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Alan Turing Will Be on the Bank of England’s Next £50 Note
The Bank of England‘s £50 note is currently their largest, issued back in 2011. It measures 156mm x 85mm and it features both Matthew Boulton as well as James Watt. The two are the leading lights of the industrial revolution, developing and marketing steam engines in 1775. However, the Bank…
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Bitcoin Puzzle With $50,000 Prize Is Finally Solved
Bitcoin Puzzle In 2015, a simple picture was posted to the internet. It did, however, contain a big secret. If you could crack the hidden message within it, you stood a chance to be the first to claim nearly $50,000 in a Bitcoin wallet. Sounds simple right? Well, not when…
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Ethical Hacker Site Has Been Caught Spreading Ransomware
Security isn’t as black and white as people think, sometimes people do the bad things for the right reasons. This is the area that ethical hackers deal with, testing websites by employing the same techniques that those who want to cause harm or profit from your information illegally. Imagine the…
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GCHQ Releases Christmas Card Brainteaser
GCHQ is the UK’s intelligence monitoring agency which collects data in the interests of national security. In recent times, the organization has come under a great deal of scrutiny for abusing their powers via the Tempora computer system. This system was used to buffer internet communication extracted for fibre-optic cables.…
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Online Digital JPEG images May Soon Be Subject To DRM
Oh what fresh hell is this? If you thought the pitfalls of DRM (Digital Rights Management) had finally dawned on the tech industry, then well no, no it has not. Considering an initiative which has been launched by the Joint Photographic Experts Group with the aim of attempting to persuade people…
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