United Kingdom Stories for 2022

UK Govt: Netflix Password Sharing Is Illegal and Potentially Criminal Fraud 70
For the First Time Hundreds of Amazon Workers Will Go On Formal Strike in the UK 23
Amazon's Internal Study of Its Culture in 2021 Found 'Stress, Burnout, Churn' 54
Rules On Liquids and Laptops To Be Eased At UK Airports From June 2024 80
UK Arrests Five For Selling 'Dodgy' Point of Sale Software 23
Fossil Fuel Recruiters Banned From Three More UK Universities 174
UK To Consult On Central Bank Digital Currency In Coming Weeks 39
UK Approves First Coal Mine In 30 Years 151
Just 22% of Techies in UK Aged 50 or Older, Says Chartered Institute For IT 105
UK Internet Watchdog Increasingly Led by Ex-Big Tech Executives 18
UK Waters Down Internet Rules Plan After Free Speech Outcry 36
UK Ditches Ban On 'Legal But Harmful' Online Content In Favor of Free Speech 80
A Hundred UK Companies Sign Up For Four-day Week With No Loss of Pay 46
UK Bans Chinese Surveillance Gear From Sensitive State Premises 10
UK To Criminalize Deepfake Porn Sharing Without Consent 116
UK Confirms Antitrust Probe Into Android-iOS 'Mobile Duopoly' 36
Broadcom's Proposed $61 Billion VMware Acquisition Scrutinized by UK Regulators 11
Chinese Takeover of UK's Largest Chip Plant Blocked on National Security Grounds 45
Everyone Is Bullying the UK Government In Its Own Discord Server 46
Paris Overtakes London As Europe's Largest Stock Market 110
Psychedelic Drug Research Held Back By UK Rules and Attitudes, Say Scientists 34
British Government Is Scanning All Internet Devices Hosted In UK 34
UK Parliament Group Starts NFT Inquiry as Crypto Scrutiny Grows 13
Work-From-Home Trend May Have Peaked In UK, LinkedIn Survey Finds 35
UK Regulator Ofcom Sounds Death Knell of the Fax Machine 81
Rishi Sunak Is the First Crypto Enthusiast To Serve In UK's Top Office 37
UK Lawmakers Vote To Recognize Crypto as Regulated Financial Instruments 23
Rishi Sunak To Be UK's Next Prime Minister 173
Plans to Ban Solar Energy on England's Farmland Criticized by Landowners 193
UK Regulator Proposes Easing Net Neutrality Rules Following Brexit 54
Liz Truss Says She Will Resign as UK Prime Minister 271
UK Holds Talks on How To Avoid Blackouts at Major Data Centers 54
UK Grid Operator: Plan For Three-Hour Power Blackouts In Event of Gas Shortages 110
Nuclear Fusion Plant To Be Built On Site of Britain's Last Coal-Fired Power Plants 149
Coroner Lists Instagram Algorithm As Contributing Cause of UK Teen's Death 49
ARM Founder: UK Has 'No Chance In Hell' of Making Its Own Tech Champs 137
UK Online Safety Bill Threatens Security, WhatsApp Chief Warns 32
Why a Weak British Pound Matters 153
UK Police Arrest Alleged 'GTA VI' Hacker 20
Serial Thief Steals Thousands Using Cellphones (and Credit Cards) from Gym Locker Rooms 71
Google Faces $25 Billion Legal Action In UK, EU 14
Imperial College To Shut Joint Research Ventures with Chinese Defence Firms 18
Queen Elizabeth II Has Died - Ruled for Nearly 7 Decades; World's Longest-Reigning Monarch 483
US Bank Regulator Warns of Crisis Risk From Fintech Proliferation 23
Stunning Shelf Cloud Captured In Dorset 38
Britain's Failure To Build is Throttling Its Economy 266
UK Challenges $69 Billion Microsoft/Activision Deal, Citing Potential Harm To Gamers 15
US Asked British Spy Agency To Stop Guardian Publishing Snowden Revelations 27
Closure of Coal Power Station Set To Be Delayed To Prevent UK Blackouts 48
UK Bank Says Four-Day Week Is The 'Future of Working Life' 66
British Judge Rules Dissident Can Sue Saudi Arabia For Pegasus Hacking 10
UK's Young Adults Spending More Time on TikTok Than Watching TV 18
Ransomware Causes 'Major', Long-Lasting Outage for UK Health Service's Patient Notes 26
Drought Is Declared in Parts of a Hot, Dry Britain 110
Facial Recognition Smartwatches To Be Used To Monitor Foreign Offenders In UK 15
Facial Recognition Smartwatches To Be Used To Monitor Foreign Offenders in UK 51
WhatsApp Boss Says No To AI Filters Policing Encrypted Chat 38
Too Many Servers Could Mean No New Homes In Parts of the UK 133
Climate Change Worsened Britain's Heat Wave, Scientists Find 155
West London Faces New Homes Ban as Electricity Grid Hits Capacity 128
Damien Hirst To Burn Thousands of His Paintings To Show Art As 'Currency' 59
'Orwellian' Facial Recognition Cameras In UK Stores Challenged By Rights Group 23
