Money stolen by scammers hijacking UK social media accounts rises 400%

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Thousands of child-on-child sexual offences reported at schools in England and Wales | Schools

Meet the ‘burglars’ paid to break into businesses: ‘As cyber-defences improve, physical entry to premises is emerging as one of the best ways to hack into systems.’

Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence

To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button?: ‘Anyone who judges that this intemperate psychological liability should have access to the nuclear codes and other top-level information must have a subconscious wish for their answer to the question “where do you see yourself in five years’ time?” to be “living in Britain’s catacombs and distilling drinking water from my own urine”.’

What If We Just Stopped?: ‘…there has to be a better way of connecting and sharing and existing together, a way that isn’t locked into the exploitative doom loops and psychic death of what we currently have.’

Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit: ‘Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a “paradise of machines”’

New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN

How remigration became a buzzword for global far right: ‘The move to the mainstream of terms such as remigration would probably not be possible were it not for centrists and mainstream politicians willing to legitimise this discourse’

Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data: A well-deserved outcome for a company that ‘used “various tricks” to ensure location history and web and app activity were enabled’.

‘Incredibly encouraging’: healing the scars of traditional anchors in Dorset’s seagrass meadows: Eco-anchors work, it seems.

Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack: URLs that contain characters that look like letters that they’re not.

Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope: An estimated 20,000 report per year.

UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge: Bad for democracy, terrible for those of us who are not billionaires.

Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors: It’s stored without end-to-end encryption who-knows-where on Microsoft Azure that many employees can access

‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias

Resist the anti-disability propaganda: The cruel and harmful rhetoric from supposed Christian Nationalists is in fact very unchristian.

Britons of all ethnicities feel racial inequality is worsening, study shows

About 1,500 Britons a day quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers: ‘…they try to balance their vulnerable relatives’ growing care needs with declining access to state-funded social care services.’

The perilous economic conditions facing the UK can be traced back to Trump: Primarily 1) war in Iran, 2) tariffs. Anyone who loves Britain should loathe Trump.

Who are the 514 people accused of starting French wildfires and what motivates them?: Responsible for an unspeakable amount of damage this year.

Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britain’s slave-trading past

Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can: Not the first time I’ve seen this sort of claim.

Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England: Private companies inevitably getting in on this lucrative ‘business’.