Month: January 2019
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund to provide £70 million to make devices secure
UK to become a world leader in ‘designing out’ many forms of cyber threats to online services and digitally enabled products by investing in development of hardware solutions to complement software solutions 40 per cent of UK businesses have experienced a cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months New investment through the…
Save children ahead of motorists in driverless car crash, says AA survey
It's a dilemma that hopefully not many of us will have to face. But, perhaps reassuringly, most motorists would want children’s lives to be prioritised ahead of their own in a driverless car crash, a new survey suggests. More than 21,000 AA members were asked what they would want a fully automated car to do…
Social media firms must ‘purge’ harmful content, warns Health Secretary
Social media firms need to “purge” the internet of harmful content that promotes self-harm and suicide, the Health Secretary has said. Matt Hancock delivered the message after the father of a teenager who took her own life said Instagram “helped kill my daughter”. The minister has written to a number of internet giants following the death of…
Cyber crime victims lose £34.6m in six months, claims Action Fraud
People falling prey to cyber crime have reported losing £34.6 million, the latest numbers from Action Fraud show. Hacking of social media and email accounts continues to be the most prolific means of scamming people online, contributing to more than 5,000 cases out of the 13,357 cyber crimes reported in the six months between April…
Black Arrow rocket returns to UK after 50 years in Australian Outback
The Black Arrow programme from 1969-71 saw the first and only successful UK-led orbital launch... An engineer who worked on the only British rocket to launch a satellite into orbit described seeing it again as meeting “an old friend”, as it went on display after almost 50 years languishing in the Australian Outback. The Black…
Facebook working to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger chat apps
The potential move could see Facebook users message contacts who use WhatsApp (Niall Carson/PA) Facebook is planning to integrate parts of WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, as part of a huge technical operation across the social network’s collection of messaging apps. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned giant says the effort was under consideration…
Anger grows as businesses go without full Microsoft Office365 email access for second day
Businesses using Microsoft’s email service have criticised the company’s response to a second day of outages, calling the help on offer “ridiculously vague”. Office 365, the computing giant’s premium platform used by firms across the world, suffered an issue on Thursday morning making it impossible for some across Europe to access their accounts. Another day…
Facebook to close down Moments photo organising app on Feb 25
Facebook is giving up on its standalone Moments photo organiser app more than three years after launching it. The service, which served as a place to store photos from your phone and aimed to make it easier for users to create photo albums, will close down globally on February 25. It is not clear why…
Jaguar Land Rover self-driving pods light the way
Jaguar Land Rover is trialling an alternative way to guide pedestrians and other road users about where its self-driving vehicle is going, by projecting a light onto the ground in front of it. The British automotive firm has added the technology on autonomous pods developed by Aurrigo for the UK Autodrive project in order to…
Prince’s Trust not accepting new Huawei donations
The Prince’s Trust has announced it will no longer accept donations from Huawei amid mounting security concerns about the Chinese firm’s technology. The charity, founded by Prince Charles in 1976 to help vulnerable young people, said it had made the decision “in light of public concerns...Future donations will continue to be reviewed by our Ethical…
