Mark Tovey / Telegraph: Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like “AI-generated”, “deepfake”, and “nudify” by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 — Forces see a surge in crimes involving deepfake technology being used to ‘undress women’
Telegraph: Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities — Unprecedented cyber attack believed to be most successful of its kind — Tony Diver , Political Editor. Rozina Sabur , National Security Editor.
James Titcomb / Telegraph: Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with a search function in Google's mandated Chrome and Android default search engine choice screens — ChatGPT maker pushes for browser ‘choice screen’ with alternative engine options — OpenAI is seeking to muscle …
Telegraph: Sources: the UK government is working with OpenAI to develop Gov.uk Chat, an AI chatbot to help people pay taxes and access pensions — Move raises fears that taxpayers may be directed away from understaffed phone lines — Rishi Sunak is planning to launch an AI chatbot to help …
James Titcomb / Telegraph: Tests show Twitter has lifted restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts, including Putin's, with some appearing in For You feeds, reversing an April 2022 policy — Elon Musk's social media site lifts restrictions on Kremlin-linked tweets — Twitter has removed restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts …
Charles Hymas / Telegraph: The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs — Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs
Gareth Corfield / Telegraph: Sources: a Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang infected the UK's Royal Mail customs label printers, forcing the postal service to stop overseas deliveries — Lockbit's ransomware scrambled software on machines used to send international post — A Russia-linked ransomware gang was behind …
Ben Woods / Telegraph: Raspberry Pi Foundation, which develops the Raspberry Pi, raises $45M at a ~$500M valuation as sales rose to a record 7.1M units in 2020 — The firm has offloaded stakes to Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust in a move that values the operation at around $500m
Michael Cogley / Telegraph: Filing: Snap UK had revenue of $653M in 2019, up from $403.7M YoY, but losses grew to $435M, and will borrow up to $500M from Snap over the next five years — The tech giant posted losses of $453m in 2019 but will tap up its US parent for up to $500m over the next five years
Camilla Tominey / Telegraph: Boris Johnson instructed officials to draw up plans to reduce Huawei's involvement in UK's 5G networks to zero by 2023, a reversal of a softer policy approach — The Prime Minister has instructed officials to draw up plans that would see China's involvement in the UK's 5G network reduced to zero
Matthew Field / Telegraph: Source: Amazon has held two rounds of preliminary talks to acquire London-based food-delivery startup Deliveroo, following reports of similar interest from Uber — Amazon has made two preliminary approaches for Deliveroo, the Daily Telegraph can reveal, as the food delivery company is circled by ride-hailing giant Uber.