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UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age
The UK's Home Office is offering £1.3 million ($1.7 million) to developers of age-determining software - a tech it wants to deploy widely across its systems.…
Nokia successor HMD spawns secure device biz with Euro-made smartphone
Finnish phone maker HMD Global is launching a business unit called HMD Secure to target governments and other security-critical customers, and has its first device ready to go.…
Anthropic's Claude Code runs code to test if it is safe – which might be a big mistake
App security outfit Checkmarx says automated reviews in Anthropic's Claude Code can catch some bugs but miss others – and sometimes create new risks by executing code while testing it.…
AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments
It was bound to happen. The Darwin Awards are being extended to include examples of misadventures involving overzealous applications of AI.…
Legacy tech blunts UK top cops' fight against serious crime, inspectors find
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) clings to legacy systems and relies on an IT strategy that lacks clarity, a policing watchdog has found.…
Microsoft veteran's worst Windows bug was Pinball running at 5,000 FPS
Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has come clean and admitted that the worst bug he ever shipped was in... Pinball.…
UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent content involving self-harm from appearing on their platforms – rather than responding and removing it – in a planned amendment to the UK's controversial Online Safety Act.…
Use it or lose it: AI may cause you to forget some skills
Using AI may cause some of your skills atrophy, and your employer therefore needs to take steps to keep you sharp.…
Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free
Encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay for it.…
Citrix products sold under old licenses will get glitchy unless users upgrade
Citrix on Monday advised its customers that products acquired under its current file-based licensing system will experience “loss of functionality and potential impacts on end-users” next April, and that upgrading to a new cloudy licensing scheme is the way to avoid potential problems.…