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UK unveils £7.8bn space strategy - but the small print is mostly promises, not hardware

A new government strategy talks up satellite defences and better phone signal on trains, but most of the money is a spending plan through to 2030, not kit that exists yet.

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UK troops did a fortnight in the Arctic - here's what actually happened, minus the spin

The MoD says Royal Marines and RAF personnel just proved NATO can fight in the High North - but strip out the press-release language and it's a routine, if chilly, training exercise.

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PM 'blocks' more offenders from early release, but the press release is light on the actual detail

Downing Street says manslaughter and historic grooming cases are now excluded from sentencing changes, but there's no bill, no numbers and no date attached to the announcement.

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Government launches air pollution text alerts, but you have to ask for them

A new opt-in service will text or email you when air quality turns bad in your area, though nothing changes unless you sign up yourself.

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New UK envoy to New Zealand named - but don't expect it to change your gadget bill just yet

A fresh diplomatic appointment has landed on GOV.UK - here's what's actually confirmed, and why it's mostly irrelevant to your day-to-day tech life.

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UK minister's Cambodia visit puts three decades of landmine-clearance tech in the spotlight

A ministerial trip to Cambodia is really a diplomatic photo-op - but the demining operation behind it is a genuine, measurable piece of humanitarian engineering worth separating from the rhetoric.

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UK and 15 other governments tell firms: don't touch Israel's E1 settlement tenders

A joint statement condemns new construction tenders in the West Bank's E1 zone and warns businesses of 'legal and reputational consequences' - but there's no sanction, ban or enforcement mechanism attached.

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Government promises to get 'everyone' off the streets by Christmas - here's what's actually confirmed

A £442 million package and a promise sound big, but the smallprint shows a familiar gap between ambition and delivery.

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Semaglutide "cuts dementia risk", say the headlines. The number is modelled, and the real trial already failed

A new analysis of the SELECT trial reports a lower predicted dementia risk on semaglutide. But it measured a blood-protein signature, not actual dementia, and the drug's dedicated Alzheimer's trials found no clinical benefit last November.

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Google’s medical AI can now run a video consultation. The study was with actors.

AMIE reads visual and audio cues and guides a virtual physical examination. Clinicians rated it well, against simulated patients, in a research setting Google says is not ready for real use.

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