11 hours ago ShareSave Liv McMahon Technology reporter ShareSave Getty Images German car making giant Volkswagen (VW) has introduced a subscription for UK customers wanting to increase the power of some of its electric cars. Those who buy an eligible car in its ID.3 range can choose to pay extra if they want to unlock […]
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Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount
60 minutes ago ShareSave Zoe Kleinman & Krystina Shveda Technology editor & BBC reporter•@zsk ShareSave Getty Images The number of data centres in the UK is set to increase by almost a fifth, according to figures shared with BBC News. Data centres are giant warehouses full of powerful computers used to run digital services from […]
Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
The number of people in the UK visiting the most popular pornography sites has decreased sharply since enhanced age verification rules came into place, new figures indicate. Data analytics firm Similarweb said leading adult site Pornhub lost more than one million visitors in just two weeks. Pornhub and other major adult websites introduced advanced age […]
AI can make us UK’s biggest firm, Rolls-Royce says
1 hour ago ShareSave Simon Jack Business editor ShareSave Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce’s plan to power artificial intelligence (AI) with its nuclear reactors could make it the UK’s most valuable company, its boss has said. The engineering firm has signed deals to provide small modular reactors (SMRs) to the UK and Czech governments to power AI-driven data […]
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to new Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten the human rights and safety of its volunteer editors. The Wikimedia Foundation – the non-profit which supports the online encyclopaedia – wanted a judicial review of regulations which could mean Wikipedia has to verify the identities of its […]
Elon Musk’s AI accused of making explicit AI Taylor Swift videos
52 minutes ago ShareSave Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter ShareSave Getty Images Elon Musk’s AI video generator has been accused of making “a deliberate choice” to create sexually explicit clips of Taylor Swift without prompting, says an expert in online abuse. “This is not misogyny by accident, it is by design,” said Clare McGlynn, a law […]
OpenAI claims GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’
5 hours ago ShareSave Lily Jamali North America Technology correspondent Liv McMahon Technology reporter ShareSave Getty Images ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. Billed as “smarter, faster, and more useful,” OpenAI co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman lauded the company’s […]
Woman awarded £150,000 after LG phone sparks fire in her home
A woman has successfully sued former phone manufacturer LG for nearly £150,000 after one of its devices sparked a fire in her home in North Lanarkshire. Denise Parks and her husband Robert were in bed at their house in Coatbridge when a fire broke out in the living room at about 03:00 on 31 October […]
Jobs in video games dried up, so we made our own
15 hours ago ShareSave ShareSave Studio Morgan When Holly Hudson enrolled on a university video game design course, she imagined a job at a studio would be waiting at the end of it. Her dream was to work as a 3D artist, but the reality has been different. “I’ve applied to so many jobs this […]
Tesla found partly to blame for fatal Autopilot crash
A jury in Florida has found Tesla partly liable for a 2019 crash in which a Model S sedan using self-driving software killed a pedestrian and severely injured another. Plaintiffs had argued the assistance software, called Autopilot, should have alerted the driver and activated the brakes before the crash. Tesla had maintained the driver, George […]