Datacentres represent a growing share of global power consumption and emissions. An average user PC consumes 1.3 kWh of electricity every three hours, without even going online; transmitting a million static webpage requests per second has been estimated Read more…
The AI Council has published a “roadmap” of advice for government in respect of developing a UK state strategy for artificial intelligence (AI). Eye-catchingly, it advocates what it calls “moonshots” that “could tackle fundamental challenges Read more…
An investigation by consumer rights organisation Which? has revealed gaps in online banking security systems at some major banks. During its investigation of current account providers in the UK, conducted with security experts 6point6, it Read more…
The impacts of Covid-19 have had a detrimental effect on people’s mental health, but there is now hope that the events of 2020-21 will trigger a longer-term, positive transformation. Feelings of isolation or helplessness, struggles Read more…
Japanese biometrics firm NEC Corporation has launched a facial-recognition system specifically for identifying people wearing masks, which it claims is 99.9% accurate and takes less than one second for verification. In a NEC blogpost from 24 Read more…
Last month, the UK and the European Union (EU) put in a place a short-term agreement as part of the Brexit deal to allow for the continued free flow of data, which supports more than Read more…
Ongoing investigations into the significant December 2020 cyber attack on various US government agencies, orchestrated through a breach of SolarWinds Orion products, are increasingly pointing to a Russian espionage operation, according to a taskforce report. Read more…
The DiRAC high-performance computing (HPC) facility has been given £20m funding to upgrade its supercomputer to support science simulation. The new systems will be between three and five times more powerful than the existing DiRAC Read more…
The cyber criminal gang behind the Pysa, or Mespinoza, ransomware strain has claimed responsibility for the 2020 cyber attack on Hackney Council in London and has begun to publish the data it stole to its Read more…
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started the process to begin a formal investigation of Nvidia’s proposed £31bn merger with UK chipmaker Arm. Arm’s business model is based on developing and licensing intellectual property Read more…