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UK lawmakers say live facial recognition lacks a legal basis
A UK committee in its upper house has written to Home Secretary James Cleverly to warn of the lack of legal basis for the use of live facial recognition by police.…
Techie resurrects teletext on a vintage BBC Master
Got an old BBC computer in the loft, a spare Raspberry Pi gathering dust in a drawer, and a yearning to return to the days when Teletext was a neat thing?…
Leaked email: Unit4 ERP system leaves some school staff with 'nil pay'
Exclusive After schools in Surrey went live on a new £30 million HR, payroll and finance system, the responsible county council is being forced to prioritize support calls for problems that are delaying staff pay.…
Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone
Hardware hacker's non-trivial project to weld a Blackberry keyboard to an Android fondleslab is being updated with an off-the-shelf PCB.…
UK biometrics boss bows out, bemoaning bureaucratic blunders
The farewell report written by the UK's biometrics and surveillance commissioner highlights a litany of failings in the Home Office's approach to governing the technology.…
Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech
Opinion An apocryphal tale regarding the late, great footballer George Best being interviewed by a reporter just after getting suspended from Manchester United offers an apt description of today’s tech industry right now.…
It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety
Fake sexually explicit AI-generated viral images of pop royalty Taylor Swift have struck a nerve, leading fans, Microsoft's boss, and even the White House to call for immediate action to tackle deepfakes.…
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface implant company Neuralink has begun its first human clinical trial.…
Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light
Reg In Space One of the radio telescope designs to be used by the Square Kilometre Array has achieved first light.…
Microsoft signals expansion of APAC datacenter fleet with 'land acquisition' hire
Microsoft has signaled significant expansion of its datacenter footprint in the Asia Pacific region.…
Microsoft's vision for the future of work is you trusting Redmond to get AI right
Comment If the future of work is a choice and "not a predetermined destiny" – as Microsoft puts it in a recent report – it would be nice to know why Redmond is so intent on shoving its version of that future down our throats.…
Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037
Oracle has quietly extended paid support and upgrades for Solaris 11.4 to 2037 – three years past its previous deadline – and did the same for earlier versions of the OS last year.…
SolarWinds slams SEC lawsuit against it as 'unprecedented' victim blaming
SolarWinds – whose network monitoring software was backdoored by Russian spies so that the biz's customers could be spied upon – has accused America's financial watchdog of seeking to "revictimise the victim" after the agency sued it over the 2020 attack.…
Things are going to get weird as the nanometer era draws to a close
Comment With 3nm production reaching maturity and 2nm on the way, TSMC is reportedly laying the groundwork for the next logical step, a 1nm fab.…
Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk
Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government.…
CockroachDB tempts legacy databases to crawl into the cloud age
CockroachDB has released its 23.2 iteration containing new features designed to tempt mainframe and other legacy database users to shift workloads to its distributed cloud-based system.…
X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety
Not long after it emerged that X, formerly Twitter, cut 1 in 3 Trust and Safety employees after Elon Musk's takeover in October 2022, the social media platform now claims it's ready to hire 100 full-time content moderators at a new office in Austin, Texas.…
Japan's lander wakes up, takes blurry snap of Moon
Japan's Moon lander has woken up on the lunar surface and begun transmitting data back to controllers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.)…
Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators
Amazon's $1.7 billion bid to buy iRobot is off, and while Jeff Bezos's business faces a termination fee, almost a third of vacuum maker's staff face termination of an altogether different nature.…
DEA nabs $150M from dark web drug lord based... in Coventry
A dark web drug kingpin has handed more than $150 million in cryptocurrency to US authorities and pleaded guilty to selling hundreds of kilograms of drugs over the internet.…