Month: March 2024

Tech such as laptops, tablets and instant messaging has more positive effect on wellbeing, says thinktank Exposure to new technologies including trackers, robots and AI-based software at work is bad for people’s quality of life, according to a groundbreaking study from the the Institute for Work thinktank. Based on a survey of more than 6,000 …

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The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill giving Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to sell that part of its business China could use social media app TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, has told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing. …

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LockBit was a sophisticated criminal operation, offering the tools needed to steal a company’s data and hold it to ransom. Then it was itself hacked. Alex Hern reports A ransomware site on the dark web has allowed criminals to extort hospitals, businesses and schools for years. By encrypting data or threatening to post data online, …

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British Library says in review it weathered cyber-attack without paying hackers behind it Ransomware gangs have been warned that there is no money in attacking the British state, after the British Library revealed that it weathered a damaging cyber-attack without paying – or even speaking to – the hackers behind it. The library, which was …

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High prices, mega mergers and union busting are just water under the bridge judging from the scramble for a new bag What’s so special about Trader Joe’s new mini totes? Aesthetics-wise, nothing: the canvas bag resembles LL Bean’s ubiquitous totes. The only difference is that these ones come stamped with the name of a supermarket …

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The Tesla CEO’s suit says the company abandoned founding mission of openly sharing its technology to better humanity OpenAI denounced Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company in a legal filing on Monday, describing the Tesla CEO’s claims as “frivolous” and intended only “to advance his commercial interests”. The filing, a response to Musk suing OpenAI …

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More than 90% of new cars sold in Norway are electric. And it all started with some pop stars driving around in a jerry-rigged Fiat Panda I’m kneeling on the snow outside the king’s house, impersonating a 1980s heart-throb, with a man named Harald and an electric car. It’s a situation that probably needs some …

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Francesa Mani told her mother she would not be a victim after fake images were circulated around her New Jersey school In October last year Francesa Mani came home from school in the suburbs of New Jersey with devastating news for her mother, Dorota. Earlier in the day the 14-year-old had been called into the …

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The best way to stop children getting out of their depth? Talk to them – about everything from trivial beefs to misused emojis I got a message from an ex-colleague who used to be fun and is now an agitator preaching “alt-right” nostalgia to the gerontocracy. Whatever it was he wanted, I would have told …

It’s natural to freak out about kids and mobile phones. But a ban is not the solution | Zoe Williams Read More »

In this week’s newsletter: Hear me out … but the traffic-dodging app may have started a domino effect that will bring down the Tories • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here There’s a theory I’ve been floating around for a while that I want to try on …

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