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Office buildings with low occupancy rates are being transformed into flats.

The proposed radical overhaul of the welfare system would move under-25s off the main sickness benefits.

The BBC understands the discount chain, which has been edging towards administration, will be given more time to find a buyer.

Tens of thousands of people have been taking part in the strike, called by the country's main unions over housing and the high cost of living.

Alibaba's smallest Qwen3.5 base model packs native vision, 262K context, and a Gated DeltaNet hybrid stack into under a billion parameters.

There is a growing expectation among senior Labour figures that drilling in the oil field will be given the green light.

NVIDIA's 117M-parameter Déjà View loops one transformer block to beat billion-parameter 3D reconstruction baselines while letting you dial compute at inference.

Google Research unveils SensorWM, a world model trained on 2.28M person-weeks of Fitbit data that simulates 12-week what-if habit trajectories for personalized health coaching.

Google opens Managed Agents on the Gemini API to bring-your-own sandbox runtimes, with seven launch partners including Vercel, Modal, Cloudflare and E2B.

Zed v1.28 lands with optional background Git auto-fetching, a resizable Refs column in the Git Graph, and mouse-wheel font zoom in diffs and terminals.

The Welsh government said it was "unavoidable" after controversial changes in the 2025 UK budget.

Assistant Chief Constable Mark Sutherland assured parents it is safe for children to attend school after over 1,000 schools received a hoax email.

Police Scotland said at least 1,000 schools received the email but the warnings were immediately assessed as hoaxes.

xAI's upgraded Grok Bot adds shared team memory, proactive task-taking, and native hooks into Slack, Microsoft Teams, and video calls.

Perplexity's follow-up red-team study shows that Capture the Flag framing misdirects agents away from the actual security boundary, and cyber-tuned models don't always win.

Google's new Gemini Decision 1 model scores up to 1,000 multimodal questions in a single forward pass, returning calibrated probabilities instead of text.

Poundland has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators, which protects it from creditors until Thursday.

Exclusive interview with BBC Radio Shropshire, Brad Friedel on Shrewsbury Town takeover.

Delta can now offload agent threads to Zed-hosted Linux sandboxes, so coding agents keep running when your laptop closes and you can check in from a phone.

People across Spain are striking, primarily over housing costs.

It’s that time of year again: Thousands of delegates, lobbyists, and journalists are gathered for the annual UN climate talks, taking place this time in Antalya, Turkey. COP31 officially kicked off on November 8, marking the beginning of negotiations on one of the biggest stages of the climate world. Turkey and Austral

Thousands are protesting across Spain over housing and the high cost of living.

Google Labs rolled out Tabletop, an AI-powered shared workspace that spins up custom planning tools like itineraries, polls, and brackets on demand.

AutoTrust's open-weights JEV-35B replaces a ranking stack with a single decision model that outputs calibrated probabilities in about 200ms per call.

How post-training and action verification shape AI agent performance.

Police are conducting urgent enquiries, and liaising with schools - but the Department of Education urged schools to remain open.

Speech delivered by Children's Minister at annual NCASC conference in Liverpool

Comfy-Org has repackaged MiniMax's open-weight H3-Image model into quantized single-file checkpoints that drop straight into ComfyUI workflows.

Unsloth's new Dynamic V3.1 GGUFs squeeze Qwen3.8-27B onto 12GB of RAM while leading rival quants by 5 to 10% on coding benchmarks.

Runway open sourced Praxis-1, a 27B mixture-of-experts diffusion transformer that turns video pretraining into real robot control under Apache 2.0.

Google DeepMind's new conditional DNA model predicts variant effects in individual cell types, doubling causal variant recall and adapting to new single-cell data without retraining.

Databricks reframes Genie from a chat assistant into an always-on worker that monitors systems, drafts work, and acts under governed guardrails.

The PSNI says more than "300 schools to date have reported to police receiving the same emailed message".

Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.

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Education Secretary calls on colleges to work with government to get today’s 16-18s not currently in education back in and re-engaged

In her speech, the Education Secretary calls on colleges to work with government to get today’s 16-18s not currently in education back in and re-engaged.

Some people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can get help with heating costs during cold spells.

A NeurIPS 2026 paper reformulates Bayesian experimental design as a game against an adversarial nature, yielding Sibson's alpha mutual information as a robust objective with PAC-Bayes guarantees.

DeepMind's AlphaProof Code used Gemini agents to generate 6M lines of Lean proofs, verifying Signal's cryptographic protocol down to machine code.

The Tamil Nadu government has ordered an internal audit of library collections across the state.

Series of webinars on RISE reception quality in schools led by senior education sector experts.

vLLM's updated encoder-prefill-decode disaggregation cuts P90 time-to-first-token by 44-47% on multimodal workloads through metadata-only requests and cross-encoder caching.

