Month: August 2016
Gang behind $2.2m Taiwan ATM thefts strikes again in Thailand
A bank in Thailand has lost ฿12m (£265,000) in a cash machine fraud that police claim is a carbon copy of the $2.2m ATM fraud carried out in Taiwan last month. The attack on the Government Savings...
Mozilla calls for changes to EU copyright law to boost Europe’s IT sector
Mozilla's chief innovation officer has called for the European Union to reform its copyright laws, claiming that the excessively stringent application of copyright rules introduced in 2001 hampers innovation...
NHS in consultation for patient records system to replace care.data
NHS England is planning a second go at creating a centralised patient records database after abandoning the care.data project amid a storm of protest. This time, however, the plans appear to be even more...
Princeton researchers create microprocessor architecture with 200,000 cores
Princeton University researchers claim to have developed an open source microprocessor architecture that could be the foundation for a 200,000-core computer with 8,000 64-bit custom made processors. ...
GCSE grades down overall but numbers studying computing and ICT rise
This year's GCSE results have been released and, unusually, the Daily Mail hasn't run pictures of fresh-faced young people jumping for joy. We have instead seen young people in tears following a drop in...