Computing (U.K.)

The UK’s cybersecurity agency National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending that organizations start replacing existing asymmetric public key cryptosystems with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to defend themselves against quantum computers, which in theory could crack those systems with ease. Asymmetric cryptography is used today to protect almost all online traffic. While quantum computing is currently […]

Europe faces the risk of becoming almost entirely dependent on foreign technology within three years unless it radically changes its approach to supporting the domestic tech sector, a coalition of more than 80 organizations has warned. In an open letter [pdf] addressed to European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen and Tech Sovereignty EVP Henna […]

The government has delayed until summer publication of its AI Bill, a new law intended to regulate AI, following on from the EU AI Act which came into force last year. The government had been expected to introduce such a bill shortly after it was elected in July, which would have demanded that companies provide […]

Fresh from questioning whether AI will provide all the economic benefits it is expected to deliver over the next five years, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now pulling the company back on a number of datacenter investments. That’s according to investment bank TD Cowen. Its sources indicate that Microsoft has cancelled leases amount to “a […]

Google is finally killing off tracking cookies in the latest update to its Chrome browser and Android operating system. However, it won’t just continue tracking users using digital fingerprinting technology capable of following people across all their devices, including smart TVs, but will now enable advertisers to collect IP addresses.

OpenAI has admitted that it would be “impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials, asserting that “legally, copyright law does not forbid training.”

New York-based cybersecurity firm Wiz found a database containing sensitive data from the Chinese AI company DeepSeek, unsecured, on the open Internet. In a blog post, Wiz said that the million lines of code it found when scanning DeepSeek’s infrastructure included data exposing the origin of log requests, containing chat history, API keys, directory structures […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has dismissed all members of advisory committees, including the Cyber Safety Review Board. The board had been investigating the Salt Typhoon cyberattack on US telecoms infrastructure.

The U.S. and South Korea governments have issued a joint statement accusing North Korean state-backed hacking groups of stealing over $659 million in cryptocurrency across multiple heists. The statement also cautions that these groups, affiliated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), remain a significant threat to blockchain companies worldwide.

Facebook, Instagram, Threads founder Mark Zuckerberg announces that fact checkers have been too biased and that users will now have responsibility for moderating his platforms.