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28 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security

The cryptographic keys that secure your computer's boot sequence will start to expire on June 24. Here's what that means for you.

Siri AI Hands On: A Smart, Helpful Assistant

Technology

The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.

Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data

Plus: Gay bars in San Francisco using face scanners, France quits Palantir, Apple plans to change its private email and more.

The Most Promising Ebola Vaccine Has Been Sitting on the Shelf for 15 Years

Science

Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo.

Civil society: Police facial recognition must be strictly limited

Computing

Digital rights groups map out ‘minimum, necessary’ human rights protections to be included in UK government’s upcoming legal framework for police facial recognition

UK government publishes guidelines to ‘end era of outsourcing’ – will IT be in scope?

Computing

New strategy will see UK government apply Public Interest Test to outsourcing contracts worth £1m or more

Chilling effects of surveillance threaten democracy, UN finds

Computing

United Nations study finds the chilling effects of pervasive digital surveillance in modern life undermines an entire web of interconnected and interdependent human rights, representing a systemic threat to democratic norms and political participation

nLighten completes £15m refurbishment of Bristol ‘edge’ datacentre

Computing

European datacentre operator doubles potential AI-ready power capacity to 1.2MW with dry cooling at Bristol site as part of a wider £100m-plus UK modernisation programme

This World Cup, Bigger Might Not Really Be Better

Business

The biggest World Cup ever is pushing fans, players, and host cities to their limits—and experts say this is only the beginning.

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