Tesco Moving 40,000 Server Workloads Off VMware Amid Broadcom’s ‘Abusive Conduct’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40,000 server workloads off of VMware amid “abusive conduct” from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco filed a lawsuit in the UK’s High Court against Broadcom alleging breach of con … ⌘ Read more

Snap’s First Consumer AI Glasses Are Coming This Fall For $2,195
Snap is launching its first consumer augmented-reality glasses this fall for $2,195. “You can preorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with a $200 refundable deposit, and Snap says they’re expected to ship ‘this fall’ in the US, UK, and France,” reports The Verge. From the report: This is a big moment for Snap: The company made a big entry into sma … ⌘ Read more

UK Scientists See Little Evidence for Claims Smartphones Are Rewiring Kids’ Brains
UK’s Members of Parliament (MP) were “looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children’s brains,” writes The Register — but they got “a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists on Wednesday: nobody can really prove it.”

Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Commit … ⌘ Read more

UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence
The Sunday Times reports:

A criminal investigation has begun after a police officer allegedly used AI to create evidential material in a “number of cases”. Derbyshire Constabulary said an officer was being investigated over an allegation of suspected perverting the course of justice. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed it was engaging with defence lawyers … ⌘ Read more

New UK Referendum Would Flip ‘Brexit’ Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds
It’s the 10-year anniversary of Britain’s “Brexit” vote withdrawing from the European Union.
But a new UK poll “shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure,” reports Bloomberg:

Fifty-two percent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British … ⌘ Read more

Truth submerged? AUKUS will cost us $368 billion, so this is no time for secrecy
Secrecy in policy development is rarely justified – and it certainly isn’t for AUKUS, our eye-wateringly expensive defence deal with the US and UK. ⌘ Read more

ShinyHunters Hacked 100+ Organizations By Exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-Day
ShinyHunters claims it exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to compromise more than 100 organizations, including the University of Nottingham, where it says it stole 40GB of student and billing data. “ShinyHunters posted the UK university on its data leak site on Tuesday before publishing the stolen f … ⌘ Read more

‘Hands Off Our NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Break Out in UK Over Deal With National Health Service
Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances. ⌘ Read more

UK defence minister quits over military spending
The UK defence minister has quit, putting more pressure on the AUKUS agreement. ⌘ Read more

UK defence minister quits hours before AUKUS meeting with Marles
The extraordinary move stunned the government, heightening the instability of Keir Starmer’s leadership. ⌘ Read more

UK defence minister quits hours before meeting with Marles
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Письмо Зеленского назвали сигналом к новой кампании Украины ⌘ Read more

Eddie Izzard once ran 43 marathons in 51 days. Her solo turn as Hamlet is a similar feat
The great UK stand-up has turned her eye to Hamlet - and is performing every role herself. The results are mixed. ⌘ Read more

BYD To Install Thousands of 5-Minute EV Chargers Across Europe
BYD plans to install 3,000 ultra-fast “Flash Chargers” across Europe by the end of 2027, with the first stations already appearing in Germany and the UK. The Verge reports: At an estimated cost of 580,000 euros (about $670,000) per charger according to the Financial Times, that would mean a total spend of roughly $2 billion to install the network … ⌘ Read more

Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/uk-productivity-economy-reform-party/687303/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476751

Points: 5

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Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
Article URL: https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475483

Points: 25

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Chemist Warehouse owner eyes $14 billion deal for UK giant
The Australian pharmacy giant now has its sights set on the UK pharmacy chain Boots. ⌘ Read more

Chemist Warehouse owner eyes $14 billion deal for UK giant
The Australian pharmacy giant now has its sights set on the UK pharmacy chain Boots. ⌘ Read more

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)
Article URL: https://bnikolic.co.uk/blog/linux-ld-debug.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464330

Points: 3

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UK PM Gives Tech Firms Ultimatum To Block Explicit Images on Children’s Phones
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given Apple, Google, and other tech firms until September to introduce device-level protections that prevent children from taking, sharing, or viewing explicit images. “If businesses do not comply within three months, legislation will be brought forward requiring the protection to be add … ⌘ Read more

Job: Head of Stonehenge
Article URL: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-people/careers-with-us/job-search/default-job-page/?jobRef=16449

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455928

Points: 7

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Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK’s latest threat to privacy [pdf]
Article URL: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450646

Points: 4

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The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech
The British government thinks a state-backed infrastructure initiative will help supercharge homegrown chip startups. ⌘ Read more

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
Article URL: https://www.lms.ac.uk/news/leiden-declaration-on-ai-and-mathematics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437442

Points: 8

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Great to be asked for feedback! I just noticed that the first wcwidth version was derived from Markus Kuhn’s C code. I came across him in my ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 endeavors the other day. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html What a surprise. :-)

