Technology

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after alleged affairs
Posted on Thursday November 12, 2026

Move follows admission of affair with woman alleged to be Chinese spy and reported relationships with two employees

Jensen Huang has resigned as chief executive of Nvidia after reports of extramarital affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and two company employees.

He will be replaced on an interim basis by Nvidia’s chief financial officer, Colette Kress, until a full-time successor is named.

NHS England deletes ‘misleading’ claim 137 trusts benefiting from Palantir AI tools
Posted on Thursday November 12, 2026

Exclusive: The Guardian revealed 29 hospital trusts were not or hardly using the controversial patient data tech

NHS England has deleted a claim from its website stating 137 hospital trusts are benefiting from Palantir’s AI health data system after the Guardian revealed 29 of them were not using all or most of the controversial technology.

Health bosses had published a list of all the NHS bodies “live” with and “realising benefits” from the AI-powered federated data platform (FDP), a system set up to improve patient outcomes, boost operating theatre efficiency and speed up bed discharges. But after 29 trusts said it was either not live or they were not using any of its applications, the original list of hospitals appears to have been taken down.

US public workers are fighting to protect their jobs from AI – and some are winning
Posted on Thursday November 12, 2026

As governments adopt AI, workers are gaining ground in how it’s used and securing safeguards against its harms

In the shadow of Silicon Valley, workers for the city of Oakland, California, worry the region will deploy AI systems that could increase surveillance and inaccurately evaluate their performance. Pushing for protections to ensure workers won’t be laid off or disciplined by AI, their union overwhelmingly voted on 22 October to authorize a strike, with 94.1% in favor.

“We just want the city administration to really be intentional about how it’s engaging with AI products,” said Julian Ware, an Oakland spatial data administrator and member of International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21. “Sometimes with a fancy new toy, it actually costs more, it’s more difficult to implement and the results are not as good.”

Datacentres are deeply unpopular. Has Sweden made one we can all love?
Posted on Thursday November 12, 2026

It is built of wood, resembles an Ikea and its power is totally renewable. Plus, it was built with the local community in mind. Is this facility in Falun the best datacentre in the world?

‘It was pretty cool, when they were building it. It looked like a very large Ikea,” says John Wernvik, of EcoDataCenter. He is giving me a tour of their facility in Falun, Sweden, which could lay claim to being the world’s greenest datacentre – although to many, that is a contradiction in terms.

One difference is immediately visible: this datacentre is made out of wood. Huge panels of cross-laminated timber arrived at the site pre-cut, and were assembled by crane according to instructions, like flatpack furniture. Aesthetically, this section of the datacentre is more like an Ikea before the fit-out, a cavernous, echoey, immaculately clean hangar. The wood is not EcoDataCenter’s only claim to sustainability; it is more than just cosmetic, says Wernvik, the company’s chief external relations and sustainability officer. “Compared with a traditional datacentre built with steel and concrete, we lower the embodied carbon of the full structure by three times.” With a complex the size of a football pitch, that is a lot of wood, but, says Wernvik, “the amount of timber one of our datacentres uses takes the Swedish forest about 10 to 15 minutes to grow back”.

Facial recognition errors put ethnic minorities at risk of wrongful arrest, police watchdog warns
Posted on Thursday November 12, 2026

Inspectors find some officers acted on potential matches from retrospective searches without making enough checks

Police officers risk arresting innocent people, especially from ethnic minorities, if they treat inaccurate facial recognition data as evidence, an official report has found.

Although the technology can help fight crime, the report found it is beset by errors and biases, and operators do not always realise they must make further inquiries to verify the data.

AI datacentres plan on-site power stations on huge scale despite climate risks, research reveals
Posted on Wednesday November 11, 2026

181GW of gas-fired capacity proposed for sites in US and Europe because of delays in connecting to national grids, says report

Developers of AI datacentres plan to build on-site climate-destroying gas power stations on a huge scale to meet their energy demands, research reveals.

Datacentres planned across the US, the UK and mainland Europe have proposals to build fossil fuel plants on-site to create 181GW of gas-fired capacity because of delays to connect to national grids, according to the findings. This is almost four times the total peak electricity demand of Great Britain.

Germany reportedly bans Chinese drones at military bases over security concerns
Posted on Wednesday November 11, 2026

Western military forces increasingly worried Chinese-made technology ⁠could send ‌sensitive information to Beijing

Germany has banned commercially available Chinese-made drones ⁠from its military bases and training grounds due to security concerns, ⁠according to reports.

Western military forces have grown increasingly concerned that Chinese-made technology ⁠could pose a security risk and may be used to transmit ‌sensitive information to Beijing.