Month: May 2023

Documents show Ice has sent Google, Meta and Twitter at least 500 administrative subpoenas for information on their users The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) sent tech giants including Google, Twitter and Meta at least 500 administrative subpoenas demanding sensitive personal information of users, documents reviewed by the Guardian show. The practice highlights …

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Sony announces a portable streaming device for PS5 that lets players play games over wifi Sony concluded its livestreamed PlayStation Showcase event on Wednesday with a 12-minute-long slice of Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man 2, PlayStation 5’s major game for 2023. It showed the heroes of the previous two games, Miles Morales and a symbiote-suited Spider-Man, working …

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Campaign to raise awareness of issues reports that 80% of those affected receive messages that are sexual in nature Millions of women who do online gaming experience harassment and have received inappropriate messages, often of a sexual nature, a report has found. A survey into online gaming reveals half (49%) of British female gamers have …

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PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PC (version tested); Daedalic Entertainment/NaconA derivative, uninteresting and fundamentally broken stealth action adventure that fails to capture anything interesting about Tolkien’s fiction This game never looked especially promising, and now it’s out, it’s about as riveting as listening to a huddle of ents discuss the finer points of deciduous shedding. …

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review – boil it, mash it, stick it in the bin Read More »

Rishi Sunak meets heads of firms including DeepMind and OpenAI to discuss safety and regulation The “existential” risk of artificial intelligence has been acknowledged by No 10 for the first time, after the prime minister met the heads of the world’s leading AI research groups to discuss safety and regulation. Rishi Sunak and Chloe Smith, …

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In this week’s newsletter: From the contemporary Christian scene to rap battles, Sounds Gay explores what music means to LGBTQ+ people. Plus: five of the best niche podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler FergusonWidely available, episodes weeklyIn this lofi podcast, the Modern Family …

Best podcasts of the week: Trans moshpits, non-binary emo and the power of music for queer lives Read More »

Julie Inman Grant tells Senate estimates Twitter’s slowness to tackle online child abuse material is in contrast to its blocking of anti-Erdoğan tweets in the lead-up to the Turkish election Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Twitter is …

Twitter accused of responding ‘to tyrants quickly’ but ignoring Australian government Read More »

Cassandra Naud is striking if a little opaque as a predator seducing image-obsessed tourists in Thailand In this smartly arranged thriller by Kurtis David Harder, Canadian actor Cassandra Naud holds her own as a kind of social media Tom Ripley, out in Thailand preying on vacuous, smartphone-toting influencers while coveting their silky lifestyles. Broken down …

Influencer review – smart thriller about Instagrammers in mortal peril Read More »

What liberals may have feared as the alliance of two anti-woke villains, turned out to have the menace of a damp dishcloth The screen kept saying “Preparing to launch”. But this wasn’t one of Elon Musk’s space rockets that soars through the stratosphere and settles into a comfortable orbit. This was one that blew up …

Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis Read More »

Guam is home to US military facilities including the Andersen air force base, key to responding in Asia-Pacific region conflict Microsoft said on Wednesday it had uncovered malicious activity by a state-sponsored actor based in China aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in Guam and the United States. Microsoft said it assessed with “moderate confidence” that …

Microsoft says China-backed hacker targeted critical infrastructure in US and Guam Read More »