Slashdot Items Tagged "blimey"

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Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:40PM Harmful Lies Spread Easily in the UK Because the Nation Lacks a Law To Regulate Social Media, Study Concludes
Wednesday April 29, 2020 @01:47PM British Museum Makes 1.9 Million Images Available For Free
Friday March 27, 2020 @06:10PM Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, Has the Coronavirus
Friday February 14, 2020 @06:08PM UK Police Deny Responsibility For Poster Urging Parents To Report Kids For Using Kali Linux
Saturday February 08, 2020 @03:10PM UK To Host Spyware Firm Accused of Aiding Human Rights Abuses
Saturday February 01, 2020 @04:14PM Rolls-Royce Plans To Build Up To 15 Mini Nuclear Reactors In Britain
Friday January 31, 2020 @09:20PM Brexit Happens
Monday January 06, 2020 @02:19PM The UK Health System Tries Spending Millions To Reduce The Time Spent Logging In To Things
Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:02PM Electric Buses on London's 100 Route Will Play a Soundtrack To Alert Pedestrians To Their Presence
Sunday September 08, 2019 @01:21PM South Africa, UK Acknowledge Mass Surveillance By Tapping Undersea Internet Cables
Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:49PM London University Is Banning Beef To Help Fight Climate Change
Monday July 08, 2019 @02:57PM British Airways Hit With Record Fine For Data Breach
Saturday June 22, 2019 @11:37AM Clean Electricity Overtaking Fossil Fuels In Britain
Sunday June 09, 2019 @01:24PM Should the UK Re-Open An Old, Cracked Nuclear Reactor?
Sunday May 26, 2019 @02:16PM The First Usable Electric Car Was Invented In Britain In 1884
Thursday May 09, 2019 @12:18PM Britain Passes One Week Without Coal Power For First Time Since 1882
Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:33AM UK's National Mapping Agency is Working on a Project To Create Almost Real-Time Maps of Streets
Friday May 03, 2019 @02:57PM UK's Tax Authority To Delete Five Million Biometric Voice Records Because it Did Not Have Clear Consent From Its Customers
Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:23AM Julian Assange Gets Almost a Year in UK Prison For Skipping Bail
Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:58PM UK To Let Huawei Firm Help Build 5G Network
Saturday April 06, 2019 @10:53PM White Hat Hackers Cracked 50 UK Universities' Computer Systems In 2 Hours
Sunday March 24, 2019 @10:22AM Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers
Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:10AM Debit Card With Built-In Fingerprint Reader Begins Trial In the UK
Monday February 04, 2019 @02:19PM The UK's CO2 Emissions Have Fallen 38% Since 1990, Faster Than Any Other Major Developed Country
Thursday January 24, 2019 @10:25AM Social Media Stars Agree To Declare When They Post Ads For Products
Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:24PM London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting
Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:09PM Video Games Now Account For More Than Half of UK Entertainment Market
Tuesday January 01, 2019 @02:58PM Severn Bridge, a Main Route Between England and Wales, Shuts as Drone Flown From Tower
Tuesday December 25, 2018 @03:16PM UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones
Tuesday December 25, 2018 @03:15PM Hot Tub Hack Reveals Washed-up Security Protection
Tuesday December 18, 2018 @06:02PM UK Police Are Testing Facial Recognition on Christmas Shoppers in London this Week
Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:24PM The British Army is Carrying Out a Massive Test of Military Robots and Drones
Sunday October 14, 2018 @08:51PM UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy
Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:21PM UK's GCHQ Intelligence Agency Violated Human Rights With Its Mass Surveillance Tactics, Top European Court Rules
Friday September 07, 2018 @05:46PM World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England
Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:31PM Murder Suspect Jailed Over Refusing To Reveal Password In the UK
Monday August 06, 2018 @07:05PM ISPs' Listed Speeds Drop Up To 41 Percent After UK Requires Accurate Advertising
Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:48PM GCHQ Spy Agency Given Illegal Access To Citizens' Data
Monday July 23, 2018 @02:15PM Government Spells Out Plans For UK-Wide Full Fibre By 2033
Tuesday July 10, 2018 @03:21PM UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home
Sunday July 08, 2018 @12:14PM Controversial Police Facial Recognition Test Fails to Recognize Anyone in London
Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:37PM Ticketmaster UK Admits Personal Data Stolen In Hack Attack
Wednesday June 13, 2018 @11:47PM Britain's Dixons Carphone Discovers Data Breach Affecting 5.9 Million Payment Cards
Monday May 21, 2018 @01:32PM Google Sued For 'Clandestine Tracking' of 4.4 Million UK iPhone Users' Browsing Data
Monday May 07, 2018 @10:11PM UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal
Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:53AM UK Officials Will Summon Mark Zuckerberg To Testify if He Won't Do So Voluntarily
Monday April 30, 2018 @12:29PM Movements of Pedestrians and Vehicles in Inner-city Liverpool To Be Captured by Cameras and Smartphones To Help Local Council Map Potential Tweaks To Streets
Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:11PM Zuckerberg Refuses UK Parliament Summons Over Facebook Data Misuse, Agrees To Testify Before Congress
Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:50PM UK High Court 'Perma-Bans' Efforts to Extradite Lauri Love to the US
Wednesday January 31, 2018 @08:31PM Judges Say the UK's Digital Surveillance Program Snooper's Charter Is Illegal
Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:18AM UK Hospitals Can Now Store Confidential Patient Records In the Public Cloud
Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:48PM UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017
Saturday December 23, 2017 @04:50PM UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes
Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:47PM The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right
Wednesday November 15, 2017 @07:04PM Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely?
