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12 Sep
281 arrests in BEC crackdown as FBI reveals $26bn lost to scammers
Law enforcement officials have arrested 281 individuals for allegedly engaging in business email compromise scams in a significant operation spanning across ten countries.
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10 Sep
Tech industry reacts to Brexit latest: ‘Give us certainty’
Parliament is prorogued, the House of Commons speaker is stepping down and prime minister Boris Johnson has lost six votes in as many days.
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9 Sep
Taleemabad: The app spreading education across Pakistan
In Pakistan, 51% of people are expected to own smartphones by 2020, but 48% of children cannot read a simple sentence by the time they leave primary education.
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6 Sep
Have you heard the Amazon is on fire? The power of social media in awareness raising
Forest fires happen annually in the Amazon as a result of forest life cycles, but this year the Amazon rainforest is burning at 84% the rate it did last year, according to the Brazilian Space Agency.
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5 Sep
@Boris Johnson has left the group: WhatsApp in Westminster
From fake news to Facebook, WhatsApp has attracted the media spotlight for a number of reasons.
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5 Sep
The State of Open Banking: Despite promise, significant challenges hold banks back
While financial service providers recognise the promise of open banking, few feel that they’re in the best position to take advantage of it.
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5 Sep
Apollo 15’s Al Worden on Mars, space race 2.0 and astronaut humour
Just 24 people have flown to the Moon, and Colonel Al Worden is one of them.
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4 Sep
South Wales Police facial recognition ruled lawful
The High Court has ruled that the use of facial recognition by the South Wales Police was “consistent with the requirements of the Human Rights Act and the data protection legislation” in a landmark ruling.
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4 Sep
Brexit and GDPR: The steps that businesses can take to prepare
With the 31st October 2019 approaching and the possibility of a no-deal Brexit on the horizon, there are some important upcoming changes for data controllers and processors based in the UK who process the data of subjects based in the EU.
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3 Sep
Facebook ‘hide likes’ feature: Part of the social media giant’s privacy offensive?
Social media platform Facebook is reportedly building a feature to hide ‘likes’ in a bid to discourage users from comparing the popularity of their posts with other users.
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2 Sep
Dark times ahead as cybercriminals target power grids
One of the greatest inventions in history, the advent of electricity, opened up a whole new world.
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30 Aug
Exclusive: Teletext Holidays data breach exposes 212,000 customer call recordings
British travel company Teletext Holidays has suffered a data breach in which some 212,000 customer call audio files were left unprotected on an online server for three years, exposing customer names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.
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28 Aug
Meet the startup making ethical electronics mainstream
With ethical consumers increasingly concerned with the origin of their purchases, almost every industry, from fashion to food to diamonds, has been held to account over the ethics of its supply chain.
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23 Aug
Technology and the contemporary artist: An interview with Bryan The Girl
New Haven, Connecticut-based professional artist and educator Bryan Schiavone, known by her huge online following as Bryan The Girl, is recognised for her pen-and-ink crosshatching style, a method that dates back to the Renaissance to add depth and texture to drawings.
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22 Aug
False flag hacktivism on the rise as real activists turn away from hacking
Around the world, hacktivists appear to be hanging up their keyboards.
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22 Aug
AI in education: A toxic mix of buzzwords, hyperbole and unqualified expertise?
The UK government has developed a voracious appetite for artificial intelligence (AI), based on a promise of its apparently transformative power across myriad industries.
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21 Aug
Google and Mozilla block Kazakhstan internet surveillance
Internet giants Google and Mozilla have taken action to block the Kazakhstan government from intercepting the internet traffic of its citizens in what appeared to be an online surveillance scheme.
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20 Aug
QR code voter ID pilot paves way for future elections
Scanning a QR code may one day be the way in which voters in the UK confirm their identity, following a pilot in Watford, UK.
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19 Aug
Operation Yellowhammer: How could data flow be affected by a no-deal Brexit?
An official document detailing the potential outcomes of a no-deal Brexit, leaked over the weekend, has shed light on the likely aftermath of leaving the EU without a deal.
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19 Aug
Texas ransomware attack: Local governments are sitting ducks – and hackers know it
Over the weekend, news broke that a host of local government departments in the US state of Texas are fighting a severe ransomware attack.
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16 Aug
Take a seat: The mental health chatbots encroaching on the therapist’s couch
Chatbots are everywhere.
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16 Aug
Outside China, London is the most surveilled city in the world
Surveillance is on the increase around the world, but the extent to which citizens are under watchful eyes varies dramatically.
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15 Aug
Suprema data breach: What GDPR says about biometrics
The Suprema data breach, in which researchers say they discovered that the fingerprints, voice data, facial images, unencrypted usernames and passwords of more than one million people were publicly available, has drawn the condemnation of security experts and data privacy experts.
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14 Aug
AI & innovation: Will the next Tesla or Dyson even be human?
From boardrooms to editorial departments, interest around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is showing no sign of abating.
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12 Aug
A brief history of AI: The progression towards artificial general intelligence
Each day brings a new story of how artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved yet another apparent intellectual feat, often better than a human could have done it.
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9 Aug
Huawei Harmony OS isn’t just a defence… It’s an offence too
Huawei has finally unveiled Harmony OS, its long-awaited alternative to Google’s Android operating system, at the Huawei Developer Conference.
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6 Aug
With SoftBank’s backing, Cybereason set to join cybersecurity’s rapidly growing unicorn club
Cybereason has raised $200m in investment from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group and its affiliates, leaving the firm just shy of a $1bn valuation that would see it enter cybersecurity’s fast-growing unicorn club.
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6 Aug
New airship technology could see zeppelins return to our skies
On May 6 1937, the infamous Hindenburg disaster, in which an airship caught fire after an electrical spark ignited highly flammable hydrogen that had leaked out, claiming the lives of 36 people on board.
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5 Aug
Cloudflare drops 8chan as thorny topic of online freedoms returns
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare has terminated the service it provides for far-right imageboard site 8chan in response to it being used to publish the manifesto of the alleged El Paso shooter.
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1 Aug
Premier League predictions 2019-20: Here’s how the season will pan out (according to AI)
From Leicester City winning the title in 2016 to Liverpool overturning a 4-0 defeat to Barcelona in last season’s Champions League, football is impossible to predict.
