Andrew Orlowski

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Orlowski

Like the Teletubbies’ Sun Baby, Elon Musk beams down on every corner of the globe. Satellites from Starlink and its competitors are bringing data to the poorest and most isolated corners of the world. “Data is doubling every year,” says Adam Beaumont, an innovation adviser to the Government and founder of the pioneering network builder AQL, which created the first UK ground station for Musk’s space constellation.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski

Now you may well wonder why you can't get a decent signal from your mobile operator when the antenna is only hundreds of yards away, but you can from something 300 miles away. It's a good question. Size is everything, the boffins explain - while the panel in space is vast, the local dish giving you mobile service now isn't much larger than a chef's wok.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski

Almost two thirds of business chatbots that organisations thought were private were in reality being exposed to the world at large, the security firm Zenity, which gave the demonstrations, discovered. Today we use malware detection systems to stop malevolent code that has been attached to a Word document: the script is easily detached from the content. But an AI can't distinguish between data and instructions: it just does what it's told.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski

All this raises a far more worrying question, however - whether our ministers are capable of independent thought at all. In addition to the expertise they find in their departments, they can choose their own spads, but neither civil servants nor political advisors are renowned for their Stem knowledge, being largely drawn from arts and social science graduates.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Orlowski

Sir Humphrey has learned to hold his nose. After decades of official disgust at mining, refining and petrochemicals, Whitehall is learning to love the dirty stuff again – the very things we need to defend ourselves and grow a modern economy. The vibe shift is palpable in Westminster and reflected in the booming share prices of mining and defence companies. And about time, too. In a collective spasm of shame, we stopped digging up and working with the most vital materials of the modern world.