Month: June 2023

Ruling party accessed user data including Sim card ID and IP addresses, former executive alleges in legal filing A former executive at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has alleged that the Chinese Communist party accessed user data from the social video app belonging to Hong Kong protesters and civil rights activists. Yintao Yu, a former head …

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Russian-speaking Clop group demands ransom negotiations after stealing data of thousands of staff British Airways, Boots and the BBC have been hit with an ultimatum from the Russian-speaking cybercrime group Clop to begin ransom negotiations after it stole personal details of more than 100,000 staff across the organisations. The demand, posted on Clop’s darkweb site, …

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The whistleblower forced US intelligence agencies to admit extensive spying on their own citizens. Some reforms were enacted but Snowden still faces potentially 30 years in prison It was the day his life changed forever. When Edward Snowden blew the whistle on mass surveillance by the US government, he traded a comfortable existence in Hawaii, …

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An agoraphobic downloads an app that promises to turn his life around – but things begin to get sinister when it takes over his social interactions This disturbingly real-looking artificial intelligence sci-fi was made a couple of years ago on what looks like a budget of small change tipped out of the film-makers’ coin jars. …

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Sam Altman is among the most vocal supporters of artificial intelligence, but is also leading calls to regulate it. He outlines his vision of a very uncertain future When I meet Sam Altman, the chief executive of AI research laboratory OpenAI, he is in the middle of a world tour. He is preaching that the …

‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it Read More »

The new product is far ahead of its competition; however, it is not clear that there is a pressing need for it or that most people can afford it As people begin to report on their hands-on time with Apple’s Vision Pro VR headset, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the company has produced an incredible …

Apple’s Vision Pro VR is incredible technology but is it useful? Read More »

Securities and Exchange Commission sues platform for allegedly operating as unregistered broker The US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Coinbase, the largest American cryptocurrency exchange, for operating as an “unregistered broker, exchange and clearing agency” in violation of US securities regulations. The lawsuit follows a similar action against Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, …

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There’s a disconnect between the eye-watering price of Apple’s new ‘spatial computing’ gadget and the promise of it – but it has some genuinely novel features • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Yesterday, Apple finally confirmed the worst-kept secret in Silicon Valley, and announced the Vision …

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Exclusive: party calls for developers without a licence to be barred from working on advanced AI tools The UK should bar technology developers from working on advanced artificial intelligence tools unless they have a licence to do so, Labour has said. Ministers should introduce much stricter rules around companies training their AI products on vast …

AI should be licensed like medicines or nuclear power, Labour suggests Read More »

Cries of ‘stupid autocorrect!’ will be banished as a result of an AI-powered upgrade that will let users swear if they want to Apple has announced it will upgrade its autocorrect feature that annoyingly corrects one of the most common expletives to “ducking”. “In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, …

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