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US FCC Chair: US e-commerce websites removing millions of prohibited Chinese electronic items from companies like Huawei.

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It may have escaped your attention, but the Belgian energy system has quietly passed an important test. During the weekend of 4-5 October 2025, our consumption was almost entirely covered by renewable energy. And yet the system ticked like a Swiss watch. /

Jaguar Land Rover to restart UK production after devastating cyber attack Tata-owned carmaker agrees new financing scheme to ease cash crunch for suppliers hit by shutdown

Jaguar Land Rover to restart UK production after devastating cyber attack on.ft.com/3IO6Nwg

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Number of new homes needed to return affordability to 1990s levels:

3-4 million.

(via Goldman) $XHB
@birdyword.bsky.social

⚡️ BREAKING: Russia’s strike on an energy facility caused a blackout at the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant, cutting power to the New Safe Confinement over reactor 4.

Specialists are now working to restore electricity.

enshittification in science.

@privateeyenews.bsky.social nails it...

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Continuous AI for Accessibility: Build Better, Faster, Inclusive Software with GitHub • All Things Open 2025 Accessibility issues don’t have to surprise you — or your users. Continuous AI for Accessibility is an approach to building accessible products by embedding tools, AI, and best practices directly into...

Looking forward to speaking at #AllThingsOpen with @helen.blog on “Continuous AI for Accessibility: Build Better, Faster, Inclusive Software with GitHub” 🚀

If you’re working on #Accessibility, #OpenSource, or inclusive #AI come say hi after our session 👋

2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/con...

EXCLUSIVE: The UK is sending counter-drone technology to Denmark, after several airports reported incursions by airborne devices in recent days.

Full story: www.politico.eu/article/uk-a...

Police confirm a drone sighting near Equinor’s Sleipner platform. The report came from employees on site, triggering internal alerts. Authorities have launched an investigation and are gathering intelligence.

The Sleipner gas field is located 155 miles west of Stavanger, Norway.

Dsit launches £50m life sciences fund to entice R&D investment - Research Professional News Government hopes to stem sector losses as Moderna opens vaccine research centre in Oxfordshire

Dsit launches £50m life sciences fund to entice R&D investment.

Government hopes to stem sector losses as Moderna opens vaccine research centre in Oxfordshire.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Jaguar Land Rover to bear full cost of cyber attack given lack of insurance Government considers offering support to suppliers including state purchase of car parts

Jaguar Land Rover to bear full cost of cyber attack given lack of insurance on.ft.com/46lRrIr

French President Emmanuel Macron phoned President Donald Trump after being stopped at a New York intersection that was being blocked off for his U.S. counterpart's motorcade during the United Nations General Assembly.

At the same time as having one of its flagship projects slammed and cut, the national statisticians have been struggling to upgrade their tech stack. In April, the ONS said it needed to protect budgets for economic statistics and essential security while finding additional funding for survey operations within a "flat cash" settlement from the Treasury in 2025/26. It said this balancing act meant it had to make "tough choices." Included in a number of programs on the back burner is the transition away from legacy IT systems, which it acknowledged would have a financial downside in the long term.

ONS's Integrated Data Service programme is closing in March after UK Labour cut its budget in half www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/i...

integrateddataservice.gov.uk

So you can stop asking what the point of the National Data Library is, look there's a needs gap now

#govtech #techpolicy #datasharing

EU cyber agency says airport software held to ransom by criminals Brussels Airport asks airlines to cancel nearly half of their outgoing flights on Monday.

"The BBC has seen internal crisis communications from staff inside Heathrow Airport which urges airlines to continue to use manual workarounds to board and check in passengers as the recovery is ongoing."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My thread on the airport check in cyber incident(tm). It's not just 3 airports btw, those are just the ones most impacted as they have the least staff per traveller available. cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...

The aide, the associate, the ‘Chinese agent’ – and the collapse of a long-awaited UK spy trial Case against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry was suddenly dropped, leaving questions for CPS

The aide, the associate, the ‘Chinese agent’ – and the collapse of a long-awaited UK spy trial

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Flights delayed and cancelled after cyber attack hits European airports: Live Passengers have been advised to check with their airlines whether flights are still going ahead

🔴 Flights delayed and cancelled at several European airports after a cyber attack
🔴 The attack has rendered automated systems inoperable, according to Brussels Airport
🔴 London Heathrow and Berlin airport also reported disruption

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WDC2025 - October 10 2025, Watershed, Bristol, UK WDC is the web conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year. With great speakers and attendees alike.

We've rounded up almost all the talk details and have updated the site!

We're looking forward to seeing you in October!

webdevconf.com

Innovate UK innovation loans: round 23 UK registered businesses can apply for loans for close to market innovative projects with strong commercial potential. They must significantly improve the UK economy and drive societal benefit.

ICYMI: Innovate UK innovation loans: round 23 #InnovateUK

From lab to lecture hall: The rise of software in academia - Software Heritage Software Heritage Archive data shows where software in academia is being created, the languages used, and the licensing crisis.

The unseen engine of academia is #code. Our Director, Roberto Di Cosmo, presented some of the trends from the Software Heritage Archive in a recent talk at the OECD. https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/09/18/software-academia_oecd_talk/ #OpenScience

Cheat code: the Mag-7 just keep buying each other's products and each other's stock and everyone gets rich.

Ofgem just opened a consultation for a revised "Smart Meter Communication Licence". It describes the duties and operating model for whatever organisation runs the smart meter infrastructure.

So an important part of UK #datainfrastructure.

www.ofgem.gov.uk/consultation...

Ukrainian drones have just hit Salavat Oil Refinery in Bashkortostan which is 1300km from the frontline.

#explodey