Tracking down the men who have made serious money from internet porn.

The Tokyo startup brings in a former NSA director and a veteran CIA station chief to steer its push into Japanese defense and cyber work.

A bumper year so far for toy sales comes as debate intensifies over screen time and tech connectivity.

The billionaire tech executive finds himself mired in a personal and national security scandal.

The billionaire tech executive finds himself mired in a personal and national security scandal.

Meta's new promptable model reconstructs a full-body 3D human mesh including hands and feet from a single photo, with keypoint and mask prompting baked in.

Expo's new Rust-based framework lets one Contract file ship a native app to web, macOS, iOS, and Linux, with agents as first-class drivers.

A new benchmark pairs 233K Wikipedia passages with 1.45 million Wikidata edits to test whether models can actually keep knowledge graphs current.

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Baidu's new 280B sparse MoE activates just 14B parameters per token, serves above 200 tokens per second, and ships open weights by November 25.

Vals AI added a realistic AWS cloud range called Watershed to its CyberOffense benchmark, and Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 77.1% across all three scenarios.

ACE Music v1 tops the Artificial Analysis vocal music leaderboard with an Elo of 1160, edging out Suno v6 and the entire Mureka and Lyria lineups.

Alibaba opens preview access to Qwen4-Max across its Token Plan, QwenWork, Qoder, and Qwen App, with a focus on coding and agent workflows.

Researchers use small language models trained on child-directed speech as simulated learners to generate testable hypotheses about how children acquire dative verbs.

The Office for Students says students can frequently use AI "in ways that cannot be reliably detected".

The conflict in the Gulf is an opportunity for the US to test its autonomous mine-hunting systems.

The conflict in the Gulf is an opportunity for the US to test its autonomous mine-hunting systems.

The appointment was made after it emerged Jensen Huang had an affair with a woman believed to be a spy for China.

The appointment was made after it emerged Jensen Huang had an affair with a woman believed to be a spy for China.

We investigate internet-connected device flaws worldwide, plus US election tech fallout.

The AI company behind the Claude chatbot will offer its shares at between $70 and $78, which is lower than what was expected.

The AI company behind the Claude chatbot will offer its shares at between $70 and $78, which is lower than what was expected.

The contents of the calendar, including hair clips and keychains, have been widely criticised on social media.

Sales of essential goods such as hand sanitiser soar after the government called on households to be prepared for emergencies.

Prices rose by 0.4% over the month, driven by increases in shelter, food and energy costs.

Kashim Chowdhury had secretly held multiple public sector jobs on full-time salaries.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace Huckins As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced

The metals industry has experienced transformational moments before: the Bessemer process, flash smelting, electric arc furnaces, and modern continuous casting all changed what was possible. Yet, for more than a century, most extraction processes rely on techniques and pathways that would be familiar to metallurgists f

Children will benefit from distraction-free learning under strengthened mobile phone guidance.

The government says it is strengthening its guidance for schools in England, which came into force in June.

Huang, who is now being investigated over an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, is far more important to the future of the world order than other tech bosses.

Huang, who is now being investigated over an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, is far more important to the future of the world order than other tech bosses.

The US president said he spoke with Jensen Huang on Monday and asked him about the affair with the alleged spy.

The US president said he spoke with Jensen Huang on Monday and asked him about the affair with the alleged spy.

AI safety regulator will also be created after a rogue OpenAI agent hacked government websites.

AI safety regulator will also be created after a rogue OpenAI agent hacked government websites.

Proposition 40 targeted Californian billionaires with a 5% tax on their total wealth, including assets such as shares as well as income.

The Australian airline said the move was aimed at modernising its IT systems and noted the impact of AI.

The BBC hears from Vinted sellers who describe difficulties accessing money held in their online wallets.

A tug-of-war between China and the US could have a big impact on energy costs, but who will win?

Jensen Huang is being investigated by his own company over an extramarital affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy.

Jensen Huang is being investigated by his own company over an extramarital affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy.

The share price dropped wiped hundreds of billions of dollars from the value of Nvidia.

The share price dropped wiped hundreds of billions of dollars from the value of Nvidia.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in Ashburn, Virginia, part of what’s known as Data Center Alley—the world’s largest data center hub. It’s also where…

Business correspondent Emma Simpson tries out Sainsbury's facial recognition technology.

Kashim Chowdhury has been convicted of fraud after pocketing £284,000 of taxpayers' money over three years.

As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s open San Francisco seat, he could play a key role in setting federal AI policy.  I spoke with Wiener on Friday, on

The discount chain is continuing to edge towards collapse and is said to be "running on fumes", according to one insider.

Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman, had a close relationship with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, reports say.

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As companies look to accelerate innovation with artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and advanced modeling, the primary challenge is connecting new technologies to reliable data, scientific expertise, and the practical realities of bringing products to market. For specialty chemicals manufacturer Lubrizol, digital

New petrol or diesel cars are due to be phased out by 2030 and by 2035 all new cars must be zero emission.

