11/09/26
New York City has introduced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for children from 2-K through eighth grade, affecting nearly 600,000 pupils in the largest US public school system.
10/09/26
An advanced AI model has independently completed an entire cyber attack against a live enterprise-style network in tests, marking what the company describes as a move from AI-assisted hacking towards autonomous cyber operations and raising urgent questions about whether traditional defences can keep pace.
09/09/26
UK mobile networks risk struggling to cope as AI becomes embedded into phones, wearables, vehicles and everyday business applications, a problem recently highlighted by VodafoneThree as it warned that slow 5G upgrades and planning delays could leave Britain’s connectivity infrastructure unable to keep pace with growing demand.
08/09/26
New polling has found overwhelming support for keeping online conversations private, exposing widespread unease about government access to encrypted messages as Apple continues its legal battle over Britain’s surveillance powers.
05/09/26
Amazon has sharply increased the US prices of many of its Echo, Fire TV, Kindle and eero devices, with some rises reaching 60 per cent, as the company passes on higher memory and storage costs linked to the wider AI-driven squeeze on semiconductor supply.
04/09/26
A portable device that uses LiDAR, radar, AI and a laser to detect and kill mosquitoes is now being sold commercially, raising a much bigger question than whether people will pay around US$1,000 to keep insects away from their patios and instead focusing attention on whether precision technology could eventually reduce our reliance on chemical mosquito control.
03/09/26
Meta has agreed to pay approximately US$18 billion and introduce major new restrictions for teenage Facebook and Instagram users, ending a high-profile federal trial brought by US states over allegations that the platforms were designed in ways that harmed children and encouraged excessive use.
02/09/26
More than 100 major technology, financial and security organisations have warned that businesses and public bodies have only a limited window to strengthen their cyber defences before increasingly capable AI makes attacks faster, cheaper and considerably more difficult to contain.
28/08/26
Amazon is preparing to expand Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, while its only UK operation remains tightly restricted to around 100 deliveries a day, highlighting how quickly autonomous delivery can scale when technology, regulation and public acceptance move at different speeds.
27/08/26
UK police are beginning to use artificial intelligence to decide where non-emergency 101 calls should go before they reach a human operator, with a £1.4 million system designed to cut waiting times, reduce wasted police time and redirect millions of misdirected calls more efficiently.
26/08/26
Comcast has begun turning compatible Xfinity home routers into camera-free motion detectors, showing how WiFi infrastructure can now do far more than connect devices while raising important questions about privacy, data use and intelligent buildings.
20/08/26
Anthropic is preparing to embed invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and attach signed provenance records to supported files worldwide, responding to new EU rules intended to make synthetic content easier to identify.
19/08/26
Artificial intelligence has given surveillance cameras the ability to recognise and track what they see, yet researchers are now demonstrating how AI can also be turned against those systems, creating patterns that leave people and vehicles perfectly visible to humans while potentially making them much harder for automated surveillance to detect.
18/08/26
A new attack technique could allow criminals to plant false information inside an AI agent’s long-term memory, potentially influencing decisions weeks or months later and creating a new security problem as businesses increasingly give AI systems greater autonomy.
24/07/26
Microsoft will begin making passkeys the default authentication method in Microsoft Entra ID from 1 September 2026, marking a major change in how organisations protect user accounts as AI-powered phishing and identity attacks continue to grow.
23/07/26
A major UK study has found that some teenage boys are developing romantic and emotionally intimate relationships with AI chatbots, prompting growing concern among researchers, parents and regulators about how these increasingly human-like systems may be shaping young people’s understanding of relationships.
17/07/26
Google is introducing new labels that tell users when advertisements have been created or edited using generative artificial intelligence, marking an important step towards greater transparency as AI-generated marketing becomes increasingly realistic and more difficult to distinguish from traditional advertising.
