Month: June 2021

Commerce secretary Raimondo says US looking at ‘all options’ Ahead of Putin summit, Russia thought to harbor perpetrators US officials on Sunday ratcheted up pressure on companies and foreign adversaries to fight cybercriminals, and said Joe Biden was considering options to counter the growing threat including a military response. Related: FBI director sees ‘parallels’ between …

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The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithms Kate Crawford studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is a research professor of communication and science and technology studies at the University of Southern California and a senior …

Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’ Read More »

Brad Stone’s second book on the world’s richest person is another portrait of great power – and the great damage it does Amazon fired him – now he’s trying to unionize New York Brad Stone, a senior editor at Bloomberg News, is now the author of a second book-length portrait of what may be the …

Amazon Unbound review: how Jeff Bezos engulfed and devoured us all Read More »

The fashion resale app and its young users represents the likely future of retail: more online, more sustainable, and more social Depop, the fashion resale app, has joined fellow British tech companies such as Arm Holdings and DeepMind in heading to a deep pool of investment outside its homeland. London-based Depop’s acquisition by Brooklyn-based Etsy …

Losing Depop to US ownership makes the British tech sector look secondhand Read More »

Wise Bank of England heads are pondering the case for a state-run digital currency this week. But do we really need one? When Google announced that bitcoin traders would be allowed to buy advertising space on its pages from August, central banks were alerted to the next likely surge in publicity for cryptocurrencies. The increasing …

Why cryptocurrencies may remain merely a bit on the side Read More »

Whether single, curious or just plain horny, many people are planning to make the most of life after lockdowns. Are we ready to get up close and personal? The past year has changed 35-year-old Georgie’s outlook on dating. Several disappointing socially distanced dates and limp text exchanges meant she stopped using dating apps at the …

The new summer of love: ‘People are desperate to have sex – it’s been a long year’ Read More »

Users in US, Germany, Singapore, France and Switzerland reported no results were shown on Friday, the anniversary of the crackdown Microsoft blocked its search engine, Bing, from returning image and video results for the phrase “tank man” – a reference to the iconic image of a lone protester facing down tanks during the 1989 protests …

Microsoft blocks Bing from showing image results for Tiananmen ‘tank man’ Read More »

We would like to hear your experiences of after-hours contact from your employer, and how you manage work-life boundaries Trade union Prospect is calling for the government to grant employees a legally binding “right to disconnect” that would ban bosses from “routinely emailing or calling” outside of set working hours. This comes after a similar …

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Christopher Wray compares hacking to post-9/11 challenge Biden and aides say time is running out to strike infrastructure deal Trump’s ex-counsel to be quizzed on Russia investigation 4.11pm BST More and more Republicans have been calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s resignation, citing a trove of emails recently released to the public. Senator Josh Hawley of …

FBI chief likens ransomware threat to 9/11 as Biden plans to confront Putin at G7 – live Read More »

Christopher Wray also revealed that the agency is investigating about 100 kinds of ransomware cyber-attacks The FBI has compared a recent string of cyber-attacks on US government and corporate entities to defense difficulties presented by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Christopher Wray, the FBI director, also revealed that the agency is investigating about 100 kinds of …

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