French surrender on privacy
French police can turn on your phone and watch what you are doing
France has just passed a new bill that will allow police to remotely access suspects' cameras, microphones, and GPS on mobile phones and other devices.
Android phone has more RAM than a Macbook Pro
Both pretty silly for different reasons
The new Nubia RedMagic 8S Pro+ features support for up to 24GB of RAM -- the same amount of RAM found in a 13-inch top-spec M2 MacBook Pro.
HSBC wants a quantum-secured metro network
Cats will protect against future security threats
British bank HSBC is to test a pilot quantum-secured metro network in London, hoping to prepare for future security threats.
AMD Instinct MI300 APU being installed in El Capitan
Deliveries arriving
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is installing AMD's Instinct MI300 accelerated processing unit under the bonnet of its El Capitan supercomputer that is set to come fully online sometime next year.
AI suggested teen should kill the Queen
Convinced him she was a Sith
A UK court heard how an early AI based chatbot suggested to a 19-year-old that it would be a wizard idea to kill the Queen Elizabeth II with a high-powered crossbow.
UK’s new security law will make life less secure
Risk to security technologies
The UK government’s draft Online Safety Bill is so bad that it will actually make life a lot less safe for the country’s internet users.
Macron in hot water over social media threat
Stopping social media to prevent unrest misses the point
Emmanuel Macron is facing a backlash after threatening to cut off social media networks to stop the spread of violence during unrest.
Toyota claims it has improved batteries
Another week another battery break-through
Toyota claims it has made a technological breakthrough that will allow it to cut the weight, size, and cost of batteries in half.
Eurocom releases Raptor X17 fully upgradeable Mobile Supercomputer
24-core Intel Core i9-13900HX processor on board
Eurocom has launched the EUROCOM Raptor X17 fully upgradeable Mobile Supercomputer powered by an Intel Core i9-13900HX processor with 24-cores, 32-threads, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics with 16GB DDR6.
Crypto miners finding something better to do with their time
Huge GPU resources get new jobs
Crypto miners are getting out of the business and using their huge GPU resources to make money in other ways.