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The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming (www.bbc.com)
3 days ago Facebook YouTube Snapchat Instagram Ban

London's Met Police calls on tech companies to make stolen phones unusable and says it is sharing data with Apple to build a “global picture” of stolen devices (www.bbc.com)
7 days ago Apple London

University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans (www.bbc.com)
13 days ago AI

An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more (www.bbc.com)
13 days ago Interview AI Zuckerberg

The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes (www.bbc.com)
15 days ago Google AI

UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years (www.bbc.com)
21 days ago Google Quantum

China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal (www.bbc.com)
23 days ago China Netflix

The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-15 Tax AI London

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-13 Google

Aylo says it will restore Pornhub access in the UK, but only for users who have verified their age via iOS 26.4's device-level age verification system (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-6 IOS

Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; he says he's “looking forward” to answering the questions (www.bbc.com)
2026-4-8 Bill Gates

PwC: 76 mainland Chinese companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025, up from 30 in 2024, despite the city's waning appeal to international investors (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-30 China Hong Kong

How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground-based sensors (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-25 AI

The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works, unless creators opt out, after a backlash from artists like Dua Lipa (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-19 AI

The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement “highly effective age checks” to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-12 ICO

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-7 London

TikTok won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and safety teams from reading messages if needed, saying it wants to protect young users from harm (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-4

The UK ICO fines Reddit £14.47M for unlawfully using children's personal information; Reddit began verifying user ages in July 2025 to comply with the UK OSA (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-24 Reddit ICO

The Gates Foundation says Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote at India's AI Summit after “careful consideration” amid controversy over his Epstein ties (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-19 India AI Bill Gates

ByteDance says it “respects IP rights and we have heard the concerns regarding Seedance” and it plans to “strengthen” safeguards, after Disney's legal threats (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-16

Pinterest fires two employees who it says “wrote custom scripts” that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-4 Layoffs

Paris prosecutors say they raided X's French offices with assistance from Europol; Elon Musk and ex-CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to April hearings (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-3 France Elon Musk Paris

Waymo says it hopes to launch its London robotaxi service as soon as September, after an April pilot; the UK government plans to change regulations in H2 2026 (www.bbc.com)
2026-1-30 London

Chinese media: China executed 11 members of the Ming mafia family that ran online scam centres in Myanmar; five Bai family members are also sentenced to death (www.bbc.com)
2026-1-29 China

A look at AI-powered tools and apps like Aira Explorer that are helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time (www.bbc.com)
2026-1-28 AI

The UK government drops plans for mandatory digital IDs to work in the country, marking a reversal from when the UK first announced the policy in September 2025 (www.bbc.com)
2026-1-14

The UK plans to bring into force a law this week that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, as Ofcom investigates X (www.bbc.com)
2026-1-13

UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (www.bbc.com)
2026-1-2 Tax

China's draft AI rules have measures to protect kids, like time limits and parental consent, ban gambling promotion content, and add suicide chats restrictions (www.bbc.com)
2025-12-31 China AI Ban

Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine (www.bbc.com)
2025-12-6

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