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The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has confirmed that it is continuing to respond to an ongoing ransomware attack that has encrypted files, disrupted systems and seen 1.2 GB of data stolen by cybercriminals.
Read more in my article on… Continue reading Scottish environmental agency still struggling after Christmas Eve ransomware attack
UK gas distributor SGN has been given approval to supply hydrogen produced using renewables to around 300 Scottish homes. Participating households should be able to start heating their homes and cooking their meals with the gas from the end of 2022.Con… Continue reading Approval granted for project to heat homes using green hydrogen
Data centers are fast becoming one of the most power-hungry industries, since they require such heavy-duty cooling and maintenance. Microsoft has now finished a two-year test of an unconventional solution – dropping a data center to the bottom of the s… Continue reading Microsoft retrieves its experimental underwater data center
As renewable energy generation grows, so does the need for new storage methods that can be used at times when the Sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing. A Scottish company called Gravitricity has now broken ground on a demonstrator facility for a… Continue reading Prototype gravity-based energy storage system begins construction
Two of my friends and I crammed into a small and aged European hatchback, drove all day along hundreds of miles of motorway, and finally through a succession of ever smaller roads. We were heading for a set of GPS co-ordinates in the north of Scotland, along with all of …read more
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Archaeologists from the Universities of Southampton and Reading have determined that some of Scotland’s famous lake dwellings are older than Stonehenge. Called “crannogs,” the little artificial islands made out of piled rocks have yielded pot… Continue reading Scottish crannogs may be older than Stonehenge
A team of scientists led by Ken Amor from the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University has uncovered evidence of the largest meteor ever to strike the British Isles. Based on scattered debris material first discovered near Ullapool, … Continue reading Scientists uncover evidence of ancient giant meteor strike in Scotland
Some 4,500 years ago, the ticket to a megalithic party was a pig from your local farm. Continue reading Want to Know Who Partied at Stonehenge? Look at the Pig Bones
Courts ruled that Mark Meechan, aka “Count Dankula,” knew what he was doing when he filmed a pug watching Hitler speeches. Continue reading YouTuber Found Guilty of Being ‘Grossly Offensive’ for Teaching a Dog a Nazi Salute
Courts ruled that Mark Meechan, aka “Count Dankula,” knew what he was doing when he filmed a pug watching Hitler speeches. Continue reading YouTuber Found Guilty of Being ‘Grossly Offensive’ for Teaching a Dog a Nazi Salute