UK’s Royal Mint drops NFT plans
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Tuesday, 28 March 2023 11:51

UK’s Royal Mint drops NFT plans


The economy is in enough of a mess

UK Prime Minster Rishi Sunak’s attempt to sign the country up to an NFT financial system has been mercifully dropped.

UK Tories whinge that Google’s chatbot hates them
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Thinks it has a left-wing bias

The UK Conservative party is complaining that Google’s new Bard AI based chatbot hates them and believes it is producing results with a left-wing bias.

UK brings in national mobile phone alert
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Monday, 20 March 2023 11:34

UK brings in national mobile phone alert


Will warn you if there are tomatos avaliable in your supermarket 

Post-Brexit turnip-eaters, the UK have bought in a government-backed public warning system, in which alerts are sent to mobile phone users about events that may put their life in danger.

UK invests £900 million in a new supercomputer
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After Brexit UK fears falling behind in the AI race 

The UK, which once had an Empire and a favoured status in Europe, is having to invest in its own supercomputer as it fears falling behind the rest of the world in artificial intelligence.

UK opens mmWave spectrum
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Wednesday, 15 March 2023 11:04

UK opens mmWave spectrum


26 GHz and 40 GHz bands available

The UK's telecom's regulator Ofcom is making mmWave spectrum in the 26 GHz and 40 GHz bands available for new mobile technologies and 5G services.

WhatsApp will ignore autocratic British end-to-end encryption laws
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Only autocratic regimes who make peasants eat turnips do this sort of thing

The salad-strapped UK government's planned move to outlaw end-to-end encryption has already found a conscious objector in the form of WhatsApp.

UK chipmakers threaten to leave unless British government gets its act together
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Brexit leads to exit

UK chipmakers are threatening to move their operations to the US or Europe unless the government pulls its finger out and announce a semiconductor strategy.

British government wants to give money to chip companies
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Never mind the NHS, we want to feed a global oversupply

The UK government is trying to convince itself that if it spends billions to subsidise semiconductor companies it will help the country better compete and build resiliency and make the country great again.

Amazon having difficulty in battle against its UK employees
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This is not the US, you can't just beat them up

US big tech box shifter Amazon is finding it tougher to break UK unions than its usual union stomping ground -- the US.

Russian and Iranian hackers attack UK
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Thursday, 26 January 2023 10:49

Russian and Iranian hackers attack UK


Crimean war revenge 

Russian and Iranian state-linked hackers are hacking British politicians and journalists, Britain’s online security agency warned.