The Alan Turing Institute has appointed four new directors of science and innovation to its senior scientific leadership team, which it said is a key step towards implementing its new strategy. The institute was founded in 2015, with the goal of making “great leaps in the development and use of data science and artificial intelligence [AI] … Leer más
Processor giant AMD has announced that in collaboration with Vodafone and Samsung Electronics it has successfully demonstrated an end-to-end call using open radio access network (Open RAN) technology, representing what the companies say is their technical leadership in enriching the Open RAN ecosystem throughout the industry. Moreover, the joint demonstration is said by Samsung and … Leer más
The Dutch Supreme Court has upheld the use of intercepted messages from an encrypted phone network, EncroChat, in a criminal conviction. In a ruling yesterday, the court found that it was bound by the principle of mutual trust to accept that EncroChat evidence was gathered by French police lawfully under French law. The Supreme Court’s … Leer más
Nation-state threat actors backed by the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are exploiting the large language models (LLMs) used by generative AI services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but has not yet been used in any significant cyber attacks, according to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) Researchers at the MSTIC have been … Leer más
The Metropolitan Police is scrapping its controversial Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) database after long-standing concerns over the tool’s racial disproportionality, but human rights groups have warned that its replacement is likely to repeat the same mistakes. Set up in 2012 as a part of the government’s self-declared and evidence-free “war on gangs” in the wake … Leer más
The UK government has committed to funding more autonomous vehicle projects under its Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) Scale-Up UK Programme. The CAM was launched by the UK government in 2020 to help startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) accelerate the development of services that could power the self-driving vehicles of tomorrow. It’s being … Leer más
In a collaboration intended to open up new business opportunities and deliver innovative services for enterprise customers, as well as realising the full potential of 5G technology, operator A1 Austria (A1), working with Nokia, has completed what it claims is the industry’s first 5G edge cloud network slicing trial with Microsoft. A1 is Austria’s leading … Leer más
UK utility Southern Water has confirmed that the personal data of a number of its customers was stolen by the ransomware gang that attacked its systems in January 2024. The cyber attack on Southern Water was claimed by the Black Basta crew, which posted details of the incident to its dark web leak site on … Leer más
Just weeks after revealing the advances it said it has made in providing enhanced mobile coverage to the Shetland Islands to transform mobile connectivity for the community, Virgin Media O2 is reporting another milestone in the UK’s Shared Rural Network programme, after upgrading connectivity on the Isle of Skye, the second-largest island in Scotland. The £1.3bn … Leer más
Microsoft has patched two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its February Patch Tuesday – a pair of security feature bypasses affecting Internet Shortcut Files and Windows SmartScreen respectively – out of a total of just over 70 vulnerabilities disclosed in the second drop of 2024. Among some of the more pressing issues this month are … Leer más
