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@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-06-14 14:24:58

I think the government is stretching the understood meaning of "upskilling" in making people use AI, given the underlying promise of the AI industry.
gov.uk/government/news/tech-gi

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-14 08:20:43

Grenfell survivor urges government to speed up firms’ contract ban ahead of eighth anniversary | Morning Star
morningstaronline.co.uk/articl

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-10 15:31:52

UK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence - GOV.UK gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-

@juandesant@astrodon.social
2025-06-04 00:36:12

Public Service Announcement: If you've worked in the UK, and you've changed the UK number that you use for accessing Gov.UK services, it is impossible to restore access because the default recovery workflow requires UK-issued photo ids: either a UK passport, or a UK driving license, are mandatory, even if you never had one or provided one in the first place.
Happily enough, as long as you keep your National Insurance Number, you can create a new Gateway ID, but this time follow…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-11 11:46:02

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" (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
bbc.com/news/articles/cgmjrn42

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-14 08:22:27

Starmer's Labour government complicity.
Fury as minister admits Britain is still training Israeli troops amid Gaza genocide | Morning Star
morningstaronline.co.uk/articl

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-10 16:03:55

UK cyber agency pushes for 'strategic policy agenda' as government efforts stall therecord.media/ncsc-pushes-uk

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-06-13 16:52:26

HM Govt is flushing another **fourteen billion pounds** down the toilet that is Sizewell C, a plant which will certainly never generate a kilowatt hour of unsubsidised electricity, probably never generate a kilowatt hour of needed electricity, and certainly cost our descendants far more to decommission than it costs us to build.
At the same time as stealing money from tidal and wave installations we urgently need.

@dav@social.maleo.uk
2025-04-04 16:43:49

Amend Investigatory Powers Act: bar Govt from protected, private customer data
Amend the Act to specifically and completely bar any Government from attempting to compel any company to give them access to customers' data, which we think undermines privacy. We don't want any companies to pull privacy features from the UK market, potentially as a result of the Act and its use.

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-06-10 17:40:02

«GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government»
Don't tell the UK government, otherwise Starmer and his AI lackies will just copy and paste that playbook 😂
404media.co/github-is-leaking-

@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2025-06-05 09:14:37

A coalition of seven leading civil society organisations has called on the European Commission to revoke the United Kingdom's data adequacy status, citing what they describe as a sustained and systemic erosion of privacy and data protection standards in the UK.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-11 10:00:25

"Campaigners hail plan to ban bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-05-09 06:57:08

Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/

@drgeraint@glasgow.social
2025-06-10 20:35:33

Good news. It looks like Flamingo Land will not now be built on the banks of Loch Lomond.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23mxr

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-06-10 20:05:31

Nice. Now do Netanyahu, the rest of the israeli government, and everyone in the IDF. You know, the folks perpetrating the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Oh, and maybe stop running surveillance flights to help israel commit genocide.
#israel #genocide

Fiona Hill’s argument is that
in a time of profound uncertainty,
Britain needs greater internal cohesion if it is to protect itself.
“We can’t rely exclusively on anyone any more,” she said,
arguing that Britain needed to have “a different mindset” based as much on traditional defence as on social resilience.
Some of that, Hill said, was about a greater recognition of the level of external threat and initiatives for greater integration,
by teaching first a…

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 20:11:28

I guess directed-energy weapons are real now, since they're a billion pound line item.
gov.uk/government/publications

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-11 13:03:54

WhatsApp moves to join Apple’s encryption fight with UK government therecord.media/whatsapp-uk-en

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-06-02 23:54:24

Ask your MP to support a ban on the import and sale of fur in the UK #AnimalRights

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-05-29 10:59:40

This sounds great.
Former senior politicians, including Sir Ben Wallace, Jack Straw and Amber Rudd, play a fictional British government pitched against an imagined Kremlin.
The Wargame: New Sky News and Tortoise Media podcast series simulates a Russian attack on UK

@bibbleco@infosec.exchange
2025-06-08 08:40:57

Do the #BBC hand over website news stories to the work experience kids at the weekend, or something? This is embarrassingly bad.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7zng

@nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-06-09 17:31:20

Hey, #UK government: you should really send an aircraft carrier group to clear out that nest of pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-05 15:00:12

"Fossil Fuels and Fake LTNs: Reform’s Five Biggest Climate Clangers Since Local Elections"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels

@hllizi@hespere.de
2025-05-30 17:19:25

"They ran the bare job titles through GPT, without looking at the details of the specific jobs, and got the chatbot to guess what those titles would have meant. Then they decided the chatbot could do most of the jobs. They were, after all, using the chatbot to do their job."
Rule: your job can successfully be taken over by a chatbot if it comes with no accountability.

@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2025-05-30 15:07:31

Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK.
computing.co.uk/news/202…

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-12 07:48:57

"A new government of austerity and war, in a deteriorating international situation, after 17 years of economic slump and stagnation, unable to confront crises from genocide to climate change to housing shortages and preparing the way for far-right rule, would warrant sustained opposition from the left under any circumstances."
The Times They Are-a-Changin: #Labour is no longer the de…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-02 13:30:40

A UK government trial with 20K civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/7c2aa19d-4c92-4

@Xexyz@mastodon.me.uk
2025-03-26 20:51:30

Red Dead Redemption: completed!
While looking for beaver furs in the Northern regions, I noticed a new stranger mission open in Blackwater. I met a government man who told me that Edgar Ross was living in a shack overlooking a lake. Suddenly the lack of a previous ending made sense. Don't read if you've not played ...

