Month: January 2025

Sam Altman says tools that carry out jobs anonymously, known as AI agents, could transform business output Virtual employees could join workforces this year and transform how companies work, according to the chief executive of OpenAI. The first artificial intelligence agents may start working for organisations this year, wrote Sam Altman, as AI firms push …

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Proposed space launches within next two years could ultimately deliver mobile phone signal even to most remote areas Amazon is hoping to offer a satellite broadband service in the UK within the next two years as it prepares to launch a constellation of spacecraft that could ultimately deliver a mobile signal even to the most …

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‘Sim-swap’ fraud has affected three readers – and dealing with their mobile phone company hasn’t been easy What some O2 customers may have wanted for Christmas was a phone number, since long-cherished ones have had a habit of going astray. Whether they got lucky is another matter, as O2’s customer services can be as hard …

O2 was tricked into transferring my number to fraudsters. Could I have it back? Read More »

World’s richest man has been voicing support for Germany’s far-right AfD party while insulting its current leaders When the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was asked in an interview about the barrage of insults being directed at him and other German leaders by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, his reply was: “Don’t feed the troll.” …

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Watch Duty – which began in California and has expanded across 14 states – alerted the public to more than 9,000 wildfires in 2024 Cristy Thomas began to panic as she called 911 for the second time on a warm October day but couldn’t get through. She anxiously watched the plume of black smoke pouring …

‘It’s not just alerts, it’s a state of mind’: How a wildfire monitoring app became essential in the US west Read More »

The SpaceX chief’s powerful new system is set to slash the cost of missions, leaving Nasa in the dust It was one of the most striking technological events of the year. On 13 October, Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, blasted into space from a launchpad in Texas. Its main booster reached an …

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Nisha Desai is part of growing conservative push to curtail diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in corporate US PayPal has been sued by an Asian American businesswoman who accused the digital payments company of racial bias for restricting part of a $535m investment program to Black and Hispanic applicants, costing her millions of dollars. Thursday’s …

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State-backed cyperspies are exploiting ageing infrastructure to penetrate every corner of the US government, it seems – even its phone-tapping systems You know the drill. You’re logging into your bank or another service (Gmail, to name just one) that you use regularly. You enter your username and password and then the service says that it …

Memo to Trump: US telecoms is vulnerable to hackers. Please hang up and try again | John Naughton Read More »

Company’s own inquiry found money laundering and children performing sexualized acts for digital currency TikTok has long been aware that its video livestream feature has been misused to harm children, according to newly revealed details in a lawsuit brought against the social media company by the state of Utah. Those harms include child sexual exploitation …

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Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics – and in those of other countries As a business proposition, Elon Musk’s ownership of X, formerly known as Twitter, has so far been a disaster: since he acquired X in late 2022, the social media company, according to one …

How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page Read More »