Investigators have recovered flight recorder data from the Air India crash earlier this month, the civil aviation ministry has confirmed, marking a key step in the probe. At least 270 people were killed when the London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed less than a minute after taking off on 12 June from Ahmedabad airport in western...
Robert Cuffe Head of statistics, BBC News Getty Images “Deep seated” issues must be addressed before the UK’s official statistics agency can “rebuild its reputation”, according to a highly critical government review. Repeated problems with Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, which are used to make decisions affecting millions of people, led the government to...
IVF births made up more than 3% of births in the UK in 2023 – a figure roughly equivalent to one child in every classroom, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has said. According to new data, around 20,700 babies were born during the year as a result of in vitro fertilisation – representing...
DNA testing firm 23andMe has been fined £2.31m by a UK watchdog over a data breach in 2023 which affected thousands of people. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the company – which has since filed for bankruptcy – failed to put adequate measures in place to secure sensitive user data prior to the incident....
GCHQ GCHQ works alongside MI5 and MI6 to protect the country from security threats A GCHQ intern endangered national security, risked exposing 17 colleagues, and “threw away” thousands of hours of work when he took top secret data home, a court has heard. Hasaan Arshad, 25, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Computer Misuse...
A London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. Using footage and flight data, BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas has been taking a look at the final moments before the crash to find out what might have happened. Read full article at source...
A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK’s most high-profile artists – and their backers in the House of Lords – has finally been passed. Peers wanted an amendment to the drably-titled Data (Use and Access) Bill which would have forced tech companies to declare their use of copyright material when...
Getty Images WhatsApp has told the BBC it is planning to support Apple in its legal action against the UK Home Office over user data privacy. The messaging app’s boss, Will Cathcart, said the case “could set a dangerous precedent” by “emboldening other nations” to seek to break encryption, which is how tech firms keep...
Defenders of Social Security are responding with critical anger to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that sides with the Trump administration in a legal battle over access to sensitive data of tens of millions of Americans by the Department of Government Efficiency, the government-eviscerating group first spearheaded by right-wing libertarian and...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. For several years, Amy Stelly has been partnering with the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans to monitor air quality next to the Claiborne Expressway, a busy highway that runs northwest of the city’s iconic French Quarter....
Yesterday, Harvard revoked the tenure of a well-known researcher named Francesca Gino who studies ethics and honesty. Ironically, she has been accused of fabricating data. This is the first time Harvard has stripped a professor of tenure in 80 years. Harvard University revoked the tenure of Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino after years of...
Thanks to data supplied by Opta, it is possible to view wider trends across the division and whether the style of football being played in Scotland is shifting. In the season just gone, compared to the 2019-20 season, there were more passes per game, a higher percentage of passes completed and fewer forward passes. It...
Tom Gerken Technology reporter Getty Images Adidas has disclosed it’s been hit by a cyber attack in which customers’ personal information has been stolen. The sportswear giant said criminals had obtained “certain consumer data” which “mainly consists” of the contact information of people who had been in touch with its help desk. Adidas said passwords...
For the six years Marina, 35, had no valid driver’s license, she felt constant fear when behind the wheel. She would limit her travels to what was strictly necessary, forgoing professional, educational and leisure opportunities. “I felt persecuted and had too much fear,” she told Truthout in Spanish. “It was something that impacted all of...
Three teams in Championship history have been top of the table on Christmas Day but found themselves in the play-offs having missed out on automatic promotion. Each time this happened, all three failed to be promoted. Ipswich Town were top in 2004-05 with 49 points, but ended up finishing down in sixth and then losing...