UK Cybersecurity Chiefs Back Plan To Scan Phones for Child Abuse Images 73
UK Blocks Chinese Company From Acquiring Knowledge On Vision Sensing Technology 17
UK Set To Have World's Biggest Automated Drone Superhighway 30
UK Government Says Video Game Loot Boxes Will Not Be Regulated 55
Hot Weather Hobbles Britain, a Nation Unaccustomed To Extreme Heat 281
UK Lawmakers Tell Visa and Mastercard To Justify Fee Rises 59
UK's Online Safety Bill On Pause Pending New PM 24
Energy Bills To Rise More Than Predicted, Says UK Energy Regulator Ofgem Boss 72
UK's National Grid Plans £54B Wind-Power Network Upgrade 79
Boris Johnson Set To Step Down With Tech Legacy in Tatters 96
UK Could Force E2E Encrypted Platforms To Do CSAM-Scanning 106
MI5 and FBI Heads Issue Joint Warning On Chinese Spying 67
EU Scraps 115 Grants For UK Scientists And Academics Amid Brexit Row 183
Microsoft's $69 Billion Activision Takeover Faces Competition Probe in the UK 20
Why Britain's New Stamps Are Causing Outrage and Upset 73
Government Policies Will Not Get UK To Net Zero, Warns Damning Report 96
UK Seeks Science Collaboration Further Afield After EU Freeze 81
UK Decides AI Still Cannot Patent Inventions 20
Celebrity-Endorsed Crypto Scams Soaring in UK, Santander Says 24
Half In UK Back Genome Editing To Prevent Severe Diseases 30
Half in UK Back Genome Editing To Prevent Severe Diseases 120
UK Wants To Replace Cookie Pop-Ups With Browser-Based Opt-Outs 41
UK Minister Wants Nation To Be a Crypto Hub, Minus the Criminals 67
Brexit Row Could Prompt Exodus of Senior Scientists From UK 152
UK Regulator Plans To Launch Probe Into Google's and Apple's Mobile Duopoly 40
UK Will Not Copy EU Demand for Common Charging Cable 205
UK Four-Day Week Pilot Begins: Employees Get 100% of the Pay For 80% of the Time 185
Why Gov.UK Stopped Using jQuery 88
How Industrial Light & Magic Helped Resurrect ABBA with Digital ABBA-Tars 46
The UK Government's Plan to Rein in Big Tech 24
Crabs and Lobsters May Get Similar Rights To Mammals In UK Experiments 72
UK's Department for Transport Proposes To Allow Drivers To Watch TV on Self-Driving Cars 47
Rolls-Royce Expects UK Approval For Small Nuclear Reactors By Mid-2024 261
No 10 Suspected of Being Target of NSO Spyware Attack, Boris Johnson 'Told' 23
Dell Trials 4-Day Workweek In Netherlands 36
UK Startup Achieves 'Projectile Fusion' Breakthrough 46
UK To Build 8 Nuclear Reactors Amid New Energy Strategy 192
Thousands of UK Workers To Take Part In Four-day Week Trial 49
UK's Big Crypto Push Includes Minting Its Own NFT 24
Twitter User Sentenced To 150 Hours of Community Service In UK For Posting 'Offensive' Tweet 108
Two UK Teenagers Charged With Hacking for Notorious Gang Lapsus$ 7
Give Free Power To People Living Near Wind Farms, UK Minister Suggests 190
Tech Execs Could Face Jail Time Under Revised UK Online Safety Bill 60
UK Government To Speed Up Criminal Sanctions for Tech Bosses With New Online Safety Laws 22
UK Looking To Extend Life of Nuclear Plant By 20 Years Amid Energy Crisis 122
Bitcoin ATMs Declared Illegal in UK by Financial Regulator 45
'Open Web Advocacy' Group Battles Apple's WebKit-Based Walled Garden 78
UK Rejects Russian Space Agency's Demands for Launch of OneWeb Internet Satellites 118
UK Scientists Fear Brain Drain as Brexit Rows Put Research at Risk 182
UK Says It Will Work 'All Day' To Persuade Europe To Cut Russia Off From Swift 166
UK Intelligence Agencies Are Investigating Cryptocurrency Transactions 19
UK Social Media Users Could Get Power To Block Anonymous Accounts 43
UK Ready To Launch Retaliatory Cyber-attacks on Russia, Defence Secretary Says 144
Amazon Labeled a Grocer by UK Watchdog, Must Abide by New Rules 71
Porn Sites Will Be Legally Required To Verify Age of UK Users 203
UK Government Plans To Release Nmap Scripts for Finding Vulnerabilities 18
Faster Internet Speeds Linked To Lower Civic Engagement in UK 39
London Mayor Wants Daily Driving Charge of Up To $2.7 191
Six-month Trial of a Four-day Working Week To Be Launched in the UK 60
UK Gov't Plans Publicity Blitz To Undermine Privacy of Your Chats 53
Amazon Rows Back on Threat To Stop Accepting UK-issued Visa Cards 50
UK Police Forces Have Seized More Than $400 Million in Bitcoin 72
Bank Accidentally Deposits $176M In People's Accounts on Christmas Day 41