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The secret to cleaner, safer sewers just might be ‘poop drones’

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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…

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Mitre warns over lapse in CVE coverage

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One of the cyber security world’s most significant assets, the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) system operated by US-based non-profit Mitre appears to be heading for trouble, after it emerged that the contract pathway for Mitre to continue to run the project on behalf of the US authorities is set to lapse on Wednesday 16…

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Saudi Arabia struggling to reach global leadership in deeptech

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Saudi Arabia is investing in foreign deeptech startups to get them to come to its country and help it build an industry, because its own sci-tech ecosystem is too immature to meet its ambition of becoming a global leader in state-of-the-art fields of technology.  The yawning gap to the goal it set for deeptech to…

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Footballers object to processing of performance data

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Football players are issuing “stop processing” requests to gaming, betting and data-processing firms over the use of their performance, health and injury data, citing ethical concerns with how the information being distributed about them can affect their career prospects. Under Article 21 of the UK’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), individuals have the right to…

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UN warns of economic productivity crash due to AI job losses

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The United Nations’ (UN) latest take on technology is that the distinctive feature of artificial intelligence (AI) is its ability to amplify human intelligence. Intelligent machines allow for more effective human and robot collaboration that may spark a fifth industrial revolution. However, there is a risk this could lead to job losses. The UN’s Technology…

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NIST calls time on older vulnerabilities amid surging disclosures

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The United States’ national metrology institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is to cease providing updates to tens of thousands of older common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) held within its National Vulnerability Database (NVD). In an announcement posted last week, the standards body said that every CVE with a published date prior…

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Government needs to fix tech staff hiring process, says Whitehall’s AI boss

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The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has questioned tech experts on the government’s plans for the digital centre of government – or the new Government Digital Service (GDS). The committee examined the role of the new centre and whether the government’s digitisation of public services will be successful. Earlier this month, prime minister Keir Starmer…

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Public Accounts Committee calls out legacy IT

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The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has urged the government to fix legacy IT issues if it wants to succeed with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered public sector initiatives. The PAC’s Use of AI in government report noted that AI relies on high-quality data to learn. However, the committee was told by the Department for Science, Innovation and…

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use AI to catch wealthy tax dodgers

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In her Spring Statement, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said government departments will reduce their administrative budgets by 15% by the end of the decade, adding that the savings on back-office functions will total at least £2.2bn per year by 2030. Artificial intelligence (AI) has a strong presence in the Chancellor’s statement, with the government confirming the…

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Driving licence data could be used for police facial recognition

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Human rights group Liberty has said the UK government’s proposed Crime and Policing Bill will transform the country’s driving licence database into a de-facto facial recognition database, enabling police to access the biometric information of millions of people who have never committed a crime. Introduced to Parliament on 25 February 2025, the Home Office-sponsored bill…

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