Month: June 2024

‘It’s been hell’: injured Amazon workers turn to GoFundMe to pay bills

Amazon pledged to create ‘Earth’s safest place to work’. Three warehouse workers speak about their experiences Amazon workers left unable to work by injuries on the job have resorted to online fundraising campaigns to pay their bills as they fight for compensation and disability benefits. Three current employees, injured while working in the technology giant’s …

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Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot

Unsettling documentary considers whether the increasingly popular simulations of lost loved ones are really helping the bereaved In the future, it’s possible that you won’t have to die. You’ll simply upload yourself. Or download a deceased loved one. In fact, some of this stuff isn’t even in the future; AI griefbots are already imitating the …

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NHS confirms stolen data published online is from blood test provider

Health service in England issues update saying there is ‘no evidence’ hackers published entire database Stolen data published online has been confirmed as having come from the NHS provider Synnovis, NHS England has said. Synnovis, which manages blood tests for NHS trusts and GP services, primarily in south-east London, was the victim of a cyber-attack …

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Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

GeoGPT developed as part of Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researchers in global south Geologists have raised concerns about potential Chinese censorship and bias in a chatbot being developed with the backing of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), one of the world’s largest scientific organisations and a Unesco partner. The GeoGPT chatbot …

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Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems

AI that purports to read our feelings may enhance user experience but concerns over misuse and bias mean the field is fraught with potential dangers It’s Wednesday evening and I’m at my kitchen table, scowling into my laptop as I pour all the bile I can muster into three little words: “I love you.” My …

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On the digital map of history, when will big tech’s USSR moment finally come? | Alex Hern

The end of the all-powerful social networks seems inconceivable, but the disintegration of the Soviet giant once did too I was born two years before the USSR ceased to exist. The largest country in the world disappeared overnight, replaced by the new largest country in the world, Russia. But the footprint it left took longer …

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‘It was strange – a girl without a hijab at an ancient religious ceremony’: Mohammad Nazari’s best phone picture

The Iranian photographer sees both social documentary and art in his image of two girls at a bus station Iranian photographer Mohammad Nazari was in a bus station when he took this shot. “I was just leaving a religious ceremony in Zanjan, which is near the capital of Tehran, when I happened upon this scene completely by chance,” he says. “The glass …

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