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14 votes
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Tim Berners-Lee: Why I gave the world wide web away for free
18 votes -
imgur.com geoblocks the UK
Imgur appears to have geoblocked the UK. This is likely in response to the stupid Online Safety Act (brought in by the previous Conservative government) which requires age verification for "adult"...
Imgur appears to have geoblocked the UK. This is likely in response to the stupid Online Safety Act (brought in by the previous Conservative government) which requires age verification for "adult" content - not just porn, it's a bunch of other poorly defined other stuff too.
My guess, based on very little information because imgur don't appear to have said anything much officially at this point, is they've had a letter from Ofcom (UK telecoms standards agency) and decided an IP ban is easier than compliance and I totally understand their decision. But urgh.
I didn't have much stuff on there and it's all backed up but still. Annoying.
54 votes -
British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting
27 votes -
Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act verification rules
51 votes -
European VPN recommendations
As a Brit who's now effected by the Great British Firewall I'd like recommendations for VPNs that meet the following criteria either directly or via additional software/Firefox extensions: Use VPN...
As a Brit who's now effected by the Great British Firewall I'd like recommendations for VPNs that meet the following criteria either directly or via additional software/Firefox extensions:
- Use VPN only for specific apps on iOS (apply to Reddit, Discord, BlueSky and Twitter/X, Wikipedia (if it ends up banned) but not others)
- Use VPN for specific websites on Windows/macOS (apply to Reddit, Discord, BlueSky, Twitter/X, Wikipedia (if it ends up banned) websites)
- VPN considered generally trustworthy and not an American firm
Personal recommendations that you have experience with only please.
30 votes -
UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption
15 votes -
Google Wallet adds age verification and more government ID support
21 votes -
Getty Images and Stability AI face off in British copyright trial that will test AI industry
21 votes -
In 1978, Arthur C. Clarke predicted the rise of AI and wondered what would happen to humanity
18 votes -
Cyber attack causes further chaos for UK shoppers at Marks & Spencer
5 votes -
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
23 votes -
UK tribunal denies government's request to keep details of 'backdoor order' case secret, that lead to Apple disabling 'Advanced Data Protection Service' for UK customers
19 votes -
Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety law
16 votes -
Spotify takes down Andrew Tate pimping podcast after complaints
31 votes -
Could AI lead to a revival of decorative beauty?
13 votes -
Apple stops offering end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage in the UK due to government spying demands
64 votes -
The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
27 votes -
UK orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
49 votes -
UK users: Lobsters needs your help with the Online Safety Act
24 votes -
HMD Key announced for £59 in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand
22 votes -
Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time
27 votes -
The Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts
53 votes -
The latest in North Korea’s fake IT worker scheme: Extorting the employers
17 votes -
Arm is cancelling Qualcomm's chip design license
21 votes -
ADE 651
14 votes -
Is the .io top level domain headed for extinction?
14 votes -
On the path to delivering next generation UK weather forecasts
7 votes -
Nothing CEO Carl Pei gives employees two months to return to office full-time
34 votes -
Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
42 votes -
Library asks users to verify that books actually exist before making a loan request because AI invents book titles
43 votes -
Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
17 votes -
Raspberry Pi is now a public company
40 votes -
'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
59 votes -
British Library on why it kept it real in communication about ransomware attack
9 votes -
Internet use statistically associated with higher wellbeing, finds new global Oxford study
13 votes -
Are Free Software developers at risk? A potential threat to Free Software developers looms in the form of an ongoing lawsuit in the UK involving Bitcoin and its core developers.
27 votes -
Meet Robbie, the walking talking robot guide dog
11 votes -
How Raspberry Pi 4s are made (factory tour)
13 votes -
A startup allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then came the censorship—and now the backlash.
27 votes -
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” but concealed from lawyers and judges
104 votes -
Inside the world's highest tech prison - HMP Fosse Way
12 votes -
History of country code top-level domains, with a map of the most popular ones in use | Map Men
14 votes -
UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed
27 votes -
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?
31 votes -
Apple threatens to pull FaceTime and iMessage in the UK over proposed surveillance law changes
71 votes -
Douglas Adams - Hyperland | A fantastical guided look at the future of the internet as imagined by Douglas Adams in the 1990s
24 votes -
The BBC on Mastodon: Experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
31 votes -
You've got Mali: UK Ministry of Defence accidentally emails Russia ally
18 votes -
Thames Water is considering measures to cut down the water used by some UK datacenters, including fitting flow restrictors or charging operators more at peak times
16 votes