Nokia, Optus unveil ultra-low-latency Sydney to Melbourne network
In terms of all forms of communications in Australia, Sydney to Melbourne is by far the most prestigious, important and lucrative. To upgrade and improve the 1,200 km networking...
Hacker took pains to hide $3.36B of stolen bitcoin. Feds found it anyway
Enlarge / Bitcoin laundering concept vector illustration. Federal prosecutors have recovered $3.36 billion in bitcoin that was stolen a decade ago from Silk Road, the dark web bazaar responsible for...
New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs
Enlarge / Go pieces and a rulebook on a Go board. In the world of deep-learning AI, the ancient board game Go looms large. Until 2016, the best human Go...
Altnets announces fibre equipment partnership with HellermannTyton
Since the starting pistol was fired on the race to advance gigabit broadband across the UK in 2019, the country’s independent supplier community has benefited tremendously from the demand...
Keeping personally identifiable data personal
The BBC has developed a web app that uses live personal data from the BBC, Spotify and Netflix to create a media profile for users. According to BBC Research,...
Algorithms quietly run the city of DC—and maybe your hometown
Dmitry Marchenko/Getty Images Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City...
Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation
Enlarge / AI-generated portraits of Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek from The Infinite Conversation.Giacomo Miceli / Ars Technica This week, an Italian artist and programmer named Giacomo Miceli debuted The...
UK government approach to space industry lacks coherence and investment
The last two years or so have seen huge interest and subsequent take-up of satellite information systems as information services have become available across the world, but as it...
Virgin Media O2 claims strong strategic and operational progress in Q3
In the face of what its CEO said was an increasingly challenging macroeconomic backdrop, Virgin Media O2 has reported a third quarter of 2022 that it says has been...
Crown Hosting Data Centres secures £250m government colocation deal
The Cabinet Office’s joint venture with Ark Data Centres will continue to play host to the government’s non-cloud workloads for another seven years, as revealed in a contract award...