Summary The Black Hat security conference has a dedicated network operations centre (NOC) that unites rival companies for a common cause. This year, volunteers worked from a room at Mandalay…
Summary Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have seen the worst annual decline in coral cover since monitoring began nearly 40 years ago. This has been attributed primarily to climate…
Chemical Pollution a Threat Comparable To Climate Change, Scientists Warn A recent report warns that chemical pollution poses a threat to human and environmental health comparable to climate change. Over…
Summary The Library of Congress has acknowledged that a coding error led to sections of the US Constitution disappearing from their website. This issue was highlighted by users who noticed…
Country’s Strictest Ban On Election Deepfakes Struck By Judge A federal judge has recently invalidated California’s strict law against election-related deepfakes. The ruling from Judge John Mendez cited Section 230…
President Trump announced a bold measure in which he plans to impose a gigantic 100% tariff on semiconductor imports unless companies commit to building their facilities in the United States.…
In a lively discussion on Slashdot, users share their ongoing use of RSS readers, decades after Google Reader’s demise. Many users praise various RSS services like Feedly, Inoreader, and self-hosted…
Ron Deibert, the Citizen Lab Director, has raised alarms about the merging of technology and authoritarianism in the US. He emphasises the cybersecurity community’s critical role in resisting this trend.…
A man named Shaun Thompson is challenging the legality of facial recognition technology after being wrongly identified as a suspect by the Metropolitan Police. Stopped outside London Bridge Tube station,…
Summary Taiwan’s tariffs, set at a hefty 20%, are significantly influenced by the recent decisions surrounding Intel’s investments. The article discusses the implications of these tariffs on the semiconductor industry,…
