Cybercrime
UK critical national infrastructure ransomware payment ban risks creating an "underground economy"
Westminster wants to make CNI and public sector bodies "unattractive" to criminals - a plan that could have an unexpected effect.
Jasper Hamill
Persuasive Technologies
Big ideas for 2025: The Intention Economy
Preparing for a future in which machines watch our every move - then sell predictions about our future behaviour to the data-industrial complex.
UK
UK AI defence "gap" exposed as Keir Starmer vows to make Britain a world leader
Stifling bureaucracy, uncompetitive wages and a dreary lack of innovation hampering defensive and offensive artificial intelligence research.
Stem cell clinics are tricking the sick and elderly into "expensive, unproven" therapies
Desperate people targeted by companies that claim to be able to cure everything from AIDS to Multiple Sclerosis.
Surveillance
Invisible "face cloaking" camouflage can dodge facial recognition, defence contractor claims
Researchers discover a new way of protecting your identity with little more than small cosmetic touches.
UK
British defence firms "find it easier to land contracts with Nasa than the MoD"
"We must open up more opportunities for SMEs to contribute to our defence and innovation in that sector," MP demands.
Quantum
Commercialising the "second quantum revolution"
Andrei Dragomir, CEO and Co-Founder of Aquark Technologies, reveals the challenges and opportunities in quantum.
ChatGPT
Sam Altman reveals OpenAI's dreadful original name for ChatGPT
"We are much better at research than we are at naming things."
Tech
Predictions 2025: Robots, quantum Q-Day, flying cars and Donald Trump
Insiders share their analyses of the trends that will matter in tech, science and ideas over the next 12 months.
AI
2025 AI predictions: AGI, GenAI, pilot purgatory and a plateau of productivity
Find out what's will happen as AI hype turns to action over the next year.
Quantum Computers
Quantum "magic" found in the Large Hadron Collider
"We created a new bridge between two exciting areas of physics...."
GenAI
AI "superstar effect" warning: LLMs pose risk of "narrowing global knowledge"
The conformist tastes of large language models are having a globally homogenising effect.