Month: July 2024

‘A day at the beach is such a universal pastime’: Mariel and Katherine Tyler’s best phone picture

For the twin photographers, this spontaneous shot captures the timeless pleasures of a day by the sea ‘Coney Island beach and boardwalk is such an iconic fixture in so many people’s New York summers,” Mariel Tyler says of the location of this iPhone photograph. She and her twin sister, Katherine, make up the Tyler Twins, …

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‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?

The future is here, whether some like it or not, and artificial intelligence is already impacting the film industry. But just how far can, and should, it go? Last year, Rachel Antell, an archival producer for documentary films, started noticing AI-generated images mixed in with authentic photos. There are always holes or limitations in an …

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Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of luddites is rising up against AI | Ed Newton-Rex

Company after company is swallowing the hype, only to be forced into embarrassing walkbacks by anti-AI backlash Earlier this month, a popular lifestyle magazine introduced a new “fashion and lifestyle editor” to its huge social media following. “Reem”, who on first glance looked like a twentysomething woman who understood both fashion and lifestyle, was proudly …

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TikTok’s appeal should be thrown out, US justice department tells court

Officials insist China-based owner ByteDance must separate from its short video app in the US because it is a threat to national security and citizens’ data The US justice department has asked an appeals court to reject legal challenges to a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok’s US assets by 19 January …

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Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI

Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules Elon Musk’s X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app. The UK and Irish …

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TikTok’s algorithm is highly sensitive – and could send you down a hate-filled rabbit hole before you know it

TikTok’s highly active recommendation system is designed to keep users clicking on videos, even if they contain racist or homophobic content Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast TikTok’s algorithm works in mysterious ways, but a Guardian Australia experiment on a blank account shows how quickly a breaking news …

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Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests

Officials seized documents from NSO Group to try to stop handover of information about notorious hacking tool, files suggest The Israeli government took extraordinary measures to frustrate a high-stakes US lawsuit that threatened to reveal closely guarded secrets about one of the world’s most notorious hacking tools, leaked files suggest. Israeli officials seized documents about …

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North Korea-backed cyber espionage campaign targets UK military

National Cyber Security Centre warns of global hacking effort to obtain nuclear and defence intelligence North Korean state-backed hackers have mounted a campaign to obtain secrets related to nuclear materials, military drones, submarines and shipbuilding in the UK and US, as intelligence agencies warned of a “global cyber-espionage campaign” targeting sensitive industries. A joint notice …

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OpenAI tests new search engine called SearchGPT amid AI arms race

Prototype, initially launching with select publishers and users, set to challenge Google’s dominance of online search OpenAI is testing a new search engine that uses generative artificial intelligence to produce results, raising the prospect of a significant challenge to Google’s dominance of the online search market. SearchGPT will launch with a small group of users …

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‘A huge opportunity’: Quantum leap for UK as tech industry receives £100m boost

Science secretary backs five quantum technology hubs in push for UK to transform healthcare and industry Britain’s plans to create advanced devices based on the mind-bending physics of the quantum world have received a £100m boost, in a move ministers hope will have a transformative impact on healthcare, transport and national security. Peter Kyle, the …

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