Month: January 2025

Key questions answered around potential use of health data to train AI models under Labour’s proposals Ministers mull allowing private firms to make profit from NHS data in AI push UK ministers have committed to creating a National Data Library for building artificial intelligence models, as part of an AI action plan. The library will …

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Bloomberg News says preliminary talks have taken place but TikTok spokesperson rejects report as ‘pure fiction’ Chinese officials are in preliminary talks about a potential option to sell TikTok’s operations in the United States to billionaire Elon Musk, should the short-video app be unable to avoid an impending ban, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. Beijing …

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Chief inspector of prisons issues warning after surge in weapons and drugs flown into high-security facilities Drones have become a “threat to national security”, the prisons watchdog has said, after a surge in the amount of weapons and drugs flown into high-security jails. Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, called for urgent action from …

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Online retailer will also begin its first large-scale deliveries by train and trial heavy post-style carts Business live – latest updates Amazon is to deploy nearly 150 electric heavy goods vehicles as well as piling packages on to trains and post-style trolleys in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of delivering goods in the …

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The actor has shared selected items from his famous collection for a new exhibition taking place in Sag Harbor Some celebrities collect art, rare film prints or plain old action figures. (Welcome to the club, Leonardo DiCaprio.) Tom Hanks, somewhat famously, collects something that’s simultaneously more practical and unwieldy: typewriters. And unlike Steve Martin’s paintings …

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Prohibition would bring the NHS, schools and local councils into line with government departments Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making ransomware payments under government proposals to tackle hackers. In a crackdown on such cyber-attacks, operators of critical national infrastructure will be barred from bowing to demands when criminal gangs hold …

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Ex-workers say CEO declaring relocation of moderation and safety teams from California just a play for Trump approval In a carefully worded statement, Mark Zuckerberg announced last week that Meta was moving its trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California and that the company’s content review “is going to be based in …

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As Meta abandons third-party factchecking in an ostensibly political move, the future of facts elsewhere remains murky Factcheckers had no doubt about the real audience for the news this week – delivered via Mark Zuckerberg’s medium of choice, the awkward video message – that, starting in the US, Meta would abandon professional, third-party factchecking across …

Will the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram? Read More »

It’s been a year since we launched the Reclaim Your Brain newsletter, so we reached out to subscribers to see how they’re doing Haven’t signed up yet? Start your free, five-week plan to reduce your screen time here If you’ve ever wanted to waste less time on your phone, you’ll know how hard it can …

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Amid reports of creation of fake racist images, Signify warns problem will get ‘so much worse’ over the next year A rise in online racism driven by fake images is “just the start of a coming problem” after the latest release of X’s AI software, online abuse experts have warned. Concerns were raised after computer-generated …

‘Just the start’: X’s new AI software driving online racist abuse, experts warn Read More »