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Exclusive: Scotland in ‘perilous position’ over police use of facial recognition tech, warns the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner

Scotland could become one of a few countries in Europe without primary legislation governing police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology, the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner has warned.... The post Exclusive: Scotland in ‘perilous position’ over police use of facial recognition tech, warns the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner appeared first on FutureScot.

FutureScot · 10 Nov 2026

AMD winds up Zen 6 cores for faster clock speeds

Chips boast up to 256 cores, clocks up to 5.3 GHz, and IPC gains of 20-31 percent, just not all on the same SKU

The Register · 10 Nov 2026

AMD's Epyc X-chips are back after a three-year hiatus

Venice-X promises big speedup for EDA and HPC workloads

The Register · 10 Nov 2026

A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin

Cores, clocks, memory, and interconnects all perfectly balanced for a singular mission: keeping instinct fed.

The Register · 10 Nov 2026

High oil prices have led to a dip in global carbon emissions

Bucking recent trends, fossil fuel emissions look to be down 0.4 percent.

Ars Technica · 10 Nov 2026

One space station company sues another for copying its work

"NASA advised that Vast’s submission in some locations substituted 'the PAM Provider' for Axiom"

Ars Technica · 10 Nov 2026

Trump taps Palantir security chief to run battered US cyber defense agency

Michael LoSapio could inherit a depleted workforce and a political headache or two, courtesy of his current employer

The Register · 10 Nov 2026

Fireworks AI gets burned twice as customer data exposure widens

Inference biz pins latest breach on cloud provider and LLMJacking miscreants

The Register · 10 Nov 2026

DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"

The new model is up to twice as successful at some tasks.

Ars Technica · 10 Nov 2026

Nvidia has a Jensen Huang problem—and no obvious successor

Huang faces a board probe as investors fret over Nvidia’s lack of a clear successor.

Ars Technica · 10 Nov 2026

Another contract extension for Fujitsu on the Post Office's Horizon

Just a few more months until Accenture takes over running scandal-hit Horizon system

The Register · 10 Nov 2026

FDA warns GLP-1 drugs may pose risk of rare condition that causes vision loss

The risk appears small and data is mixed, but FDA wants patients to be aware.

Ars Technica · 10 Nov 2026