Month: September 2022

Regulator’s inquiry will also focus on messaging and smart devices as three ‘hyperscalers’ face scrutiny Ofcom will investigate the world’s biggest tech companies to ensure their dominance in areas such as cloud computing, messaging and smart devices works for the people and businesses of Britain, the communications regulator has said. The cloud services investigation, which …

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In this week’s newsletter: Sirin Kale explores a complex case of online harassment in the Guardian’s first true crime podcast, Can I Tell You a Secret? Plus: a Serial special after Adnan Syed’s sentence is overturned Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Can I Tell You …

Best podcasts of the week: The serial cyberstalker who terrorised dozens of women over a decade Read More »

The developer of the text-adventure game on how, at 20, she overcame 1980s misogyny to turn a Tolkien book into one of the most groundbreaking titles in the gaming canon As a teenager, Veronika Megler was intent on becoming a statistician. She signed up for a computer science course at Melbourne University, reasoning it would …

‘I saw the possibility of what could be done – so I did it’: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40 Read More »

Personal information of potentially millions of customers exposed, including names, dates of birth, addresses, and contact details Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast Optus has suffered a massive cyber-attack, with the personal information of customers stolen, including names, dates …

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Feature marks latest relaxation of rules around how image-generating AI tool can be used Users of the image generating artificial intelligence Dall-E 2 will be allowed to upload faces to the system for the first time, creators OpenAI have said, as competition in the sector heats up. The feature marks the latest relaxation of the …

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The hugely popular fictional team will feature alongside spectrum of real-world sides in EA Sports’ final FIFA game, due out on September 30 There’s almost no real-world professional football team that isn’t included in EA Sports’ Fifa games, from the Women’s Super League to Romania’s SuperLiga. They have now been joined by a fictional one: …

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Politicians will be banned from using social media platform for campaign fundraising Politicians on TikTok will no longer be able to use the app tipping tools, nor access advertising features on the social network, as the company tightens its policies around political issues in the run-up to the US midterm elections in six weeks’ time. …

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Ahead of the release of new chapter, the first in the franchise yields little – even the much-vaunted tech is old hat As a curtain-raiser to the forthcoming sequel, unpromisingly subtitled The Way of Water – downwards? – James Cameron’s original Avatar from 2009 is being re-released. This was his folie de grandeur and vast, …

Avatar review – James Cameron’s laboriously silly blockbuster shows its age Read More »

Advanced AI is moving from the lab into the mainstream – offering a glimpse of the dangers ahead. Plus, What3Words loses its direction Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Programming a computer is, if you squint, a bit like magic. You have to learn the words to the spell to convince …

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Jack Dorsey, the social media firms co-founder, was set to be deposed by lawyers from both sides on Tuesday morning Twitter will question Elon Musk under oath in Delaware next week as part of the litigation in the billionaire’s bid to walk away from his $44bn deal for the social media company. A Tuesday filing …

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