41 stories tagged uk, newest first.
406 points by iamnothere | 447 comments
Blog post by lawyer Preston Byrne arguing Ofcom admitted in Commons committee testimony that its jurisdiction over 4chan ends where foreign courts' jurisdiction begins.
60 points by fascinnn | 57 comments
Fox & Lion analysis article on UK banks refusing accounts to defence start-ups due to ESG screening and anti-money laundering checks.
115 points by DeepLogin | 41 comments
openDemocracy article reporting internal documents suggesting Amazon uses an AI model with hundreds of data points to monitor union risk in UK warehouses.
358 points by ivewonyoung | 450 comments
Telegraph news article on suicide rates reaching record highs among middle-aged men; the page loaded as an access-denied block screen.
214 points by librasteve | 201 comments
Reading Chronicle local news article about a house in Tilehurst with 15m of underground tunnels listed for sale at £300k.
73 points by speckx | 34 comments
Guardian feature investigating why every fish in Furnace Brook lake in East Sussex died overnight, tracing the cause to a neighbouring farm and wider UK river pollution.
43 points by latein | 10 comments
Reclaim The Net article reporting that a UK Home Office unit kept files on people who criticized the Prevent counter-extremism program, revealed after an appeal.
32 points by xbmcuser | 30 comments
Carbon Brief analysis article arguing that electric vehicles are now nine times cheaper per mile than petrol or diesel cars to drive in the UK.
494 points by ReturnoftheHack | 455 comments
MacAnorak article on how Apple's strongest iCloud protection (Advanced Data Protection) is unavailable to some UK users, creating two-tier encryption.
553 points by KolmogorovComp | 149 comments
A page from Iceland Foods' company history section recounting the 2001–2005 'Dark Ages' period and a warning about management consultants.
353 points by RickJWagner | 525 comments
BBC News article about a Mars Bar from 1991 found in East Yorkshire that is 20g heavier than the current version of the chocolate bar.
371 points by speckx | 136 comments
A blog bookmark post by Remy Sharp commenting on an EU Court of Justice ruling that VPNs are lawful technical tools, in the context of UK child-protection and privacy debates.
428 points by mosura | 794 comments
BBC News article reporting that 4Chan mocked a £520,000 fine from UK regulator Ofcom for breaching online safety rules.
443 points by user5994461 | 255 comments
Blog post by The HFT Guy describing running gigabit Ethernet over existing British telephone wiring in a London home.
598 points by robotsliketea | 748 comments
BBC News article reporting that Heathrow Airport has scrapped the 100ml limit on liquid containers in hand luggage.
471 points by tymscar | 161 comments
A blog post describing how the author set up a network-wide VPN proxy on NixOS and Docker to bypass Imgur's geo-block for UK users across their homelab.
798 points by YeGoblynQueenne | 785 comments
BBC News article reporting a survey finding nearly all UK drivers think car headlights are too bright, causing glare.
549 points by ANewbury | 590 comments
Daily Express news article reporting that image-hosting site Imgur is withdrawing from the UK as the Information Commissioner's Office threatens a fine.
334 points by gloxkiqcza | 662 comments
TorrentFreak article arguing the UK could use 4chan, as it once used the Pirate Bay, to justify Online Safety Act blocking of non-pirate sites.
378 points by amarcheschi | 524 comments
Sky News article reporting that ten live facial recognition vans will be deployed across police forces in England, with human rights groups criticising the technology.
1024 points by phlummox | 786 comments
BBC News article reporting that Wikipedia lost its legal challenge against verification rules under the UK's Online Safety Act.
614 points by danso | 203 comments
Wikimedia Foundation news post from 11 August 2025 about its legal challenge to UK Online Safety Act regulations.
319 points by Nurw | 155 comments
Wikimedia Foundation news post announcing its legal challenge to UK Online Safety Act regulations, dated 17 July 2025.
611 points by mmarian | 920 comments
Financial Times article reporting a surge in VPN use in the UK as new online safety rules take effect.
604 points by xbryanx | 498 comments
New York Times article on a UK inquiry report finding at least 13 people died by suicide amid the Post Office Horizon scandal; page shows a captcha.
362 points by url | 264 comments
Sam Jordison's Substack essay reflecting on his 2003 book Crap Towns and whether such a book could be published today.
663 points by zeristor | 749 comments
Guardian article reporting campaigners' claims that people without smartphones are unfairly penalised as loyalty schemes, deals and parking increasingly require apps.
567 points by sebg | 997 comments
Blog post by Josef Chen, dated Aug 3, 2024, arguing that the UK's elite hardware engineering talent is being wasted.
735 points by buro9 | 502 comments
Forum post announcing that LFGSS and the Microcosm forum platform will shut down on 16 March 2025 because of liability under the UK Online Safety Act.
487 points by jakey_bakey | 219 comments
Guardian article about a UK company forced by Companies House to change its name, which contained an HTML script tag that could enable cross-site scripting attacks.
394 points by notamy | 533 comments
Guardian article on cheating allegations against the men's world conker champion David Jakins after a steel replica chestnut was found in his pocket.
342 points by giuliomagnifico | 245 comments
NPR article on UK companies that trialed a four-day workweek and, more than a year later, mostly kept and still favor it.
335 points by Daub | 135 comments
A long-running personal website cataloguing bricked-up arches and doorways around the UK, presented humorously as entrances to Hell.
460 points by MBCook | 227 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that bugs in Fujitsu's Horizon system, which led to wrongful prosecutions of UK Post Office workers, were known from the start.
449 points by johndunne | 252 comments
BBC News article reporting that the UK Post Office lied to and threatened the BBC over a Fujitsu Horizon system whistleblower.
1500 points by countrymile | 217 comments
Young Animator of the Year UK 2023 winner page for Best Animation, age 15-18, featuring an embedded video of the winning animation.
592 points by judiisis | 346 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin criticizing the UK Parliament's passage of the Online Safety Bill as a threat to privacy, security, and encryption.
875 points by jameshh | 289 comments
A blog post analyzing the NATS incident report on the 28 August 2023 UK air traffic control system failure caused by a flight plan processing bug.
555 points by pwmtr | 352 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing the U.K.'s Online Safety Bill could undermine end-to-end encryption for users worldwide.
1262 points by samwillis | 613 comments
9to5Mac article reporting Apple's statement that it would pull iMessage and FaceTime from the UK rather than weaken end-to-end encryption under proposed law.
453 points by danboarder | 316 comments
Fortune article reporting that Signal's president says the company will not comply with a proposed U.K. law requiring mandatory message scanning.