Month: February 2025

Daisy’s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people ‘He spent thousands’: how a bank team tries to rescue scam victims An elderly grandmother who chats about knitting patterns, recipes for scones and the blackness of the night sky to anyone who will listen has become an unlikely …

‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall Read More »

PC, PS4/5, Switch, Xbox; 2K Games/Fireaxis The fiendishly addictive sim returns with compelling fresh challenges across the ages. Prepare to say goodbye to a lot of free time Many years ago, when Civilization II was on its way, I’d just started as a writer on the video game magazine Edge. As a fan of the …

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Husam El Gomati, who reports on links between Italian government and Libya’s coastguard, fears for his sources A Sweden-based Libyan activist who has been a vocal critic of Italy and its dealings in Libya was alerted by WhatsApp last week that he had been targeted with military-grade spyware, raising new concerns about the possible use …

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ChatGPT developer announces AI agent amid growing challenge from rivals such as China’s DeepSeek OpenAI has stepped up its development of artificial intelligence agents by announcing a new tool that crafts reports which it claims can match the output of a research analyst. The ChatGPT developer said the new tool, “deep research”, “accomplishes in 10 …

OpenAI launches ‘deep research’ tool that it says can match research analyst Read More »

Then opposition leader’s address was ‘dangerously obvious’ and lacked two-factor authentication, book reportedly says Keir Starmer stopped using a personal email account when he was opposition leader after being warned about a suspected hack by a Russian group, it has been reported. The suspected breach happened in 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, …

Keir Starmer scrapped email account in 2022 after Russian hacking, says report Read More »

Exclusive: Cern’s next director general Mark Thomson says AI is paving the way for huge advances in particle physics Advanced artificial intelligence is to revolutionise fundamental physics and could open a window on to the fate of the universe, according to Cern’s next director general. Prof Mark Thomson, the British physicist who will assume leadership …

AI to revolutionise fundamental physics and ‘could show how universe will end’ Read More »

Trump’s treasury secretary gives the world’s richest person entry to one of the most sensitive US government databases Elon Musk’s government-slashing crew, the “department of government efficiency”, has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly …

Elon Musk’s Doge team granted ‘full access’ to federal payment system Read More »

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Why can’t I stop looking at myself on video calls? It’s become obsessive, to the point where I have to turn off the camera. Daniel Brown, London Post your answers (and …

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UK will be first country to bring in tough new laws to tackle the technology behind the creation of abusive material Britain is to become the first country to introduce laws tackling the use of AI tools to produce child sexual abuse images, amid warnings from law enforcement agencies of an ­alarming proliferation in such …

AI tools used for child sexual abuse images targeted in Home Office crackdown Read More »

While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technology No, it was not a “Sputnik moment”. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in the tech world, with stocks plummeting and much chatter about the US losing …

The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik Read More »