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UK is close to finallsing a law that would criminalise publishing any information provided by ”state threats”.

This would likely concern for example Hamas or Hezbollah, which publish civilian casualty numbers that journalists rely on, because Israel’s numbers are pure propaganda.

Should this become law, a journalist could then face up to 14 years in prison for publishing it.

Sounds a lot like Russia, doesn’t it?

youtube.com/watch?v=W7AmESPJ5L…

#UK #law #journalism #softtotalitarianism


#nogenAI #noDataCenters #UK #Scotland

Hi all, if you agree that we need to #saveThePlanet instead of helping big companies steal our autonomy and support facism while stealing our water, air, art and jobs, please sign All of these petitions to reject Date Centres for genAI in the UK:

change.org/m/opposition-to-dat…

(and I say this as a scientist who loves computers and computational models, especially when they help us understand the brain, but this is not it) #Petition


“ #Barbados PM Mia Mottley has described as “asinine” a suggestion by #UK lawmaker Suella Braverman, that Britain’s former colonies should repay it for its historic investment in them.

“I cannot believe we are being asked to respond to the suggestion that the descendants of the enslaved should pay for the machinery that oppressed them,” Mottley wrote on X.”

apnews.com/article/caribbean-u…


Bonnie Tyler, 80s pop legend known for Total Eclipse of the Heart and more, dies aged 75

Welsh singer and Eurovision entrant’s other hits included Footloose soundtrack smash Holding Out for a Hero

theguardian.com/music/2026/jul…

#TopNews #News #Tyler #UK #BonnieTyler


#Petition #UK #Coastguard

This is fucking disgusting, MP's are considering making Coastguard personnel into unpaid volunteers & strip them of their pay for emergency callouts

Please consider adding your name to the petition The Government don't seem to be in a hurry to publicise this so lets do it for them

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/coasg…


Count Binface has a dormant account on the Fediverse at:

🛸 @CountBinface

Getting a few more follows might prod him into posting again? I think it might at least trigger an email from the server to tell him he is still getting followers 🙂

#CountBinface #UK #UKPol #Farage


"It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would represent “a major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership”.

But the plans were paused in April, with an OpenAI spokesperson citing concerns over regulation and high energy costs.

Now the Guardian can reveal that OpenAI does not appear to have visited one of Stargate UK’s key sites – and that £20bn of the “potential” £30bn in investment touted by the UK government appears to have been totally hypothetical.

The findings raise questions about one of the most-hyped UK AI developments, and suggest a centrepiece of US-UK AI cooperation was in fact little more than a press release."

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#AI #OpenAI #UK #Stargate #StargateUK


UK electric car sales overtake petrol for first time UK drivers bought more battery-electric cars than petrol cars over the past 12 months, the first time that has ever happened. #uk #ElectricVehicles #ev #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #UnitedKingdom #Cars #vehicles #environment

carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-sa…


Royal Mail are reducing letter deliveries this year: royalmail.com/receiving/the-fu…

UK petition: Return Royal Mail to public ownership

Sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

Graph of signatures: petition-track.uk/check-petiti…

Deadline: 25 September 2026

#UK #petition #RoyalMail #privatisation #nationalisation #renationalisation


🚨 #Russia likely used shadow ships to launch drones over #Europe that repeatedly disrupted civilian aviation, as it monitored #military sites & tested the air #defenses of #NATO nations, acc/to a report published Thursday by the #IISS think tank.

The report, which was shared before publication with AP, plotted 144 suspected drone sightings across Europe, including in NATO members #Germany, #France, #Belgium, the #Netherlands, the #UK, & #Denmark, between 2024 & 2026.

apnews.com/projects/russian-dr…+



In #UK è stata lanciata un’azione collettiva contro #Apple: l’oggetto è #iCloud

Si contesta l’impossibilità di effettuare backup di #iPhone e #iPad su servizi alternativi, costringendo gli utenti a usare il cloud proprietario di Apple

Per 40 milioni di utenti e un danno stimato di £ 77 a persona, si tratta di una richiesta di 3 miliardi di sterline

Sarebbe interessante ripetere l’iniziativa

Le info si trovano qui: which.co.uk/news/article/which…

#bigtech

@internet


youtu.be/WQtIwl0_Tsw
⛔️🇺🇸Iran struck ship in Strait of Hormuz proving it has a hold on who operates in the straight, not Trump (CNN VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #Trump #America #Maga #Republicans #Media #UAE #Oman #Jordan #Qatar #UK #London #Israel #TelAviv #Bahrain #SaudiArabia #News #Kuwait #Headlines #Iran #Tehran #Lebanon #Gaza #Palestine #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers


Chris Russo @cjrlab I think got a Leverhulme a while back.

And there must be a public list of MRC Career Development awardees, some in neuroscience, that you could email?

#neuroscience #UK #Leverhulme #MRC


What could go wrong with forcing a data hungry #AI company like #Anthropic to force it's users to do ID #verification?
techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anth…

Meanwhile asylum-seekers are a great source for biometric data for the #UK government: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

As the #West is trying to imitate totalitarian states as of late, they might be better advised to imitate their #exports instead.

#Privacy #Asylum #UnitedKingdom #Britain #GreatBritain #Artificialintelligence #Tech #Technology #News #US #USA


#UK #politics

Surprisingly, all those people are finding out #brexit didn't work...

Absolute nightmare’: Brexit bellwether constituencies revisited 10 years on

theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j…


British Prime Minister #KeirStarmer said Monday he is stepping down as leader of the governing #LabourParty & will leave office within weeks, scarcely 2 years after being elected in a landslide. #Starmer says he will remain caretaker prime minister until a new Labour leader is chosen by the party. Starmer is the sixth prime minister in a decade to announce a premature departure.

#UK #Europe #politics #UKpol
apnews.com/live/keir-starmer-r…


“Breaking: ‘Moog 4’ walk free as jury refuses to convict”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

@uk_politics
@thecanaryuk
@UKLabour

“The ‘Moog 4’ anti-genocide activists who were put on trial for direct action against an arms firm supplying Israel have walked free from Birmingham Crown Court today. The jury in the trial was split and refused to convict the activists despite the prosecution claiming the decision to convict would be ‘simple’”

thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/06…

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Moog4 #Trial #Acquittal #PalestinianGenocide #Israel #Jury


four safety recalls in 2 years.

and just to remind, Waymo are supposed to launch in London in September.

wired.com/story/waymo-recalls-…

#Cars #InternetOfThings #InternetOfShit #IoT #Transport #London #Tech #Technology #UnitedKingdom #UK


Retail giants join #UK #government drive to boost ‘plug-in’ balcony #SolarPanels | #EnergyBills | The Guardian

This should be a win-win for consumers and retailers.

theguardian.com/money/2026/jun…

#Environment #Supermarkets #Commerce #RenewableEnergy #Renewables #SolarEnergy


theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j…. This is completely & absolutely unacceptable, but par-for-the-course in the #UK now, as our supine #courts & our equally supine #Labour #Government do the bidding of #Israel, & never mind its #genocide in #Gaza & wholesale #slaughter of the #Palestinians, or in #Lebanon & #Iran. These #prison #sentences, at a time of absurd prison #overcrowding, are all wholly disproportionate, & should NOT have been linked to #terrorism. These #defendants are NOT #terrorists.