civil society organisations has called on the European Commission to revoke the United Kingdom's data adequacy status, citing what they describe as a sustained and systemic erosion of privacy and data protection standards in the UK […]

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GP leaders have halted progress on a predictive AI model based citing concern about whether the correct procedures were followed. The pause is likely to frustrate those advocating for greater use of AI within healthcare. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/gps-force-a-pause-on-ai-project […]

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In a quiet corner of southern France, an international mega-project is forging ahead with its mission to demonstrate industrial-scale nuclear fusion. We got to take a look. https://main--computing-co-uk--thechannelcompany.aem.page/feature/2025/fusion-finish-line-inside-iter-giant-tokamak […]

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In South Park, San Diego, US citizens stigmergically rose up against Trump’s Gestapo. The revolt erupted midday when ICE began rounding up people at a restaurant; patrons and passersby alike dropped everything to confront the regime storm troopers. #3E #EndImpunity #StopICE

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Cartier and NorthFace have become the latest fashion brands to suffer a data breach. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/cartier-and-northface-latest-brands-to-be-breached #technews #cartier #northface #cybersecurity #infosec

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“In fact, every single agency that Elon went after - USAID, CFPB, DOL, NLRB, EPA, DOT, USDA - just so happened to be performing oversight into him or SpaceX or Starlink or Tesla. And all of those agencies paid the price.” […]

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Chinese companies' incentive is simple: "Don't lose market share, and future markets are included." https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250530-how-electric-scooters-are-driving-chinas-salt-battery-push #batteries #ev #china #sodium #lithium

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IBM has announced the dismissal of approximately 8,000 employees, with its HR department bearing the brunt of the cuts. LinkedIn also cutting jobs. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ibm-cuts-8-000-jobs #ibm #linkedin #jobcuts #technews #layoffs

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And finally... Back home from Greenland, the final #FieldworkDiary - what did we learn? http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

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Xerox is one of the three big players in a shrinking market for print. This uncomfortable position means it is having to reinvent itself, pushing for growth through a new global business services organisation and pursuing novel revenue streams […]

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Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK […]

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Being a dog walker is my dream job https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/26/a-new-start-after-60-i-became-a-dog-walker-and-ive-never-been-happier

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Of course, if it's companies wanting to take everything without consent then it's just a necessity we all have to live with. If individuals do they'll be sued into oblivion or bullied into suicide… (Also filed under 'the UK keeps being a joke') […]

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Trump is a felon who is using his office to enrich himself as no president has in history. More than $2 billion has flowed to Trump companies in just a month, and some of his ventures look alarmingly like opportunities for influence-peddling. How else do we explain his announcement that the […]

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Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-p...

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European cloud providers and enterprise IT customers are sounding alarms over changes to VMware's licensing structure that have driven prices up by as much as 1,500% since Broadcom's acquisition of the virtualisation giant […]

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Speech to text can’t recognize the word “stigmergy” put instead “sticky magic” which almost works.

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It doesn’t get more Dear Leader fascist than this. If we accept this, we’re the most spineless culture of the modern era and deserve to lose our freedoms. Oklahoma will teach high schoolers ‘Big Lie’ about 2020 election […]

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Phishing is evolving using AI for mass customisation, but the fundamentals remain the same https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2025/the-craftiest-phishing-techniques-and-how-to-defend-against-them #technews #phishing #infosec #cybersecurity

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The cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency has been upgraded from ‘security incident’ to a widespread attack which has led to the agency taking down it’s online services and investigating with the NCSC. Here are five reasons you should be concerned about the breach […]

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Two US disinformation experts have launched a DIY news outlet. Not on Mastodon yet though. Missing a trick methinks. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/indicator-alexios-mantzarlis-craig-silverman/ #indicator #beehiiv #poynter #disinformation

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Another person saying what we all know #Linkedin has become, #enshittification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvJQCEPwyv4 I still can't understand how a centralised job/networking site in 2025 is still basically the industry standard. Imagine a federated system for jobs & seekers? 🤔 #lazyweb […]

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A new study has found that AI chatbots are having a surprisingly minor impact on employee earnings and work hours. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/ai-chatbots-yet-to-prove-their-worth #technews #ai #chatbot

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The UK retail sector has endured another cyberattack with logistics company Peter Green Chilled, which distributes perishable food supplies to major supermarkets, struck with ransomware last Wednesday […]

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Today, besides other concerned individuals and organisations, our co-founder @michael co-signed and delivered a letter regarding the current UK technology policy to the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. We believe it is critical that the UK does not become dependent on US technologies which echo […]

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Officials at the Ministry of Justice have confirmed a ‘significant’ cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency. Data going back to 2010 is thought to have been exfiltrated, and the consequences for Legal Aid and the wider justice system could be serious […]

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Oh great. Russia and China plan to increase their global propaganda cooperation, as the US curtails its own support for foreign media. https://www.semafor.com/article/05/16/2025/china-russia-pledge-joint-foreign-media-push

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#Trump and #Musk are starving people to death. #ProLifeMyAss “Exclusive: Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation” […]

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Tech news stories from in Asia. This time we look at the advent of robot chefs in South Korea’s roadside diners, the welcome downturn in China’s CO2 emissions thanks to its epic renewables rollout, and a North Korean hacker infiltrating a US politician’s election campaign […]

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Computing research has identified the security tools and partners the Co-op used to stop last month’s cyberattack in its tracks. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/five-cyber-tools-co-op-used-to-defeat-ransomware-attack #technews #coop #uk #ransomware #cybersecurity #infosec

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The UK must stand firm on regulating big tech by strengthening the hand of the Competition and Markets Authority and refocusing its activities to protect consumers and promote competition, according to the think tank IPPR […]

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Microsoft has announced it is to retire access to its Bing Search APIs for must users on 11th August. Comment from #DuckDuckGo, @brave @MetaGer and @Mojeek on Microsoft’s sudden move […]

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The House of Lords has voted for an amendment to the Data Bill which could force tech companies to inform creatives when their work is going to be used to train LLMs, so they can opt out. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/legislation-regulation/lords-data-bill-amendement-challenge-to-govt […]

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In a reversal of its previous stance, Microsoft will provide several more years of official support for users running Office or Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 machines. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/microsoft-u-turns-on-windows-10-support #microsoft #technews #windows10 #m365

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This article is from about a month ago. Julia Carrie Wong details the systemic demonization of empathy on the religious and white nationalist right. Fascinating and terrifying. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump Also in podcast […]

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Klarna, which vowed to cut employee numbers by half, has started hiring human customer service staff once again. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/meat-back-on-the-menu-as-klarna-rows-back-on-ai #ai #technews #klarna #genai

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Among the American business leaders attending today’s US-Saudi lunch in Riyadh: Elon Musk (Tesla/X), Sam Altman (OpenAI), Larry Fink (BlackRock), Andy Jassy (Amazon) and those from Boeing, Citicorp, IBM, NVIDIA and Palantir […]

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Marks & Spencer has admitted that customer data has been stolen during the recent ransomware attack that took many systems and services offline. https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/marks-spencer-admits-customer-data-was-stolen-in-ransomware-attack #technews #cybersecurity #infosec […]

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Despite decades of experience and millions of combined hours of awareness programmes we’re still clicking on dodgy links. Why? https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2025/why-do-we-still-fall-for-phishing #phishing #technews #cybersecurity #infosec #cybercrime

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