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The UK has avoided a comprehensive AI law in favor of a pro-innovation, regulator-led approach, with the AI Security Institute leading frontier-model evaluation — tracked here daily.
Britain’s electric air taxi contender needs more power
US hedge fund that controls Vertical Aerospace wants a strategic partner to boost its credibility
EU considers social media ban for children
The European Union (EU) is considering banning social media for children, following similar efforts seen in the United Kingdom and Australia to restrict children's access to social media platforms. On Monday, a 156-page report given to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen suggested restricting access to social media for children under the age of...
Security governance in UK telecoms: Reverse salience, path dependency and the paradox of stability vs innovation
Publication date: August 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 7 Author(s): Liam John Mcphee, Sajjad Bagheri Baba Ahmadi
IT law in the UK: Looking back on 2007 and ahead to 2009
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 6 Author(s): Richard Kemp
Recent developments in the patentability of software in the UK
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 5 Author(s): Marcus Turle, David Knight
Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, and it’s testing London’s new private market to prove it
Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, worth £800m, or $1.1bn. But no fundraise set that price. Staff did, by selling shares on London’s untested new private market. Moneybox, the British savings and investing app, is now a unicorn. It has put a value of about £800m, or $1.1bn, on itself, the Financial Times first reported. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026)
Today's links Gerontocracy's failure mode: Where are the designated survivors? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT v MP3; UK industry v schoolkids; Gary Larson v comics sharing; Planned LED obsolescence; PoGo v Black neighborhoods; Gnarlier trolley problems; Royal Society v cryptographic backdoors; Theresa May v climate change; Google v search; Facebook v facts. Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend. Recent appearances: Wher
Weak Security Continues to Fuel Russian Cyberattacks
In a first, the UK and the EU jointly imposed sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns in the region.
News from UK Parliament
Welsh Affairs Committee: cross-border healthcare patients are “falling through the gaps” The Welsh Affairs Committee is concerned by the lack of urgency in addressing long-standing issues affecting ...
UK regulates Microsoft, Google, Amazon in finance sector; India sticks to indirect oversight
Cloud computing companies Google, Microsoft, AWS & Oracle have been brought under finance sector regulation as "critical third parties" as UK banks face outage or cyberattack risks due to their reliance on the big four. The post UK regulates Microsoft, Google, Amazon in finance sector; India sticks to indirect oversight appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
What the UK government should do on AI and tech policy
Published 13 July 2026 — 3 minute READ Image — Kanishka Narayan, the UK’s Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Online Safety, speaks at an event celebrating the AI Impact Summit 2026, in New Delhi ...
UCL joins new Defence Universities Alliance
UCL has been selected as one of 35 UK universities to join the Defence Universities Alliance (DUA), working with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to focus on shaping the new forum’s scope, governance and ...
Jen Ellis: Connecting Cyber Community With Political Machinery
Security Pro File: On the heels of her recent honors as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), we take a look back at the events that shaped Jen Ellis' advocacy on behalf of security researchers.
Porn site company fined £630,000 over failed age checks
Ofcom has fined a slew of sites it says are failing to prevent children accessing their adult content.
Exclusive: Stone King appoints Jas Bassi as IT director
National UK law firm Stone King has appointed Jas Bassi as its inaugural IT director, marking a significant milestone in the firm’s continued investment in technology, digital transformation and information […] The post Exclusive: Stone King appoints Jas Bassi as IT director appeared first on Legal IT Insider .
How Analysts Use AI in High-Stakes Crime Linkage: An Industrial Study
Crime linkage analysis is used in many countries to identify series of offences that may have been committed by the same individual. In practice, specialist analysts manually search for behavioural and situational connections across large crime databases, an effort that is time-consuming, cognitively demanding, and can involve repeated exposure to disturbing material. To support this work, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled decision-support tool was co-developed with a UK law enforcement ag
How the British press has undermined the ECHR over many years: new study – Ekaterina Balabanova and Gemma Horton
The UK’s immigration and asylum bill has proposed restricting how the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is interpreted and applied in the UK to make it easier to deport migrants. For years, critics have argued that the ECHR undermines the UK’s border security by prohibiting deportations on the basis of Article 8, the right […]
Zewelanji Nalwamba
Zewelanji is a final-year International Relations student at the University of Leicester, currently interning with the UK Nuclear Deterrence Network. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of ...
Can a Burnham government make Britain a global leader in science and technology?
Andy Burnham is near-certain to succeed Keir Starmer as UK prime minister. He will inherit a world in which technological leadership increasingly shapes economic prosperity, military capability and ...
The UK’s social media ban: Lessons from Australia
Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth’s recent announcement of a new AI Employment and Workplaces Forum is a welcome step. But its success will depend on whether it recognises ...
New UK defence plan fails to deliver on space, despite the military’s growing reliance on satellite systems
New defence spending offers little clarity on the future direction of military space.
UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services
FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions.
New UK Prime Minister Should Elevate Defending Democracy Taskforce to Tackle Bots and Protect Trusted News
Britain’s place in the new world order
We are facing a storm of geopolitical instability, economic coercion, AI and climate change – and it’s likely to get worse. But by working more closely with Europe and seeking greater cooperation ...
