Mike Knight

Call-Blocking Firm Receives Massive Fine For Making Nuisance Calls A company selling technology designed to stop nuisance calls has been fined £190,000 after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that it had itself made more than 758,000 unlawful marketing calls, many of them to elderly and potentially vulnerable people. What Did Elderly Aids Do? Cardiff-based […]

28-Year Linux Code Fight Nears Its End A US appeals court has upheld the dismissal of the last live claim in a decades-long dispute over IBM’s use of code from Project Monterey, bringing one of the technology industry’s longest-running legal battles close to an end while removing another layer of uncertainty around Linux and open-source

Laser Mosquito Control Could Cut Chemical Use A portable device that uses LiDAR, radar, AI and a laser to detect and kill mosquitoes is now being sold commercially, raising a much bigger question than whether people will pay around US$1,000 to keep insects away from their patios and instead focusing attention on whether precision technology