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Who in America is standing up to privacy-bothering facial-recognition tech? Maine is right now leading the pack

'This technology is too dangerous to be regulated, it shouldn’t be used at all'

01 Jul 00:06 | 16

Robinhood hit with record $70m bill by financial watchdog for outages, misleading investors

FINRA cites suicide of man who was 'inaccurately' told by the app he was $750k in debt

01 Jul 00:40 | 15

NASA reaches for graph DB to find people, skills for Moon and Mars missions

Fixing the talent pipeline so that finding rocket scientists doesn't have to be rocket science

01 Jul 01:32 | 2

You, robo-car maker, any serious accidents, I want to know about them, stat – US watchdog

NHTSA sets 24-hour deadline for reporting significant crashes

01 Jul 02:25 | 32

Data collected to promote public health must never be surrendered to police

Voluntary location-tracking to crimp COVID is too good a tool to waste

01 Jul 07:26 | 108

Openreach to UK businesses: Switch is about to hit the fan. Prepare for withdrawal of the copper-based phone network now or risk disruption

PSTN to be axed in 2025

01 Jul 08:30 | 53

Exoskeleton startup wants to slap robot arms on schoolkids

For educational purposes, of course

01 Jul 09:15 | 16

Battery recycling boosted by dentist-style ultrasonics, if manufacturers can cooperate

New technique quicker and greener, but needs batteries to be designed for dismantling

01 Jul 10:02 | 24

Seoul adopts AI for suicide prevention on Han Bridge: Uni boffins train machine learning model on rescue teams' data

System trains itself to spot suicidal behavior and alert a controller

01 Jul 10:45 | 7

Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web NFT fetches $5.4m at auction while rest of us gaze upon source code for $0

Proceeds to go towards charitable causes, Father of the Web confirms

01 Jul 11:30 | 30

Micron announces EUV fabs by 2024 as it flogs Utah facility to Texas Instruments

Oh, and it would like everyone to know it had a fantastic sales quarter, natch

01 Jul 12:15 | 3

Android devs prepare to hand over app-signing keys to Google from August

Android App Bundle required, APK submission no longer allowed

01 Jul 13:00 | 48

It's about time! NASA's orbital atomic clock a boon for deep space navigation – if they can get it working for long enough

Lifespan of 3 to 5 years falls short of what's needed for a Mars mission

01 Jul 13:45 | 39

Why won't you copper-ate? Openreach offers capped fibre line rental to wholesalers in bid to shift all that FTTP

Nation's broadband plumber increasingly desperate to ditch its copper network

01 Jul 14:31 | 22

Jeff Bezos names the fourth person for the first New Shepard flight: Wally Funk

60 years after Alan Shepard made his Mercury flight, one of the Mercury 13 will get her turn

01 Jul 14:45 | 24

Cyber insurance model is broken, consider banning ransomware payments, says think tank

UK.gov's carrots and sticks never came to pass, co-author tells us

01 Jul 15:30 | 24

Deep neural networks... IN SPAAACE: Vector-enhanced RISC-V chips could give satellites onboard AI

Boffins point to benefits of putting rad-hardened ASICs in orbit

01 Jul 16:15 | 2

Amazon: Our carbon footprint went up 19% last year but we grew even more than that, so 'carbon intensity' is down

Alrighty... that's OK then?

01 Jul 17:02 | 27

Microsoft warns of serious vulnerabilities in Netgear's DGN2200v1 router

Gadget capable of 'opening the gates for attackers to roam untethered through an entire organisation'

01 Jul 17:45 | 13

Google lawyers dismiss sueball over 'security flaw' in contact-tracing software as 'theoretical' and 'hypothetical'

'Complaint is noticeably devoid of factual allegations'

01 Jul 18:24 | 2

SAP founder's charity foundation withdraws from joint venture with software giant

Questions all got a bit too much, although nothing legally wrong with the holding

Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone

Human resettlement after 2011's nuclear disaster facing opposition from indestructible, betusked interlopers

01 Jul 20:01 | 202

Microsoft and Eclypsium lock horns over Dell SupportAssist flaws on secured-core PCs

Niggles continue even after problem was quietly fixed

01 Jul 20:45 | 3

Good guy Russia gives enterprises, cloud platforms a free brute-force security test using Kubernetes clusters

Thanks, Vlad, for the cyber-check-up and the containerization case study

01 Jul 21:35 | 7

IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on – sources

Unreliable messaging interferes with contract completion, we're told, as Slack channels flooded with memes

01 Jul 22:56 | 59

PrintNightmare: Kicking users from Pre-Windows 2000 legacy group may thwart domain controller exploitation

While Uncle Sam recommends shutting down print spooler service

01 Jul 23:34 | 8

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