16/07/26
Amazon says it now has enough satellites in orbit to begin commercial broadband services later this year, marking the point at which its long-awaited satellite internet network moves from development into operation and giving businesses, governments and consumers the prospect of meaningful competition to SpaceX’s Starlink.
15/07/26
From 7 July 2026, every newly manufactured passenger car and van sold in the European Union must include a new generation of advanced safety systems, including technology that monitors whether drivers are paying attention to the road, marking another significant step towards vehicles that actively watch over both their occupants and everyone around them.
09/07/26
Sony is ending the production of physical game discs for new PlayStation releases from January 2028, marking another major step towards an entertainment industry where consumers increasingly access rather than physically own the products they buy.
08/07/26
The artificial intelligence boom has attracted extraordinary levels of investment, transformed technology markets and created expectations of a new era of productivity, but a warning from the world’s leading central bank organisation suggests that the consequences could be felt far beyond the technology industry if financial returns fail to match the hype.
07/07/26
WhatsApp’s plan to let people communicate without revealing their phone numbers has run into immediate regulatory opposition in India, turning what began as a new privacy feature into a much wider debate about online anonymity, fraud and how messaging platforms should balance privacy with security.
06/07/26
A US fusion company has demonstrated a new way of converting energy from a fusion plasma directly into electricity, while separate work on advanced electrical conductors could dramatically reduce the amount of power lost as heat, highlighting how the clean energy challenge is increasingly about efficiency as well as generation.
01/07/26
Cloudflare has joined forces with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Shopify to develop a new internet protocol designed to help websites distinguish genuine visitors from malicious bots without relying on CAPTCHAs, forced logins or invasive tracking, in what could become one of the biggest changes to how people prove their identity online in decades.
25/06/26
The Trump administration has taken the unusual step of intervening in an environmental lawsuit against Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, arguing that the data centre at the centre of the dispute is so important to national security that it should be protected from legal action seeking to restrict its power supply.
24/06/26
A brain-computer interface developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis, has enabled a man with advanced ALS to communicate with remarkable accuracy, return to full-time employment, and use a computer independently for nearly two years, marking one of the most significant real-world demonstrations of the technology to date.
23/06/26
Children under the age of 16 will be banned from using major social media platforms in the UK from Spring 2027 under government plans that represent one of the most significant attempts yet to reshape how young people interact with the online world.
17/06/26
A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly responsible for false information generated by its AI Overviews feature, a decision that could have significant implications for AI-powered search engines and chatbots worldwide.
16/06/26
A small but growing group of businesses is now spending thousands of dollars per employee every month on artificial intelligence, suggesting that AI is increasingly being treated as core business infrastructure rather than simply another productivity tool.
15/06/26
Signal has accused the UK government of proposing a dangerous form of surveillance after ministers announced plans that could require technology companies to prevent children from taking, sharing, or viewing nude images on smartphones and tablets.
04/06/26
A study of 75,000 brands has found that being talked about on YouTube may now be a stronger predictor of AI visibility than backlinks, domain authority, or even the size of a company’s website.
27/05/26
Google’s latest wave of AI announcements reveals a company that is moving beyond chatbots and search results, towards a future where AI agents actively perform tasks, manage information and work alongside users throughout the day.
26/05/26
New research suggests that while AI is helping employees work faster, many businesses are creating a new layer of digital busywork that is eroding much of the productivity they hoped to gain.
25/05/26
Elon Musk’s planned SpaceX stock market flotation could make him the world’s first trillionaire, highlighting how investors are increasingly placing enormous value on companies that combine AI, communications infrastructure, space technology and long-term strategic ambition.
20/05/26
Researchers have demonstrated a controversial new method for generating tiny amounts of electricity from Earth’s rotation through its own magnetic field, opening debate about whether the planet itself could one day become a source of continuous renewable energy.
19/05/26
Google has unveiled a radical new laptop strategy that replaces the Chromebook concept with AI-first “Googlebooks”, devices where Gemini AI is embedded directly into the operating system and even the cursor itself becomes an intelligent assistant.
