UK aviation regulators cleared on Virgin Orbit satellite failure
Examining the reasons for the much-publicised failure of the Virgin Orbit Start Me Up horizontal launch from Spaceport Cornwall at Newquay on 9 January 2023, the UK’s House of...
Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of James Madison writing the US Constitution using AI.Midjourney / Benj Edwards If you feed America's most important legal document—the US Constitution—into a tool designed to...
Quordle today – hints and answers for Friday, July 14 (game #536)
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...
Chasing defamatory hallucinations, FTC opens investigation into OpenAI
Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies about AI rules before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on May 16, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty Images...
WordPress plugin installed on 1 million+ sites logged plaintext passwords
Getty Images All-In-One Security, a WordPress security plugin installed on more than 1 million websites, has issued a security update after being caught three weeks ago logging plaintext passwords and...
Ofcom opens investigation into Virgin Media contract cancellation
UK communications regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into Virgin Media following complaints from customers that the company is making it difficult for them to cancel services. Explaining its...
CityFibre claims UK’s fastest wholesale consumer broadband services
Independent full-fibre infrastructure network provider CityFibre has announced the launch of what it claims to be the UK’s first wholesale 2.5Gbps symmetrical consumer broadband product. The new 2.5Gbps XGS...
BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Three and Virgin Media commit to curbing telco supply chain GHG emissions
Several of the UK’s largest comms providers are collaborating on a sustainability initiative that is geared towards curbing telco supply chain’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Three...
Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, July 13 (game #535)
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...
Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows?
How can you argue against these numbers?20th Century Fox / Aurich Lawson According to one measurement by one firm, Linux reached 3.07 percent market share of global desktop operating systems...