Vodafone teams with DCC to upgrade Britain’s smart meter system
Looking to enhance the connectivity of millions of UK homes and businesses and help the country move towards its net-zero targets, by helping people cut their energy usage and...
UK altnets make further advances in gigabit
For the UK’s independent broadband providers, it has been a week of milestones and high street debuts, as CityFibre has started work to expand Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole’s (BCP’s)...
Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security
Microsoft has once again come under blistering criticism for the security practices of Azure and its other cloud offerings, with the CEO of security firm Tenable saying Microsoft is “grossly...
Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, August 3 (game #556)
It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many...
Meta releases open source AI audio tools, AudioCraft
Meta On Wednesday, Meta announced it is open-sourcing AudioCraft, a suite of generative AI tools for creating music and audio from text prompts. With the tools, content creators can input...
Twitter’s Blue Ticks are now so toxic that paid users can choose to hide them
Twitter – now rebranded as X by owner and ex-CEO Elon Musk – is pushing out a change to its Twitter Blue verification checkmark feature for paid subscribers, and it's...
Hosting Ars, part three: CI/CD, or how I learned to stop worrying and love DevOps
Enlarge / DevOps, DevOps, DevOps! ArtemisDiana / Getty Images Hosting Ars View more stories One of the most important things to happen in the evolution of development over the past...
Pig butchers caught using ChatGPT to con victims
Romance scammers looking to con people out of their savings appear to be turning to generative AI services such as ChatGPT to save time as they woo their victims,...
Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up prohibited content
MirageC/Getty Images ChatGPT and its artificially intelligent siblings have been tweaked over and over to prevent troublemakers from getting them to spit out undesirable messages such as hate speech, personal...
Improved rural connectivity could add £65bn to UK economy
Despite digital connectivity improving across the UK, creating new opportunities within previously disconnected regions, a stubborn digital divide remains between rural and urban locations, preventing communities and economies from...