TSA’s airport facial-recog tech faces audit probe (2025/02/03) Senators ask, Homeland Security watchdog answers: Is it worth the money?
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites (2025/02/03) Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again
Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash (2025/02/03) Updated Canadian province 'won't do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy'
Microsoft to kill off Defender VPN this month (2025/02/03) Throw Copilot down the same well, too, maybe? No? OK
Intel rakes in €515M from EU after ancient antitrust fine nixed (2025/02/03) A glimmer of light in an otherwise gloomy year for troubled chipmaker
Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft (2025/02/03) Peter Tripp Akemann avoids jail, will pay 'Super Scooper' repair costs and is ordered to help with LA's wildfire recovery
OpenAI unveils deep research agent for ChatGPT (2025/02/03) Takes a bit more time to spout a bit less nonsense
Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough (2025/02/03) Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push
US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs (2025/02/03) Updated Short-term result likely to be increased energy prices across the board
DeepSeek spills Big AI's open secret: Bright people with good ideas can beat billion dollar binges (2025/02/03) Opinion You can’t make monopoly money without a monopoly, but you sure can lose it
FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket (2025/02/03) Fun with a FOSS-focused Phosh fondleslab
2 officers bailed as anti-corruption unit probes data payouts to N Irish cops (2025/02/03) Investigating compensation to police whose sensitive info was leaked in 2023
Motorola appeal over £200M price cap for Airwave service rejected (2025/02/03) Profiteering from emergency services comms network in Britain? Not anymore, says CMA
Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays (2025/02/03) Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late
UK biz dept overspent by £208M prepping to pay workers hurt in Post Office IT scandal (2025/02/03) Updated Auditor offers qualified opinion as financial fallout from historic miscarriage of justice remains unclear
CompSci teacher sets lab task: Accidentally breaking the university (2025/02/03) Who, Me? Hey! Teacher! Leave our network alone!
Privacy Commissioner warns the ‘John Smiths’ of the world can acquire ‘digital doppelgangers’ (2025/02/03) Australian government staff mixed medical info for folk who share names and birthdays
As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet (2025/02/03) Updated Tech lobby isn't at the negotiating table, fears unintended consequences
Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP (2025/02/03) Infosec in brief PLUS: MGM settles breach suits; AWS doesn't trust you with security defaults; A new .NET backdoor; and more
Singapore says Nvidia's astounding local sales don't mean it's the source of DeepSeek's GPUs (2025/02/03) Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese bus lanes put Tesla in a tangle; India drops electronics tariffs; Samsung worries about soft demand