Bork!Bork!Bork! The curse of Bork is no respecter of status or class. It does not differentiate between a high-flying executive and a lowly worker. And so it was that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian came unstuck due to some all-too-familiar video-conferencing struggles. We’ve all been there. Frantically clicking or shouting into a seemingly deaf computer,…
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber…
AI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). The problem, senior content designer Giorgio Di Tunno and content operations lead Neil Starr wrote in a GOV.UK blog post, is…
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, marking the first time the agency has told consumers to move away from passwords entirely. New official guidance states that passwords should not be used where passkeys are available, overturning decades of conventional advice. A technical report, released today…
Honor has announced the 600 and 600 Pro, which it calls “accessible flagships,” and they look… familiar. Especially in that orange. The Pro makes the iPhone comparison especially obvious thanks to its triple rear camera — it even has the same flash layout — while the 600 is just a hair subtler because it drops…
We’re joining forces with Accenture, Bain & Company, BCG, Deloitte, and McKinsey to bring the power of frontier AI to organizations around the world. Artificial intelligence (AI) could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, yet many businesses face a significant adoption gap. To date, only 25% of organizations have successfully…
A UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed Microsoft’s objections to a collective action lawsuit brought by UK-based cloud licensees, clearing the way for trial. The case seeks compensation for approximately 59,000 businesses and organizations over Microsoft’s pricing of Windows Server on Azure versus competing cloud platforms including AWS and Google Cloud – allegations that…
London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital. The challenge was brought against the Met by civil liberties organization Big Brother Watch, which was representing Shaun Thompson, an anti-knife crime campaigner and youth worker who was falsely identified…
Google unveiled two new in-house AI accelerators at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday: one designed to speed up training and another aimed at driving down model serving costs. The Chocolate Factory boasts its eighth-gen tensor processing units are as much as 2.8x faster in training and deliver 80 percent higher…
Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company’s security strategy du jour as follows: “You need to use AI to fight AI.” That also sums up all of the security services and products announced Wednesday at Google Cloud Next – and every other tech firm’s strategy at this point in 2026….