United Kingdom Stories for 2014

Apple Pay For the UK 75
UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet 360
BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers 294
GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals 229
Startup Helps You Build Your Very Own Picosatellite On a Budget 21
BT To Buy UK 4G Leader EE For £12.5 Billion 39
Amazon UK Glitch Sells Thousands of Products For a Penny 138
Raspberry Pi In Space 56
Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display 80
Computer Error Grounds Flights In the UK 68
Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service 59
Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone 325
British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club 135
GCHQ Does Not Breach Human Rights, Judges Rule 81
Ofcom Will Remove Mandatory Ham Callsign ID Interval, Allow Encryption For Some 57
UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts 70
UK MP Says ISPs Must Take Responsibility For Movie Leaks, Sony Eyes North Korea 216
UK Announces 'Google Tax' 602
UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database 150
UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas 256
In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games 312
Edsac Goes Live, At UK's National Museum of Computing 37
UK Announces Hybrid Work/Study Undergraduate Program To Fill Digital Gap 110
BT Blocking Private Torrent Sites? 80
New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps 90
Cameron Accuses Internet Companies Of Giving Terrorists Safe Haven 183
Regin Malware In EU Attack Linked To US and British Intelligence Agencies 131
UK Hotel Adds Hefty Charge For Bad Reviews Online 307
World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old 276
Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button 316
British Spies Are Free To Target Lawyers and Journalists 184
New GCHQ Chief Says Social Media Aids Terrorists 228
Scotland Builds Power Farms of the Future Under the Sea 216
World War II Tech eLoran Deployed As GPS Backup In the UK 139
Secret Policy Allows GCHQ Bulk Access To NSA Data 95
16-Teraflops, £97m Cray To Replace IBM At UK Meteorological Office 125
Century Old Antarctic Expedition Notebook Found Underneath Ice 63
Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion 268
British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks 163
Proposed Penalty For UK Hackers Who "Damage National Security": Life 165
U.K. Supermarkets Beta Test Full-Body 3D Scanners For Selfie Figurines 165
Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk 161
Doctor Who To Teach Kids To Code 164
Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK 475
In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail 489
BBC Takes a Stand For the Public's Right To Remember Redacted Links 113
How an FBI Informant Led the Hack of British Tabloid "The Sun" 38
Raspberry Pi Sales Approach 4 Million 146
London Unveils New Driverless Subway Trains 127
Brits Must Trade Digital Freedoms For Safety, Says Crime Agency Boss 264
UK Copyright Reforms Legalize Back-Ups, Protect Parody 68
UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure 145
David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures 942
Piracy Police Chief Calls For State Interference To Stop Internet "Anarchy" 302
Scotland Votes No To Independence 474
Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry 494
School Installs Biometric Fingerprint System For Cafeteria 231
Liquid Sponges Extract Hydrogen From Water 113
UK Ham Radio Reg Plans To Drop 15 min Callsign Interval and Allow Encryption 104
Hidden Archeology of Stonehenge Revealed In New Geophysical Map 28
UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack 198
New DNA Analysis On Old Blood Pegs Aaron Kosminski As Jack the Ripper 135
Watch UK Inventor Colin Furze Survive a Fireworks Blast In a Metal Suit 54
UK Prisons Ministry Fined For Lack of Encryption At Prisons 74
BBC and FACT Shut Down Doctor Who Fansite 186
33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater 465
Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? 375
UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime 391
Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year 611
WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" 299
Leaked Documents: GCHQ Made Port-Scanning Entire Countries a Standard Spy Tool 58
Project Aims To Build a Fully Open SoC and Dev Board 47
Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League 226
Correcting Killer Architecture 98
Wikipedia Gets Critical Reception from UK Press at Wikimania 2014 113
Patents That Kill 240
Gas Cooled Reactors Shut Down In UK 120
UK Police Won't Comment On The Tracking of People's Phone Calls 52
City of London Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns 133
UK Spy Agency Certifies Master's Degrees In Cyber Security 45
Driverless Buses Ruled Out For London, For Now 84
DNA Project 'to Make UK World Genetic Research Leader' 65
UK Government Report Recommends Ending Online Anonymity 282
Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland 181
UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January 190
London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites 160
UK Cabinet Office Adopts ODF As Exclusive Standard For Sharable Documents 164
UK Users Overwhelmingly Spurn Broadband Filters 115
For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It 143
UK Government Faces Lawsuit Over Emergency Surveillance Bill 44
People Who Claim To Worry About Climate Change Don't Cut Energy Use 710
Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek To Control the Internet 117
Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport 151
