By Published: 20 May 2024 12:22 Toshiba has demoed 32TB (terabyte) and 31TB hard disk drives (HDD) that use heat- and microwave-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR and MAMR) plus shingled drive tracks to boost capacity over existing products by more than 40%. Currently, Toshiba’s largest capacity drive is a 22TB non-shingled MAMR model. Hard drive manufacturer…
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The High Court has granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leave to appeal against extradition to the US to face charges under US espionage and computer crime laws. The court granted the 52-year-old leave to appeal after defence lawyers questioned US assurances that Assange would not face discrimination in a US trial because of his nationality.…
From the moment OpenAI launched ChatGPT, the chatbot had guardrails to prevent abuse. The chatbot might know where to download the latest movies and TV shows in 4K quality, so you can stop paying for Netflix. It might know how to make explicit deepfake images of your favorite actors. Or how to sell a kidney…
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Barnsley has become one of the first councils to roll out generative AI (GenAI) tools across its entire organisation as part of a six-month trial of Copilot for Microsoft 365, which it hopes will take some of the heavy admin load off staff. Local councils have become perhaps an unexpected testing ground for GenAI as…
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Post Office employees investigating subpostmasters over unexplained account shortfalls didn’t look into claims that the computer system was to blame, said a 2013 report to the organisation’s general council. During the latest hearing in the Post Office Horizon scandal statutory public inquiry, former Post Office interim general counsel Chris Aujard was questioned by barrister Flora…
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A United States court has sentenced a 24-year-old Ukrainian national named as Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13 years and seven months in prison, and ordered him to pay more than $16m in restitution, after convicting him of over 2,500 ransomware attacks demanding over $700m in payments under the REvil/Sodinokibi crime spree. Vasinskyi, who used the handle…
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The Post Office general counsel failed to give the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) evidence that would have identified the biggest miscarriage of justice years earlier. In a 2014 response to a CCRC request for an update on a Post Office review of its own prosecution strategy and processes, Chris Aujard, interim general council at…
Scientists at Oxford University Physics have made a major breakthrough in the development of quantum security that could one day pave the way for people to unleash the true power of quantum computing safely and securely, including, potentially, in the home. The so-called blind quantum computing approach was developed and tested in the UK by…
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After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline news. Computer Weekly has played an important part in exposing what has been described as the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history. In 1999, the Post Office’s single shareholder, the UK government, began automating accounting…
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There is already a “comprehensive legal framework” in place to govern the police’s use of live facial recognition (LFR), the UK government has said in response to a Lords committee that found the technology is being deployed without proper scrutiny or accountability. Writing to the Home Secretary on 27 January 2024, the Lords Justice and…
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