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Palantir has been selected to build a new national firearms licensing database for police forces across England and Wales.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/gove

Palantir awarded new £9m contract as MPs sound the alarm
The US data analytics company Palantir has been selected to build a new national firearms licensing database for police forces across England and Wales.

OpenAgenet/OAN: Open Infrastructure for Trusted Agent Interconnection
Jinliang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03161 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03161

AI is driving a surge in global energy and water demand, with new research from the United Nations suggesting that both will double in the next four years.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/da…

Datacentre power and water use to double by 2030
AI is driving a surge in global energy and water demand, with new research from the United Nations suggesting that both will double in the ...

Pure Data Centres has announced what it claims is Europe’s first large-scale cross-border biomethane deal.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/2026/can-biomethane-scale-pure-dc-tests-renewable-gas-for-datace…

Can biomethane scale? Pure DC tests renewable gas for datacentre decarbonisation
Pure Data Centres has announced what it claims is Europe’s first large-scale cross-border biomethane deal for a datacentre, using imported renewable energy to “fully decarbonise” ...

OpenAgenet/OAN: Technical Architecture for Trust-Governed Agent Identity and Discovery
Jinliang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03163 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Whether a reported 5% of OpenAI is a potential gift to the American people, or Sam Altman trying to hedge against the AI infrastructure bubble collapsing, is a question more people should ask.
https://www.

Meta is developing plans to launch a cloud infrastructure business that would allow companies to rent AI computing power and access its AI models.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/m

Computing’s sustainability research examines AI-native clouds CoreWeave and Nscale. Both are young companies; both have a crypto-mining heritage; and both are very shy about publishing sustainability data.
https://www.

The AI cloud boom: who’s counting the cost?
From Google's newly invented carbon metric to two key AI clouds that publish no environmental data at all, the Computing annual sustainability audit goes under ...

One in four cars sold globally is now electric. Penetration in the U.S., however, still hovers just around 10%
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EVs are getting more affordable worldwide — except in the U.S.
The U.S. is impaired by a lack of supportive policy and subsidies, the unavailability of affordable Chinese models, and a preference for big cars.