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Drone

Flying taxis could take off in two years under Government drones plan

Supermarket technical issues

Tesco and Sainsbury’s hit with technical issues on same day

Apple logo in window of store

Norfolk County Council secures settlement as Apple agrees £384m lawsuit payment

Civil Service roles to relocate

Whitehall lacks the skills to implement AI, says National Audit Office

Laptop under cyber attack

Health board hit by cyber attack with ‘significant quantity’ of data at risk

Children and violent online content

Encountering violent online content starts at primary school – Ofcom

Bitcoin

Australian computer scientist is not Bitcoin founder Satoshi, High Court rules

Google website

Google starts rollout of restrictions on AI as key global election year looms

The gov.uk website

NHS and Government websites should be made free of data charges, ministers told

Schools minister Damian Hinds

Getting a mobile phone ‘a rite of passage’ for children, says schools minister

A pile of old cell phones to be recycled

Government failing to grasp scale of ‘e-waste tsunami’ – MPs

Global Fraud Summit

World leaders vow united front against fraudsters at London summit

Phone lines

Telecoms operators agree to protect Telecare users during digital switchover

Global Fraud Summit

Tech giants, banks and governments aim to tackle international fraudsters

Google page

Online search data ‘may help spot ovarian cancer cases earlier’

Online Safety Act 2023

Deepfake abuse ‘new frontier’ of violence against women, peers warned

AI climate crisis warning

Generative AI could ‘supercharge’ climate disinformation, report warns

Police use of drones

Budget backs cutting edge plans to send police drones to emergency scenes