This week, as countries meet in Antalya, Turkey for the United Nations climate conference, one topic likely to dominate the conversation is artificial intelligence. The host has already called on countries to commit to ensuring that AI is designed, powered, and deployed in ways that support climate action. But so far,

Adoration for the US tech giant’s CEO Jensen Huang has been labelled “Jensanity”, but can his reputation survive the news of his affair?

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The education secretary says she is backing the inquiry to "get to the heart of the barriers holding children back".

Small decisions made now can make a big difference to your festive finances, charities say, so here are some tips.

The government says pupils in Year 7 to 9 should have "richer, more engaging" learning than preparing for GCSEs.

The culture secretary confirms reports they could be in the list of platforms set to be banned next March.

As part of the biggest shake up of the national curriculum in a generation, Key Stage 3 is set to become a more engaging, exciting and distinct part of child’s experience to boost participation and progression

The culture secretary says the UK rejoining the EU's study and work scheme will help honour wartime sacrifice.

Nintendo has released its remake of what is considered one of the best games ever made - the BBC's Tom Gerken gives his verdict.

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The Treasury Committee chair says she is "shocked" after one university compared repayments to the price of coffee.

Investment has surged into the making of jet turbine blades - an extremely difficult component to make.

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Government sets out new Action Plan to reduce homelessness for care-experienced young people, building on PM’s pledge to tackle rough sleeping.

Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.

The makers of the popular times table game say they are bringing in curfews and limits to screen time.

Landmark qualification will help pupils preserve their language and cultural heritage while opening doors to future opportunities

Graduates are spending more time managing AI, but are they missing out on other work experience?

When copyright strikes silence reporters, rail safety & the Lord of the Rings live show.

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Letter giving local authorities notice of a grant to help with costs of data returns.

An improvement notice issued to St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council following an Ofsted and Care Quality Commission (CQC) area SEND inspection in June 2026.

A revised improvement notice issued to Halton Borough Council following an Area SEND Monitoring Inspection in January 2026.

An improvement notice issued to Halton Borough Council following a joint Ofsted and CQC inspection in November 2023.

An improvement notice issued to Cornwall Council to improve services for children and young people with SEND.

How Cornwall Council helped young people with special educational needs and disabilities to develop the skills to travel safely and independently.

The alleged scheme used stolen identities to claim US student aid, with Kenyans among those charged.

Video games are good at triggering nostalgia, a key reason why classic games keep getting remade.

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Accurate dialogue is only part of accessible video captions. Quality captions also identify speakers, convey meaningful sounds, and provide readable, synchronized text. Whether captions come from an automatic tool or a professional service, this article explains why evaluating the finished viewing experience is essenti

Ofcom says photo and digital ID, banking checks or facial age estimation can help prove someone is 16 or over.

Properties where someone has died in tragic circumstances can have big reductions in price.

New article from Special Needs Jungle: with Adam Petrie, educator Here’s a scenario almost every SEND family recognises: when you report to school an issue you see at home, the school says, “we don’t see that … The post “We don’t see that here”: How teachers can better navigate

As drone deliveries become more commonplace, their makers are looking for ways to make them quieter.

We hear from Ondřej Surý, the programmer whose PHP patches helped avert a cyber crisis.

Innovate Awarding Limited (Innovate) has been fined £185,000 by Ofqual after the regulator found serious failings in its oversight of a centre delivering a business administration qualification.

Government's response to the Social Security Advisory Committee report on how the social security system influences educational and vocational decision-making at age 16.

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Videos in which people claim to spot the signs of low iron have attracted millions of views online.

Indian cartoonists say online restrictions are making satire harder, but they aren't giving up.

Indian workers are being paid to film themselves at work and the footage is used to train AI.

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The Secretary of State’s letter to the School Teachers’ Review Body asking for recommendations on teachers’ working conditions for 2027 to 2028.

With graduate jobs hard to come by, more young adults are reported to be considering emigrating.

A new study finds Rosalind Franklin is the only woman named in Key Stage 4 science specifications.

Education Secretary Lucy Powell has stressed the importance of reminding new generations of the horrors of the Holocaust.

Simon Ridley appointed as current Permanent Secretary, Susan Acland-Hood, leaves for new role

New training, guidance and practical resources will give teachers and leaders the confidence to identify, challenge and prevent antisemitism wherever it occurs.

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Investigative genetic genealogy can help hunt down criminals but raises worries over privacy.

The next generation of chip is thinner and flexible when compared to traditional silicon.

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A speech delivered by Sir Ian Bauckham, Chief Regulator at Ofqual, at the Confederation of School Trusts annual conference.

Smells from rubbish dumps and industrial facilities are being more carefully monitored.

