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MELBOURNE, Australia — Facebook has agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for its journalism content in Australia, a month after the social media platform temporarily blocked news links inside the country over legislation pressing digital giants to compensate publishers.The multiyear deal, announced on...
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The Parliamentary Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACA) has issued a report that is highly critical of the government’s record in sharing data, especially that underpinning lockdown-related decisions, with the public during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
It is particularly critical of Michael Gove, Chancellor of the...
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.When you hear about artificial intelligence, stop imagining computers that can do everything we can do but better.My colleague Cade Metz, who has a new book about...
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Judges have refused defendants leave to challenge the admissibility in UK courts of message communications collected by French cyber police from the encrypted phone network EncroChat.
The Court of Appeal ruled on 3 March 2021 that there was no “point of law of general public importance”...
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The number of attempted attacks observed against vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers has increased tenfold in the space of just four days, from 700 on Thursday 11 March to 7,200 a day by Monday 15 March, according to new data gathered from Check Point customers.
According to...
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The government is to set out a new “full spectrum” approach to the UK’s national cyber security capabilities in this week’s Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, which is set to be published later this week.
In what is being described as the...
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Ramping up the use of virtualisation technologies within European datacentres could lead to a 55% reduction in carbon emissions by 2040, whereas if current deployment levels were to remain as they are, emissions would increase by more than 250% over the next 20 years.
That is...
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Global consultancy and construction firm Mace Group has used augmented reality headsets from RealWear to enable workers and clients to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 and reduce the company’s carbon footprint.
The construction consulting business, which was responsible for The Shard’s design and build contract, has...
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The key question considered by the Court of Appeal was the distinction between temporary, transient, random-access memory (RAM) and permanent data storage in modern digital communications systems.
In computer science and technology, the distinction between memory and storage is fundamental. Until 2021, RAM and processor registers...
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The operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI) are in an unenviable position, between the devil and the deep blue sea, as two very different worlds collide.
Most critical infrastructure was built up over a century or more of careful, incremental steps by civil engineers, and they...
