Developers should grasp the opportunity to address misogyny in society rather than entrench it, says Liz Jackson Your article (Never underestimate a droid: robots gather at AI for Good summit in Geneva, 6 July) begins by listing four of the robot delegates that are attending the AI for Good summit – all four are “feminised …
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Long reviled by Twitter’s owner, @elonmusksjet is now tracking the billionaire’s jet from the new social media app The college student whose Twitter account monitored the course of Elon Musk’s private jet has moved his tracking project to Meta’s newly launched Threads. On Thursday, Jack Sweeney, a Florida college student and aviation enthusiast, launched his …
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HateAid in Germany alerted the social media giant to antisemitic and racist tweets, which were not taken down Twitter faces a landmark legal challenge after the social media giant failed to remove a series of hate-filled tweets reported by users in what could be a turning point in establishing new standards of scrutiny regarding online …
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White nationalist Richard Spencer and white supremacist Nick Fuentes join app, according to Media Matters Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, has said he wants to make “kindness” a focus of his company’s new Threads app. Following the launch of the app last week, Zuckerberg hoped to draw a direct contrast to Twitter which, with …
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Known as the ‘people’s missile’, the bomb costs about £2,300 to build and can be transported in a car boot Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates At an industrial estate near Kyiv, a group of engineers stand next to a tube. The metal device is part of a homemade rocket. After twiddling with an ignition …
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The US author’s violent tale of death row inmates starring in gladiatorial contests for mass entertainment is an intriguing conceit, but its execution is heavy-handed Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars comes to publication freighted with hype because of its stark envisioning of American death row prisoners forced to fight one another to the bloody end, …
A new Cambridge University institute will try to harness the good and anticipate the bad effects of artificial intelligence Stephen Cave has considerable experience of well-intentioned actions that have unhappy consequences. A former senior diplomat in the foreign office during the New Labour era, he was involved in treaty negotiations which later – and unexpectedly …
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… and discovered a hall of mirrors. Can the 70 million who signed up in two days last week to Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media have got it wrong? It’s a truth universally acknowledged that there is the real world, with all its sprawling ambiguity and apathy, and then there is Twitter, where absolute certainty …
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Humanoid robots speak – with some awkward pauses – in ‘world first’ press conference at Geneva AI summit Robots have no plans to steal the jobs of humans or rebel against their creators, but would like to make the world their playground, nine of the most advanced humanoid robots have told an artificial intelligence summit …
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Data from Greg Johnson’s Counter-Currents sheds light on how organization promotes its ideology online A data leak from the website of a white nationalist publisher has revealed recordings, published and unpublished documents, and hitherto-private interview recordings that shed light on the way in which the organization promotes its ideology online. The internal data from Counter-Currents, …
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