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Exclusive: Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threats UK-based lawyers have spoken out about being targeted by the Chinese state and its supporters in a campaign of intimidation including surveillance, hacking of bank accounts and rape threats. The barristers, from Doughty Street Chambers in London, say …

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Maker of ChatGPT rebuffs consortium led by Tesla owner and rejects ‘latest attempt to disrupt his competition’ OpenAI on Friday rejected a $97.4bn bid from a consortium led by billionaire Elon Musk for the ChatGPT maker, saying the startup is not for sale. The unsolicited approach is Musk’s latest attempt to block the startup he …

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It’s been called the ‘sound of purgatory’ but Opus 1 has enjoyed a new life in performance art, in a beer commercial and now on TikTok Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Triple J once played it for eight hours straight. DJs have remixed it, dancers have performed to it, …

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Julius Smit likes that analogue demands time, patience and thought, while David R Freke loves his refurbished 1970s SLR. Plus, letters from Roger Foster and David Baugh It is good to read of Sundus Abdi’s renunciation of digital photography as a means to capture the personal and ephemeral aspects of her photographic life (The one …

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Plan represents move away from SoftBank-owned group licensing its chip blueprints to firms such as Apple and Nvidia The British semiconductor designer Arm is reportedly planning to launch its own chip this year, after landing Meta as one of its first customers. The move represents a major overhaul of the SoftBank-owned group’s business model of …

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Fair Election Fund has yet to reveal evidence of voter fraud despite deep-pocketed backers – and has now gone silent In May 2024, a flashy ad went viral on social media warning that “across the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the [election] system that have eroded our trust”. The ad …

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A blind audition, a fruitful collaboration, a tense creative fallout: composer Jack Wall’s journey through the Mass Effect universe was as epic as the player’s Mass Effect is some of the best science fiction ever made. That may sound like a grandiose comment, but it’s true. As a trilogy, the original games from 2007-2013 effortlessly …

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AI Action Summit ends with US vice-president criticising European regulation and warning against cooperation with China Political and business leaders descended on Paris this week for the third annual artificial intelligence summit with the technology causing tensions across the globe. Emmanuel Macron, who opened the summit with a montage of deepfakes of himself, acknowledged AI’s …

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Chinese social media platform again available for download in US as Donald Trump continues to mull its future there amid security concerns TikTok returned to the US app stores of Apple and Google on Thursday as President Donald Trump delayed a ban on the Chinese-owned social media app and assured the tech giants they would …

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About 200 drivers got in touch with the Guardian to share their views on the industrial action When Simon Waite began working as a private hire driver in 2017, it gave him the flexibility and income to spend time with his children, then aged five, 12 and 18. “One of the reasons I loved Uber …

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