Too many university students can use AI to complete assessments without staff finding out, the higher education regulator in England has said. The Office for Students (OfS) said a significant proportion of assessments are unsupervised and many can be completed to a high standard with AI, sometimes in minutes. It said this posed a significant risk to their credibility, and closed-book and practical exams were the most effective forms of assessments. Universities UK said many institutions had made substantial changes to make assessments AI-proof. Universities that do not meet OfS quality standards could soon be banned from charging increased tuition fees or have caps imposed on their student numbers, under proposals that are now being consulted on.

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UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country's slow rate of adoption For the last two years, the UK government has been telling the British public that the country could receive an economic boost of £400 billion, thanks to AI, a figure intended to calm fears that the technology would lead to sweeping job losses and even an economic crash. But the UK AI minister admitted last week that figure was significantly higher than the government's actual projections after it was revealed that assessment came solely from a report commissioned by Google, and that its own estimation of AI's economic benefit was less than a third of that £400 billion figure. AI minister Kanishka Narayan, answering a parliamentary question on the issue, said that AI adoption and data investment could add £55 billion to £140 billion to the UK economy by 2030, bringing the central estimate to £120 billion.

What to Know About China's Top-Secret Spaceplane This week, the Pentagon released a full-resolution image of the vehicle, the capabilities of which remain rather mysterious. The spacecraft was caught on camera by a commercial satellite in low orbit. A winged Chinese spacecraft bearing a strong resemblance to the US military's X-37B spaceplane was photographed in orbit by a passing US-owned commercial satellite in 2024, and we finally have the image. The Chinese spaceplane has delta wings, payload bay doors, a dark heat shield, and a rear-mounted service module with power-generating solar arrays. In other words, the design of the winged ship is, to a great degree, a copy of the X-37B spaceplane flown by the US Space Force.

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Another European move toward digital sovereignty has curtailed adopting the US workplace suite. The Netherlands stopped a government agency's shift to Microsoft 365. The drive toward an open-source, digital sovereignty approach continues. What the Netherlands will move to next is quite vague.

Pearson's Workera deal targets a big workplace problem: No time to AI upskill Pearson has agreed to acquire Workera to help businesses assess employees' AI skills and target training where it's needed most. Kayla Solino is a ZDNET Editor based in New York City and New Jersey. Pearson will acquire the AI skills platform Workera in H2 2026. A recent Workera report in ZDNET indicated gaps in AI upskilling. Together, the firms hope to develop the future of AI skills training.

Pentagon rolls out new Joint Warfighting Evaluation requiring senior officers to pass wargames and combat assessments before general officer promotion boards.

Public disagreement about whether political violence is rising and who is responsible for it stems not from ideology alone but from competing definitions about what should be counted. It could have been a scene from: a quiet evening, an ordinary home, a sudden intrusion by a stranger convinced that the law has betrayed him. In early July 2022, Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington and her husband were watching television at their Seattle home when men drove past their house screaming threats: vile, racialized, and unmistakably political. Thirty minutes later, one returned, blasting music and approaching the porch. When officers arrived, they found him armed with a loaded handgun, a round already chambered.

Wed 16 Sep 2026 07.55 EDTLast modified on Wed 16 Sep 2026 07.56 EDT Large-scale datacentres will face mandatory environmental assessments before they can go ahead, the Scottish government has announced, amid growing public concern about the impact of the AI boom. Ahead of a vote on a moratorium on new hyperscale datacentres in Holyrood on Wednesday, the Scottish government has tightened rules for new projects by requiring any above 50MW to submit environmental impact assessments, but stopped short of agreeing to an outright halt. Scotland has seen a boom in planning applications for large datacentres as global investment in AI infrastructure has exploded. Datacentres are critical for storing and processing data used by AI. One scheme in Auchtertool, Fife, has been billed as the second-largest in the world, and is among more than 20 large datacentres proposed so far.

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