Friday September 22, 2017 @12:46PM London Has Decided To Ban Uber
Friday September 15, 2017 @07:08PM Equifax Says Almost 400,000 Britons Hit In Data Breach
Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:15AM After Public Outcry From Customers, Britain's Biggest Bank HSBC Heads Off Complaints Over Small Business Account Closures
Monday July 31, 2017 @02:39PM Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019
Thursday June 29, 2017 @04:35PM 'Microsoft' Scam Callers Arrested After Years of Terrorising the Technically Challenged
Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:23PM London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen
Friday June 23, 2017 @11:01AM BBC Technical Glitch Leaves TV Presenter In Silence
Saturday June 10, 2017 @09:56PM British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack
Friday June 09, 2017 @11:22AM Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament
Friday June 02, 2017 @10:01AM Google Unveils Design For 1 Million Squarefoot London Headquarters
Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:51AM UK Tech Visas Quadruple After Applications Soar
Monday May 15, 2017 @12:45PM UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border
Sunday May 14, 2017 @08:39AM Did The UK Police Hire Foreigners To Hack Hundreds of Activists?
Friday May 05, 2017 @02:02PM Leaked Document Reveals UK Plans For Wider Internet Surveillance
Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:31AM British Cops Will Scan Every Fan's Face At the Champions League Final
Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:01PM London Police Ink Shadowy Deal With Industry On Website Takedowns
Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:36PM 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered
Saturday March 11, 2017 @03:44PM Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers
Thursday February 16, 2017 @10:13AM Lost Winston Churchill Essay Reveals His Thoughts On Alien Life
Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:33PM EU's Highest Court Delivers Blow To UK Snooper's Charter
Sunday December 11, 2016 @02:57PM Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court?
Sunday December 04, 2016 @03:26PM For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption
Saturday December 03, 2016 @01:44PM Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law
Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:39PM The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update]
Sunday November 20, 2016 @05:14PM London's Mayor Wants Volkswagen To Pay $3 Million In Lost Tolls
Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:56PM Britain Has Passed the 'Most Extreme Surveillance Law Ever Passed in a Democracy'
Monday November 07, 2016 @03:07PM British Retail Tesco Bank: 20,000 Customers Lose Money
Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:53PM UK Government Vows To Sink $2.3 Billion Into New Cybersecurity Plan
Sunday October 23, 2016 @07:18PM A British Supercomputer Can Predict Winter Weather a Year In Advance
Monday October 17, 2016 @02:55PM UK Police Begins Deployment of 22,000 Police Body Cameras
Monday October 10, 2016 @12:50PM Is Britain Secretly Funding Its Nuclear Submarine Program?
Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:21PM GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall
Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:20PM 10 Years in Prison For Online Pirates a Step Closer in the UK
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @07:40PM Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals
Sunday July 24, 2016 @03:02PM UK Cybersecurity Executives Plead Guilty To Hacking A Rival Firm
Tuesday June 07, 2016 @05:39PM UK Snooper's Charter, AKA The Investigatory Powers Bill, Passes Through Commons
Friday June 03, 2016 @03:20PM UK Gov't Creating Secret Mega Database On Citizens Without Informing Parliament
Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:49AM British Hacker Love Wins Court Battle Over Encryption Keys
Friday April 29, 2016 @08:37PM GCHQ Has Disclosed Over 20 Vulnerabilities This Year
Friday April 22, 2016 @04:56PM UK Intel Agencies Have Been Spying on Millions of People 'Of No Security Interest' Since 1990s
Friday April 22, 2016 @04:51PM Drone Believed To Have Hit British Airways Flight 'May Have Been a Plastic Bag'
Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:18PM Snowden Ridicules David Cameron For Defending 'Private' Matter of Panama Papers Leak
Tuesday March 01, 2016 @10:29PM UK Snooper's Charter To Extend Police Access To Phone and Internet Data
Sunday December 20, 2015 @10:51AM UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy
Wednesday December 16, 2015 @02:24PM BIg Brother has been alive and well in the UK for the last 15 years, it seems.
