Trump’s new science advisers include 12 technology chiefs — and one academic Summary US President Donald Trump has appointed 13 members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and…
EU investigating Snapchat and pornography sites in child safety crackdown Summary The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Snapchat and warned four adult sites — Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX…
How to handle energy cost management for IT leaders Summary Energy costs are becoming a material line in IT budgets as electricity prices and demand rise. U.S. retail electricity prices…
UK sanctions Chinese crypto marketplace tied to scam compounds Summary The UK Foreign Office has designated Xinbi, a Chinese-language cryptocurrency marketplace, under its Global Human Rights sanctions regime for enabling…
Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centres Use Summary Senators Elizabeth Warren (D) and Josh Hawley (R) have formally asked the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) to start…
Intermediaries Driving Global Spyware Market Expansion Summary A new Atlantic Council report and coverage by Dark Reading show that intermediaries — resellers, exploit brokers, contractors and third-party partners — are…
AI-Powered Dependency Decisions Introduce, Ignore Security Bugs Summary New research from Sonatype shows that advanced AI models often give faulty, fabricated or unsafe recommendations when asked to choose software dependency…
Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organisation Summary The Welsh government used Microsoft Copilot to process and analyse interview material for a review of Industry Wales, a…
Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech Summary Conservative MP George Freeman confronted senior representatives from Meta, Google and X in Parliament after…
GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all Summary GitHub has changed its Copilot interaction-data policy: from 24 April the company will use customer…
