Department of Families, Fairness and Housing says ‘break up is overdue’ as more agencies expected to close accounts Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A Victorian government department has quit X, stating that the social media platform now owned …
New Zealand did not follow the US and UK in imposing financial restrictions after accusing Beijing of links to cyber-attacks Politicians, journalists and critics of Beijing were among those targeted by cyber-attacks run by groups backed by China, western intelligence services said this week. The separate cyber-attacks hit the US, UK and New Zealand – …
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Extra financing will bring technology giant’s total investment in OpenAI rival to $4bn Amazon said on Wednesday it will pour an additional $2.75bn into Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the artificial intelligence startup to $4bn. The technology giant will maintain a minority stake in San Francisco-based Anthropic, a rival of ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Continue …
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My husband, Derek Shaw, who has died aged 83, worked throughout his professional life in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a technology which has since become central to the use of MRI scanners. Derek worked initially for the hi-tech US company Varian Associates as an NMR specialist and product manager in the …
Report claims posts on abortion and contraception have been deleted while misinformation on the feeds of social media users in Africa, Latin America and Asia has not been tackled Meta and Google are accused in a new report of obstructing information on abortion and reproductive healthcare across Africa, Latin America and Asia. MSI Reproductive Choices …
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The rightwing social network’s flotation, supported by fans of the ex-president, make it a part of the ‘meme stock’ phenomenon • Business live – latest updates Donald Trump’s social network went public on Tuesday and almost immediately hit a valuation of almost $8bn (£6.3bn). The valuation fell back to a more modest $6.58bn by the …
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In this week’s newsletter: Casting away all the tropes of today’s open world games, Capcom’s unforgiving, unpredictable RPG is a sequel unlike anything else • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I love when a game properly captures me, to the extent that I’m thinking about it throughout the day …
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Cyber-attack by Inc Ransom yielded data on at least a ‘small number’ of patients, health board says A hacker group is in possession of at least a “small number” of patients’ data following a cyber-attack, NHS Dumfries and Galloway has said. Reports emerged on Wednesday of a post by the group Inc Ransom on its …
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Operators hope Dutch test track will help prove feasibility of high-speed tube transport system The longest hyperloop test track in Europe has opened, raising faint hopes once more that the maglev meets vacuum tube transport technology could be the future. Operators said the facility would help prove the hyperloop’s feasibility, saying it could allow a …
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Yes, it’s a museum piece – but this mini Atari home console, reconfigured for modern gaming systems, offers a compelling retro experience To a kid growing up in the UK in the 1980s, the Atari 400 and 800 machines seemed impossibly glamorous. While most of my friends had Commodore 64s or ZX Spectrums (along with …
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