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Airlines told to take ‘every possible step’ to aid stranded passengers as costs of travel disruption mountHundreds more flights were cancelled on Tuesday as the fallout from Monday’s UK air traffic control failure continued to disrupt travel, with the …
Fears over safety as analysis by Which? shows ‘autobesity’ epidemic means cars getting wider and longerMore than 150 car models are now too big to fit in average car parking spaces, according to analysis conducted by Which?.While the size of the standa…
Imagine that we’ve all—all of us, all of society—landed on some alien planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don’t have any legacy systems from the US or any other country. We don’t have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking.
How would we govern ourselves?
It’s unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. The modern representative democracy was the best form of government that mid-eighteenth-century technology could conceive of. The twenty-first century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially…
At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports:
The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have a number of different phases. Interested would-be competitors can now submit their proposals to the Small Business Innovation Research program for evaluation and, eventually, selected teams will participate in a 2024 “qualifying event.” During that event, the top 20 teams will be invited to a semifinal competition at that year’s DEF CON, another large cybersecurity conference, where the field will be further whittled down…
Exclusive: Fears quiet-street measures that have been part of traffic planning since 1960s could be scrapped in culture warThousands of England’s quiet residential streets and housing estates risk being opened up as rat runs under the government’s revi…
Government accused of ‘vandalism against communities’ after cuts revealed in traffic reportAt least 1,500 bus routes were cut in the last two years in England, figures published by the Department for Transport have revealed.The latest report from the T…
Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Since then, TETRA has been used in products, including radios, sold by Motorola, Airbus, and more. Crucially, TETRA is not open-source. Instead, it relies on what the researchers describe in their presentation slides as “secret, proprietary cryptography,” meaning it is typically difficult for outside experts to verify how secure the standard really is…
Embodied emissions are notoriously difficult to measure and have largely not been factored into firms’ bids for infrastructure contractsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastEmissions from materials and vehicles used …
Commonwealth Games Federation says the state government’s decision was ‘hugely disappointing’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe 2026 Commonwealth Games …
Mark Harper gives consent to disputed scheme to widen roads and dig two-mile tunnel near ancient sitePlans for a controversial road tunnel at Stonehenge have been approved by the government.The transport secretary, Mark Harper, has granted a developmen…