Scientists Have Developed a Material So Dark That You Can't See It 238
Nano-Pixels Hold Potential For Screens Far Denser Than Today's Best 129
UK Gov't Plans To Push "Emergency" Surveillance Laws 147
UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys 353
Netflix Is Looking To Pay Someone To Watch Netflix All Day 86
London Regulator Says Uber Is Operating Legally 105
Seven ISPs Take Legal Action Against GCHQ 65
Cambridge Team Breaks Superconductor World Record 73
Julian Assange Plans Modeling Debut At London Fashion Show 173
EDSAC Diagrams Rediscovered 37
Intelligent Autonomous Flying Robots Learn and Map Environment As They Fly 37
MP Says 'Failed' Piracy Warnings Should Escalate To Fines & Jail 135
UK Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Exporting 'E-Waste' Despite 91% Reuse 212
Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools 649
Restored Bletchly Park Opens 51
Google and Facebook Can Be Legally Intercepted, Says UK Spy Boss 104
British Army Turns To Oculus Rift To Take the Sting Out of Battlefield Trauma 23
Nominet Compromising UK WHOIS Privacy, Wants To See Gov't-Issued ID 71
Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall 172
Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin 507
Britain Gets National .uk Web Address 111
Life Sentences For Serious Cyberattacks Proposed In Britain 216
UK Seeks To Hold Terrorism Trial In Secret 240
UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' 490
Torrentz.eu Domain Name Suspended 226
Official MPG Figures Unrealistic, Says UK Auto Magazine 238
Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? 298
UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law 341
Climate Journal Publishes Referees' Report In Response To "Witch-Hunt" Claims 330
The Fight To Uncover Spyware Exports To Repressive Regimes 36
London Black Cabs Threaten Chaos To Stop Uber 417
London Police To Wear Video Cameras In Pilot Project 152
Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says 589
British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged To Play In NSA's Data Pools 43
One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 230
US and UK Governments Advise Avoiding Internet Explorer Until Bug Fixed 153
Mathematicians Push Back Against the NSA 233
Monty Python To Bid Farewell In a Simulcast Show 86
Criminals Using Drones To Find Cannabis Farms and Steal Crops 258
Inside the Stolen Smartphone Black Market In London 109
London's Public Bike Data Can Tell Everyone Where You've Been 41
A New Robo-Soldier Will Test Chemical Warfare Suits 29
"Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology 179
British Domain Registrar Offers 'No Transfer Fees,' Charges Transfer Fee 77
UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP 341
Oxford Internet Institute Creates Internet "Tube" Map 56
London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000 193
UK To Finally Legalize Ripping CDs and DVDs 92
UK Bans Sending Books To Prisoners 220
How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 491
UK To Create Alan Turing Institute 62
UK Government Wants "Unsavory" Web Content To Be Removed 250
UK and Germany To Collaborate On 5G 82
Data Visualization: Key Routes and Communities In London's Bike Rental Network 9
School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA 417
BPAS Appeals £200,000 Fine Over Hacked Website 104
Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams 431
Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad 465
Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters 205
Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain 353
UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos' 146
Microsoft Circles the Wagons To Defeat ODF In the UK 89
EFF Reports GHCQ and NSA Keeping Tabs On Wikileaks Visitors and Reporters 82
High Court Rules Detention of David Miranda Was Lawful 169
3-D Printed Pelvis Holding Up After 3 Years 82
Fake Pub Studies Drinking Habits 118
Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK 377
11-Year UK Study Reports No Health Danger From Mobile Phone Transmissions 180
Britain's Eastern Coast Yields Oldest Human Footprints Outside Africa 120
Snowden Docs Show UK's Digital Spies Using Viruses, Honey Traps 92
UK Police Will Have Backdoor Access To Health Records 108
Second World War Code-cracking Computing Hero Colossus Turns 70 110
Britain's GCHQ Attacked Anonymous Supporters With DDoS 133
UK Council To Send Obese People 'Motivational' Texts Telling Them To Use Stairs 225
James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering 321
David Cameron Says Fictional Crime Proves Why Snooper's Charter Is Necessary 179
Now On Video: GCHQ Destroying Laptop Full of Snowden Disclosures 237
Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success" 192
UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source 273
Surrey Hit With Catnado 95
Google Buys UK AI Startup Deep Mind 113
Is the West Building Its Own Iron Curtain? 337
Bletchley Park's Bitter Dispute Over Its Future 99
Cameron's IP Advisor: Throw Persistent Copyright Infringers In Jail 263
Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches 270
Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password 374
British Spies To Be Allowed To Break Speed Limit 278
Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe 226
It's Official: Registrars Cannot Hold Domains Hostage Without a Court Order 112
UK Benefits System In Deeper Trouble? 266
TorrentFreak Blocked By British ISP Sky's Porn Filter 171
RAF Fighter Flies On Printed Parts 100
UK Company Successfully Claims Ownership of "Pinterest" Trademark 133
The UK's Internet Porn Filter and Fighting Censorship Creep 234