Proposed anti-fraud powers will allow the Department of Work and Pensions to monitor the bank accounts of landlords, parents, carers and partners of people receiving state benefits including the state pension. The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPIB), currently going through Parliament, gives the DWP powers to monitor all bank accounts that are “connected”…
Social media company Meta has come under fire as European police chiefs step up pressure against governments and tech companies over the use of end-to-end encryption to secure email and messaging services. Police chiefs from 32 countries, including the UK, said in a declaration published on 21 April that tech companies were rolling out end-to-end…
Many organisations poised to migrate from Oracle Java SE will wonder how long the process will take. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer to that question, though. The time needed for a migration depends on at least half a dozen variables that are specific to an organisation. One of those variables is a firm’s migration goals…
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The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT) has introduced a pilot scheme called the AI and Digital Hub, which links up AI and digital innovators and regulators. Backed by almost £2m in government funding, the government hopes to use the initiative to provide AI and digital innovators with access to informal advice to help…
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Austria’s success in artificial intelligence (AI) research and development largely stems from an academic realm of young thinkers, budding entrepreneurs and established professors injecting AI into a range of industries and even back into academia itself. Berlin is often cited as the hub of central European innovation, thanks largely to its promotion of startups and…
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Lords are split in their opinions of the UK government’s approach to autonomous weapons, with some arguing for a much greater degree of caution and others calling for less restraint to get ahead of adversaries. At the start of December 2023, a Lords committee urged the UK government to “proceed with caution” when deploying autonomous…
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Qualcomm isn’t wasting any time filling out its ultra-portable PC chip roster, adding a new Snapdragon X Plus range to slide in behind its still-fresh and high-end Snapdragon X Elite.If this mobile PC SoC approach sounds similar, that’s because Qualcomm is taking almost the same approach as Apple with its ARM-based silicon, but in reverse.…
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China has initiated a policy shift to eliminate American processors from government computers and servers, reports Financial Times. The decision is aimed to gradually eliminate processors from AMD and Intel from system used by China’s government agencies, which will mean lower sales for U.S.-based chipmakers and higher sales of China’s own CPUs. The new procurement…
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Introspect this week introduced its M5512 GDDR7 memory test system, which is designed for testing GDDR7 memory controllers, physical interface, and GDDR7 SGRAM chips. The tool will enable memory and processor manufacturers to verify that their products perform as specified by the standard. One of the crucial phases of a processor design bring up is…
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I’ve been a technology nerd most of my life. I remember my family getting their first Gateway computer, and that was a total game-changer for me. I figured out everything I could about that computer and, of course, ended up on Napster quite quickly, ripping CDs for people at school.Even before that, I remember being…
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