UK tells thousands of foreign students not to overstay visas, else they will be…

The United Kingdom government has asked tens of thousands of foreign students not to overstay their visas else…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Foreignstudents #internationalstudents #Latvia #LV #UKasylum #UKHomeOffice #UKvisa #UnitedKingdom #universitystudy #YvetteCooper
https://www.newsbeep.com/101306/

The Home Office: Where authoritarianism dances with pixies.

"Are you an asylum seeker and are you considering buying an armoured car, a snowmobile or a timeshare using your Home Office pre-paid cash card? If so, think again, for these are just some of the luxuries on a list of banned items and activities drawn up by the government.

"Quite how asylum seekers living in hotels who are banned from working but are provided with meals and receive £9.95 a week are expected to afford any luxuries is unclear. "

#UKHomeOffice

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/30/home-office-bans-asylum-seekers-from-buying-luxury-goods-and-services

The now in-house government service for the "Right to Work" Verification Process.

#VerificationProcess aka #BlackListing
#DepartmentOfWorkAndPensions
#UKHomeOffice
#Ofcom

WhatsApp supports Apple in UK data privacy case, warning against breaking encryption.

#WhatsApp, #Apple, #Privacy, #Encryption, #UKHomeOffice, #NationalSecurity, #LegalRow, #TechDisputes, #CivilLiberties, #AdvancedDataProtection, #EndToEndEncryption.

Must read William Goodwin Computer Weekly on the secrecy surrounding the case #Apple-#UKHomeOffice

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366620938/Apple-encryption-legal-challenge-heard-behind-closed-doors-despite-calls-for-public-hearing

Weekly output: Musk digitally deleting USAID, Arm vs. Qualcomm, U.K. vs. Apple, 8K TV, Bletchley Park

One of this week’s published stories began with reporting weeks ago; another began with notes and photos taken months ago.

2/3/2025: Musk’s Minions Deleting Digital Presence of US International Development Agency, PCMag

I could not just write about the weird digital erasure Elon Musk and his goons have been inflicting on the online presence of the U.S. Agency for International Development without reminding readers of three important bits of context: USAID does good and useful work (as vouched for in that quote from Georgetown University government-department chair Anthony Arend, four of whose classes I took as an undergrad 35-plus years ago); USAID constituted all of .4% of the federal budget in fiscal year 2024; Elon Musk’s tweets show no sign of him having any interest in the agency until January.

2/6/2025: Arm Drops Effort to Cancel Qualcomm’s Chip-Licensing Deal, PCMag

If you were considering buying a Windows laptop with one of Qualcomm’s power-efficient Snapdragon X processors, this should rank as very good news.

2/7/2025: Report: UK Orders Apple to Disable E2E Encryption on iCloud Backups Worldwide, PCMag

Writing up the Washington Post’s scoop about this dangerous demand by the U.K.’s Home Office gave me a crash course in looking up and citing legislation on Parliament’s Web site–without which I would have been writing about the Investigatory Powers Act without pointing people to the text of that 2016 statute and its 2024 amendments.

2/8/2025: In 2025, the Picture for 8K TVs (Still) Isn’t Looking Too Bright or Sharp, PCMag

I originally had delusions of writing this piece from CES with a Las Vegas dateline, but the weeks since then allowed me to get some additional numbers from the Consumer Technology Association and quiz another analyst as well as the head of the 8K Association.

2/9/2025: To See Codebreaking At Its Most Metal, Visit Bletchley Park, PCMag

Some of you may remember my writing a piece about Bletchley Park for the long-gone information-security publication The Parallax in 2018. I decided to revisit this museum of WWII codebreaking when my trip to London in October for Uber’s Go-Get Zero event (on Uber’s dime) left me with an afternoon free, and I’m glad I did because I was able to check out one exhibit that I’d had to skip earlier and see a few exhibits they’d added since then.

#8K #8KTV #AgencyForInternationalDevelopment #ArmHoldings #BletchleyPark #codebreaking #cryptography #EnigmaMachine #iCloudEncryption #InvestigatoryPowersAct #MuskCoup #Qualcomm #SnapdragonX #SnoopersCharter #UKHomeOffice #USAID

The UK Labour government’s demand for access to Apple encrypted messages is not unexpected to anyone who’s watched UK politics since, say before Tony Blair came to power.

The UK is heading down the road to approved messages, approved conversations, approved internet sites (Andy Burnham suggested something along those lined many years ago IIRC). Control freakery is nothing new to Labour.

Tory scum, Labour scum, the brand doesn’t matter. They’re all fscking useless assholes.

I hope Apple quotes Arkell v Pressdram to the UK Home Office.

#UKPol #UKPolitics #Labour #UKHomeOffice