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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.
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Extending Whisper subtitle cues into the next pause cut the count over 17 characters per second from 47 to 20 in a dev.to test on one 168-second clip. The result argues for fixing timestamps before trimming words, wherever the speaker leaves silence to borrow.
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Andy Burnham used his first UN General Assembly address to claim the AI rulebook for Britain's 2027 G20 presidency, a pitch the UK's own digital standards strategy files under trade, market access and growth.
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The National Centre for Information Defence is meant to detect, attribute and disrupt foreign information attacks. The evidence Burnham cited includes Russian forgery of the branding of 28 British organisations.
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Researchers raised wasp spiders from opposite ends of Europe under identical lab conditions to ask whether the species' northward spread involves evolution and not only warmer weather, as British sightings arrive further north.
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The ASA ruled against ads for AI companion and video tools running on Meta platforms, including one it found portrayed a character under 18 sexually. None of the advertisers answered its enquiries, and Meta had already pulled the ads.
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Jack Thorne, president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, told a London audience that some screenwriters are using prompts instead of writing, and he wants employers able to prosecute those who do not declare it.
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The Good Friday Agreement left Northern Ireland's status to the consent of its residents, and successive American presidents stayed neutral on it. In Dublin, Trump said unification could just as well happen now.
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The charge is a percentage of the room rate, set region by region, and the only figure on the table is the 5% ceiling London's mayor and other Labour mayors say they would respect. Edinburgh already charges it.
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The generative feature inside Google Earth lasted about a day before the outcry pulled it, but the verification checklists that name Google Earth as ground truth were written for a product nobody could prompt.
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Meta acts on copyright complaints without checking who filed them, so anyone with an email address can lock an Instagram account that earns money. The BBC found an owner who paid $50 in crypto and was hit again at once.
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The Tech Transparency Project logged 332 ads with AI-generated child abuse imagery on Facebook and Instagram over ten months. Of the ones it could actually flag, Meta's review cleared the large majority.
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The AI Security Institute employs more than 100 technical specialists and cannot compel a single submission, so when US-vetted bodies saw the model first, Britain's only available lever was a statement about close collaboration.
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The US Embassy in London has asked the UK to drop plans to make platforms promote designated news publishers, on the grounds that the wording would be available to governments with narrower ideas of what counts as trustworthy.
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The Senate Chancellery itemised four task forces, a housing crisis team, outside counsel and a contact point for staff, which tells any public body what the refusal path needs in people even though the price of it never appears.
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Thrive would have paid as much as $4.2 billion for about 20% of a FIFA subsidiary it would not have controlled, in a structure where the approval that mattered sat with confederations that say they were never asked.
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A one-sheet complaint about an unemptied bin now arrives as 19 to 27 pages of citations, and the UK association of local government lawyers reckons absorbing that would take double the staff it now assigns.
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Milan Ibrahim drew more than six years for a £980,812 subscription business run on 80 machines in Chorley. The police kept the machines, and say they may lead to the identification of the customers who paid.
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Zack Polanski's freeze demand is unlikely to pass, but the argument beneath it, over a 2024 designation and two water estimates that differ by orders of scale, is where the consenting risk on Britain's AI buildout actually sits.
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Meta is paying over ten years, at a scale its own revenue barely registers, and buying its way out with features. The overnight cutoff and the parental console are what every other app will now be asked to match.
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