The UK government is to invest £100m in deploying artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help accelerate the pace of research into treatments for incurable diseases. The initiative has been termed The AI Life Sciences Accelerator Mission and was announced by prime minister Rishi Sunak in a speech on Thursday 26 October 2023. “AI can help us … Leer más
The UK government has excluded the communities and workers most affected by artificial intelligence (AI) from its upcoming AI Safety Summit, which will be a closed shop dominated by big tech firms, say more than 100 civil society organisations in an open letter branding the event “a missed opportunity”. Released ahead of the official AI … Leer más
The chair of UK’s Frontier AI Taskforce, Ian Hogarth, has released the second progress report on the Frontier AI Taskforce. The report follows on from the first Fronier AI report, published last week. The report notes that the hardest challenge faced in building the taskforce is persuading leading AI researchers to join the government. “Compensation … Leer más
Companies with more mandated office days are less likely to have hired female tech talent in the past two years, according to research from Nash Squared. As part of its annual Digital leadership report, Nash Squared found in organisations where it is mandated for employees to come into the office five days a week, only … Leer más
In a deployment that is regarded as enabling as many as 40,000 first responders to communicate safely over the next decade, Motorola Solutions company Dansk Beredskabskommunikation (DBK) has been awarded an eight-year contract by the Danish National Police’s Centre for Emergency Communication (CFB) to implement and continue to operate the nationwide public safety communications network. … Leer más
Legionella is increasingly in the news, and problematic and traditional methods of water outlet and sentinel temperature monitoring associated with reducing its risk have proved to be resource intensive, manual, costly and prone to error. To address this, Sigfox operator and independent internet of things (IoT) network operator Heliot Europe has entered into a partnership … Leer más
Greece’s data protection watchdog is set to issue a long-awaited decision on the legality of controversial high-tech surveillance and security systems deployed in the country’s refugee camps. The Greek Data Protection Authority’s (DPA) decision, expected by the end of the year, concerns in part a new multimillion-euro Artificial Intelligence Behavioural Analytics security system, which has … Leer más
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has issued a preliminary opinion which opens the way for data obtained from an encrypted phone network hacked by French police to be lawfully used as evidence in prosecutions in Europe, but leaves critical legal questions for national courts to resolve. The advocate general of the European Court of … Leer más
A gang of native English-speaking cyber criminals who began their careers as social engineers in support of so-called SIM swapping attacks and cryptocurrency fraud, and have since graduated to cyber extortion, is rapidly emerging as one of the most dangerous financially motivated cyber crime groups operating today, according to information on the gang released by … Leer más
The government’s controversial Online Safety Bill has become law amid continued concerns from tech companies that it could damage the privacy of encrypted communications. The Online Safety Act, which aims to make the internet safer for children, received royal assent in Parliament on 26 October 2023. The act places legal duties on technology companies to … Leer más
