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Ukraine’s drone blitz halted Russia’s Sea of Azov shipping in under a week.

Keir Starmer's resignation on Monday morning paves the way for yet another leadership battle.

Keir Starmer's resignation on Monday morning paves the way for yet another leadership battle.

Critics say bans push kids to riskier alternatives and can be beaten with VPNs.

The UK government is introducing a ban on social media for children and a minimum age for some chatbots in an attempt to shield young people from dangerous corners of the web.

The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.

Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances.

Our ancestors' genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers.

The British government thinks a state-backed infrastructure initiative will help supercharge homegrown chip startups.

Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a racist agenda.

A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.

When most people think about UK data sources to scrape, they go straight to Companies House. And they should — it's an excellent dataset. But there's a more valuable register that compliance teams, fintech sales teams, and KYC workflows desperately need, and it has zero scrapers on the Apify marketplace: the FCA Financial Services Register. The Financial Conduct Authority maintains a live register of every firm authorised to provide financial services in the UK — ~50,000 firms ranging from Barclays Bank to a one-person IFA. It includes their regulated permissions (what they're actually allowed to do), their principal address, trading names, and enforcement history. It's the data source used to verify "is this firm actually regulated?" — a check every fintech, insurance company, and compliance team runs regularly. The opportunity The FCA register has a free official REST API at register.fca.org.uk/Developer . No paid tier, no scraping needed — just register an account, get a key, and start making authenticated requests. Despite this, there was literally no Apify actor for it. The US equivalent — FINRA BrokerCheck — already has two actors with thousands of users. The UK gap was sitting there, unoccupied. The architecture This is one of the simplest actor architectures I've built — no Playwright, no Cheerio, no browser automation. Pure HTTP requests with fetch . The FCA API has a few key endpoints: GET /V0.1/Search?q={query}&type=firm — search for firms by name or keyword, returns FRNs GET /V0.1/Firm/{FRN} — fetch base details for a specific firm GET /V0.1/Firm/{FRN}/Address — registered address + phone + website GET /V0.1/Firm/{FRN}/Names — trading names and historical names GET /V0.1/Firm/{FRN}/Permissions — the full list of FCA-regulated activities All endpoints require X-Auth-Email and X-Auth-Key headers. The rate limit is ~100 requests per 60 seconds, which works out to about 25 fully-enriched firms per minute at 4 API calls each. async function fcaFetch < T > ( p

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the technical infrastructure of Stark Industries Solutions, an Internet service provider sanctioned last year by the EU as a frequent staging ground for cyber mischief from Russia's intelligence agencies.