The Metropolitan Police’s rapid “unchecked” expansion of live facial-recognition (LFR) technology is taking place without clear legal authority and minimal public accountability, says Green London Assembly member Zoë Garbett in a call for the force to halt its deployments of the controversial technology. Made during an ongoing government consultation on a legal framework for the…

The total number of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) disclosed in 2026 is set to romp past the 50,000 mark in 2026 and may plausibly run as high as six figures for the first time ever, according to the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams’ (First’s) annual Vulnerability report. In its latest set of…

The National Audit Office (NAO) has refused to endorse the audited accounts of the College of Policing for a second year running, as the policing organisation continues to recover from serious failures in an IT project that left it unable to properly manage its finances. The accounting watchdog said that, although there had been no…

The European Commission (EC) has preliminarily found that TikTok’s addictive design features violate the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA). The preliminary decision outlines how addictive design features on the platform, such as infinite scroll and autoplay, are resulting in users going into “autopilot mode”, with the EC stating this may lead to “compulsive use”. The…

Following a report that Apple pushed back its plans to introduce an AI health coach subscription as part of its new features expected for iOS 27, Google is doing the exact opposite, introducing an AI health coach to Fitbit Premium users on iOS. According to a Fitbit community blog post, the health tracker is offering a…

Digital twins – virtual representations of environments and dynamics of interest – can address a wide range of decision-making needs and opportunities, and expectations for the technology and related applications are high. A study from Fortune Business Insights projects the market to grow from $24bn in 2025 to more than $250bn in 2032. Digital twins…

Popular large language models (LLMs) are unable to provide reliable information about key public services such as health, taxes and benefits, the Open Data Institute (ODI) has found. Drawing on more than 22,000 LLM prompts designed to reflect the kind of questions people would ask artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots, such as, “How do I apply…

José Adorno/BGR Yet another report suggests satellite 5G support might be a key upgrade for upcoming iPhone models. This time, Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital, who is known for revealing the iPhone 16e brand before its release, says iPhone models with the C2 modem will support 5G New Radio for Non-Terrestrial Networks (NR-NTN). With that,…

Europe’s data protection supervisors have warned that proposals by the European Commission to reform privacy law by narrowing the definition of personal data could erode privacy rights for European Union (EU) citizens. The regulators said in a joint response with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) that the proposed changes raise “significant concerns” and could…

Having led the UK’s leading broadband provider through a decade of “unprecedented investment and transformation”, Clive Selley is to step down as chief executive officer of Openreach at the end of March 2026, to be replaced by current deputy CEO Katie Milligan. A wholly owned and independent subsidiary of the BT Group, Openreach said that…