Theranos founder was convicted on four counts of defrauding nearly $121m after her blood testing firm collapsed A federal judge has sentenced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to more than 11 years in prison over her role in the blood testing firm that collapsed after its technology was revealed to be largely fraudulent. Holmes was convicted …
Hailed as a tech solution to crime, security cameras throw up questions of accountability and privacy The hit BBC thriller The Capture has thrown the scale of camera surveillance into the spotlight. I ask Gus Hosein, director of Privacy International, just how advanced the technology is – and if it’s possible to avoid it. You’ve …
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AI is becoming more sophisticated, and some say capable of writing academic essays. But at what point does the intrusion of AI constitute cheating? Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast “Waiting in front of the lecture hall for my next class to start, and beside me two students …
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Big-budget Jimmy Donaldson has overtaken PewDiePie to become the most subscribed person on the platform YouTube’s short 17-year history is one of human civilisation played on fast-forward. The first videos uploaded to the website were shabby, amateur productions from enthusiasts with cameras, made on a shoestring budget. Today, the most popular videos have eye-watering budgets …
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Sanjay Bhandari says cuts in trust and safety team at platform could be taken as ‘green light for hate’ The chair of the anti-discrimination body Kick It Out has voiced fears that Twitter will be unable to cope with online abuse during the football World Cup, after a wave of job losses at the social …
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Something’s wrong when basic infrastructure maintenance seems utopian, while the hare-brained schemes of tech oligarchs become routine Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The higher the monkey climbs, the more he exposes his backside. So too with the super rich. Continue reading… Something’s wrong when basic infrastructure maintenance …
People are wondering what parts of their online selves, loved ones and favorite celebrities to save in case the bird goes belly-up Amid ongoing fallout from Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, speculation of the platform’s imminent collapse is swirling – leaving users wondering what parts of their online selves they’ll get to keep. After Musk …
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The tech company is struggling to retain workers after Musk demanded employees sign a pledge to work harder Hundreds of Twitter employees refused on Thursday to sign a pledge to work “long hours at high intensity”, threatening the site’s ability to keep operating and prompting hurried debates among managers over who should be asked to …
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US corporate restructuring expert John Ray says ‘never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls’ In a stinging court filing posted on Thursday John Ray III, the new boss of the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, said the company had suffered an “unprecedented and complete failure of corporate controls”. Ray …
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Oxfordshire astronomer was locked out for three months after apparent automated moderation error An astronomer who was blocked on Twitter for tweeting a picture of a meteor that was deemed to have breached guidelines on intimate content has had her account restored. Mary McIntyre’s account was locked three months ago after she tweeted a video …
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