Fri 6 Nov 2026 13.51 ESTLast modified on Fri 6 Nov 2026 14.10 EST Activists have stormed the site of a Microsoft datacentre being built in Amsterdam, as the backlash to the social and environmental harms of the AI boom spreads across Europe. Protesters from Geef Tegengas, a Dutch direct action group, clashed with police while breaking into a construction site at Westpoort Amsterdam, where some members climbed a crane, lit flares and tied helium balloons to equipment. The action comes amid Europe-wide resistance to the rapid expansion of energy-hungry AI, with more than 100 groups involved in a two-day series of protests to demand moratoria on the construction of new datacentres. Geef Tegengas activists attach a'Genocide' banner to scaffolding at the Microsoft site. Photograph: Storm Groenendijk/Zuma Press Wire/ShutterstockThe break-in at the Dutch site, where protesters hung banners objecting to Microsoft's services to the Israeli military and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was separate from the pan-European "Stop Dirty Data Centres" campaign, which targeted the same site but whose affiliated members stayed outside the perimeter fence.

Western Australia police used cameras with facial recognition technology on marked vans at 43 locations across the state including the Perth royal show. Western Australia police used cameras with facial recognition technology on marked vans at 43 locations across the state including the Perth royal show. More than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time facial recognition technology in Western Australia, resulting in 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts. WA police said under the five-month trial, which concluded on Saturday, the technology scanned 1,380,882 faces after 100 deployments across 43 regional and metropolitan locations. Alongside the 122 arrests, the alerts led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders and locate 10 people for a welfare check.

Traders' tools stolen every 20 minutes in UK Traders' tools worth thousands of pounds were stolen somewhere in the UK every 20 minutes last year, figures show. At least 26,164 tool thefts were recorded in 2025, based on responses from 30 police forces who shared data. The true figure is likely to be higher as a further 15 forces could not respond. Gangs and chancers are behind the crimes, according to Labour MP Amanda Martin, who is calling for her government to do more to help. The Home Office said it was working with the police to tackle and prevent tool theft to protect more hardworking tradespeople, including increasing neighbourhood policing, investing in police and working with industry and AI to tackle the sale of stolen goods.

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 61-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman who crashed her car died. South Wales Police said the woman, 47, from North Cornelly, Bridgend, crashed into a wall on Coity Road at about 12:43 BST on Monday. But the force said she had suffered injuries unrelated to the crash. It followed armed police swooping on a nearby sheltered housing retirement complex, Ger-y-Nant, where the man was arrested. There remains a heavy police presence in the area, including six officers, police cars and vans.

AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren't Paying For Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren't widely seeking justice. Instead, they're being encouraged to adopt those same tools. When Philadelphia police criticized Anthropic last week for submitting a false tip about an unsolved murder, I thought it might become one of the first cases where an AI company faced legal consequences for misconduct by their agents . The incident occurred on July 18, when Anthropic said it was testing its Claude Haiku 4.5 model's ability to perform "example tasks on randomly selected webpages." The model was instructed not to "submit anything destructive," and yet, Claude filed a tip to police looking for information about an ongoing murder investigation.

A mechanic who gave a car a fraudulent MOT just weeks before it was involved in a fatal crash that killed three people has been given a 12-month community order. Neil John Lewis, 47, from Cardiff, had previously pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation . Eve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21, and Rafel Jeanne, 24, died when the car crashed into woodland in St Mellons, Cardiff, in March 2023. They lay undiscovered for two days. Cardiff Magistrates' Court heard Lewis had owned G and J Motors for 21 years and had voluntarily surrendered his testing certificate following the incident.

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Turkish police have raided the headquarters of a pro-opposition TV channel, halting its live broadcasts. Halk TV said its employees were unable to enter the building in Istanbul on Wednesday morning, and that a new manager had been appointed to run the channel. Reports in Turkish media said financial crimes police were searching the building and 11 people had been taken into custody in the raid linked to the channel's owner. Halk TV has been seen by many in the country as being close to the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). It often voices criticism of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling AK party.