Microsoft won’t say where Scottish police data goes
Redmond stonewalls watchdogs over Office 365 flows
Software King of the World, Microsoft is refusing to tell Police Scotland where the sensitive data it processes in Office 365 goes, leaving the force staring down a breach of UK law.
China dodges US chip bans with Malaysian data laundering
AI firms train abroad to bypass export controls
Chinese firms are bypassing US chip bans not by smuggling silicon but by flying training data overseas and using rented Nvidia-powered servers in Malaysia to do the heavy lifting.
Firms flounder with basic AI data prep
Most data to messy or misplaced
According to a new study by Nasuni, only one in five firms reckons their data is fit for AI use, meaning a paltry 27 per cent of artificial intelligence projects are delivering anything close to a return on investment.
Bluesky mulls selling data for AI
And archiving
Bluesky, the social network that wants to be the anti-Twitter has decided to explore the murky waters of AI data scraping.
DeepSeek has serious security issues
Might not be the OpenAI killer predicted
The Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) outfit DeepSeek might not be a quick and dirty OpenAI killer after all.
Too much data can cause an AI model to collapse
Scraping from other models is a bad thing
A new study published in Nature has found that training AI models using datasets created by other AI models can lead to “model collapse,” where the models start producing increasingly nonsensical outputs over time.
US and UK enact data agreement
All your data can be fondled by cops on both sides of the big water
The Data Access Agreement (DAA), by which the US and UK have agreed how one country can respond to lawful data demands from police and investigators in the other is now up and running.
Ukraine prepares huge data shift
Moving its online government over the borders
The Ukrainian government is preparing for the potential need to move its data and servers abroad if Russia's invading forces push deeper into the country.
EU court insists sites ask for proper permission to harvest data
Pre-checked box ban
Websites may not present visitors with a pre-checked box that signals consent to the storage of HTTP cookies on their devices according to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
Europeans concerned about US data influence
More to fear from the Americans than the Chinese
European politicians are concerned that the United States has too much power over European data.