With the festive season on the horizon, we trace toys from factories in China to US shelves.

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music has been fined over serious shortcomings in its arrangements for retaining and managing assessment evidence.

AI dominates the translation business, but for high-stakes work, humans are still needed.

A group of clinicians warns technology use in English schools is driving a rise in health problems like short-sightedness.

Shiona McCallum visits Cairngorms National Park to see tech monitor wildfire damage.

A second head teachers' union says it is "increasingly concerned" about members' "welfare and morale".

Solar tiles were touted as an attractive alternative to solar panels - why have they not taken off?

Albertans vote this month on staying in Canada or moving ahead to a binding independence referendum.

Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?

The regulator said Instagram had not fully assessed risks posed by its Instants feature prior to launching it.

Alasdair Keane heads to the Pokémon World Championships in San Francisco.

Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

But new data reveals a lack of consensus over who is responsible for keeping systems safe.

Aberdeen is launching an ambitious bid to revive its struggling centre. Could it offer lessons for other high streets?

Ammie Sekhon explores tech used to identify and remove counterfeit products online.

Auto executives across Europe hope rearmament can help them flex their industrial muscles once more.

Adrienne Murray follows NASA scientists in Iceland researching a rare total solar eclipse.

Ofqual has today confirmed its arrangements for the regulation of V Levels, Foundation Certificates and Occupational Certificates.

Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?

As one of the researchers identifying products and tools for inclusion in the NCADEMI EdTech Accessibility Directory, VPATs have been on my mind. Most of the product vendors in the directory that do have VPATs do not provide them publicly, but instead require a potential customer to request the VPAT. This really surpri

A landmark AI deal between the UK and Ukraine has been signed today as the two countries join forces to develop new military capabilities and the technology of the future.

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Clearer data on qualifications and outcomes means stronger local understanding, says Ofqual’s Chief Regulator Sir Ian Bauckham.

Ofqual has fined OTHM Qualifications £25,000 after finding serious and repeated failures in the way the organisation handled malpractice allegations.

Ofqual has fined Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited (EAL) £150,000 for serious and repeated failures in the delivery of apprenticeship qualifications.

Why is it taking so long for the government to regulate them, and what are the consequences of delay?

Open letters to industry leaders about improving essential private sector digital services.

The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has given notice to the British Institute of Innkeeping Awarding Body (BIIAB) to terminate their recognition agreement.

Seven NEDs (Non-Executive Directors) appointed to the Information Commission, supporting the move to a new board-led governance model later this year.

Default overnight curfews and addictive features to be switched off automatically to protect 16 and 17-year-olds on social media

Applications open for the AI Upskilling Challenge Fund, inviting organisations to deliver innovative AI training to help Barnsley workers, businesses and residents build AI skills as part of the Barnsley Tech Town.

Ofqual has stopped an awarding organisation from accepting new learners on a set of security qualifications.

50 UK Government-funded 4G masts have been switched on to boost signal in some of Scotland's hardest-to-reach communities.

Life Sciences sector attracts over £3 billion in new public-private investment in 12 months, reflecting international confidence in UK science and innovation.

Firms including M&S, Nationwide, ITV, Microsoft UK and Cloudflare are some of the first to pledge to strengthen their cyber defences.

A speech given by Ofqual's Chief Regulator, Sir Ian Bauckham, at the Wellington Festival of Education.

Just over 75,000 students in England sat Pearson's A Level maths exams but failures in design and delivery of the assessments caused significant public concern.

More than 50 UK organisations back charter to deliver paid family leave and flexible working support for women in research.

Many younger people do not believe the state pension will exist when they are older

A dozen cutting-edge projects will benefit thousands of patients battling obesity across the UK.

Oxford and UCL to host new government-backed labs developing the next generation of AI that more businesses and services can readily use

SilentGlass is a plug-and-play cyber security device developed by NCSC and commercialised with support from GOTT, now licensed to a UK firm for global use.

Millions of homeowners could benefit from faster planning decisions, as 2 new AI tools are unveiled to modernise England’s planning permission system.

A new national network to coordinate standards for the quantum technologies that will revolutionise everything from medicine to banking and transport.

Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, Liz Kendall's oral statement to the House of Commons on Monday 15 June.

Social media platforms to be blocked from offering services to under-16s, marking a line in the sand and setting a new normal for future generations.

Letter from DSIT Secretary of State Liz Kendall to Ofcom Chair, Sir Ian Cheshire and Ofcom Chief Executive, Dame Melanie Dawes.

The Government Cyber Action Plan aims to boost cyber resilience across the UK public sector by using emerging technologies to manage risk. The Government Cyber Coordination Centre (GC3) - a partnership between the NCSC and t…

More than £6 billion of new investment and around 8,000 new jobs have been announced this week, as companies from around the world choose to build, hire and scale here.