Month: January 2024

Los Angeles, San Francisco and others say carmaker improperly labelled materials like antifreeze and sent it to the wrong landfills A group of 25 California counties have sued Elon Musk’s Tesla, claiming the electric vehicle maker mishandled hazardous waste at its facilities across the state. The lawsuit from Los Angeles, Alameda, San Joaquin, San Francisco …

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, spoke directly to victims and their family members as he testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. After an intense line of questioning by Republican senator Josh Hawley, who asked the Meta executive if he would like to apologise to families of victims who were sitting in the audience …

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Leaders of top online platforms, including Meta, X, TikTok and Snap, face tough questions on child sex trafficking on their sites Full report – Social media CEOs testify on child sexual exploitation to US Congress Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy …

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PC, PS5, Xbox Series S/X (version tested); Bandai Namco The venerable 3D fighting game’s latest iteration makes its violence thrillingly vibrant with a new roster of contenders squaring up to Paul Phoenix and Jun Kazama It’s been almost 30 years since the original Tekken burst into arcades to face off against Sega’s Virtua Fighter and …

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The Australian comedian shares what makes him laugh, including an AI vision of Melbourne’s inner north, Mel Buttle’s TikTok and a seagull named Steven I usually try to keep my internet history secret. Not for the embarrassing reasons you might imagine, but for other embarrassing reasons. Like how often I have Googled “spell wednsnday” or …

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Appointment of former UK chancellor comes as regulator sues operator over claims it flouted rules Business live – latest updates UK politics live – latest updates George Osborne has been hired by the American cryptocurrency exchange operator Coinbase as it faces an intense legal battle with the US regulator. The San Francisco-based company announced on …

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Based in Kyiv until the Russian invasion – and still mourning colleagues who went to the frontline – the makers of long-awaited apocalyptic survival game Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl describe how their lives began imitating their art As the 400 employees of GSC Game World, creators of the hit video game Stalker, filtered into …

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The measure of whether you are living a good life is up to you – and not determined by your daily screen time total, writes Guardian US’s tech editor Here’s how much I use my phone by the numbers: my screen time last week averaged six hours and 45 minutes a day. This week, it …

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AI-generated porn, fuelled by misogyny, is flooding the internet, with Taylor Swift the latest high-profile casualty. Victims say social media platforms are failing to take it down – will they now start taking it seriously? For almost a whole day last week, deepfake pornographic images of Taylor Swift rapidly spread through X. The social media platform, …

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Bipartisan measure introduced in the US senate will allow victims in ‘digital forgeries’ to seek civil penalty against perpetrators A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence. The measure comes in direct response to the proliferation of pornographic AI-made images …

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