Month: May 2024

Abalobi provides a real-time marketplace for fishers to sell their catch, while also monitoring fish populations, and the tech could go global The 59-year-old Wilfred Poggenpoel is a fisher from Lambert’s Bay, a picturesque town 170 miles north of Cape Town that’s popular with surfers and home to 17,000 breeding pairs of Cape gannets. Five …

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Defence secretary to address MPs after names and bank details of armed forces members targeted by unnamed attacker The Ministry of Defence has suffered a significant data breach and the personal information of UK military personnel has been hacked. A third-party payroll system used by the MoD, which includes names and bank details of current …

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Australian studio Aggro Crab has a hit on its hands – and behind all its jokes and excellent crustacean combat lies an uncomfortable truth about our world The Arcane Kids, a video game collective from Los Angeles, have a manifesto that I think about all the time, but particularly when I find art that surprises …

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Analysis of Facebook data finds engagement with news is at an all-time low – due at least in part to changes to Meta’s algorithms Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Meta has refused to enter into new deals with Australian media publishers for the use of their content …

‘News on Facebook is dead’: memes replace Australian media posts as Meta turns off the tap Read More »

I used to be an avid user of TikTok, but the algorithm serves much less delight and serendipity than it used to TikTok is facing its most credible existential threat yet. Last week, the US Congress passed a bill that bans the short-form video app if it does not sell to an American company by …

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The UK regulator has been criticised by grieving families and internet abuse survivors for failing to engage with them Bereaved parents and abuse survivors who have endured years of “preventable, life-changing harm” linked to social media say they have been denied a voice in official discussions about holding tech firms to account. Mariano Janin, whose …

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The novelist on a comedic TikTok sensation, the importance of a good suit and his favourite educational app Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968, grew up in a working-class Ayrshire family and studied English at Strathclyde University. His first book was The Missing (1995), which told the story of people who disappeared. In …

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The photographer on an ambiguous image inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian art “A former mentor, Elinor Carucci, recommends taking pictures daily as a sort of gym for the photographic mind,” Esteban Kuriel says. On this day, Kuriel was staying at St Ermin’s hotel in London and had visited the Sir John Soane’s Museum, which …

‘Is this an image of a sculpture or an invitation to a sexual encounter?’: Esteban Kuriel’s best phone picture Read More »

‘Intentions’ badges also launched, as dating app sector sees drops in share prices and moves to diversify “In the end it was the data that killed me,” says Penny* about her decision to leave the dating app Bumble. If she opened the app she might receive 100 likes, 25% of which she might be interested …

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Victoria Shi is modelled on Rosalie Nombre, a singer and former contestant on Ukraine’s version of the reality show The Bachelor Ukraine on Wednesday presented an AI-generated spokesperson called Victoria who will make official statements on behalf of its foreign ministry. The ministry said it would “for the first time in history” use a digital …

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