United Kingdom Stories for 2015

Last Operating Magnox Nuclear Reactor Closes 98
Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying 152
Astronaut Tim Peake Calls the Wrong Number From Space 27
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland 704
UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy 118
Pre-Crime in the UK: Businesses Crowdsource a Watch List 162
'Hybrid' Logic Gate For Quantum Computers Demonstrated 13
EE Recalls All Power Bar Chargers Over Fire Safety Risk 27
PRESTON: The UK's "Big Brother" Comprehensive National Database System 57
British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm 421
21-Year-Old British Man Arrested In Connection With VTech Hack 53
Google Favors Less-Regulated UK For Self-Driving Car Development 82
UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own 197
Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy 76
UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs 151
Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain 151
Keep Two Bank Accounts To Beat Cyber Attacks, Says Bank of England Adviser 172
15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom 178
Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls 215
Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide 503
Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act 218
Parts of Falcon 9 Launcher Wash Ashore In England 20
Celebrating ARM's 25th Anniversary With the Visual ARM1 37
Parts of the SpaceX Falcon-9 Rocket Found Off the Isles of Scilly 29
UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use 70
London's Deputy Mayor On Ditching Diesel 188
Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars 319
Pressure From Uber Forces London Taxis To Finally Accept Cards 114
Scientists Produce Graphene 100 Times Cheaper Than Ever Before 77
UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level 109
BBC World Service To Provide Radio For North Korea and Eritrea 64
UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service 91
UK's Coal Plants To Be Phased Out Within 10 Years 109
UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks 167
UK May Blacklist Homeopathy 287
Bank of England's Andy Haldane Warns Smart Machines Could Take 15M UK Jobs 291
Broadband Bills Will Have To Increase To Pay For Snooper's Charter, MPs Warned 77
UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them 187
The UK Will Police the Dark Web With a New Task Force 56
British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel 226
Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK 188
TalkTalk Hack: 4% of Customers' Data Accessed In Cyber Security Breach 25
MI5 'Secretly Collected Phone Data' For Decade 38
BBC Lets Viewers Buy Shows and Episodes Permanently, But No 'Extras' 80
Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs 115
Huge Survey Shows Correlation Between Autistic Traits and STEM Jobs 345
Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016 98
App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search 167
Internet Firms To Be Banned From Offering Unbreakable Encryption Under New UK Laws 418
Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic 63
UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack 61
Cambridge Researchers Present Lithium-Air Battery Breakthrough 100
UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History 136
$600k Fine Over Data Center Death 169
UK Government Says App Developers Won't Be Forced To Implement Backdoors 86
British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam 88
15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack 100
TalkTalk Customer Data At Risk After Cyber-attack On Company Website 46
UK Government Proposes 'License To Hack' As Encryption Proves Hard To Defeat 80
Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London 162
UK's Largest Online Pharmacy Sold Patients' Personal Data To Fraudsters 58
BBC Begins Blocking VPN Access To iPlayer 174
UK High Court: Uber Is Lawful 106
UK MPs Hold Emergency Debate After Court Makes It Legal For GCHQ To Spy On Them 140
Big Data Attempts To Find Meaning In 40 Years of UK Political Debate 44
FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware 70
British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy 336
Facebook UK Paid £35m In Staff Bonuses, But Only £4,327 In Corporation Tax 262
How Analog Tide Predictors Changed Human History 37
Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed 421
London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups 216
'Legacy' London Car Hire Companies Lawyer Up Against Uber 239
UK Gamers Can Now Get Their Money Back For Publishers' Broken Promises 74
Former Cisco CEO: China, India, UK Will Lead US In Tech Race Without Action 109
John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero 106
Tardis Wars: The BBC Strikes Back 72
GCHQ Tried To Track Web Visits of "Every Visible User On Internet" 86
Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation? 99
