Articles from www.bbc.com

Articles from www.bbc.com

The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 “nationally significant” cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, and “highly significant” cyberattacks rose by 50% (www.bbc.com)
6 days ago

UK police dismantle an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40K stolen smartphones from the UK to China, arrest 18 suspects, and recover 2,000 phones (www.bbc.com)
13 days ago China

A look at major UK businesses hit by cyberattacks in 2025; a government survey estimates 43% of businesses and 30% of charities were hit in the past 12 months (www.bbc.com)
14 days ago

NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a “total internet blackout” as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice (www.bbc.com)
20 days ago Afghanistan

The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones (www.bbc.com)
24 days ago Immigration

The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 (www.bbc.com)
25 days ago AI

UK's National Crime Agency says it's arrested a man in connection with a cyberattack that has caused days of disruption at Heathrow and other European airports (www.bbc.com)
26 days ago Europe

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (www.bbc.com)
2025-9-9 China

An investigation finds spammers are deploying Holocaust-themed AI slop images across Facebook, in an attempt to game Meta's content monetization program (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-29 Facebook AI

Apple says the UK CMA's proposed “EU-style” regulation is “bad for users and bad for developers”, “undermines” privacy and security, and “hampers” innovation (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-28 Apple

French prosecutors open an investigation into Australian video platform Kick over the death of a content creator who was violently abused during livestreams (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-26 France Australia

YouTube used AI to make changes in some videos without telling the creators; YouTube says it's an experiment to unblur, denoise, and improve quality (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-26 AI YouTube

How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a woman's voice, lost to motor neuron disease, from just eight seconds of audio on a VHS tape (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-24 AI

Kick says it is “urgently reviewing” the circumstances of the death of a French livestreamer who was subjected to violence and sleep deprivation during streams (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-20 France

Barbour ABI: the UK's data center count, currently 477, is set to jump by ~100 over the next five years, with more than half in London and neighboring counties (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-17 London

In the UK, X and Reddit are blocking wide-ranging content, including about parliamentary debates, Ukraine, and Gaza, to comply with the Online Safety Act (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-2 Ukraine Reddit

Google will roll out AI Mode in the UK in the coming days after launching in the US and India; the optional feature will appear as a tab and in the search box (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-29 India Google AI

Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-28 Android Google Algorithm

Netflix used AI tools for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would have been too high otherwise (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-18 AI Netflix

UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men age 17 to 19, in relation to the M&S and Co-op hacks, which started in April and caused havoc (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-10

UK minister instructs the Turing AI institute, which has lately focused on responsible AI and ethics, to prioritize national security and defense instead (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-5 AI

Aylo, owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, will add “government approved age assurance methods” in the UK by July 25 to comply with the Online Safety Act (www.bbc.com)
2025-6-26

The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI (www.bbc.com)
2025-6-12 AI

Will Cathcart says WhatsApp plans to support Apple in its legal case against the UK Home Office over weakening encryption, which may “set a dangerous precedent” (www.bbc.com)
2025-6-11 Apple WhatsApp

Hacking group DragonForce says it stole UK retailer Co-op's customer data and planned to deploy ransomware, but Co-op quickly shut down its systems, unlike M&S (www.bbc.com)
2025-5-15

President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US (www.bbc.com)
2025-5-10 U.S. Mexico Google

The Wikimedia Foundation says it is taking legal action to challenge the UK's Online Safety Act, saying it could threaten the safety of its volunteer editors (www.bbc.com)
2025-5-9

Ofcom opens an investigation into a pro-suicide forum, its first using the Online Safety Act; the BBC linked the unnamed forum to 50+ deaths in the UK (www.bbc.com)
2025-4-9

Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox” and says “tens of millions” have positive experiences (www.bbc.com)
2025-3-14

A look at YouTube's hidden world: most of the videos on the platform capture everyday life and have rarely been seen, with the median video having just 41 views (www.bbc.com)
2025-3-9 YouTube

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