18/09/2025 08:49
The Guardian
US president heads to Chequers as former Meta executive Nick Clegg says UK must learn to be less reliant on US technologyFour men who were arrested after images of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein were projected on to Windsor Castle have been bailed, PA Media reports. PA says:A 60-year-old man from East Sussex, a 36-year-old man from London, a 37-year-old man from Kent and a 50-year-old man from London were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications on Tuesday night after the stunt at the Berkshire royal residence, Thames Valley police (TVP) said.They were released on conditional bail on Wednesday night until December 12 while inquiries continue, according to the force.Of course it’s great there’s investment in the UK, and it’s better still that a young, London-based company like Nscale is involved.But these really are crumbs from the Silicon Valley table.I sometimes wonder how we would react as a body politic if all that infrastructure, all of that technology that we depend on for every sort of minute detail of our lives, were produced by the French. I think there’d be absolute uproar from Nigel Farage and others.Yet because of the very close partnership we’ve had with the United States, understandably so in the cold war period, I think we’ve been quite relaxed about this very heavy dependency … both in the public and the private sector, on American technology. Continue reading...
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