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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66099040 Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is on a collision course with the UK government over continued plans to build super-secure messaging into all his apps despite a potential landmark law that could effectively outlaw the technology. Around the world, governments that also oppose the popular technology are watching the showdown closely to see who will blink first. In the past, most people were happy for the state to have the technical capability to access our messages. It was on the understanding that they wouldn't actually do so unless they had a good reason for it. But the documents released by Snowden showed they were violati…

The speed limit on many roads in Britain has been reduced to 20mph and the Welsh Minister for Transport and Technology has criticised Wales's decision to introduce this nationwide. https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1786230/20mph-speed-limit-wales-poll-spt

Hundreds of fraudsters are advertising illegal driving test schemes on social media that promise to help Britons get their licence without taking a test, it has emerged. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12241745/Driving-test-fraudsters-offer-lookalikes-sit-practical-tests-headset-help-theory-exam.html

https://news.sky.com/story/all-crew-and-passengers-on-missing-titan-sub-believed-to-be-dead-12907756 The five men onboard the missing Titan sub are believed to have died after the vessel suffered a "catastrophic implosion" Quite morbid and sad news, as it seems the absolute best outcome is that it imploded and they died instantly. I was following this incident and hoping against all odds that they had surfaced and were just awaiting rescue. I had an interest in the Titanic as a kid and visiting the wreck was one of the things I had on my bucket list if I had silly amounts of money

A father-of-four, jailed over fraud and drugs, cannot be deported back to Jamaica because it would leave no one to look after his 'gangster' children. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181993/Father-jailed-fraud-drugs-deported-Jamaica.html

The young man under a baseball cap, with the fearsome-looking canine companion, is 21-year-old Lukas Makula. The pair are well-matched. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12178353/Migrant-killer-21-suing-Home-Office-ruining-social-life.html

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/internet-connection-records-uk-surveillance A government effort to collect people’s internet records is moving beyond its test phase, but many details remain hidden from public view

Labour MP Rachael Maskell suggested councils should introduce speed limits of 10 miles an hour near homes. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/labour-mp-demands-bonkers-10mph-speed-limit-be-rolled-out/ar-AA1b6Y6f?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=9a3448c608594269b3fc23c0e4e13ce1&ei=70

A crown court judge has rebuked an Albanian migrant who turned to crime after arriving illegally in Britain by boat. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12029365/Judge-rebukes-migrant-turned-crime-arriving-Britain-illegally-boat.html you are 100% right judge and it needs to be said 👍

Two Just Stop Oil protestors who scaled a bridge over the Dartford Crossing and caused 40 hours of gridlock have been jailed for five years in a record sentence for the climate group. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11999669/Just-Stop-Oil-protesters-scaled-bridge-Dartford-Crossing-bridge-caused-gridlock-jailed.html

With their model WAGs, £600,000 homes and diamond encrusted Rolexes, Albanian rappers certainly appear to be doing well for themselves in the UK - despite never topping the charts. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11960661/Guns-drugs-girls-rise-Albanian-rappers-flaunting-lavish-lifestyle-UK.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-64815723 The security service MI5 missed a significant chance to take action that might have prevented the Manchester Arena attack, an inquiry has found. The inquiry found two pieces of information about Abedi were assessed at the time by the security service as not being terrorism-related. But Sir John said, having heard from MI5 witnesses at the hearings, he considered that did not present an "accurate picture". One officer admitted they considered a possible pressing national security concern on one of the pieces of intelligence but did not immediately discuss it with colleagues and did not write…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64835197 If we are ill-informed, then but not inform us? I don't understand the police logic???