UK Man Gets Britain's First-Ever Conviction For Illegal Drone Use 77
'Rose' Wins 2015 Loebner Contest, But Big Prize Remains Unclaimed 58
UK Govt's Expensive Mobile Coverage Project Builds Just 8 Masts In 4 Years 75
UK Researcher Applies For Permission To Edit Embryo Genomes 62
UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows 414
How To Find Out If GCHQ and the NSA Spied On You, and How To Complain 79
FireEye Tries to Bury Keynote Reporting That It Ran Apache As Root On Security Servers 108
New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste 148
UK Researchers Developing Influenza-Resistant Birds 54
Four Year Sentence For Running Piracy Streaming Site 235
Huge Ritual Arena Discovered Near Stonehenge 126
14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate 261
WWII Bomb Shelter Becomes Hi-Tech Salad Farm 122
UK Health Clinic Accidentally Publishes HIV Status of 800 Patients 65
Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service 95
Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks Dead at 82 31
Virgin Media To Base a Public Wi-Fi Net On Paying Customers' Routers 113
Met Office Loses BBC Weather Forecasting Contract 119
In Germany, a Message-in-a-Bottle Found 108 Years After Its Release 57
UK Government Signs New Deal With Oracle 54
New Rules Say UK Video Bloggers Must Be Clearer About Paid Endorsements 36
Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison For Online Pirates 168
London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" 258
UK Industry Group Boss: Study Arts So Games Are Not Designed By 'Spotty Nerds' 207
England To Test "Electric Motorways" 74
'Banned' Article About Faulty Immobilizer Chip Published After Two Years 87
The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents 231
Time Runs Out On Sweden's Sexual Assault Charges Against Julian Assange 226
Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse 177
Scotland To Ban GM Crops 361
2.4 Million Customer's Records Stolen From Carphone Warehouse 51
U.K. Government Seeking To End Reliance On Oracle 190
Cameron Tells Pornography Websites To Block Access By Children Or Face Closure 381
Germany Won't Prosecute NSA, But Bloggers 111
Britain Shuts Off 750,000 Streetlights With No Impact On Crime Or Crashes 307
UK Campaign Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Delete Embarrassing Online Past 318
UK Government Releases Rules To Get Self-Driving Cars Onto Public Roads 157
UK Pilots Want Lithium Battery Powered Devices In the Cabin 69
UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term 274
Data Store and Spying Laws Found Illegal By EU Court 64
Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train 674
ISRO Launches Record 5 UK Satellites, Part of a Long String of Successes 33
Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps 174
Twitter Yanks Ads UK Activists Say Could Trigger Seizures 63
Amnesty International Seeks Explanation For 'Absolutely Shocking' Surveillance 112
UK Privacy Advocate Caspar Bowden Dies 16
UK May Send More People Into Space 87
BBC Reveals Its New Microcomputer Design 97
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Find Jobs That Offer Working From Home? 318
More Supermassive Black Holes Than We Thought! 92
UK Government Illegally Spied On Amnesty International 109
Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications 260
UK's National Computer Museum Looks For Help Repairing BBC Micros 66
UK Researchers Find IPv6-Related Data Leaks In 11 of 14 VPN Providers 65
BBC Curates The "Right To Be Forgotten" Links That Google Can't 146
Controversial Trial of Genetically Modified Wheat Ends In Disappointment 188
Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs 171
NHS To Give Volunteers "Synthetic Blood" Made In a Laboratory Within Two Years 57
US Military To Develop Star Wars-Style Hoverbikes With British company 108
Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged In Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda 83
Swedish Investigators Attempt Assange Interview; Wikileaks Makes Major Release 154
UK's Legalization of CD Ripping Is Unlawful, Court Rules 301
Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley 410
British Government Instituted 3-Month Deletion Policy, Apparently To Evade FOIA 86
Bank's IT Failure Loses 600,000 Payments 96
Julian Assange To Be Interviewed In London After All 262
Police Scanning Every Face At UK Download Festival 134
Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files 546
Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK 122
Microscopic Underwater Sonic Screwdriver Successfully Tested 28
High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block EBook Sites 138
British Politicians Delete Negative Wikipedia Descriptions Before Election 121
Leaked Document Shows Europe Would Fight UK Plans To Block Porn 253
Amazon Decides To Start Paying Tax In the UK 243
Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian 396
Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development 81
Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society 214
UK Criminals Use Drones To Case Burglary Prospects 71
Using Satellites To Monitor Bridge Safety 36
GCHQ Officials Given Immunity From Hacking Charges 118
Rediscovered Lucas-Commissioned Short "Black Angel" Released On YouTube 121
MuckRock FOIA Request Releases Christopher Hitchens' FBI Files 44
Microsoft Invests In Undersea Cable Projects 41
British Pilots: Poll Data Says Public Wants Strict Rules For Drones 110
Visualizations of Rebel Alliances In the UK Government 33
The Pioneer Who Invented the Weather Forecast 33
How an Open Standard API Could Revolutionize Banking 72
UK High Court Orders Block On Popcorn Time 96
Windows XP Support Deal Not Renewed By UK Government, Leaves PCs Open To Attack 137
The Sun Newspaper Launches Anonymous Tor-Based WikiLeaks-Style SecureDrop 64
Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers 160
UK Police Chief: Some Tech Companies Are 'Friendly To Terrorists' 230
Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference 191
UK Company Wants To Deliver Parcels Through Underground Tunnels 117
Turing Manuscript Sells For $1 Million 44
UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn 187
UK Forces Microsoft To Adopt Open Document Standards 178
Man-Shaped Robots Harass Britain Once Again 54
UK IP Chief Wants ISPs To Police Piracy Proactively 87
Europol Chief Warns About Computer Encryption 161
Graphene Light Bulbs Coming To Stores Soon 169
Prison Inmate Emails His Own Release Instructions To the Prison 198
UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE 158
Google Loses Ruling In Safari Tracking Case 56
Ordnance Survey Releases Mapping Tools 18
Facebook Sued For Alleged Theft of Data Center Design 74
Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear 662
Russian Official Proposes Road That Could Connect London To NYC 226
UK Setting Itself Up To Be More Friendly To Bitcoin Startups 43
UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System 107
UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems 57
UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' 342
GCHQ Builds a Raspberry Pi Super Computer Cluster 68
UK Police and PRS Shut Down Karaoke Torrent Site 75
Swedish Authorities Offer To Question Assange In London 169
BBC Returns To Making Computers For Schools 106
UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies 113
UK Parliament: Banning Tor Is Unacceptable and Technologically Impossible 98
Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes 282
UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? 284
Games Workshop At 40: How They Brought D&D To Britain 64
World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled In UK 197
Use Astrology To Save Britain's Health System, Says MP 320
UK Scientists Claim 1Tbps Data Speed Via Experimental 5G Technology 71
NSA, GHCQ Implicated In SIM Encryption Hack 155
Scotland's Police Lose Data Because of Programmer's Error 108
Government, Military and Private Sector Fighting Over Next-Gen Cyber-Warriors 68
BBC Radio Drops WMA For MPEG-DASH 65
Online UK Courts Modelled On EBay To Settle Legal Disputes 40
Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant 378
UK's Most Secretive Court Rules GCHQ Mass Internet Surveillance Was Unlawful 44
Some Hackers Unknowingly Gathering Intel For the NSA 69
British MPs Approve 3-Parent Babies 199
Alan Turing's Notes Found After Being Used As Insulation At Bletchley Park 121
Google Avoids Fine In UK But Will Change Its Privacy Policies 57
BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom 132
UK Broadcaster Sky To Launch Mobile Service 32
Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed 392
Google Handed To FBI 3 Wikileaks Staffers' Emails, Digital Data 197
TWEETHER Project Promises 10Gbps MmW 92-95GHz Based Wireless Broadband 54
UK ISPs EE, Virgin and Vodafone Back Net Neutrality 36
Serious Fraud Office Drop Investigation Into Autonomy Accounting 53
Winston Churchill's Scientists 77
UK Suspect Arrested In Connection With PSN/XBL 'Lizard Squad' Attacks 55
Lost Beagle2 Probe Found 'Intact' On Mars 130
US/UK Will Stage 'Cyber-Attack War Games' As Pressure Against Encryption Mounts 77
Exoplanet Hunting NGTS Telescope Array Achieves First Light 19
First Crowdsourced, Open Data Address List Launches In the UK 33
UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them 388
UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications 329
Several European Countries Lay Groundwork For Heavier Internet Censorhip 319
MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack 319
UK Government Department Still Runs VME Operating System Installed In 1974 189
European Researchers Develop More Accurate Full-Body Polygraph 106
Who's Responsible When Your Semi-Autonomous Shopping Bot Purchases Drugs Online? 182
Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets 840
UK Arrest Over Xbox Live and Playstation Network Outages 86