Frankramspott/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You wake up in the morning and check with your weather app, which tells you that there is no snow today. You expect an easy commute. Ten minutes on the road, however, the flakes start to fall. The problem with modern weather apps…

Elvard project/Shutterstock Well, it seems Google is up to some more shenanigans with the upcoming arrival of the Pixel 10a, its next budget-friendly Android phone. While our review of the Pixel 10 praised what Google is doing with its smartphones, the company still seems intent on trying to win over as many Apple iPhone users…

rukawajung/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Driving a car is a lot of responsibility. On the road, there is no shortage of laws to adhere to and plenty of other drivers to contend with. While it’s up to everyone to keep the avenues and highways safe, it’s not a job…

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…