In this week’s newsletter: A new PlayStation portable device that will play the PS back catalogue is reportedly in the offing – it could be a gamechanger for the market • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here A report from Bloomberg this week suggests that Sony is working on a …
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Social network says it must give permission for accounts to be sold or transferred after sale of rightwing InfoWars Elon Musk’s X is trying to block the transfer of the platform’s InfoWars accounts to the Onion after filing a legal objection stating that it owns users’ accounts. The social network has filed a “limited objection” …
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Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up Teenagers are facing wide-ranging new restrictions over the use of beauty filters on TikTok amid concern at rising anxiety and falling self-esteem. Under-18s will, in the coming weeks, be blocked from artificially making their eyes bigger, plumping …
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Among the report’s 13 recommendations is the call for the introduction of standalone AI legislation and protections for creative workers Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Tech companies Amazon, Google and Meta have been criticised by a Senate select committee inquiry …
Tech titans, and big business in general, are not reliable partners against Trumpism. Progressives need to accept this As Democrats think about how to counter the Trump administration, they need to accept a very simple lesson from the last eight years. Big tech and big business are part of the political opposition working on behalf …
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Our writer trialled the most powerful robot vacuums – some of which even mop your floors – and these are the ones he rates Robot vacuum cleaners take the drudge work out of cleaning your floors and carpets. No more tiresome weekly stints of vacuuming, and no more last-minute panic sessions when you have visitors …
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Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it Social media influencers need “urgent” help to check their facts before they broadcast to their followers, in order to reduce the spread of misinformation online, Unesco has warned. According to a report by the UN’s educational, scientific …
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The Department of Justice suggested it should ‘divest Chrome’ and divest or submit to oversight of Android – seismic challenges for the tech giant • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Google is in trouble. As my colleague Dan Milmo reported, the US Department of Justice “has proposed a far-reaching overhaul …
Experts say fake images raising fears around issues such as immigration have proliferated since EU elections From fake images designed to cause fears of an immigrant “invasion” to other demonisation campaigns targeted at leaders such as Emmanuel Macron, far-right parties and activists across western Europe are at the forefront of the political weaponisation of generative …
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The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into …
