2023

Tackling Scope 3 emissions in materials to help meet datacentre climate goals

While greenwashing continues to confuse and even block the best intended emissions reduction plans, a 495MW €3.5bn (£3bn) datacentre project in Portugal is making progress on Scope 3 accounting. The Sines 4.0 datacentre campus, which is the work of sustainable server farm developer Start Campus, is predicted to become one of the largest hyperscale sites…

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Plymouth Uni spearheads research into wind farm cyber resilience

Researchers from the University of Plymouth, alongside the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) catapult and engineering firm Expleo, are to collaborate on new cyber security measures to protect the UK’s growing estate of offshore wind farms from threat actors. The newly launched Cyber Resilience of Offshore Wind Networks (CROWN) project will incorporate a purpose-built lab space…

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NCSC names ex-NCC man as new CTO

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has named former NCC Group chief technology officer (CTO) Ollie Whitehouse as its CTO, in a newly created role that replaces in part that performed by the agency’s well-regarded technical director Ian Levy, who left the organisation earlier this year. Whitehouse will be tasked with shaping and delivering…

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Ethical perspectives on ChatGPT | Computer Weekly

In previous essays, we discussed ethics as a process of reflection and deliberation; an iterative and participatory process in which you look at your project from four different ethical perspectives: consequentialism (pluses and minuses), duty ethics (duties and rights), relational ethics (interactions and power), and virtue ethics (virtues and living together). We will now test…

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How startup Once.net and Cloudflare secured the 2023 Eurovision vote

With 64 contests, 67 winners, 101 live shows, 52 participating countries, 1,500 songs, 12 points, seven wins for Ireland, seven for Sweden, five apiece for the UK, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, The Eurovision Song Contest is as heavy on statistics as any sporting league. With viewer numbers regularly in the hundreds of millions, and an…

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Dungeons of Hinterberg Preview – Not Your Typical Idyllic Countryside

Dungeons of Hinterberg’s announcement at Summer Game Fest 2023 didn’t garner a ton of fanfare in the midst of massive games like Starfield, Fable, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, and Forza Motorsport, but it sticks out as one of the more promising indies highlighted during the Xbox Games Showcase. That same week, I witnessed a behind-closed-doors…

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LockBit ransomware gang allegedly leaks MoD data after hit on supplier

The LockBit ransomware operation has leaked a tranche of data purloined from the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) after an attack on a company called Zaun, a West Midlands-based supplier of metal fencing products that has supplied some of the UK’s key installations, thought to include the Porton Down research unit in Wiltshire and the…

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TUC launches AI taskforce for workers’ rights and societal benefit

The Trades Union Congress has launched an AI “taskforce” and is calling for new laws to safeguard workers’ rights and ensure the technology has broad social benefits. The taskforce, which the TUC said will corral specialists in law, technology, politics, HR and the voluntary sector, will publish an AI and Employment Bill early in 2024.…

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