The new technologies in the UK defence investment plan
The Defence Investment Plan provides £5 billion for drone warfare.
Re-visiting professional ethics in psychotherapy: reflections on the use of talking therapies as a supportive adjunct for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and 'medically unexplained symptoms
Following years of debate over the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), public health bodies in the UK and beyond have determined that no psychotherapy is clinically proven for this patient group. In the field of ME/CFS and the wider arena of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS), patient survey data and qualitative research capturing patient experiences and psychotherapist attitudes suggest that therapeutic
Rockstar accused of ignoring pay inequity, mandating crunch, and weaponizing bonuses
Multiple current Rockstar employees and union members based in the UK claim the Grand Theft Auto maker is failing its workforce.
Generative AI in child sexual exploitation and abuse: views from UK law enforcement
Amidst the general excitement about the opportunities afforded by artificial intelligence (AI), the tech industry must confront the uncomfortable reality that generative AI also facilitates child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). This issue remains under-addressed in the literature. Aiming to deepen the understanding of online CSEA and the misuse of generative AI, we report empirical insights from semi-structured interviews with seven UK law enforcement practitioners. The topics covered rang
Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers
Google UK shares its latest Economic Impact Report and how to enable more people to unlock the benefits of AI-powered technologies.
Law Media Round Up – 29 June 2026
The UK Constitutional Law blog has an article on the recent decision from the Court of Appeal reinstating the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000, Secretary of State for the Home Department v R (Huda Ammori) [2026] EWCA Civ 721. The post is concerned with only one of the grounds of the Court […]
Bucks County Man Charged Following Investigation into Grok AI-Generated Child Pornography
On the heels of filing a landmark federal lawsuit against social media and tech giants, Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan today announced the arrest of a New Britain Borough man facing multiple felony charges for producing and possess ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1562#7480)
The New UK Prime Minister Inherits a Social Media Ban. The Real Goal Is Safety by Design.
How Will Andy Burnham Handle Tech Policy as UK Prime Minister?
How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing
I was listening to Ezra Klein interviewing a left-wing Democratic Party strategist the other day about what a post-Trump U.S. foreign policy might look like, and it was a pretty striking demonstration of Europe’s irrelevance right now that the only Western European country mentioned in the 90 minutes of the chat was the UK, and The post How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing appeared first on Coda Story .
Fault Lines: Navigating Ethics and Responsible AI Where National Policy Meets Local Practice in Public Sector Transformation
The UK government has adopted a pro-AI stance to help transform public service delivery in the face of severe financial pressures, but the path to translate this vision into responsible AI practice remains ill-defined. While UK policy is often set at the national level, local authorities are responsible for most public service delivery, and the rapid advance of AI-first narratives in the public sector is exposing fault lines in knowledge and practice at this national-local interface. This paper
AI Assurance in UK Defence: Challenges in Operationalising JSP 936
This report examines practical challenges in operationalising JSP 936 Part 1 for AI assurance in UK Defence. Using a structured interpretive review of the directive's requirements, the analysis identifies eight thematic challenge areas adequacy of evidence and argument, management of human interaction with AI, definition of the operational environment, integration of AI within systems of systems, assessment and maintenance of AI performance, analysis of safety and security, measurement of ethica
Online Safety Regulation Increases Privacy Risk: Evidence from the UK Online Safety Act
Governments worldwide are increasingly regulating digital platforms to reduce online harms, particularly those affecting children. However, access restrictions can alter user behaviour and introduce new privacy and security risks. The UK Online Safety Act (OSA), passed in October 2023, illustrates this trend: it extends age-assurance and safety requirements to social media, search, and pornography services, and rolled out in phases. Ofcom's illegal content enforcement duties came into force in M
Extending the UXR Point of View Pyramid: A Generative AI-Augmented Methodology for Human-Centred AI Systems
Rising household debt and cost-of-living pressures in the United Kingdom have intensified the role of AI-driven financial technologies in mediating credit assessment, repayment structuring, and debt support services. These systems increasingly shape consequential financial decisions, yet they operate within complex socio-technical environments characterised by regulatory constraint, algorithmic opacity, and heightened vulnerability risk. User Experience Research (UXR) Points of View (PoVs) are c
Exploring Trust Calibration in XAI - The Impact of Exposing Model Limitations to Lay Users
Trust calibration -- aligning user trust judgment with model capability -- is crucial for safe deployment of explainable AI (XAI), yet is often evaluated via global trust ratings detached from objective performance evidence. We present a preregistered, incentivized between-subject online study (N=418 representative UK sample) on explainable skin-lesion classification that disentangles expectation-setting from experienced performance. Participants completed 15 case evaluations using a fixed XAI p
To Redact, or not to Redact? A Local LLM Approach to Deliberative Process Privilege Classification
Government transparency laws, like the Freedom of Information (FOIA) acts in the United States and United Kingdom, and the Woo (Open Government Act) in the Netherlands, grant citizens the right to directly request documents from the government. As these documents might contain sensitive information, such as personal information or threats to national security, the laws allow governments to redact sensitive parts of the documents prior to release. We build on prior research to perform automatic s