Saturday December 12, 2015 @01:45PM UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own
Wednesday December 09, 2015 @01:52PM UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs
Friday November 27, 2015 @11:25AM UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use
Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:37PM UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them
Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:30AM The UK Will Police the Dark Web With a New Task Force
Friday November 06, 2015 @09:57AM MI5 'Secretly Collected Phone Data' For Decade
Thursday November 05, 2015 @11:54AM Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs
Thursday November 05, 2015 @11:53AM BBC Lets Viewers Buy Shows and Episodes Permanently, But No 'Extras'
Monday November 02, 2015 @02:23PM UK to ban "unbreakable" encryption
Friday October 30, 2015 @10:28AM UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History
Tuesday October 27, 2015 @08:39PM British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam
Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:23PM Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London
Monday October 12, 2015 @09:29PM British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy
Friday September 25, 2015 @07:18PM GCHQ tried to track Web visits of "every visible user on Internet"
Monday July 20, 2015 @04:04PM UK Government Releases Rules To Get Self-Driving Cars Onto Public Roads
Saturday July 18, 2015 @05:56PM UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term
Saturday July 18, 2015 @09:30AM Data Store and Spying Laws Found Illegal By EU Court
Tuesday July 14, 2015 @01:13PM Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train
Saturday July 11, 2015 @01:40PM Amnesty International Seeks Explanation For 'Absolutely Shocking' Surveillance
Tuesday July 07, 2015 @11:42PM UK May Send More People Into Space
Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:05PM Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications
Thursday July 02, 2015 @08:47PM UK Government Illegally Spied On Amnesty International
Monday June 22, 2015 @11:11PM Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged In Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda
Thursday June 11, 2015 @11:04AM Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK
Thursday May 21, 2015 @08:25AM Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society
Tuesday May 19, 2015 @01:36PM UK Criminals Use Drones To Case Burglary Prospects
Sunday May 17, 2015 @06:56PM GCHQ Officials Given Immunity From Hacking Charges
Friday May 15, 2015 @08:41PM Intelligence officers given immunity from hacking laws, tribunal told
Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:50PM UK Police Chief: Some Tech Companies Are 'Friendly To Terrorists'
Monday April 20, 2015 @03:45PM Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference
Wednesday April 01, 2015 @02:58PM UK forces Microsoft to adopt Open document standards
Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:34AM UK IP Chief Wants ISPs To Police Piracy Proactively
Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:26AM Man-Shaped Robots Harass Britain Once Again
Thursday March 26, 2015 @01:11PM UK Setting Itself Up To Be More Friendly To Bitcoin Startups
Sunday March 22, 2015 @07:24PM UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System
Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:36AM UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems
Wednesday March 18, 2015 @12:25PM UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax'
Monday March 16, 2015 @04:47PM GCHQ Builds a Raspberry Pi Super Computer Cluster
Monday March 16, 2015 @10:37AM Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English'
Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:46PM UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies
Monday March 09, 2015 @10:28PM Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes
Saturday January 31, 2015 @07:46PM UK Sets Up Internet-Savvy Army Unit
Monday January 26, 2015 @12:41PM Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed
Monday January 19, 2015 @12:26PM GCHQ intercepted emails from The New York Times, Reuters, BBC, and others
Sunday January 18, 2015 @01:53PM Winston Churchill's Scientists
Friday January 16, 2015 @12:09PM US/UK Will Stage 'Cyber-Attack War Games' As Pressure Against Encryption Mounts
Friday January 16, 2015 @12:07PM Lost Beagle2 Probe Found 'Intact' On Mars
Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:16PM UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them
Friday January 09, 2015 @10:47AM MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack
Thursday January 08, 2015 @02:18PM UK Government Department Still Runs VME Operating System Installed In 1974
