Depending on who you ask, the answer to the question “How hard is it to keep houseplants alive?” may vary. Well, this new device seems to take a lot of the guesswork out of it, and it’s already garnered a lot of support on Kickstarter. The device is called Smartyplants, and the device is basically…
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Technology sector trade body TechUK has recognised four pioneering industry leaders for their work in using digital innovation to effect social, cultural or economic improvements in the UK. In its second annual President’s Awards, the organisation chose winners who it says are “going above and beyond” to use technology for good. The winners in each…
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The company responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of the National Police Digital Strategy has confirmed that two of its employees have been arrested on suspicion of fraud, bribery and misconduct in public office. The individuals in question have been arrested, interviewed and bailed by the City of London Police, and suspended from working…
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Cyber Essentials was launched in the UK to much fanfare in June 2014, aiming to help businesses “to guard against the most common cyber threats and demonstrate your commitment to cyber security”. It focuses on five areas of broad ‘technical controls’: firewalls, secure configuration, user access control. malware protection and patch management. Since the scheme…
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While the public sector has adopted open source technologies, there remains little understanding of it, the latest edition of OpenUK’s State of open report has warned. Phase two: The open manifesto urges policymakers to build skills in open source software, enable the UK public sector to do open source software better and ensure artificial intelligence…
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Former Post Office chair Tim Parker said he “regrets” taking advice from the organisation’s legal chief to keep secret a critical report that could have supported the claims of subpostmasters wrongly accused of theft and false accounting. Parker was questioned about the report during the latest hearing at the Post Office scandal public inquiry. Like…
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The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), together with partner agencies from around the world, including the FBI and agencies from Australia, Canada and the European Union, has undertaken a series of enforcement actions against users of the Cobalt Strike penetration testing tool who were exploiting it to enable cyber criminal activity. Operation Morpheus took action…
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Apple made a big change to iPhone processors in 2022. This was the first year the non-Pro and Pro iPhones featured different chips. The iPhone 14 Pros introduced the A16 Bionic that Apple later used for the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus. But the base iPhone 14 variants featured the A15 Bionic chips from the…
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On Tuesday, Noctua introduced its second-generation NH-D15 cooler, which offers refined performance and formally supports Intel’s next-generation Arrow Lake-S processors in LGA1851 packaging. Alongside its NH-D15 G2 CPU cooler, Noctua also introduced its NF-A14x25r G2 140mm fans. The Noctua NH-D15 G2 is an enhanced version of the popular NH-D15 cooler with eight heat pipes, two asymmetrical…
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If you’ve been dreaming about an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft 365, your wish has just been granted. Swiss software developer Proton on Wednesday announced Docs in Proton Drive, which will offer an extra privacy feature no other collaborative online document editing product can match.Proton Docs is the latest addition to Proton’s…
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