Month: June 2025

The limited rollout in Austin, Texas, included pro-Tesla influencers using the paid ride service The main transportation safety regulator in the US is requesting information from Tesla after videos showed the company’s self-driving Robotaxis exceeding the speed limit or veering into the wrong lane. The company launched the service in Austin, Texas, over the weekend. …

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The Last Week Tonight host went deep on the creative bankruptcy and long-term concerns over AI images and videos flooding the internet John Oliver covered the dangers of AI on his weekly HBO show, calling it “worryingly corrosive” for society. On Last Week Tonight, Oliver said that the “spread of AI generation tools has made …

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After a video calling a can of Diet Coke a ‘fridge cigarette’ went viral, people have been discussing how they find moments of relief amid the pressures of work Name: Fridge cigarette. Age: As a thing, not so new, but the term has only really been knocking about for a few weeks, since a user …

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Iran, clearly fearful of an online Israeli incursion, imposed a near-total internet blackout early last week The war between Israel and Iran, though largely a fight of fighter planes, drones and bombs, is erupting in the digital realm as well. Both countries have long histories with digital warfare. The particular focus of the current conflict, …

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Online video hosting service accuses the nation’s online safety boss Julie Inman Grant of ignoring parents and teachers Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast YouTube has criticised calls for it to be included in the under-16s social media ban, accusing the nation’s online safety boss of ignoring parents and teachers. …

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The Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, is about to descend on Venice with his fiancee, some ex-Marines and his limitless credit card. We meet the Italian activists who are saying: enough When she heard that Jeff Bezos was getting married in Venice this June, Heather Jane Johnson felt worse than she had in her entire life. …

Inside the No Space for Bezos movement: ‘One man rents a city for three days? That’s obscene’ Read More »

The award-wining composer of soundtracks to video games including Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is composing again for the first time since a traumatic pandemic For the fortunate among us, the Covid lockdowns have, years later, become a memory – if not distant, then certainly ever-so-slightly faded. We have had a few years now, to …

‘Trauma is messy, but music will come of it’: Jessica Curry on her new album, Shielding Songs Read More »

Low-cost and quickly discarded products are playing a key role in world’s fastest-growing waste problem – electronics It is cheap, often poorly made, and usually ends up in the bin or buried among the other knick-knacks, takeaway menus and birthday candles in the kitchen drawer. Known as “fast-tech”, these low-cost electronics are increasingly common – …

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Julie Inman Grant has urged the Albanese government to rethink its decision to carve out the video sharing platform from new rules which apply to other apps Australia news live: latest politics updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast YouTube should be included in the ban on under-16s accessing social …

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Memo says cybersecurity office deemed WhatsApp a high risk due to ‘lack of transparency in how it protects user data’ The WhatsApp messaging service has been banned on all US House of Representatives devices, according to a memo sent to House staff on Monday. The notice to all House staff said that the “Office of …

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