Computing (U.K.)

A recent wave of data breaches targeting U.S. government agencies and telecommunications companies has intensified diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and China. While U.S. authorities have attributed the attacks to Chinese government-linked hackers, Beijing has dismissed the allegations as “baseless” and lacking evidence.

A security breach has hit the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) as passwords belonging to nearly 600 employees were stolen and leaked onto the dark web.

Combination of misinformation, propaganda and changes to terms of use the final straw.

The court decided that platforms like Facebook cannot indefinitely retain users’ personal data for targeted advertising, marking a pivotal moment for the ad-funded social network.

Datacentres owned by Google, Apple, Microsoft and Meta could be emitting more than 660% more carbon than the companies officially report, according to the analysis by The Guardian.

The U.K. Government has announced a £4-million investment package to enhance the use of AI tools in education. The initiative aims to support teachers by automating administrative tasks and providing them with personalized resources to enhance their role in the classroom.

The U.K. government has announced a comprehensive review of the IT and engineering sectors to address persistent labor shortages.

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Lawrence Lessig, and Stuart Russell sign joint letter.

Google announced on Monday that its five-year project to phase out the use of the third-party cookies which track people around the internet has been ‘updated’.

The worlds’ first AI Act comes into force next month.