Month: March 2024

House Democrats write to company about Russia’s alleged use of satellite internet service in war against Ukraine US House Democrats are investigating SpaceX over whether Russia has accessed the company’s Starlink satellite internet service as part of its ongoing war against Ukraine, according to a letter sent to the company on Wednesday. The letter, authored …

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PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Visual Concepts/2KVisual Concepts pulls off an incredible reversal on this formerly beleaguered series, just in time for Wrestlemania’s big 4-0 It’s a storyline worthy of a WWE superstar: washed up, widely ridiculed, apparently on its way to obscurity, WWE 2K20 was video game wrestling’s lowest ebb. Not five years …

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Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, warns a coalition of environmental groups Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has warned. Advances in …

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In this week’s newsletter: Comedian Joanne McNally explores one of the most bizarre celebrity conspiracy theories in a new BBC series. Plus: five of the best books podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Who Replaced Avril Lavigne?BBC Sounds, episodes weekly“I know what you’re thinking – she’s definitely dead.” …

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Widow who depends on wifi to order medication and grocers was disconnected in the autumn I’m at my wits’ end trying to understand how my BT landline and wifi can be cut off without the company receiving any instructions from me. I’m a 79-year-old widow living seven miles from a town and depend on wifi …

BT cut off my landline out of the blue and ignored my protests Read More »

Shane Jones said he warned management about the lack of safeguards several times, but it didn’t result in any action An artificial intelligence engineer at Microsoft published a letter Wednesday alleging that the company’s AI image generator lacks basic safeguards against creating violent and sexualized images. In the letter, engineer Shane Jones states that his …

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The tech giant said the lawsuit was near-sighted and akin to Hollywood’s losing backlash against the VCR. Microsoft has responded to a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the New York Times over alleged use of content to train generative artificial intelligence, calling the claim a false narrative of “doomsday futurology”. The tech giant said the …

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Nintendo Switch, PC (version played); Hyper Games/Raw FuryEerie and uplifting, the first Moomins video game for over a decade sends anti-authoritarian Snufkin on a mission to restore the nature of Moominvalley I have a dreadful cold, but Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley has made me feel better. It’s the gaming equivalent of honey and lemon and …

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley review – a fleeting tour of Tove Jansson’s beguiling world Read More »

In this week’s newsletter: Like Kratos’s axe and Halo’s Warthogs before it, Pacific Drive’s beat-up banger and I have formed a lasting connection as we survive a scary world together • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I had to give up on Pacific Drive, the weird, fiction-inspired driving survival …

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Employers are letting artificial intelligence conduct job interviews. Candidates are trying to beat the system When Ty landed an introductory phone interview with a finance and banking company last month, they assumed it would be a quick chat with a recruiter. And when they got on the phone, Ty assumed the recruiter, who introduced herself …

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