Monday December 29, 2014 @08:09PM Apple Pay For the UK
Tuesday December 23, 2014 @12:04PM BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers
Monday December 22, 2014 @01:10PM GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals
Monday December 15, 2014 @03:14PM Amazon UK Glitch Sells Thousands of Products For a Penny
Sunday December 14, 2014 @12:30PM Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display
Saturday December 06, 2014 @12:26PM GCHQ Does Not Breach Human Rights, Judges Rule
Thursday December 04, 2014 @11:26AM UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts
Wednesday December 03, 2014 @10:49AM UK Announces 'Google Tax'
Sunday November 30, 2014 @08:51PM U.K. Police Force "Accidentally" Admits It Spied on Journalists
Wednesday November 26, 2014 @11:13AM New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps
Friday November 14, 2014 @10:10PM Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button
Thursday October 30, 2014 @10:01AM Secret Policy Allows GCHQ Bulk Access To NSA Data
Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:37AM Proposed Penalty For UK Hackers Who "Damage National Security": Life
Sunday October 19, 2014 @01:30PM BBC Takes a Stand For the Public's Right To Remember Redacted Links
Tuesday October 07, 2014 @10:47AM Brits Must Trade Digital Freedoms For Safety, Says Crime Agency Boss
Thursday September 18, 2014 @09:55AM London's Crime Hot Spots Predicted Using Mobile Phone Data
Sunday September 14, 2014 @04:11PM School Installs Biometric Fingerprint System For Cafeteria
Friday September 12, 2014 @02:16PM UK Ham Radio Reg Plans To Drop 15 min Callsign Interval and Allow Encryption
Saturday August 16, 2014 @10:51PM Leaked Documents: GCHQ Made Port-Scanning Entire Countries a Standard Spy Tool
Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:58PM Wikipedia Gets Critical Reception from UK Press at Wikimania 2014
Monday August 04, 2014 @03:14AM UK Spy Agency Certifies Master's Degrees In Cyber Security
Thursday July 31, 2014 @04:01PM UK Government Report Recommends Ending Online Anonymity
Wednesday July 30, 2014 @12:41PM UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January
Wednesday July 23, 2014 @12:12PM UK Cabinet Office Adopts ODF As Exclusive Standard For Sharable Documents
Tuesday July 22, 2014 @12:12PM For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It
Monday July 14, 2014 @09:00PM Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek To Control the Internet
Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:14PM Seven ISPs Take Legal Action Against GCHQ
Thursday June 26, 2014 @11:53AM MP Says 'Failed' Piracy Warnings Should Escalate To Fines & Jail
Tuesday June 17, 2014 @10:23PM Google and Facebook Can Be Legally Intercepted, Says UK Spy Boss
Friday June 13, 2014 @02:25PM British Army turns to Oculus Rift to take the sting out of battlefield trauma
Wednesday May 14, 2014 @12:44PM British government willing to block EU net neutrality deal
Friday May 09, 2014 @12:36PM London Black Cabs Threaten Chaos To Stop Uber
Friday May 09, 2014 @12:31PM UK ISPs To Send Non-Threatening Letters To Pirates
Thursday April 10, 2014 @06:07PM London's Public Bike Data Can Tell Everyone Where You've Been
Thursday March 20, 2014 @12:28PM UK To Create Alan Turing Institute
Sunday March 16, 2014 @12:55PM UK government wants "unsavoury" web content to be removed
Sunday March 09, 2014 @03:01PM School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA
Saturday March 01, 2014 @02:46PM Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast
Friday February 21, 2014 @05:31PM Microsoft Circles the Wagons To Defeat ODF In the UK
Sunday February 09, 2014 @04:54PM Non-Coders as the Face of the Learn-to-Code Movements
Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:23PM UK Police Will Have Backdoor Access To Health Records
Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:10PM Snowden Docs Show UK's Digital Spies Using Viruses, Honey Traps
Friday February 07, 2014 @12:30PM UK police will have backdoor access to health records
Wednesday January 22, 2014 @06:08PM Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches
Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:13PM BT and Alcatel-Lucent Record Real-World Fibre Optic Speed of 1.4Tbps In the UK
Thursday January 16, 2014 @01:05PM Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password
Friday January 10, 2014 @01:51PM It's Official: Registrars cannot hold domains hostage without a court order
Sunday January 05, 2014 @05:14PM UK Company Successfully Claims Ownership of "Pinterest" Trademark
Friday January 03, 2014 @03:07PM The UK's Internet Porn Filter and Fighting Censorship Creep
Tuesday December 31, 2013 @03:02AM UK Introduces Warrantless Detention