Back in the 90s, I started following the “Global Warming”/Climate Change narrative, and I have been frustrated with the debate ever since. The theory that human behavior and emissions can have marginal but meaningful effects on regional climates or a global level is not as absurd as some critics seem to think. We know, from...
Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images Cyber criminals have told BBC News their hack against Co-op is far more serious than the company has previously told the public. Hackers contacted the BBC with proof they had infiltrated IT networks and stolen huge amounts of customer and employee data. After being approached on...
A labor board worker received a threatening note after he became a whistleblower on the all-out raid of the agency by Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” during which Musk’s minions apparently stole a huge amount of sensitive information about workers and union organizers, a new bombshell NPR report finds. The whistleblower, Daniel Berulis, works...
Sir Jim Ratcliffe could use Ineos’ Formula 1 involvement to help revolutionise Manchester United’s data analysis. Amid a wide range of criticisms of United, Ratcliffe used an interview with the United We Stand fanzine to claim the club was “still in the last century of data analysis” and that it “doesn’t really exist here”. Although...
Emma Woollacott Technology reporter Intuitive Machines Data centre firm Lonestar recently sent its test equipment to the Moon on this lunar lander It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but Stephen Eisele is confident that one day his company will open a data centre on the Moon. “The way we see it is...
While Chelsea’s goalkeeping position has been a source of debate for fans in recent seasons, new data suggests supporters should have nothing to worry about. Since Edouard Mendy lost his place and left the Blues for Al-Ahli in 2023, the opinions of who is the right man to have in goal have differed. Enzo Maresca...
Dr. Peter Marks is being treated as a hero for standing up to RFK, Jr., but in any normal universe the bureaucrat would be treated as a pariah. Forget for the moment that Marks is hardly the self-sacrificing saint and expert people claim he is, and get down to brass tacks about why he...
Tom Singleton & Liv McMahon Technology reporters Getty Images A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations – including the BBC – and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret. The Home Office wants the right to be...
An NHS software provider has been fined £3m by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over security failings that led to a ransomware attack on the NHS. The Advanced Computer Software Group was fined for a breach that put personal information of 79,404 people at risk, the UK’s data protection watchdog said. The firm provides IT...
Lily Jamali Reporting fromSan Francisco EPA Signage outside of the offices of the biotechnology company 23andMe in South San Francisco. Photo by GEORGE NIKITIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The computer systems of 23andMe have been struggling to cope with the sheer volume of customers racing to delete their data, after the DNA-testing company announced that it was filing for...
Undocumented immigrants, who contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes each year and help fund benefits like Social Security and Medicare while remaining ineligible to receive them, are expected to soon lose the privacy afforded to them by a long-standing Internal Revenue Service policy as the IRS nears a deal with the Trump administration to help...
Sonja Jessup Home affairs correspondent, BBC London Reuters The Met’s V100 programme uses data to identify and target men who pose the highest risk to women A data-driven approach to tackling violence against women and girls has led to more than 100 of the “most dangerous offenders” in London being convicted, according to the Metropolitan...