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.

Tech giant pushes online support

The maker of printer ink, which is about as expensive as racehorse sperm, has quietly introduced a 15-minute minimum wait time for consumer PC and print customers who attempt to phone its call centre for support.

Harms innovation excuse

Fruity cargo cult Apple is again playing the victim, claiming that the UK’s competition regulator’s proposed remedies for the mobile browser market could stifle its "innovation."

AI should not be “inclusive and sustainable”

At the landmark AI Summit in Paris, the United States and the United Kingdom diverged from the majority stance by refusing to sign a declaration on “inclusive and sustainable” artificial intelligence, which was endorsed by 60 nations, including France, China, India, Japan, Australia, and Canada.