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New analysis suggests UK datacentres will create significantly fewer jobs than official estimates, while consuming substantial energy and water. The environmental thinktank Verdant challenges industry projections, sparking a debate with government and tech sector representatives over the economic and environmental costs of rapid AI infrastructure rollout.
A new report by the Tech Transparency Project alleges that Meta ran hundreds of paid advertisements featuring AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery on Facebook and Instagram, many appearing in India, even after a government directive to remove such content. The findings raise questions about the platform's content moderation systems and compliance with child protection laws.
Google is preparing to host an in-person, embargoed media showcase for its upcoming Googlebook platform in New York City on September 15, 2026. The event is expected to offer a comprehensive look at the new premium laptop platform, which is built around the Gemini artificial intelligence model and a native Android codebase.
Flock Safety's chief executive Garrett Langley has acknowledged the company should have acted sooner to prevent police misusing its licence plate readers and cameras, as it rolls out new data safeguards.
New analysis of Britain's 555 datacenters shows London holds two-thirds of national capacity, but multimegawatt projects are increasingly planned across the regions, from Wales to the North East.
Joseph Wallace, Adobe’s director of data and AI governance, says companies risk confusing dashboards and policies with real accountability as AI regulation and scrutiny increase.
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against telehealth provider Hims & Hers, alleging it shared customers' sensitive health information with advertising platforms and made it deliberately difficult to cancel subscriptions.
Honor’s latest foldable device offers strong hardware and battery performance, but persistent software issues and a steep price rise point to wider tensions in the premium smartphone sector around update policy, repairability and component costs.
LG has agreed to stop displaying a McAfee advertisement to users of its monitors after a senior Microsoft executive intervened, though the automatic software installation system that delivered the pop-up remains in place.
