Month: February 2024

Exclusive: Guardian investigation for podcast series Black Box reveals names connected to app that generated nonconsensual images of underage girls around the world Prologue: the collision – podcast The first Miriam al-Adib learned of the pictures was when she returned home from a business trip. “Mum,” said her daughter. “I want to show you something.” …

Revealed: the names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app Read More »

Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta’s messaging app of spying on 14,000 users over a two-week period NSO Group, the maker of one the world’s most sophisticated cyber weapons, has been ordered by a US court to hand its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to WhatsApp as part of …

Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp Read More »

Blaze Entertainment; Evercade consolesParadroid, Boulder Dash and Break Dance are among the classic C64 games repackaged for the 21st century in this weird but lovely compilation It is an odd feeling having an unremitting barrage of childhood memories fired at you by a game cartridge no larger than a matchbox. That’s certainly been my experience …

The Commodore 64 Collection 3 review – retro console serves up old favourites in fine style Read More »

Singer had documented her experience with a rare form of cancer on platform and dedicated her last song to her son Cat Janice, the singer who went viral for dedicating her last song to her son and inspired a viral TikTok trend, has died from cancer, her family confirmed on Wednesday. Her family announced the …

Cat Janice, viral TikTok singer, dies aged 31 Read More »

They appear on your phone uninvited, overlong and often three at time. This isn’t a message. It’s a one-woman show There is a joke in the first season of the HBO show Hacks, pitched by Hannah Einbinder’s gen Z character, Ava, to her boomer employer, Deborah Vance: “I had a horrible nightmare that I got …

To my horror, gen X is turning to voice notes – I don’t want to hear your mini-podcast | Emma Brockes Read More »

Dead River investigates the cause and effects of the Brazil catastrophe. Plus: five of the funniest podcasts that also teach you something • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Who is behind the most notorious “deepfake” app on the internet? Trying to answer that question these past few months, for …

The true story of the devastating 2015 Mariana dam disaster Read More »

Liang ‘Allan’ Guo has been deemed a flight risk and ordered to hand over any passports in his possession Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A former director of the Australian crypto company Blockchain Global, which collapsed owing creditors $58m, has been banned from leaving the country. The …

Former crypto director banned from leaving Australia after Blockchain Global collapsed owing $58m Read More »

Progressive US outlets file lawsuits claiming the company in effect plagiarized journalists’ work to develop ChatGPT OpenAI and Microsoft are facing a fresh round of lawsuits from news publishers over allegations that their generative artificial intelligence products violated copyright laws and illegally trained on journalists’ work. Three progressive US outlets – the Intercept, Raw Story …

The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet sue OpenAI for copyright infringement Read More »

Lawsuit filed by publishers including Axel Springer allege Google ‘abused its dominant position’ in digital ad-tech Alphabet’s Google was hit with a €2.1bn ($2.3bn) lawsuit by 32 media groups including Axel Springer and Schibsted on Wednesday, alleging that they had suffered losses due to the company’s practices in digital advertising. The move by the groups …

Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses Read More »

In a filing Monday, OpenAI claims a ‘hired gun’ took ‘tens of thousands of attempts to generate the highly anomalous results’ OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence systems to generate misleading …

OpenAI claims New York Times ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit Read More »