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Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence
Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups The Facebook and Instagram owner Meta approved a series of AI-manipulated...
iPad Air M2 review: cheaper iPad Pro for rest of us gets bigger
Apple’s mid-range tablet gets larger screen option and more power, being ‘pro’ enough for most Apple has more options than ever for those after a tablet with different sizes, prices, scre...
AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers
All five systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responses Guardrails to prevent artificial intelligence models behind chatbots from issuing illega...
‘It’s very hard to get spare parts’: London museum ‘retires’ treasure-trove gallery of household gadgets
Science Museum’s Secret Life of the Home collection, including tea-making machines, early microwave cookers, gramophones and the first flushing toilets will close on 2 June They changed our p...
Spam, junk … slop? The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’
Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact Your email inbox is full of spam. Your letterbox is full of junk mail. Now, your we...
Google remains focused on its long quest for your eyeballs
AI Overviews, announced this week, are the culmination of a long line of products dedicated to keeping you on Google.com Google announced this week that it would begin the international rollout...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/19/google-ai-overview-attention
‘Personalising stuff that doesn’t matter’: the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app
The wellness project claims to help users make ‘smarter food choices’ based on ‘world-leading science’. But many scientists claim its fee-based services are no better than generic advice ...
As the AI world gathers in Seoul, can an accelerating industry balance progress against safety?
Companies such as OpenAI and Meta push ahead, but it is clear that biggest changes are yet to come This week, artificial intelligence caught up with the future – or at least Hollywood’s ide...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/ai-seoul-global-summit-safety-openai-meta
‘I hope people wonder what the man is doing’: Carla Vermeend’s best phone picture
The photographer and her husband came across an abandoned boat while out walking and took the opportunity to float a surreal idea Every September, Carla Vermeend and her husband go on holiday t...
How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda
News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible The news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan a...
Binance executive denied bail in Nigeria over money laundering charges
Tigran Gambaryan faces allegations of ‘serious criminality’ on behalf of world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange A Nigerian court has ruled that Tigran Gambaryan, the Binance executive de...
Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint | Koren Helbig
The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentres It’s been called “the largest coal-powered machine on Earth ” – and most of us use it ...
Protesters vow to keep up pressure on Tesla as it expands German gigafactory
Town of Grünheide approved the US automaker’s plan on Thursday to double the capacity of the site, despite opposition Environmental protesters vowed to keep up the pressure on Tesla after f...
Meta revokes job offer to sextortion expert after he publicly criticizes Instagram
Exclusive: Paul Raffile held webinar where he said app failed to protect children, and his offer was rescinded hours later Meta revoked a job offer to a prominent cyber-intelligence analyst imm...
Best podcasts of the week: The stone cold truth about the scandal that rocked curling
How can one broom tear apart a Canadian curling community? John Cullen investigates in Broomgate. Plus: five of the best post-apocalyptic podcasts • DON’T GET HEAR HERE DELIVERED TO YOUR IN...
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes review – eerie visuals and a thrilling story
Annapurna Interactive; PC, Switch This compulsive atavistic mystery is told through bewildering yet tantalising non-linear narrative strands that the player must tease apart It is both a pleasu...
Wild Diamond review – French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL First-time actor Agathe Riedinger is a wannabe influencer from the wrong side of the tracks in this forthright and fluent film Feature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bring...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/15/wild-diamond-review-french-agathe-riedinger
Pushing Buttons: Big studios are making big cuts – but indie gems like Animal Well are still out there
A wave of innovative indie games bring a sense of optimism to an industry in urgent need of a confidence boost • DON’T GET PUSHING BUTTONS DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX? SIGN UP HERE It’s a ...
iPad Pro M4 review: ludicrously good hardware that’s total overkill for most
Apple sets new standard in screen and power but Pro model verges away from consumer tablet needs Apple’s latest iPad Pro is thinner and lighter, and has a stupendous new OLED screen, plus ood...
OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model offers promise of improved smartphone assistants
System can operate directly in speech, speeding up responses and noticing voice quirks, but it still needs the power of Siri In the year and a half since the launch of ChatGPT, one nagging ques...
‘I don’t see the point of me without the politics’: video game writer Meghna Jayanth on the benefits of staying indie
After a less happy time attached to triple-A games, Jayanth has settled on smaller, freer developers – and is using that freedom to speak up for causes bigger companies would rather ignore Ca...
Hades II’s audacious, invigorating spin on Greek myth makes it worth playing right now
Developer Supergiant Games has released its hotly anticipated sequel to 2020’s Hades in an early-access, unfinished state – but its powers are already godlike Time comes for us all, and in ...
https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/may/13/hades-ii-early-access-review
BT ramps up AI use to counter hacking threats to business customers
Firm has data from ‘when criminals try to attack’ and its Eagle-i technology suggests what action is needed BT has said it is increasingly using artificial intelligence to help it detect an...
She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage...outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all
The moral panic following Raffaella Spone’s ‘deepfake’ video spread around the world. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story in which nothing was as it seemed … ...
MoD contractor hacked by China failed to report breach for months
Exclusive: Defence ministry was told in recent days that staff details accessed but sources say SSCL knew in February The IT company targeted in a Chinese hack that accessed the data of hundred...
The 15 (ish) greatest UK video game magazines of all time
Part newspapers, part fanzines, these titles were a lifeline to information-starved gamers and generated a sense of community to rival any YouTube streamer In the 21st century, video game news ...