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-06-02 11:10:25

My question about the PTSN switch-off campaign is: can BT not already *detect* (over the course of a year) which customers are using alarms or telecare devices likely to be impacted?
ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-11 11:00:25

"Stephen Fry and Theo James to star in film about marine bottom trawling"
#Oceans #Environment

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-06-07 19:09:06

With most apps, "[feature] enable push notifications" is just a line in the changelog, not a segment on BBC News.
gov.uk/government/news/patient

@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-05-31 06:57:09

DCMS announces new members of public records advisory body nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/

@Jeff@mastodon.opencloud.lu
2025-05-21 19:18:39

UK 2025 #Publication
Severe Space Weather Impacts on UK Critical National Infrastructure
A Space weather instrumentation, measurement, modelling and risk (#SWIMMR) Project Report
Priority Recommendation CS6 : "That government and other policymakers ensure that s…

Severe Space Weather Impacts on UK Critical National Infrastructure
Contributors	
M Allcock, A Pidgeon, G Black, E Prestwood, A Frayling, S Cucaro, W Lecky, J Coxon, A Smith, S Bentley, C Watt, R Wicks, J Rae
Cover page. Partial view of Northern hemisphere with UK.

#SpaceWeather #criticalinfrastructure

http://purl.org/net/epubs/work/61075921
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-04 16:43:52

"Everyone in the UK must prepare for missile attacks, warns top general"
Here we go again.
It's the 80s again
"Protect and Survive"
Or
"Protest and Survive"?
The first was a government pamphlet that included the advice to whitewash your windows in the event of an imminent nuclear attack.
The second was an EP Thompson pamphlet that helped launch the new wave of demonstrations and other actions against, among other things, …

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-02 15:00:05

"UK must consider food and climate part of national security, say top ex-military figures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

@steadystatemcr@mstdn.social
2025-04-27 08:47:07

"Parents say a non-charging Clean Air Zone (CAZ) - confirmed by the government earlier this year - ‘lacks ambition and won’t go nearly far enough to cut illegal levels of pollution’ plaguing the city."
Andy Burnham defends scrapping Clean Air Zone charges after parents slam 'epidemic' - Manchester Evening News
It's the parents who are right, of course. The evidence from other cities, including London is clear.

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-06 19:17:37

Another of the supposed "defence experts" (aka #warmongers) advising Labour. The article identifies 2 others, "Lord Robertson, a former Nato secretary general, and the retired general Sir Richard Barrons".
Any experts on #peace,

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-11 11:10:41

#LGBTQIA #TransRightsAreHumanRights #HumanRights #TransRights

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-05-26 12:29:09

Lol, how did I miss that the UK military named its AI trial WINTERMUTE?
gov.uk/government/news/largest

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-06-05 00:44:12

England's water crisis needs more than just new reservoirs—here's what will help #England

@drgeraint@glasgow.social
2025-05-26 22:00:20

US government corruption is blatant at the moment. UK government corruption is (slightly) less blatant. Which is worse? It seems to me that more blatant corruption encourages more corruption across society, but do you agree?
More dangerous for society:

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-05-27 10:54:09

Literally just watched a Mission Impossible movie about this.
gov.uk/government/news/uk-anno

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-03 14:00:04

"Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-06-10 08:36:47

I think that by not even commenting on the interception of the Madleen (Barcarole), the UK government may have damaged the value of the UK Ship Register.
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai

@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-06-04 19:24:17

Keir Starmer has called Israel’s recent actions in Gaza “appalling, counterproductive and intolerable”, as the UK government comes under mounting pressure to take stronger action after the killings of dozens of civilians at food points in recent days.
The prime minister told MPs the UK was considering imposing sanctions on members of the Israeli government, but is so far resisting growing calls for a complete ban on arms sales and immediate recognition of Palestine.
theguardian.com/politics/2025/

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-03 09:12:02

And this is deeply disappointing from #Unite's Sharon Graham
“Given the global challenges we face it is right that defence spending is increasing."
‘If government cared about security, it would end child poverty and pursue peace’ | Morning Star

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-05-18 17:56:46

Prof Anthony Costello on the UK's flawed covid policies
"UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice"
"Early in the covid pandemic, evidence emerged from several East Asian countries that suppression could lead to successful control. Yet the UK did not adopt the approach. ... Why was suppression not recommended, and what can be done to improve advice in future?"
Currently looks like it'd go the same way in the next pandemic too:
"Five years on, many of the people who developed the UK’s flawed response are still in post; they have not changed their views on suppression, and little has been done to improve government pandemic advice committees or to introduce detailed governance rules for the UK’s future pandemic response and resilience."
#covid #history #UKPol #pandemics

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-06-08 15:23:14

The UK government should publish the full underground map of cables etc (NUAR) below Royal Mint Court (OS grid TQ338806)

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-04 10:00:02

"Heat pump rollout under threat if Government cuts £7,500 boiler upgrade scheme"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #HeatPumps

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-02 19:00:04

"New UK planning rules for heat pumps come into effect, one meter rule scrapped"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #HeatPumps #Energy

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-09 10:00:12

"Bonuses banned for 10 English water bosses over sewage pollution"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage #Pollution

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-02 13:00:05

"Scottish government scraps plan for new national park in Galloway"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Environment