The government previously planned to build its own Galileo replacement with the help of other members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US. The project was put on hold in May just before the publication of a feasibility study. The estimated cost had risen by then to £5 billion ($6.2 billion).

The UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult is working on a white paper that would lay out a method of using the OneWeb constellation for a sat-sav system. However, some experts have suggested that hosting a GPS-style system on OneWeb’s satellites might not be viable.

For one thing, the constellation is at a far lower orbit (1,200 km) than satellites for major positioning systems, such as Galileo and GPS (around 20,000 km). Since early 2019, OneWeb has launched 79 of 650 planned 5G satellites for its initial constellation.

“If you want to replace GPS for military-grade systems, where you need encrypted, secure signals that are precise to centimetres, I’m not sure you can do that on satellites as small as OneWeb’s,” University of Leicester space policy expert Dr Bleddyn Bowen told the Guardian last week. “It’s bolting an unproven technology on to a mega-constellation that’s designed to do something else. It’s a tech and business gamble.”

Meanwhile, Bharti owns the third-largest mobile provider on the planet in Bharti Airtel, which has more than 425 million customers. OneWeb says the company gives it a near-term commercial opportunity “through its presence across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where the terrain necessitates the use of satellite-based connectivity.”

Companies like Google also campaigned against Article 11, a segment that required news aggregators to pay for any quotes that went beyond very short excerpts. The decision against implementing the Copyright Directive will let internet giants carry on quoting larger sections of articles in news search results, much to the chagrin of some publishers.

This doesn’t guarantee that the UK will maintain a looser approach to digital copyright. It’s still eager to fight piracy. However, it’s evident the country intends to go its own direction and doesn’t feel pressure to clamp down on alleged abuse to the same degree.

Like the original, Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition for Switch is set in an alternative version of Britain. Brexit talks have collapsed and an extreme right-wing government has seized power. The gig economy prevails, and you’re forced to work as a bouncer who turns away European citizens. You’re tasked with manning the door at pubs, clubs, festivals and parties — finding work via the BouncR app. You’ll be able to upgrade your apartment and equipment to prepare for whatever the bleak future holds. And as always, the game will test your moral compass, forcing you to decide what lengths you’ll go to in order to survive in a troubled Britain. Unfortunately, the game isn’t quite ready yet, but it should be available for Switch “within the next few months.”

Some of these accounts have been producing massive volumes of tweets focused on Brexit, and clearly in unrealistic amounts. One tweeted 823 times in the space of a day. Some are new, while others are from outside the UK. Regardless of behavior, the surge of new followers for the party suggested “inorganic” behavior.

Just who is behind the accounts isn’t clear. It could be “astroturfing” where organizers or supporters artificially inflate follower counts and messages to make the party seem more popular than it is. However, it could also represent an outside influence campaign trying the familiar tactic of stoking political tensions to weaken the country’s resolve. A spokesperson claimed the party didn’t have any more control over individuals creating accounts than it did “the weather,” but that didn’t address concerns about highly automated account creation or buying legions of fake followers.

Twitter has banned at least seven of the suspicious accounts, and a spokesperson maintained that the social network would “robustly enforce” its policies. There are anti-abuse measures Twitter is taking that the researchers can’t see, the representative added. However, BuzzFeed understood that Twitter hadn’t found evidence of a coordinated plot and didn’t consider the Brexit debate to be a major problem. There’s something questionable happening, though, and this at least suggests that it’s good to be wary when politically motivated groups enjoy a sudden rush of popularity on social networks.