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According to a recent finding by a panel of five tribunal judges, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has no statutory powers to impose financial sanctions against government agencies. In practice, this means that the IPT, which primarily hears complaints about surveillance by law enforcement agencies and intelligence services, cannot impose sanctions against them should they…

Canadian businessman Thomas Herdman is awaiting trial in France for his alleged role in the distribution of modified smartphones installed with the Sky ECC app.  The 63-year-old was arrested in June 2021, despite cooperating with US investigators over his involvement with the encrypted communications firm Sky ECC. He has spent 45 months in pre-trial detention…

We’ve been able to translate foreign languages with relative ease long before generative AI products like ChatGPT did it for us. But genAI products like ChatGPT have helped companies enhance translation services across the board. It’s not just ChatGPT that can handle translation with ease. Competing models do it too. For example, Samsung made Live…

Even though very few businesses around the world are resisting the allure of artificial intelligence (AI), research commissioned by Expereo has revealed a number of major roadblocks to UK AI plans, such as poor infrastructure, resistance from employees and unreasonable demands, while two-fifths of UK chief information officers have warned of unrealistic board expectations of…

See the dude in the top left corner of the top of the painting above (Raphael’s famous Madonna della Rosa)? That’s St. Joseph lurking over the Madonna, the Child, and St. John. And yes, he does seem to be painted differently than the others, something scholars have always attributed to someone else actually painting St.…

Inspecting aging sewer pipes has traditionally been slow, dangerous, and costly. Workers relied on tethered crawlers or had to physically enter hazardous tunnels. In Fraser, Michigan, Wired says a collapsed sewer in 2016 caused a massive sinkhole, damaged homes, and forced taxpayers to shoulder around $75 million in repairs. Disasters like that show why cities…

The need to find efficiencies, drive staff productivity and boost the in-store customer experience – not to mention ongoing efforts to try new things in the name of sustainability – are driving the adoption of electronic shelf labels (ESL) in UK retail.In March, Company Shop, a redistributor and retailer of surplus products from the retail…

A few months after Samsung introduced an anti-reflective glass display to the Galaxy S24 Ultra, a well-known leaker claimed Apple was working on something similar. The iPhone 16 would not get an anti-reflective coating, but Apple would bring the display feature to the iPhone 17 Pro models.The spring 2024 report said Apple had spent billions…

Ahead of DeepSeek’s R2 release, Alibaba announced its new Qwen3 AI model. The Chinese giant wants to improve its artificial intelligence capabilities and efficiency compared to the DeepSeek model.According to Nikkei Asia, the e-commerce company reduced computing power while still being able to train 36 trillion tokens, double the amount used for its previous Qwen2.5…

Microsoft is preparing to increase its European datacentre capacity by 40% over the next two years and will appoint a board of directors to oversee its continental server farm operations. The plans are part of a five-point set of “digital commitments” from Microsoft, designed to “uphold Europe’s digital resilience” and protect the privacy of data…