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Technology

  • SnapChat on a phone and My IA sign in background

    Snapchat
    UK data watchdog issues Snapchat enforcement notice over AI chatbot

    ICO inquiry provisionally finds social media app’s owner failed to assess risks to users of My AI service
  • Live facial recognition technology is subject to a proposed ban in the EU.

    UK
    MPs and peers call for ‘immediate stop’ to live facial recognition surveillance

  • In March 2022, Musk bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter and became the company’s majority shareholder.

    Twitter
    Elon Musk under investigation by US agency for $44bn takeover

  • The logo for social media platform X.

    X (formerly known as Twitter)
    Platform strips headlines from news story links to improve their look

  • Google Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Watch 2 and Pixel Buds Pro in blue

    Google
    Pixel 8 Pro launched with thermometer and seven years of updates

  • A female-presenting engineer examining AI technology with reflection on eyeglasses

    Artificial intelligence
    Female-founded AI startups win just 2% of funding deals in UK

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News

  • The ACLU’s report concludes that there is little to no independent research or evidence that supports that this technology works.

    School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report finds

  • iPhone 15 Pro

    Apple says software bug and certain apps causing iPhone overheating

  • Exterior of the Tesla manufacturing facility in Fremont, California.

    Tesla sued for severe harassment of Black workers at California plant

  • The iPhone 15 Pro and Max on display in a store

    iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Privacy

  • Close-up of adult hand typing on laptop

    Pizza Hut Australia hack: data breach exposes customer information and order details

  • National cybersecurity coordinator Air Marshal Darren Goldie

    HWL Ebsworth hack: 65 Australian government agencies affected by cyber-attack

    • Australian federal police officers’ details leaked on dark web after law firm hack

    • Who is behind the latest wave of UK ransomware attacks?

    • Exiled Russian journalist hacked using NSO Group spyware

    • TissuPath hack: patient data possibly exposed in cyber-attack on Melbourne pathology clinic

    • UK cybersecurity agency warns of chatbot ‘prompt injection’ attacks

    • AI could have bigger impact on UK than Industrial Revolution, says Dowden

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Spotlight

  • Person looking at text-message conversation on phone, in which an unknown contact impersonates a son or daughter.

    Scams: six of the most common tricks – and how to avoid them

    • ‘I lost £240,000’: UK fraud victims share their stories

    • Addictive, absurdly cheap and controversial: the rise of China’s Temu app

    • ‘The internet is vicious and toxic, but I’d never go back to the 90s’: Taylor Lorenz talks to Monica Lewinsky

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Opinion & analysis

  • Packages pass through a scanner at an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore.

    A threat to Amazon and a test of the FTC: is this big tech’s antitrust reckoning?

    • Experts disagree over threat posed but artificial intelligence cannot be ignored

    • China troubles could upset Apple’s cart as it prepares to launch the iPhone 15

    • How savvy trillion-dollar chipmaker Nvidia is powering the AI goldrush

      John Naughton
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Games

  • ‘Too much like dogs’ … Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

    ‘I can’t kill a wolf but will happily watch a Sim drown’: murder and morality in video games

    From being unable to harvest ‘little sister’ characters but happy to kill others freely, to playing the Legend of Zelda as a vegan – gaming ethics are complex and highly personal
  • ‘They look after you’ … PGA Tour 2K23

    This golf sim is the best video game ever – I just need to figure out why

    Dominik Diamond
  • ‘Did I really just do that?’ … EA Sports FC 24.

    EA Sports FC 24 review – new name, same ridiculously fun football sim

  • Regency Arcade Paignton

    Pushing Buttons: Why I’m mourning the death of the true arcade game

  • From Keith Stuart for use with his feature on building a gaming PC.

    Making a monster: how to build a budget gaming PC without losing your mind

  • Mortal Kombat 1.

    Mortal Kombat 1 review – Johnny Cage and co return with the same old moves

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • A stock image of a white woman and a Black man, who appear from the necks down, standing by a blue transparent water cooler.

    ‘We have a bias problem’: California bill addresses race and gender in venture capital funding

  • ‘Whims are the operative word. There is no theory of Musk. He has no deep, thought-through principles and predilections.’

    Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leaders

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
  • a handshake between a man and a robot.

    The Handover by David Runciman review – is the future out of our control?

  • Moira Donegan

    Yes, it’s OK to laugh at wealthy Burning Man attendees mired in muck

    Moira Donegan
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Reviews

  • Innovators … Jay Baruchel, left, and Matt Johnson, centre, play the co-founders.

    Blackberry review – souped-up account of the rise and fall of ‘Crackberry’

  • John David Washington in The Creator.

    The Creator review – a truly original man-v-machine sci-fi spectacular

    • The Creator review – vast and exhilarating sci-fi actioner rages against the AI machine

    • Jabra Elite 10 review: comfy noise cancelling earbuds with spatial audio for all

    • Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill review – nowhere to hide

    • Anthropology review – clever AI missing-person mystery

    • Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – pillock, genius, or both?

    • Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – arrested development

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Devices

  • Google Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Watch 2 and Pixel Buds Pro in blue

    Wearables
    Google Pixel 8 Pro launched with thermometer and seven years of updates

    • Internet of things
      I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

      Emma Beddington

    • Smartphones
      ‘The vista was all blue skies, mountains, lake, sand and, in the middle of all of it, this lady’: Jessica Chou’s best phone picture

    • Tablets
      iOS 17 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s big updates

In depth

  • Rory Cellan-Jones, in a blazer and crew-neck T-shirt, grins

    Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon

    • Tamara Kneese

      ‘Tech platforms haven’t been designed to think about death’: meet the expert on what happens online when we die

    • USA - Signs - Beware of Dog<br>A sign posted on the garden door of an upscale Canyon Road home on the east side of Santa Fe warns would-be trespassers to beware of the dog. (Photo by Steven Clevenger/Corbis via Getty Images)

      ‘I pulled my sock down and saw blood’: drivers for Amazon in US complain of dog attacks

    • A man stands alone in front of a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Changan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989.

      TechScape: AI-made images mean seeing is no longer believing

    • A woman wears tape over her mouth.

      The TikTok mouth-taping trend may not be as beneficial as you’re told

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