Five of the best books about video games
Generations have now grown up with games, but they have long been linked to science fiction and are now the subject of histories, too. Here are five of the best There is a lingering misconcepti...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/09/five-of-the-best-books-about-video-games
Grant Shapps says it will ‘take some time’ to conclude ...me for cyber-attack on armed forces payroll – as it happened
Defence secretary makes statement after 270,000 payroll records belonging to members of Britain’s armed forces been exposed to hackers. This live blog is closed REEVES says Labour has a visio...
LockBit ransomware group’s leader unmasked and hit with sanctions; UK house prices inch higher– business live
Leader of major cybercrime group has been unmasked and sanctioned by the UK, US and Australia, authorities say ‘They’re everywhere’: Labour’s wooing of City goes into overdrive The sma...
TechScape: How Snapchat is saving itself – and keeping up with Silicon Valley giants
The messaging service pegs itself as the ‘happiest place’ online, but Snap’s Ronan Harris explain how its post-pandemic struggles has made it focus on being friendlier not just to users but...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/techscape-newsletter-snapchat
UK armed forces’ personal data hacked in MoD breach
Defence secretary to address MPs after names and bank details of armed forces members targeted by unnamed attacker The Ministry of Defence has suffered a significant data breach and the persona...
‘News on Facebook is dead’: memes replace Australian media posts as Meta turns off the tap
Analysis finds engagement with news is at an all-time low – due at least in part to changes to algorithms Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon n...
‘It’s just not hitting like it used to’: TikTok was in its flop era before it got banned in the US
I used to be an avid user of TikTok, but the algorithm serves much less delight and serendipity than it used to TikTok is facing its most credible existential threat yet. Last week, the US Cong...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/05/tiktok-ban-algorithm-decline
Germany summons Russian envoy over 2023 cyber-attacks
Investigation finds hacker group linked to Russian intelligence responsible for attacks targeting politicians and defence sector Germany has summoned a top Russian envoy over a series of cyber-...
Fears of Putin swinging elections behind EU’s Meta crackdown
Action against Facebook owner comes amid concerns about how it is dealing with fake news EU to investigate Meta over misinformation before June polls Fears that Vladimir Putin is trying to fil...
TechScape: On the internet, where does the line between person end and bot begin?
In 2021, the web felt dead because algorithms were driving people to act like robots. Now, the robots are posting like people • DON’T GET TECHSCAPE DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX? SIGN UP FOR THE ...
‘The science isn’t there’: do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?
The effectiveness of Tinder and Hinge is hard to judge without access to their data. But now researchers are creating a free alternative with full transparency A class-action lawsuit filed in ...
‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute
Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism Two weeks ...
FBI chief says Chinese hackers have infiltrated critical US infrastructure
Volt Typhoon hacking campaign is waiting ‘for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow’, says Christopher Wray Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into US critical infra...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/fbi-china-hack-infrastructure
Nothing Ear (a) review: cheaper, smaller, longer-lasting earbuds
Funky transparent design backed by good sound and noise cancelling make these budget buds winners The tech firm Nothing’s latest set of cut-price Bluetooth earbuds offer great sound and noise...
Fairphone Fairbuds review: ethically made earbuds with replaceable batteries
Repairable electronics pioneer shows noise-cancelling Bluetooth earbuds do not have to be disposable Fairphone, the repairable and ethical electronics pioneer, is back with a pair of some of th...
Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4 review: best-sounding noise-cancelling earbuds
Quality earbuds with improved Bluetooth, great battery life, good controls and future-proofed tech Sennheiser’s latest high-end earbuds aim to retake the crown as the best-sounding noise-canc...
Apple MacBook Air M3 review: the laptop to beat
Faster chip, tremendous battery life, premium touch points and a price cut make the best even better Apple’s latest MacBook Air adds more power to an already potent package while maintaining ...
One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack | John Naughton
In discovering malicious code that endangered global networks in open-source software, Andres Freund exposed our reliance on insecure, volunteer-maintained tech On Good Friday, a Microsoft engi...
Wearable tech: how the human body can help power the future of smart textiles
Researchers have created fibre-based electronics that use the human body to power T-shirts that display changing messages Whether it is a T-shirt that can display changing messages or a carpet ...
Wearable AI: will it put our smartphones out of fashion?
Portable AI-powered devices that connect directly to a chatbot without the need for apps or a touchscreen are set to hit the market. Are they the emperor’s new clothes or a gamechanger? Imagi...
Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen review – the deep roots of AI
A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th-century horoscopes to 1930s ‘plot genies’ for coming up with storylines Hark. The end is nigh. “In the industrial age, automation came ...
Derek Shaw obituary
My husband, Derek Shaw, who has died aged 83, worked throughout his professional life in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a technology which has since become central to...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/27/derek-shaw-obituary
A Million Days review – low-budget sci-fi thriller asks if we should trust AI with our survival
In the near future humanity is doomed and our options are being determined by AI simulation – unfortunately for us, the AI doesn’t seem particularly bothered if we survive This intriguing s...
‘Musk needs to be adored … Zuckerberg is out of his depth’: Kara Swisher on the toxic giants of Big Tech
The journalist and podcaster has been scrutinising Silicon Valley for decades, knows all the big players – and once believed that tech could save the world. But that was before greed and ego go...
Crypto Super Pac spends $10m on Katie Porter attack ads in California race
Fairshake Pac spends millions opposing progressive Senate candidate known for tough stance on crypto industry A Super Pac backed by the crypto industry has spent $10m on ads opposing Katie Port...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/01/crypto-super-pac-katie-porter-attack-ads
I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner | Emma Beddington
Morning, noon and night, it’s there, whirring and whirling around. It’s so industrious I feel simultaneously scared and shamed In domestic news, an issue has arisen with the robot vacuum cl...