Category: Technology

Accenture has been selected by BCC Iccrea, Italy’s cooperative banking group, to spearhead a significant IT transformation project worth over €300 million. This partnership marks a key step in BCC Iccrea’s efforts to modernize its technological infrastructure and enhance its digital services. The project will focus on overhauling the bank’s corporate IT systems, aiming to […]

OpenAI has unveiled a new AI agent designed to streamline daily activities by handling routine tasks like grocery shopping and restaurant reservations. This new innovation leverages OpenAI’s own browsing capabilities, enabling the AI to perform actions directly on the web. By automating these repetitive, time-consuming chores, OpenAI aims to enhance the user experience, making everyday […]

Last week, EFF, along with the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan, ACLU, and ACLU of Michigan, filed an amicus brief in People v. Carson in the Supreme Court of Michigan, challenging the constitutionality of the search warrant of Mr. Carson’s smart phone. In this case, Mr. Carson was arrested for stealing money from his neighbor’s […]

The UK government recently published its plan for using AI to boost growth and deliver services more efficiently. It also suggests a fundamental shift in how the UK aims to position itself as a global leader in AI innovation. The AI Opportunities Action Plan gives further evidence on how the government intends to regulate cutting-edge […]

In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire filled with hundreds of dinosaur footprints. Dating to the Middle Jurassic period (around 166 million years ago), the extensive trackways are part of what has been described as a huge “dinosaur highway”. They form the […]

Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification. Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech, equity, privacy, and infosec. Their silver bullet? “Age estimation” technology that scans our faces, applies an algorithm, and guesses how old we are […]

The FBI is warning the public that criminals exploit generative artificial intelligence (AI) to commit fraud on a larger scale which increases the believability of their schemes. Generative AI reduces the time and effort criminals must expend to deceive their targets. Generative AI takes what it has learned from examples input by a user and […]

CT-scan thin section through the centre of the bovid femur. The three bone arrowhead fragments and poison substance are visible. CT rendering and image segmentation: Dr Aliénor Duhamel, CC BY-NC-ND In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be […]

The agreement will enable ongoing collaboration between UK and Swedish researchers using neutron methods for materials studies. The new agreement builds on the long-term VR-ISIS partnership, one of ISIS’s longest-standing international relationships. 100 researchers, 20 institutions During the past eight years, over 100 Swedish researchers from 20 institutions have used ISIS for materials investigations across […]

Nigeria has announced a 50% hike in mobile phone and data tariffs, marking a significant rise in the cost of telecommunications services in the country. The increase, approved by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), comes at a time when the country is facing one of its most severe cost-of-living crises in decades, with inflation at […]