United Kingdom Stories for 2017

Dutch Utility Plans Massive Wind Farm Island In North Sea 141
UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017 72
UK Companies Facing Cyber Security Staff Shortage 138
UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes 144
The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right 260
Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks 133
Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot 140
'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed 224
Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study 474
Google Faces Lawsuit For Gathering Personal Data From Millions of iPhone Users 35
Tom Baker Returns To Finish Shelved Doctor Who Episodes Penned By Douglas Adams 83
Computer Science GCSE in Disarray After Tasks Leaked Online 53
Living In Nuclear Disaster Fallout Zone Would Be No Worse Than Living In London, Research Suggests 278
Pornhub Owner May Become the UK's Gatekeeper of Online Porn 95
Broadband Firms in UK Must Ditch 'Misleading' Speed Ads 69
Uber Drivers Have Rights on Wages and Time Off, UK Panel Rules 125
Heathrow Airport Security Files Found on USB Stick In The Street 116
UK's NHS Could Have Avoided WannaCry Hack With 'Basic IT Security', Says Report 59
Stephen Hawking's Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online 79
Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery 486
Equifax Breach Included 10 Million US Driving Licenses 66
Equifax Increases Number of Britons Affected By Data Breach To 700,000 58
UK Government Could Imprison People For Looking At Terrorist Content 271
Will London Monetize Wifi Tracking Data From Its Tube Passengers? 90
Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm 117
Vacuum Company Dyson To Build 'Radically Different' Electric Car 177
Computer Science Degrees Aren't Returning On Investment For Coders, Research Finds 395
Diesel Cars Contribute To 5,000 Premature Deaths a Year In Europe, Says Study 215
Equifax Says Almost 400,000 Britons Hit In Data Breach 45
Hyperloop One Reveals 10 Strongest Potential Hyperloop Routes In the World 142
Should British Hacker Lauri Love Be Tried In America? 254
After Public Outcry From Customers, Britain's Biggest Bank HSBC Heads Off Complaints Over Small Business Account Closures 62
80% of UK Government IT Projects Suffer Delays Due To Tax Clampdown 88
Police Allegedly Arrest UK News Photographer For Standing In A Field 216
A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK 90
Energy Firm Slapped With $65,000 Fine For Making 1.5 Million Nuisance Calls 67
UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life 307
Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Sparks Outbreaks In UK 146
Amateur Drone Lands On British Air Carrier, Wired Reviews Anti-Drone Technology 152
Canonical Needs Your Help Transitioning Ubuntu Linux From Unity To GNOME 111
Why Amazon's UK Tax Bill Has Dropped 50% 139
UK Wants To Criminalize Re-Identification of Anonymized User Data 120
Brits Look at Google and Facebook Every 210 Seconds, Says Survey 26
London is Using Optical Illusions To Make Cars Slow Down 174
Google Now Permits Android Apps That Facilitate Gambling With Real Money 44
UK Security Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Outbreak Arrested in US 176
'Real People' Don't Need End-To-End Encryption In Their Messaging Apps, UK Home Secretary Says 348
Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 356
Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds 223
New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK 417
UK To Require Drone Registration And Safety Exams 97
Hacks 'Probably Compromised' UK Industry 19
Porn Websites in UK Ordered To Introduce Age Checks From Next Year 105
Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker 508
UK Wifi Provider Tricks Customers Into Agreeing To Clean Sewers 71
Radio Station Hijacked Eight Times In the Past Month To Play 'I'm a Wanker' Song 168
Google Funds A Team Of Robot Journalists 43
Google's DeepMind and UK Hospitals Made Illegal Deal For Health Data, Says Watchdog 31
Ends, Means, and Antitrust 97
Sony Suspends Thousands Of PlayStation Network Accounts in UK, Allegedly Because Of Issue With PayPal 35
Raspberry Pi Wins UK's Top Engineering Award 54
London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen 232
Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears 302
UK Parliament Emails Closed After 'Sustained And Determined' Cyber-Attack 44
Fallen Tech Star Imagination Technologies Up For Sale After Apple Row Bites 28
Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste 219
