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Could still be winging its way to you: One Concorde engine seeks new home
Good news, everyone! Earlier this week, it looked as though your opportunity to snap up a piece of aviation history in the form of a Concorde engine might have gone. However, if your pockets are deep enough, it appears there's still a chance you could buy your very own Olympus Turbojet.…
Study uncovers presence of CSAM in popular AI training dataset
A massive public dataset that served as training data for popular AI image generators including Stable Diffusion has been found to contain thousands of instances of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).…
NASA makes purrrr-fect deep space transmission of cat vid
From the department of "what must the aliens think of us?" comes news that NASA has demonstrated its Deep Space Optical Communications experiment through the medium of a cat video.…
FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years
American drugstore chain Rite Aid was banned by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from using AI facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years.…
Danish techies claim they can predict your next move (and your last)
Just as language models can predict what phrase might come next in a sentence, Danish researchers claim to have shown human life events can be predicted using similar statistical techniques.…
Microsoft offers rollback for those affected by Windows wireless futility
Microsoft has finally acknowldged that Windows does have a Wi-Fi problem and offered a resolution for those affected: Known Issue Rollback.…
Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121
Version 121 of Mozilla's Firefox web browser, released yesterday, has changes that affect Linux, Windows, and Mac users differently.…
UK officials caught napping ahead of 2G and 3G doomsday
A worrying number of UK authorities are still unaware of the impending switch-off of 2G and 3G mobile networks, according to Local Government Association (LGA) figures.…
Manchester's finest drowning in paperwork as Freedom of Information requests pile up
Updated Greater Manchester Police (GMP) must clear the backlog of hundreds of Freedom of Information (FOI) Act requests – some years old – or find itself in contempt of court.…
Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns
It will take 283 years for female representation in IT to make up an equal share of the tech workforce in the UK, according to a report from the British Computer Society, the chartered institute for IT (BCS).…
SSH shaken, not stirred by Terrapin vulnerability
A vulnerability in the SSH protocol can be exploited by a well-placed adversary to weaken the security of people's connections, if conditions are right.…
Long-delayed Ariane 6 rocket is 'ready to go' – hopefully – says European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) has declared its Ariane 6 rocket is "ready to go” – at least in terms of its ability to launch the long - delayed rocket. But some concerns remain about the performance of its upper stage.…
China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA
Moore Threads, a Chinese purveyor of GPUs, has unveiled its mightiest model to date – and it may even give market leader Nvidia a little to worry about.…
Singapore wants datacenters, clouds, regulated like critical infrastructure
Singapore's government has proposed amendments to its 2018-era Cybersecurity Bill that would extend the oversight of its cyber security agency to cloud service providers and datacenter operators.…
India builds massive tech infrastructure to support finance sector
India is building massive technology infrastructure to support its financial services sector.…
Philippines, South Korea, Interpol cuff 3,500 suspected cyber scammers, seize $300M
A transnational police operation has resulted in the arrest of 3,500 alleged cybercriminals and the seizure of $300 million in cash and digital assets.…
California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling
Taking a cue from water-starved environments like Arrakis in Frank Herbert's Dune books and the International Space Station, arid California is shortening the distance between wastewater and drinking water.…
Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck
Never mind that it is years late, hampered by production problems, and still not on the actual horizon: Elon Musk wants to turn the Cybertruck into a boat.…
Millions of Xfinity customers' info, hashed passwords feared stolen in cyberattack
Millions of Comcast Xfinity subscribers' personal data – including potentially their usernames, hashed passwords, contact details, and secret security question-answers – was likely stolen by one or more miscreants exploiting Citrix Bleed in October.…
Before you go away for Xmas: You've patched that critical Perforce Server hole, right?
Four vulnerabilities in Perforce Helix Core Server, including one critical remote code execution bug, should be patched "immediately," according to Microsoft, which spotted the flaws and disclosed them to the software vendor.…