By Published: 20 May 2024 12:22 Toshiba has demoed 32TB (terabyte) and 31TB hard disk drives (HDD) that use heat- and microwave-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR and MAMR) plus shingled drive tracks to boost capacity over existing products by more than 40%. Currently, Toshiba’s largest capacity drive is a 22TB non-shingled MAMR model. Hard drive manufacturer…
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The High Court has granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leave to appeal against extradition to the US to face charges under US espionage and computer crime laws. The court granted the 52-year-old leave to appeal after defence lawyers questioned US assurances that Assange would not face discrimination in a US trial because of his nationality.…
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From the moment OpenAI launched ChatGPT, the chatbot had guardrails to prevent abuse. The chatbot might know where to download the latest movies and TV shows in 4K quality, so you can stop paying for Netflix. It might know how to make explicit deepfake images of your favorite actors. Or how to sell a kidney…
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During her time as Post Office CEO, Paula Vennells never stopped believing there were no miscarriages of justice, despite one of the biggest scandals in UK legal history unfolding under her watch, the public inquiry has been told. In the latest hearing in the Post Office scandal inquiry, a colleague of Vennells in the senior…
An international law enforcement operation led by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with assistance from the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and others, has taken down the English-language BreachForums data leak forum, operated by a hacking collective known as ShinyHunters, for the second time in the space of a year. BreachForums –…
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A former Post Office IT boss had the opportunity to stop it misleading the public over software errors but went along with false public statements that were in conflict with her professional opinion. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry hearing, former Post Office chief information officer (CIO) Lesley Sewell revealed she also…
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The Post Office’s most senior IT executive was given the task of researching whether Computer Weekly could carry out a review of an investigation into the controversial Horizon system. At the time in 2012, the Post Office and its retail and accounting system were coming under scrutiny following Computer Weekly’s 2009 expose of problems affecting…
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A communications director central to the Post Office’s strategy to keep software problems out of public said that he and others believed they were doing the right thing. Mark Davies, former group communications and corporate affairs director at Post Office, and the public relations team played a role in obstructing journalists investigating allegations made by subpostmasters…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down after three years leading the company, and will be replaced as the public cloud giant’s leader from 3 June 2024 by long-time Amazon staffer Matt Garman. The upcoming change to the company’s executive leadership team was confirmed in a staff email, authored by Amazon.com and…
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Political candidates, election officials and others at high risk of being targeted online are being offered protection against phishing and malware attacks in the run-up to the next general election. The move follows attempts by Russian intelligence services and hacking groups linked to China to target institutions, high-profile individuals and parliamentarians in the UK. The…
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