Month: October 2024

Pair stream themselves playing Madden in effort to secure votes just nine days before election Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday streamed themselves playing an American football video game against each other on Sunday as the two Democrats continued their party’s efforts to secure votes from young men just nine days …

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From baby names to wedding planning, fans of the 40-year-old spreadsheet program reveal how it has transformed their lives “I’m a boring man,” says Mike Elwin, an energy management consultant from Warrington. “My friends think it’s ridiculous how much I use Microsoft Excel. But it’s a dead handy tool.” Elwin, 56, has long used Excel …

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The megalomaniacs who control X and Facebook are only able to pollute the public sphere and undermine democracy because of our deference to money There are two kinds of aphrodisiac. The first is power. A good example was provided by the late Henry Kissinger, who could hardly be described as toothsome yet was doted upon …

Our perverse respect for immense wealth allows Musk and Zuckerberg to run riot | John Naughton Read More »

PM says content creators must be paid and vows to ensure technology ‘does not begin to chip away’ at press freedoms Keir Starmer has said media outlets should have control over – and be paid for – their work as artificial intelligence technology transforms the economy and the UK. Calling journalism the “lifeblood of democracy”, …

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The Washington Post reports Chinese state-affiliated hackers intercepted audio and texts from unnamed adviser Chinese state-affiliated hackers intercepted audio from the phone calls of US political figures, including an unnamed campaign adviser of Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Various media outlets reported on Friday that the Trump campaign was made aware last week …

Chinese hackers collected audio from a Trump campaign adviser’s calls – report Read More »

The platform’s billionaire owner has seen its value plunge as advertisers run shy, revenues drop and user numbers fall Two years ago, there was some trepidation among advertisers, anti-hate-speech groups and staff about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Those concerns have been borne out: advertisers have sharply reduced spending on the platform, Musk has sued …

Elon Musk hopes Trump victory will help his $44bn Twitter bet pay off Read More »

The Harvard ethicist and author on the similarities between digital technology and religion, the value of scepticism, and how to develop a positive relationship with our devices Greg Epstein is the humanist chaplain at Harvard and MIT. He was also TechCrunch’s first “ethicist in residence”. In his new book, Tech Agnostic, he explores the idea …

Humanist chaplain Greg Epstein: ‘Our bowed interactions with our phones look like worship’ Read More »

Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views Elon Musk briefly worked illegally in the US after abandoning a graduate studies program in California, according to a Washington Post report that contrasted the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who has in recent …

Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report Read More »

New research reveals how app usage affects grades, adding to parents’ worries about mental health First, the good news. We middle-aged Brits are no longer condemned to the conversation- and soul-destroying monomania of debating house prices. Less good is what has displaced it – an epidemic of angst about when to allow teenagers a mobile, and …

Why you should give your child a dumbphone if you want them to be smarter | Torsten Bell Read More »

Child actor Kaylin Hayman fought back after she learned that a man had used AI to make child sex abuse materials from images on her Instagram page Last year, Kaylin Hayman walked into a Pittsburgh court to testify against a man she’d never met who had used her face to make pornographic pictures with artificial …

A predator used her 12-year-old face to make porn. She helped pass a law to make that a crime Read More »