UK’s outgoing chief scientist urges ministers to ‘get ahead’ of profound social and economic changes The new genre of AI could be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, the government’s outgoing chief scientific adviser has said, as he urged Britain to act immediately to prevent huge numbers of people becoming jobless. Sir Patrick Vallance, who …
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Corporate clients that outsource work to Capita – including Aviva and Phoenix Group – must ‘assess fallout from data breach’ The City regulator has contacted Capita’s corporate clients urging them to ascertain whether their customers’ data has been compromised after a cyber-attack on the outsourcer in March. The Financial Conduct Authority said it had written …
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New features on app to encourage travellers to consider renting single rooms rather than whole properties Airbnb is going back to its roots, the company has announced, with a renewed focus on renting out single rooms to travellers concerned about cost-of-living increases. Labelled Airbnb Rooms, the short-term rental app will launch a range of features …
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Group has removed AI images used to promote their reports on social media, including fake photos of Colombia’s 2021 protests While the systemic brutality used by Colombian police to quell national protests in 2021 was real and is well documented, photos recently used by Amnesty International to highlight the issue were not. The international human …
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Stock exchange companies threatened by Chegg observation that ChatGPT has hit revenues The artificial intelligence race is already producing losers. On Tuesday, education companies trading on the London and New York stock exchanges saw hundreds of millions wiped from their valuations after Chegg, a US firm that provides online help to students for writing and …
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In this week’s newsletter: A UK regulator blocked a $70bn acquisition last week not because of any threat now, but over worries about a future monopoly Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here As is now tradition, an enormous piece of gaming news landed right after last week’s Pushing Buttons went …
SoundThinking, a gunshot detection company, worked with top police officials to secure a city contract, according to emails obtained by the Guardian On 5 February 2022, police in Portland, Oregon, sent out a bulletin pleading with the public for information about a recent homicide case. Police had found Corey M Eady injured with several gunshot …
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Companies join forces to tackle unwanted tracking via Apple’s gadget and similar devices such as Tile Apple and Google are teaming up to thwart unwanted tracking through AirTags and similar gadgets. The two companies behind the iPhone and the software that powers Android phones on Tuesday submitted a proposal to set standards for combatting secret …
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Websites churn out content, often advancing false narratives, to saturate with adverts, says anti-misinformation firm Chatbots pretending to be journalists have been discovered running almost 50 AI-generated “content farms” so far, according to an investigation by the anti-misinformation outfit NewsGuard. The websites churn out content relating to politics, health, environment, finance and technology at a …
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The tech behemoth was set to acquire the Call of Duty makers, then the UK regulator stepped in – but not for the reason you might think Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here “Oh my god. Wow.” Phone calls with law professors about regulatory actions don’t normally start with unprompted expressions …
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