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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.
Okta’s UK unit will turn on phishing-resistant MFA by default for mid-market accounting tenants after ICAEW-linked practices reported credential stuffing tied to Xero breach-notification emails.
Merged Vodafone Three field teams started refarming mid-band 5G spectrum inside Birmingham telephone exchange pods this weekend, a first live cut that will decide how quickly dual-brand customers see capacity gains without dropped voice calls.
Openreach is running 10G PON trials from three Manchester exchange cabinets, testing whether symmetric multi-gigabit lanes can ride existing fibre splices before a wider XGS-PON rollout reaches urban landlords.
Virgin Media O2 is shipping mesh WiFi pods to rural cable customers after Ofcom upheld complaints that indoor dead zones made advertised download speeds meaningless at the property boundary.
European Commission staff have sent Arm Holdings detailed questionnaires on whether CPU and GPU blueprint bundles unfairly tie smartphone makers to its latest ISA extensions, people familiar with the review said.
Openreach says it has passed full-fibre availability to its 80,000th Devon and Cornwall premises under Project Gigabit subsidy rules, leaving long copper tails in a handful of moorland exchanges.
FTSE Friday 10,650.44 still last. Wolves won 1-0. Monday 8:00 has not opened.
FTSE Friday 10,650.44 still last. Wolves won 1-0. Monday 8:00 has not opened.