Tearful testimony confirms for many how much Post Office’s Vennells knew
The networker
ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity
John Naughton
April 2024
Scott Farquhar to resign as joint CEO of Atlassian
Co-founder leaving ‘to spend more time with his young family, improve the world via philanthropy, and help further the technology industry globally’
Can AI image generators be policed to prevent explicit deepfakes of children?
As one of the largest ‘training’ datasets has been found to contain child sexual abuse material, can bans on creating such imagery be feasible?
The networker
One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack
John Naughton
In discovering malicious code that endangered global networks in open-source software, Andres Freund exposed our reliance on insecure, volunteer-maintained tech
March 2024
Police in England and Wales fail to catch any car thieves in 100 neighbourhoods
An investigation has revealed soaring numbers of unsolved vehicle crimes, with some inquiries into car thefts closed within 24 hours
From riches to ankle bracelet: UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s stunning fall
‘Britain’s Bill Gates’ could spend up to 25 years in jail if convicted of fraud in the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard
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How much does Spotify really pay Apple?
Apple has been fined a whopping €1.8bn by the EU, but it still claims it’s done nothing wrong. Plus, what happens when open source software gets into the wrong hands of some crypto fans
February 2024
Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp
Revealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago
Ex-Post Office boss ‘gave Fujitsu bonus contract despite warnings’
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra review: the Swiss army knife of phones, now with AI
January 2024
British inventor seeks to take $18bn bite out of Apple in bitter patent war
Patrick Racz is in a long-running patent fight with the tech company over claims it stole his filesharing and payment system for iTunes
The networker
The hard truth about AI? It might produce some better software
John Naughton
If there’s one area in which artificial intelligence might be useful, it’s in the writing of computer code
New business school
A software entrepreneur wants to empower players to develop their own games
Former Post Office chief hands back CBE as Horizon scandal intensifies
More than 100 people contact lawyers after broadcast of Post Office drama
December 2023
The real Santa’s face: ID software sorts Father Christmas from his stand-ins
Adobe drops $20bn takeover of Figma after EU and UK regulator concerns
November 2023
Other lives
David Turner obituary
Other lives: Pioneering computer scientist who designed and implemented three programming languages
