Month: May 2025

Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under …

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Pleasance theatre, LondonJamie Sykes’ queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in ‘incel’ forums – but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loathing is directed inwards as well as out Three men are gathered in an online forum to speak of women as bitches and “Beckys”. These are “incels”, who boast a coded …

The Last Incel review – the hate, horror and comedy that lurk online Read More »

Leon Emirali has created digital versions of all UK MPs, including a Wes Streeting avatar who is unabashedly frank about who the next PM should be If you are one of the few people on the planet who fancies a chat with Keir Starmer, then there’s a new AI model for you. A former chief …

If Keir Starmer is not robotic enough for you, his AI twin is ready for your questions Read More »

Smartphone Nation by Dr Kaitlyn Regehr vows to help us take control. But can her methods beat the algorithms? Can you count the number of times you’ve looked at your phone today? Or how often you’ve opened it to do one thing to find yourself doing something else entirely? If you’re anything like me, you’ll …

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Latest twist in a contest between iPhone maker and Epic Games over payments for hit game on Apple devices Epic Games says Fortnite is now unavailable on iPhones and iPads globally because Apple blocked a bid to release the popular video game in the App Store in the US and Europe. “Apple has blocked our …

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US retailers being targeted after attacks on Britain’s Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods Business live – latest updates UK-based members of the Scattered Spider hacking community are actively “facilitating” cyber-attacks, according to Google, as disruption to British retailers spreads to the US. A group of hackers labelled “Scattered Spider” have been linked with …

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xAI’s Grok bot repeatedly referred to widely discredited claim about South Africa that has been touted by Donald Trump Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has blamed an “unauthorised modification” for a glitch in its Grok chatbot that resulted in the tool ranting about “white genocide” in South Africa. In a post on Musk’s X platform, …

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Strictly Limited/Giants Software; Mega Drive It may be seem horrendously old-fashioned, but the seemingly dull repetition of working your wheat fields has a nostalgic pull like a combine harvester When I got my first job in games journalism 30 years ago, I arrived just too late to review games for my favourite ever console: the …

Farm Simulator: 16bit Edition review – the simple joy of ploughing your own furrow Read More »

Hackers paid overseas Coinbase employees for account data; company is offering $20m reward for information The biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the US forecast that a cyber-attack that breached account data of a “small subset” of its customers would cost it between $180m and $400m. Coinbase said that price tag would not include the $20m ransom …

Largest US crypto exchange says cost of recent cyber-attack could reach $400m Read More »

Then 23-year-old Jai Clapp was added to the girl’s Snapchat using the Quick Add feature as part of an informal competition with a friend to reach 100,000 points Australia news live: latest politics updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An 11-year-old Australian girl added random people on Snapchat as …

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