Sinking Fujitsu axed from UK flood warning system
Post office scandal has knock-on effects
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has given Fujitsu the old heave-ho from providing a flood warning system to the UK, just two months after signing an extension of up to 12 months.
UK facial recognition gamekeeper turns poacher
Fraser Sampson resigns after controversial decision and joins “enemy”
The recently-departed watchdog in charge of monitoring technology in UK has joined the private firm he controversially approved.
Brits make Amazon and Facebook sign data pledge
Can’t sell it to give them an unfair advantage
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has made Facebook and Amazon promise not to sell third-party seller data that gives it an unfair commercial advantage.
Signal plans to leave the UK
We will not allow spooks to spy on users
The Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit Signal messaging app, has confirmed that it will leave the UK due to the country's recently passed Online Safety Bill.
UK puts Microsoft-Activision deal back on the table
After everyone in the world said it was OK
The red-faced UK Competition and Markets Authority has made a rare move to put Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition back on the table.
UK telco watchdog Ofcom hacked
MOVEit
Hackers responsible for the MOVEit cyberattack broke into the UK communications regulator Ofcom and stole information about companies it regulates, as well as its own employees.
Wagner-style hackers are after the UK
National Cyber Security Centre shin-dig hears
Russia-aligned cyber groups sympathetic to the invasion of Ukraine have been trying to disrupt or destroy the UK’s infrastructure, according to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Dowden.
UK’s Royal Mint drops NFT plans
The economy is in enough of a mess
UK Prime Minster Rishi Sunak’s attempt to sign the country up to an NFT financial system has been mercifully dropped.
UK Tories whinge that Google’s chatbot hates them
Thinks it has a left-wing bias
The UK Conservative party is complaining that Google’s new Bard AI based chatbot hates them and believes it is producing results with a left-wing bias.
UK brings in national mobile phone alert
Will warn you if there are tomatos avaliable in your supermarket
Post-Brexit turnip-eaters, the UK have bought in a government-backed public warning system, in which alerts are sent to mobile phone users about events that may put their life in danger.