GOV.UK Goes Dutch On Payments As It Dumps Stripe
The UK’s Government Digital Service is replacing Stripe with Dutch payments provider Adyen for many GOV.UK Pay transactions, including local authorities, police forces, and armed forces units. The three-year deal covers about 1,000 services and is meant to make payments more flexible while keeping the user experience largely unchanged. The Register reports: According to the tend … ⌘ Read more

Gov.uk goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/04/govuk-goes-dutch-on-payments-as-it-dumps-stripe/5250763

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415217

Points: 7

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Love Island UK Participant Quits Series After Just 3 Days
A participant on Season 13 of Love Island UK exited the show after only three days. The sudden departure marks one of the fastest exits in the show’s history, leaving fans and fellow contestants stunned. The series’ newest season debuted in the UK on Monday, June 1, 2026. George Knight leaves Love Island Season 13 […]

The post [Love Island UK Participant Quits Series After Just 3 Days](https://www.comin … ⌘ Read more

Google Ordered To Put Clearer Links In AI Search, Let UK Publishers Opt Out
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: UK regulators today ordered (PDF) Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers’ content in its AI-generated search features. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to opt out of AI features in search. “In … ⌘ Read more

UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Article URL: https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395938](https: … ⌘ Read more

Elon Musk and America’s Far Right Stoke Anger Over Murder of UK Teen
Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a racist agenda. ⌘ Read more

Palantir Contracts Have Become ‘An Unacceptable Point of Weakness,’ UK Politicians Warn
A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability. ⌘ Read more

US, Australia, and UK Plan New Unmanned Vehicles to Protect Undersea Data Cables
“Around 570 cables (plus a further 80 planned) carry between 95% and 99% of the world’s intercontinental telecommunications data,” reports CNN (since fiber cables offer speeds of terabits per second, carry much more data than satellite links). And “networks of green energy cables carrying electricity are also starting … ⌘ Read more

UK-Based Rockstar Games North Workers Formally Announce Union
Rockstar Games has a 2,000-employee studio in Scotland called Rockstar North. And Thursday its workers announced they’d formed a union, reports the gaming news site Aftermath:

The union [part of the wider Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union] includes workers from Rockstar Games offices in Leeds, London, Edinburgh, Dundee, and Lincoln, … ⌘ Read more

AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pe36qe7ro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327222

Points: 7

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The UK Government’s Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/the-uk-governments-low-value-purchase-system-is-a-waste-of-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322154

Points: 3

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Minimax M3
Article URL: https://www.minimax.co.uk/products/water-softeners/minimax-m3-water-softener/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316462

Points: 9

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EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k2ydn1rz8o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309302

Points: 4

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London Mayor Blocks Palantir
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225489

Points: 20

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Python 3.15: features that didn’t make the headlines
Article URL: https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696

Points: 4

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RIP Peter G. Neuman
We have received\
word that Peter G. Neuman, who, among many other things, ran the RISKS Digest for decades, has
passed away. He will be much missed. ⌘ Read more

The UK Finally Starts Reforming Its ‘Computer Misuse Act’
Computer Weekly reports on “the long-awaited reform of Britain’s outdated Computer Misuse Act of 1990 — which has hamstrung the work of the nation’s cyber security professionals and researchers for years.”

The Computer Misuse Act was passed 35 years ago in response to a high-profile hacking incident involving no less than the King’s father, the late Duke of Edi … ⌘ Read more

UK Antitrust Regulator Is Officially Investigating Microsoft Office
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is opening a formal investigation into whether Microsoft’s bundling of Windows, Office, Teams, Copilot, and related products harms competition. Engadget reports: “Our aim is to understand how these markets are developing, Microsoft’s position within them and to consider what, if any, targeted actio … ⌘ Read more

An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity. ⌘ Read more

Google DeepMind Workers Vote To Unionize Over Military AI Deals
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI lab from providing its technology to the US and Israeli militaries. In a letter addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, the workers asked the company to recognize th … ⌘ Read more

Kids Bypass Age Verification With Fake Moustaches
A new Internet Matters survey suggests the UK’s Online Safety Act age checks are easy for many children to bypass. Reported workarounds include fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, video game characters, and even drawing on a fake mustache. The Register reports: The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes ma … ⌘ Read more

Pornhub Restores Access for UK Adults Who Use Apple’s Age Verification
The porn giant blocked its content from new UK users in February but says device-based age verification is more secure than third-party sites. ⌘ Read more

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings. ⌘ Read more

16% of Parents Help Their Children Bypass Online Age Checks, Study Finds. One 15-Year-Old Just Uses a Fake Moustache
The Independent reports that “more than a third of children in the UK have found a way around age verification measures” for social media sites and other online platforms. And new research from online safety organisation Internet Matters “suggests … ⌘ Read more

Eden: NHS goes to war against open source
Terence Eden reports
that the UK’s National\
Health Service (NHS) is preparing to close almost all of its open-source repositories as a
response to LLM tools, such as Anthropic’s Mythos, becoming more
sophisticated at finding security vulnerabilities. He does not, to put
it mildly, agree with the decision:

The majority of [code repos … ⌘ Read more