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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 …

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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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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 …

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Agreement that would give Gulf country better access to advanced AI chips raises concerns over Chinese influence The United Arab Emirates and the United States have signed an agreement for the Gulf country to build the largest artificial intelligence campus outside the United States, one of several deals around AI made during Donald Trump’s visit …

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Although Musk has pivoted from Doge, the Saudi summit shows how he’s retaining proximity to the US president Over the course of an eight-minute interview, Elon Musk touted his numerous businesses and vision of a “Star Trek future” while telling the crowd that his Tesla Optimus robots had performed a dance for Donald Trump and …

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President rebukes tech firm after reports it will switch assembly of iPhones for US market from China to India Donald Trump has admonished Apple and its chief executive over the tech firm’s reported plans to source production of US-bound iPhones from India. The US president said he had a “little problem” with Apple’s Tim Cook, …

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Groups of large language model artificial intelligence agents can adopt social norms as humans do, report says Artificial intelligence can spontaneously develop human-like social conventions, a study has found. The research, undertaken in collaboration between City St George’s, University of London and the IT University of Copenhagen, suggests that when large language model (LLM) AI …

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Company could face fine of 6% of annual turnover if European Commission’s preliminary verdict is upheld The European Commission has said TikTok is in breach of EU digital laws that require transparency over who pays for advertising. The commission reached a preliminary verdict on the Chinese-owned short video platform’s advertising policy, having launched an investigation …

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