Arrested development: Cops dump Amazon's facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly
15 months of wrangling and Orlando couldn't even begin testing AI cloud tech for population surveillance
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Literally braking news: Two people hurt as not one but two self-driving space-age buses go awry
One hit by robo-ride, another injured in US, Austrian trials
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All very MoD-ern: RAF test pilot headed into space with Virgin, £30m small sat demo project
RoundupDefence ministry gets with the Apollo vibes
19 Jul 20:00 |
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Internet of Things
You'll never guess what US mad lads Throwflame have strapped to a drone (clue: it does exactly what it says on the tin)
America. Fsck yeah
19 Jul 19:00 |
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Bootnotes
France seeks science-fiction writers to help futureproof its military against science-fact
'Aliens'
19 Jul 18:00 |
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Security
Israel's NSO Group: Our malware? Slurp your cloud backups plus phone data? They've misunderstood
After report claimed its sales pitches boasted of doing that
19 Jul 17:00 |
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Policy
UK.gov drives ever further into Nocluesville, crowdsources how to solve digital identity
Look, we're all of out ideas!
19 Jul 16:00 |
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Data Centre
Echelon gets the upper hand: Scores final nod for 100MW bit barn campus in Arklow, Ireland
Appeal from competitor who fought Apple application fails to stop project
19 Jul 15:00 |
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Policy
Estate agent dodges GDPR-sized bullet after exposing 18,610 folks' data for two years
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19 Jul 14:09 |
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Artificial Intelligence
You totally need VMs to do AI, nods VMware as Bitfusion dissolves in its vSphere of influence
Virty GPU upstart joins the fold
19 Jul 13:15 |
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Security
Your biz won't be hacked by a super-leet exploit. It'll be Bob in sales opening a dodgy email
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Excluding Huawei from UK's 5G will harm security, MPs warn
A decision must be made as a 'matter of urgency', says Intelligence and Security Committee
19 Jul 12:31 |
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Policy
BT staffers fear new mums could be hit disproportionately by car allowance change
People Framework strikes again: 'Employees feel worse off and demoted'
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Science
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Transport for London missed the train for 2019 deadline
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Science
Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who
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UK government buys off Serco lawsuit with £10m bung. Whew. Now Capita can start running fire and rescue
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Networks
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Data Centre
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Security
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Incognito mode won't stop smut sites sharing your pervy preferences with Facebook, Google and, er, Oracle
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Artificial Intelligence
Arrested development: Cops dump Amazon's facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly
15 months of wrangling and Orlando couldn't even begin testing AI cloud tech for population surveillance
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Cloud
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The pro-privacy Browser Act has re-appeared in US Congress. But why does everyone except right-wing trolls hate it?
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Security
It's never good when 'Magecart' and 'bulletproof' appear in the same sentence, but here we are
Ukrainian civil war a bonanza for dodgy malware hosting firms
18 Jul 20:57 |
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Software
npm uninstall co-founder --global: Laurie Voss rides off into the sunset waving goodbye
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Internet of Things
We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers
You can monitor your child – and their bowels – 24 hours a day! Which is… great?
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Software
We need citizen devs, cries Microsoft – but pricey new licensing plans for PowerApps might put paid to that
'Empowering' if you've got $$$
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Data Centre
Soon Google will have more bit barns in Texas than you can shake a stick at: Second facility planned for Ellis County
'Alamo Mission LLC' to splash $600m on city of Red Oak
18 Jul 16:33 |
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Data Centre
DRAM, is it cold in here? Semiconductor market expected to shrink 12% in 2019
Device numbers growing, but manufacturers are using fewer/cheaper chips per device
18 Jul 15:52 |
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Security
Bulgaria hack: 20-year-old infosec whizz cuffed after 'adult population's' finance deets nicked
Bosses stick up for suspect, claim he's being framed for pinching 5m folks' data
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Cloud
Hip and modern IBM can't beat legacy kit and services IBM: That's four consecutive quarters of revenue decline now
8% cloud biz growth in 12 months. Where is Red Hat when you need it?
18 Jul 14:27 |
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Policy
Big fat doubt hovers over UK.gov's Making Tax Digital, customs declaration IT projects
Plus: Delivery on 9 more projects at 'major risk'
18 Jul 13:54 |
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Security
Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee
UpdatedLatest call to halt creepy tech likely to fall on deaf ears
18 Jul 12:59 |
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Policy
Qualcomm fined €242m over 'predatory pricing' that helped to knock off British competitor Icera
Too late for chip flinger, but a win for the EU taxpayer
18 Jul 12:45 |
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Bootnotes
Japan and Greece collide as Toshiba's storage biz spinoff reborn as Kioxia
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18 Jul 11:59 |
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Security
Microsoft demos end-to-end voting verification system ElectionGuard, code will be on GitHub
'Defending democracy' initiative to resist nation-state attacks
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Security
'Member Ke3chang? They're still at it, you know. Euro diplomats targeted by 'China-based' hacker crew
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18 Jul 10:52 |
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Business
Red flag: Verify to be marked 'undeliverable' by gov projects watchdog
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18 Jul 10:20 |
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Artificial Intelligence
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Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again
Redmond engineer hints at taking super-lang for a spin
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MPs hear how financial services are trying to improve stability in wake of TSB's meltdown
18 Jul 08:15 |
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Security
Dutch cops collar fella accused of crafting and flogging Office macro nasties to cyber-crooks
Accused bloke cuffed after plod swoop on home
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Security
Fresh stalkerware crop pops up on Google's Android Play Store, swiftly yanked offline
130,000 have already downloaded creepware
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The Empire Strikes Back: Trump discovers $10bn JEDI cloud deal may go to nemesis Jeff Bezos, demands probe
UpdatedBad news for AWS and Microsoft, who are vying for US govt's winner-takes-all IT super-contract
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Hope to keep your H-1B visa? Don't become a QA analyst. Uncle Sam's not buying it: Techie's new job role rejected
Software testing just ain't that special, sniff immigration bods
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Personal Tech
Li-ion battery 'price-fixing' case settled with bonus fury over lawyers pocketing eight-figures
Judge green-lights $113m from Samsung, Sony, and others – but $34m in legal fees?!
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Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10m in tech giant's own store credits, live life of luxury, Feds allege
'No safeguards' on QA accounts, and suddenly this guy gets a Tesla and $1.6m home, say prosecutors
17 Jul 20:52 |
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