Visitors at the 2025 Chelsea Flower Show could interact with the plants thanks to AI and Raspberry Pi 5.
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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a popular approach to encrypting data at the storage layer, beefing up database security. While PostgreSQL has steadily climbed in popularity – especially among professional developers – it has so far lacked this enterprise feature, at least in open source.…
Research says Google’s carbon emissions went up by 65% between 2019-2024, not 51% as the tech giant had claimed
In 2021, Google set a lofty goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. Yet in the years since then, the company has moved in the opposite direction as it invests in energy-intensive artificial intelligence. In its latest sustainability report, Google said its carbon emissions had increased 51% between 2019 and 2024.
New research aims to debunk even that enormous figure and provide context to Google’s sustainability reports, painting a bleaker picture. A report authored by non-profit advocacy group Kairos Fellowship found that, between 2019 and 2024, Google’s carbon emissions actually went up by 65%. What’s more, between 2010, the first year there is publicly available data on Google’s emissions, and 2024, Google’s total greenhouse gas emissions increased 1,515%, Kairos found. The largest year-over-year jump in that window was also the most recent, 2023 to 2024, when Google saw a 26% increase in emissions just between 2023 and 2024, according to the report.
Continue reading...For his first Nintendo Switch 2 appearance, DK goes on a rhythmic rampage, powered up to new hulking heights by singing sidekick Pauline. It’s big, brash and impossibly enjoyable
While searching for gold in the dingy mines of Ingot Isle, a severe storm sweeps dungaree-donning hero Donkey Kong into a vast underground world. You think he’d be distraught, yet with the subterranean depths apparently rich in banana-shaped gemstones, DK gleefully uses his furry fists to pummel and burrow his way towards treasure. From here, the first Donkey Kong platformer since 2014 is a dirt-filled journey to the centre of the Earth.
Much like the Battlefield games of old, Bananza is built to let you pulverise its destructible environments as you see fit. That seemingly enclosed starting area? You can burrow your way through the floor. Bored with jumping through a cave? Batter your way through the wall instead. There’s a cathartic mindlessness to smashing seven shades of stone out of every inch of the ground beneath you, pushing the physics tech to its limits and seeing what hidden collectibles and passageways you unearth.
Continue reading...Two years after Immy killed herself, her mother Louise is still trying to understand how she found her way to a pro-suicide forum – and a man accused of supplying more than 1,000 packages of poison
Just a few hours before she ended her life, Immy Nunn seemed happy. She and her mother, Louise, had been shopping and had lunch. It was the final day of 2022 and Immy, who was 25, appeared positive about the new year. She talked about taking her driving test and looking for a new flat. She was excited about the opportunities her profile on TikTok was bringing her; known as Deaf Immy, she had nearly 800,000 followers, attracted by her honest and often funny videos about her deafness and her mental health.
By the early hours of the next morning, Immy was dead, having taken poison she bought online, almost certainly after discovering it through an online pro-suicide forum.
Continue reading...Colombian artist and photographer Isabella Madrid explores the ‘click to be saved’ economy of hope in her project, Lucky Girl Syndrome
Growing up in Colombia – and online – has defined the way I create art: my identity has been formed by a country riddled with superficial and conservative values; a happy country but also one of the most violent; a country where men pray to virgins and kill the ones who are not.
The internet felt like a safe space where I could be anyone – as a vulnerable young girl who felt out of place where I lived, it helped me define my personality and interests but it also alienated me from the real world and made me hyper aware of the way I looked and existed.
Isabella Madrid is a Colombian artist and photographer
Continue reading...Ellie Wilson’s piece titled Moth x Human assigns different sounds to the species on Parsonage Down in Salisbury
They are vital pollinators who come out at night, but now moths have emerged into the bright light of day as co-creators of a new piece of music – composed using the insects’ own flight data.
Ellie Wilson composed Moth x Human in a protected habitat on Parsonage Down in Salisbury, Wiltshire. She assigned each of the 80 resident moth species a different sound, which was triggered when it landed on her monitor.
Continue reading...In today’s defence environment, information is abundant, yet insight often remains elusive. While data pours in from every connected system, every edge device, and every digital touchpoint, security teams still spend too much time stitching together fragmented inputs, hunting for signals, and navigating silos just to answer basic questions.
In defence cybersecurity, every minute spent digging through disconnected security logs is a minute adversaries can exploit. Each missed correlation or delayed response undermines the confidence of leadership, increases risk, and erodes operational advantage.
Today’s security operations teams are tasked with monitoring exponentially growing volumes of data across fragmented systems, often without the time, context, or personnel needed to turn information into action. As threats grow more sophisticated and move at machine speed, legacy search and analysis processes become a liability. Investigations take too long. Alerts go untriaged. And decisions are made on incomplete data, putting missions and teams at risk.
Elastic's security capabilities received rigorous testing in NATO's Locked Shields exercise, one of the world's largest live-fire cybersecurity simulations. During the event, blue teams — defensive cybersecurity units — deployed a comprehensive security architecture integrating multiple data sources: OS event logs, PowerShell logs, firewall/IPS/IDS data, threat intelligence feeds, and endpoint detection and response capabilities. The environment mirrored real-world defence operations, with the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) normalising disparate data sources to streamline detection workflows. Security teams gained unified visibility across their entire digital estate through preconfigured dashboards that simplified complex analysis tasks.
Protection capabilities included malware and ransomware prevention, malicious behaviour analysis, memory threat protection, and credential hardening. All detection rules mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework,2 enabling teams to understand adversary tactics and techniques while measuring defensive coverage. The exercise also tested defensive resilience. Red teams — simulating sophisticated threat actors with advanced persistent capabilities — actively attempted to disable security tools. Features like agent tamper protection ensured monitoring remained intact even under direct attack — a critical capability in contested environments.