Microsoft, Accenture Team Up On Blockchain-based Digital ID Network 53
EU Mobile Roaming Charges Scrapped 67
British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack 340
Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament 493
EU Seeks New Powers To Obtain Data 'Directly' From Tech Firms 40
US Ranks 28th In the World In Average Wireless Broadband Speeds 66
It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative 217
Theresa May Says UK Will 'Tear Up' Human Rights Laws If Needed For Terror Fight 306
Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe 213
After London Attack, PM Calls For Internet Regulation To Fight Terrorists 535
Google Unveils Design For 1 Million Squarefoot London Headquarters 58
UK Tech Visas Quadruple After Applications Soar 83
IT Crash Causes British Airways To Cancel All Flights 184
Manchester Attack Could Lead To Internet Crackdown 384
UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet 186
London City First In UK To Get Remote Air Traffic Control 43
Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation 187
'Without Action on Antibiotics, Medicine Will Return To the Dark Ages' 321
A Quarter of IT Pros Find Their Job Very Stressful 108
US and EU Reject Expanding Laptop Ban To Flights From Europe 87
Region-Locked Content Drives UK Users To Try a VPN 57
UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border 284
British PM Candidate Promises Social Media Crackdown 218
Did The UK Police Hire Foreigners To Hack Hundreds of Activists? 72
Cyberattack Hits England's National Health Service With Ransom Demands 202
Nuisance Call Firm Keurboom Hit With Record Fine 81
Call Center Operator and His Cousin Steal $645,000 From UK Water Supplier 97
Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe 696
Did A Billionaire Harvest Big Data From Facebook To 'Hijack' Democracy? 452
Leaked Document Reveals UK Plans For Wider Internet Surveillance 92
Digital Economy Act: Illegal Kodi Streams Could Now Land Users In Prison For 10 Years 213
DRM Will Be Gone By 2025, Predicts Cory Doctorow 191
Encrypted WhatsApp Message Recovered From Westminster Terrorist's Phone 143
British Cops Will Scan Every Fan's Face At the Champions League Final 89
WikiLeaks Releases New CIA Secret: Tapping Microphones On Some Samsung TVs 100
Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution 206
Virgin Media Starts Turning Customer Routers Into Public Wi-Fi Hotspots 149
Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee Slams UK and US Net Plans 48
Drone Complaints Soar in the UK 42
Britain Wants Tech Firms to Tackle Extremism 137
'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered 667
Laptop Ban on Planes Came After Plot To Put Explosives in iPad 286
London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors 360
17-Year-Old Corrects NASA Mistake In Data From The ISS 79
UK Broadband Customers Set To Receive Millions In Compensation For Bad Service 17
US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots 285
UK Flight Ban On Devices To Be Announced 249
Google To Revamp Policies, Hire Staff After UK Ad Scandal 76
Researchers Build An AI That's Better At Reading Lips Than Humans 62
Elderly 'Hit by Line Rental Charges' 82
Questions Linger After ISP Blocks TeamViewer Over Fraud Fears 87
Google Wants To Use AI To Cut the UK's Electric Bill By 10 Percent 68
Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers 299
EU Court Sets Limit On 'Right To Be Forgotten' In Company Registers 28
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Handle A Bogus Copyright Infringement Notice? 206
UK: New Drivers Caught Using a Phone Will Lose Their License 180
UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks On Deutsche Telekom 26
Self-Driving Cars Should Be Liable For Accidents, Not the Passengers: UK Government 250
'We Won't Block Pirate Bay,' Swedish Telecoms Giant Says 27
Google and Microsoft To Crackdown On Piracy Sites In Search Results 104
Lost Winston Churchill Essay Reveals His Thoughts On Alien Life 187
Iris Scans and Fingerprints Could Be Your Ticket On British Rail 75
iPhone 7 Ousts Samsung Galaxy Note 4 As 'Device of Choice' For UK Defense Officials 55
UK 'Pirates' Get 20-Day Grace Period After Each Warning 35
Microsoft May Halt the Expansion of a UK Datacenter Due To Brexit 167
Apple Increases App Store Prices By 25% Following Brexit Vote 172
Apple App Store Prices Rise in UK, India and Turkey 84
Regulators Criticize Banks For Lending Uber $1.15 Billion 139
Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency 104
Uber Drivers Deemed To Be Employees By Swiss Insurance Provider 121