Brain Implants That Link Humans To Computers
Head of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, has announced that human brain implants that can link directly to devices could be a reality within a year.
Neuralink
The implanted brain-computer interface (BCI) that Mr Musk talked about recently…
London Underground To Get 4G Next Year
Transport for London (TfL) has announced that from March 2020, 4G rollout will begin across the London Underground network, thereby allowing customers, for the first time, to check emails and travel information, use social media, and stream…
Lancaster University Hit By “Sophisticated and Malicious Phishing Attack”
Lancaster University, which offers a GCHQ accredited cyber-security course and has its own Cyber Security Research Centre has been hit by what it has described as a "sophisticated and malicious phishing attack”, resulting in the leak of the…
£80,000 Fine For London Estate Agency Highlights Importance of Due Diligence in Data Protection
The issuing of an £80,000 fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to London-based estate agency Parliament View Ltd (LPVL) highlights the importance of due diligence when keeping customer data safe.
What Happened?
Prior…
MPs Call To Stop Police Facial Recognition
Following criticism of the Police use of facial recognition technology in terms of privacy, accuracy, bias, and management of the image database, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has called for a temporary halt in the use…
Codebreaker, Scientist and Mathematician Alan Turing To Feature on £50 Note
Alan Turing, head of the Enigma code-breaking team at Bletchley Park in World War, mathematician and father of computer science who was driven to suicide over the treatment of his sexuality is finally being honoured by the featuring his image…
Scientists Discover How To Store Data On Matter Smaller Than DNA
Scientists from Brown University are reported to have discovered how to store data on metabolic molecules, which are pieces of matter that are even smaller than DNA.
Storage In Artificial Metabolomes
The results of the recent research…
Security Flaw Discovered In NHS Anaesthetic Machines
Cybersecurity firm CyberMDX has reported the discovery of a security flaw in some Internet-connected GE Healthcare anaesthetic machines which could leave them vulnerable to hacks.
Security Flaw
The security flaw has been described as…
Microsoft Criticised By UK’s Cyber Security Agency Over Dmarc
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has complained that it has been unable to compile meaningful statistics and draw meaningful conclusions about email security in its latest report because Microsoft stopped sending Dmarc…
Facebook Launches Martin Lewis Anti-Scam Service
Facebook has launched a new anti-scam service using the £3m that it agreed to donate to the development of the programme in return for TV consumer money champion Martin Lewis dropping his legal action over scam ads.
What Legal Action?
Back…
£183 Million Fine (Biggest Ever) For BA Data Breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed a £183 million fine on British Airways, the biggest fine to date under GDPR, for a data breach where the personal details of 500,000 customers were accessed by hackers.
The Breach
The…
1000+Android Apps Harvest Our Data Without Our Permission
Researchers from the International Computer Science Institute have reported that up to 1,325 Android apps are gathering data from devices after people have denied them permission, and Google claims that it will address the problem with the…
Googlemail’s Tracking of Your Purchase History
CNBC research has highlighted how Googlemail creates a (difficult to delete) page of your purchase history by tracking your purchase receipt emails, and perhaps details stored in locations other than the inbox.
Not Obvious
Back in May,…
Ad-Free Firefox Browser Service For $4.99 Per Month
Mozilla looks likely to be entering the premium browsing market later this year by offering a subscription based (advert-free) browsing experience of selected journalism websites and other value-adding features via a special version of Firefox.
What’s…
Latest Windows 10 Update Causes Problems For VPN Enterprise Users
The latest update to Windows 10 could break the platform’s Remote Access Connection Manager (RASMAN) and, therefore, cause problems with VPN for Enterprise users with certain settings.
Potentially Millions
Given that the latest Windows…
‘Mobile-Sensing System’ Could Evaluate Your Workplace Performance
A newly developed ‘Mobile-Sensing System’ that uses a combination of smartphone, fitness bracelet, app and cloud-based machine learning algorithms can track and rank the workplace performance of employees with 80% accuracy.
Based On…
New Electric Cars Will Emit Noise For Safety Reasons
In contrast to the vision of a quieter, close-future utopia where vehicles pass noiselessly by, a new law means that from 2021, all new four-wheel electric cars will be required to include a noise emitting device so that pedestrians can hear…
Is CCTV Surveillance By Amazon Drones Be The Future?
An Amazon patent from 2015 appears to indicate that Amazon may consider 'surveillance as a service' using a swarm of its delivery drones armed with CCTV, as a monetising opportunity in the future.
Patent
The details in the patent foresee…
Florida Town Pays £475,000 To Hackers To Restart Municipal Computer Systems
Hackers who shut down the municipal computers of Riviera Beach (a suburb of Palm Beach) in a ransomware attack have just earned themselves $600,000 (£475,000) when the local council decided they had no choice but to pay them.
What Happened?
An…
Fire-Prone MacBook Pros Recalled
Apple has announced a recall of some older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro units due to the fire risk posed by a tendency for the battery to overheat.
Repair and Replace Free
Apple is offering a recall and replacement program for units…