ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Virgin Orbit trims losses, eyes two final launches for the year

(2022/08/15)

Second quarter revenues at zero, though should jump to $12m following successful flights from Cornwall



When will the UK take another giant leap into space?

(2022/08/15)

Feature Tim Peake set to return to ESA as the race to first vertical launch from British soil continues



Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

(2022/08/15)

Opinion Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on



Keep your cables tidy. You never know when someone might need some wine

(2022/08/15)

Who, Me? Brute force and ignorance does not win the day



China's internet regulator details algorithms used by local Big Tech players

(2022/08/15)

Beijing lifts the lid on how Alibaba, Douyin, Tencent, Baidu do business – and censor content



Samsung heir pardoned after doing time for bribery

(2022/08/15)

Government said they need the Samsung boss back at work to deal with South Korea’s looming economic crisis



Indian military ready to put long-range quantum key distribution on the line

(2022/08/15)

Local startup can make it happen over 150km



Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway

(2022/08/15)

Presiding officer was not impressed by Cupertino's arguments or behavior



Black Hat and DEF CON visitors differ on physical risk management

(2022/08/15)

Black Hat COVID, flood surfing, crowds – what to pick?



Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits and a magic mushroom reference

(2022/08/15)

Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update



Elon Musk wrote article for China's internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots

(2022/08/15)

Asia in Brief PLUS Vietnam's massive infosec push; Philippines telco fight; Australia dumps COVID app; and more



AI could save future firefighters from deadly flashover explosions

(2022/08/14)

NIST-led engineers are working on building a real-time alert system



Your AI-generated digital artwork may not be protected by US copyright

(2022/08/14)

Do we want to recognise machines as authors?



Meta's AI internet chatbot demo quickly starts spewing fake news and racist remarks

(2022/08/14)

In brief Plus: How Google is using language models to improve search, and watch Heinz's AI ketchup advert



AI laser probe for prostate cancer enters clinical trials

(2022/08/13)

FDA says yes to the tests



Ukraine's cyber chief comes to Black Hat in surprise visit

(2022/08/13)

Black Hat In Brief Tl;DR - the news isn't good



Intel finally takes the hint on software optimization

(2022/08/13)

Don't have the budget or customer base for Graviton-class silicon? Intel thinks it can help



Let there be ambient light sensing, without fear of data theft

(2022/08/13)

Six years on web devs finally settle on sensor privacy defenses



Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there's no fix yet

(2022/08/13)

There goes the weekend...



Starlink satellite dish cracked on stage at Black Hat

(2022/08/13)

Black Hat Once the modchip plans are live, you can, too



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As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions
between sexes, races or classes, there will be forms of science whose
main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions.
-- Elizabeth Fee