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Artificial intelligence minister Kanishka Narayan told reporters it is “likely, if not inevitable” that Britain’s cyber defences will be breached, citing a rogue OpenAI agent that hacked an Australian government site as a warning sign.
The East Midlands Special Operations Unit will not renew Palantir’s Foundry pilot and has told the U.S. firm to sever links and delete data drawn from Leicestershire Police.
Independent mapping puts UK full-fibre availability at 86.03% of premises, up 0.4 points in a month as alt-net builds continue but each percentage point now takes about three months.
Three London NHS trusts are issuing blood-pressure cuffs and pulse oximeters to heart-failure patients at home after pilots showed fewer readmissions when nurses monitored feeds on virtual wards.
The regulator directed Openreach to pull a targeted full-fibre discount of up to £9.50 a month while clearing other wholesale offers that took effect this month.
Ofcom’s chief told BT she will regulate the TalkTalk rescue pragmatically but refused blanket immunity as the CMA’s 19 October deadline looms.
Utility Warehouse owner Telecom Plus said multiservice customers grew at an 11% annualised pace to about 526,000 while reiterating £80m–£90m adjusted profit guidance for FY27.
Ofcom opened a formal investigation into whether Meta carried out required illegal-content and child-safety risk assessments before launching Instagram Instants in the UK.
University of Manchester-led researchers published a framework with MHRA input for when computer simulations can support UK medical-device approvals alongside bench and clinical evidence.
Ofcom told Category 1 online services to keep audit logs and human oversight when AI tools moderate content, age-check users or run safety interventions.
TalkTalk wholesale creditors have hired Lazard to advise on restructuring options as BT Group sends due-diligence teams through TalkTalk's Bracknell campus, the clearest sign yet that consolidation talks over the UK's broadband footprint are moving from gossip to term sheets.
BT Group confirmed discussions with UK officials about TalkTalk as its shares rose on hopes of consolidating fibre footprints in competitive wholesale markets.
Ofcom opened a consultation on requiring device-level age checks before minors can download social apps, extending the Online Safety Act into app stores and browsers.
Ofcom fined Virgin Media O2 £2.3 million after an investigation found the operator failed to give enough notice before mid-contract broadband price rises last year, the regulator said as new October rules on telecoms inflation-linked hikes take effect.
Government Digital Service data show Gov.uk One Login verifications rose in September as departments expanded digital identity checks ahead of winter benefits pilots.
Ofcom forced Openreach to withdraw an incremental fibre discount worth up to £9.50 per line for 30 months, the first time the regulator has blocked a wholesale offer from BT’s network arm.
HM Revenue and Customs renewed calls for first-time filers to register for Self Assessment by 5 October, one week away, after launching an upgraded online registration flow on 9 September.
Chancellor John Healey previewed Flexible Finance export loans for buyers in Brazil, Morocco and Mexico to fund purchases of British goods, ahead of the October Budget.
Computacenter rose 3.2% to lead the FTSE 100 on Friday, rebounding from an ex-dividend selloff as London shares logged a weekly gain.
UK Finance said seven lenders — Barclays, HSBC UK, Lloyds, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander — completed the first live customer transactions in tokenised sterling on 24 September, moving money between banks for two remortgage completions and a simulated marketplace purchase on shared blockchain rails.
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill finished Lords committee stage on 9 September as DCMS absorbed the cyber sector team; September's departmental newsletter highlights the Cyber Resilience Pledge's 140+ signatories and minister Liz Lloyd on AI-enabled attacks.
Manchester City Council signed a street-works coordination deal with Openreach that lets fibre contractors book lane closures in bulk, aiming to pull forward full-fibre passings in Ardwick and Miles Platting before winter trenching limits bite.
Ofcom published a rural 5G coverage auction timetable after a Devon and Cornwall shared-infrastructure pilot showed operators could split mast costs without breaching competition rules in thin-market postcodes.
Arm issued attach-rate guidance for Neoverse data-centre CPUs as it expanded leased floors in Cambridge and a new London edge premises team pitching colocation partners.
Openreach told Welsh councils it will stop new G.fast cabinet upgrades in six rural exchange areas from October, redirecting engineers to full-fibre builds that Project Gigabit can subsidise.
KCOM’s Lightstream overbuild has relieved a backhaul choke at Bridlington telephone exchange, letting east-coast holiday lets and GP surgeries on its expansion network hit advertised gigabit sync without peak-hour collapse into Hull core routes.
BT Group’s EE unit has published network slicing rules that reserve voice-over-5G lanes for mountain rescue and NHS emergency hubs across the Cairngorms, tying VoNR rollout to Shared Rural Network masts mountain teams already depend on.