Former business minister Vince Cable testifies, highlighting misinformation and oversight failures Officials at the government department responsible for the Post Office sent out misleading information to MPs about court cases relating to the Horizo…
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Lees meerNeil stepped on a rock. We're surfing an interstellar wave 9,000 light years long. Go us Opinion Fifty-five years after Neil Armstrong's one small step, and the future it promised has not come to pass. Nobody has gone back to the Moon since the end…
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Lees meerPromises to discourage use of kernel drivers – so they don't crash the world again Microsoft has admitted that its estimate of 8.5 million machines crashed by CrowdStrike's faulty software update was almost certainly too low, and vowed to reduce inf…
Lees meerBecause clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records Beijing may soon issue "cyberspace IDs" to its citizens, after floating a proposal for the scheme last Friday.…
Lees meerNot even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ The US Department of Justice has alleged that TikTok shipped personal information to China and allowed profiling of the short video app's users based on their attitudes to some ticklish topics.…
Lees meerPromote free use of government data, privacy, canning spam, and more Five years of trade negotiations reached a milestone last Friday with 91 nations agreeing on new norms for e-commerce – among them extension of a moratorium on taxation of cross-bo…
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Lees meerPlus: Grab drops cab merger, Kakao founder goes to the clink, Alibaba denies Jack Ma cronyism, and more APAC in brief Chinese researchers have told The New York Times that open source software has helped them to accelerate AI development.…
Lees meerWe think this means easier-to-administer virtual desktops with extra shiny Omnissa, the newly independent business created by Broadcom's spinoff of VMWare's end-user compute arm, has proclaimed it will become a source of "AI-infused autonomous works…
Lees meerGoogle adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts' Climate and weather modeling has long been a staple of high-performance computing, but as meteorologists look to improve the speed and resolution of forecasts, machine learning is…
Lees meerFTC boss must be doing something right if folks will pay to get her binned LinkedIn cofounder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman was quick to express support for Kamala Harris' bid for the US presidency this year after incumbent Joe Biden stepped a…
Lees meerPrevious outlawing attempt flew off, will this one stick the landing? US senators have been asked again to consider banning the use of drones made by Chinese manufacturer DJI in American airspace after a previous attempt to outlaw the machines was d…
Lees meerLaunching in Beta is so 2014. We're in the prototype limited sign-up era now After months of speculation, shy and retiring OpenAI has showed the world a glimpse of its very own web search engine powered by AI.…
Lees meerFTC boss must be doing something right if folks will pay to get her binned LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman was quick to express support for Kamala Harris' bid for the US presidency this year after incumbent Joe Biden stepped aside, and now the reaso…
Lees meerYou wouldn't download a performer Actors are back on strike for an entirely unsurprising reason: Studios aren't willing to give video game actors enough protection from artificial intelligence. …
Lees meerChinese brands ascendant in the country’s phone market, but Apple’s exile might only be temporary For the first time in a while, the top five smartphone vendors in China are all native, with Apple's position falling to sixth place.…
Lees meerThe eventful launch of STS-93 and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. W…
Lees meerAnd boy, did last Friday's Windows fiasco ever prove that yet again Opinion CrowdStrike's recent Windows debacle will surely earn a prominent place in the annals of epic tech failures. On July 19, the cybersecurity giant accomplished what legions o…
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