Month: February 2025

Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest against UK government plans to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission, as a …

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Fickle financial dealings leave a man and his friends in debt, prompting them to go in search of the slippery crypto king responsible and hold him to account The opening crawl for this timely, acute thriller proclaims it’s a Steven Soderbergh presentation, although that’s the only place that the veteran film-maker’s name crops up in …

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Holmes, who is serving nine years, attempted to overturn conviction over multimillion-dollar investor fraud scandal A US court upheld the conviction of the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars while operating her failed blood-testing startup, once valued at $9bn, rejecting her multi-year appeal. The court also upheld …

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The Last Week Tonight host looked at content moderation and how Mark Zuckerberg has bent to Trump’s will John Oliver took aim at Mark Zuckerberg and the world of content moderation in this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight. The host of the HBO series looked at “just how much the tech industry seemed to …

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Spending ranges from new AI server factory in Texas to film and TV content and may add 20,000 jobs Apple said on Monday it would spend $500bn in US investments in the next four years that will include a giant factory in Texas for artificial intelligence servers and add about 20,000 research and development jobs …

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Many start their studies hoping to find friends, themselves and intellectual stimulation. More and more are finding they’ve been sold something else When Mai* started studying psychology in mid-2019, she looked forward to making the trip to the university for her tutorials, where she’d have lively conversations with classmates as they grappled with new ideas. …

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Exclusive: Government reluctant to take action that could weaken UK’s attractiveness to AI firms, says Labour source UK politics live – latest updates Ministers have delayed plans to regulate artificial intelligence as the UK government seeks to align itself with Donald Trump’s administration on the technology, the Guardian has learned. A long-awaited AI bill, which …

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Despite its early detractors at Sega, the legendary driving game was released to great success and millions of sales Kenji Kanno, director of Sega’s legendary driving game Crazy Taxi, remembers the exact moment he knew the game had made a seismic impression. “I was going to Las Vegas for promotional work,” he says. “I got …

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Parliamentary petition launched due to billionaire’s link to Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to conquer Canada More than 150,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening …

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Bybit said attacker moved Ethereum currency to unknown address in what is thought to be biggest digital theft The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has called on the “brightest minds” in cybersecurity to help it recover $1.5bn (£1.2bn) stolen by hackers in what is thought to be the biggest single digital theft in history. The Dubai-based crypto …

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