Month: February 2025

Tech company removes error about gouda cheese after blogger points out ‘unequivocally’ untrue statistic Google has edited an advert for its leading artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Gemini, before its broadcast during the Super Bowl after it was found to contain false information about gouda cheese. The local commercial, which advertises how people can use “AI …

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Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration News of mass immigration arrests has swept across the US over the past couple of weeks. Reports from Massachusetts to Idaho have described agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spreading through communities and rounding …

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Channel 1 is a new rolling news channel with a difference – its stories are scripted, edited and presented by AI. Available in more than 30 languages and able to transmit bespoke news stories faster than ever, its threat to the mainstream media is clear. But can we trust it? And would anybody actually watch …

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Exclusive: Decision comes after it emerged an Italian investigative journalist and two activists targeted by Paragon Solutions spyware Paragon Solutions, whose military-grade hacking software was allegedly used to target 90 journalists and members of civil society in two dozen countries, has terminated its client relationship with Italy, according a person familiar with the matter. The …

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Firm rolls back plan to hire more from underrepresented groups and said it was reviewing some of its DEI initiatives Alphabet’s Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from historically underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. With this, Google joins a slew of US businesses, …

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Money stolen falls from record $1.25bn to $813m as more victims refuse to pay off criminal gangs Ransomware payments fell by more than a third last year to $813m (£650m) as victims refused to pay cybercriminals and law enforcement cracked down on gangs, figures reveal. The decline in such cyber-attacks – where access to a …

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Alphabet guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could ‘cause or are likely to cause overall harm’ The Google owner, Alphabet, has dropped its pledge not to use artificial intelligence for purposes such as developing weapons and surveillance tools. The US technology company said on Tuesday, just before it reported lower than forecast …

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Messaging app announces that 90 people, residing in two dozen countries, may have had their devices hacked The Italian founder of the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans, who has been a vocal critic of Italy’s alleged complicity in abuses suffered by migrants in Libya, has revealed WhatsApp informed him his mobile phone was targeted by military-grade …

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Researchers find restrictive policies do not lower overall time children spend on their phones throughout the day Banning smartphones at school does not improve academic grades and children’s wellbeing, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Birmingham did find that spending longer on phones and social media in general was linked to lower grades, …

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New smartphone has 2025’s fastest Qualcomm chip, two-day battery life, great camera and standout design OnePlus is trying to prove you don’t need a Samsung or a Google to have a top-tier premium Android in 2025, and mostly succeeds. The OnePlus 13 is the latest in the Oppo sub-brand’s series of keenly priced phones. Despite …

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