Month: May 2024

Original cast members Olivia Colman, Tamsin Greig and more return for a revamp of the show, 17 years later, in audio form. Plus: five of the best home improvement podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Green Wing: ResuscitatedAudible, all episodes available nowSeventeen years after the anarchic and gloriously …

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CBP One app offers far too few appointments, meaning asylum seekers must wait or pay human trafficking groups, report reveals A US government smartphone app that tightly limits asylum appointments at the US-Mexico border is stranding vulnerable migrants in Mexico and enriching organised crime groups, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). …

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Challenger to market leader OpenAI says it wants to ‘meet users where they are’ and become part of users’ everyday life OpenAI’s ChatGPT is facing serious competition, as the company’s rival Anthropic brings its Claude chatbot to iPhones. Anthropic, led by a group of former OpenAI staff who quit over differences with chief executive Sam …

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Julie Inman Grant’s order for Elon Musk’s company to take down tweets containing video of a Sydney stabbing has implications for tech platforms globally Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The legal battle between Australia’s online safety regulator and Elon Musk’s X is shaping up as the first …

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Symptoms include paranoia, anxiety and a compulsion to snoop on your neighbours. I’m not judging – I’ve had a brush with it myself One of my many guilty pleasures is lurking on my former home’s Facebook group. The New York apartment complex, which houses the population of a small town, is classified as a naturally …

It’s not stranger danger you should be afraid of, it’s video doorbell derangement syndrome | Arwa Mahdawi Read More »

With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebook’s founder famously ‘never tried to be cool’. Is his makeover just a distraction from what’s going on at Meta? A vibe shift is afoot in Silicon Valley. For aeons, the movers and shakers of the tech industry signalled that they were serious people working on serious …

It’s Mark Zuckerberg as we’ve never seen him! But what’s really behind the new look? | Arwa Mahdawi Read More »