How Peter Thiel’s Palantir quietly won £10m of MoD contracts

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has quietly awarded more than £10m of contracts to a controversial surveillance company set up by the Paypal billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, NS Tech can reve | Continue reading


@tech.newstatesman.com | 4 years ago

Rise of the planetary labour market and what it means for the future of work

This will be the first year in human history in which a majority of the world's population is connected to the internet. The internet is therefore no longer a network that primarily connects wealthy p | Continue reading


@tech.newstatesman.com | 5 years ago

Justin Trudeau says Canada will produce “friendlier” AI singularity than China

Justin Trudeau has warned that countries which fail to put in place measures to protect citizens' data risk creating harmful artificial intelligence. Speaking at the GovTech Summit in Paris on Monday, | Continue reading


@tech.newstatesman.com | 5 years ago

Kaspersky’s “global transparency initiative” fails to convince UK government

The world’s third-largest vendor of IT security is still not safe enough for use in Whitehall, a senior government security official has told NS Tech. Over the summer, British government officials met | Continue reading


@tech.newstatesman.com | 5 years ago

Has cyber crime really fallen by 30 per cent in a year in the UK?

On Thursday (18 October), the Office for National Statistics published the results of its latest crime survey, and it features some eye-catching stats. According to the release, the number of cyber cr | Continue reading


@tech.newstatesman.com | 5 years ago

Tesco Bank fined £16.4m over “largely avoidable” cyber attack

Tesco Bank has been fined £16.4m for failing to protect customers against what regulators called a "largely avoidable" cyber attack. In November 2016, criminals exploited vulnerabilities in the design | Continue reading


@tech.newstatesman.com | 5 years ago

Cisco and UCL team up to launch “one of the world's biggest” AI research centres

Cisco is joining forces with University College London to launch "one of the world's largest" artificial intelligence research centres later this year. The centre will house between 200 to 250 masters | Continue reading


@tech.newstatesman.com | 5 years ago

Monzo engineer tweeted ticketmaster breach hash as proof, months ago

On the evening of Friday 6 April, Daniel Chatfield, a software engineer at the challenger bank Monzo, sent out a tweet containing an unintelligible string of more than 40 letters and numbers. "It's a | Continue reading


@tech.newstatesman.com | 5 years ago