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Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey. The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending …

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What to do you if you’re worried your information may have fallen into the wrong hands Another cyber-attack has hit the headlines – this one involving the personal data of hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales. It comes hard on the heels of recent cyber-attacks that caused huge disruption at …

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Drugmaker Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will buy the genetic testing firm through a bankruptcy auction The drugmaker Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will buy the genetic testing firm 23andMe Holding for $256m through a bankruptcy auction, the companies said on Monday. Regeneron said it will comply with 23andMe’s privacy policies and applicable laws with respect to the use of customer …

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Study author warns of implications for elections and says ‘malicious actors’ are probably using LLM tools already Artificial intelligence can do just as well as humans, if not better, when it comes to persuading others in a debate, and not just because it cannot shout, a study has found. Experts say the results are concerning, …

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More and more people are hooked on watching animals in real time. Now researchers say it could even improve your mood, help you relax and give you better sleep In 2012 Dianne Hoffman, a retired consultant, became a peeping Tom. For five hours a day she watched the antics of a couple, Harriet and Ozzie, …

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The lure of a limitless digital jukebox was great, but as the algorithm increasingly served up music I didn’t enjoy, I’ve taken back control of my listening When most people were comparing how many times they had listened to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx and Fontaines DC on Spotify Wrapped last December, I had to make …

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Songwriter says he thinks it is a ‘criminal offence’ to let tech firms use protected work without permission Sir Elton John has called the UK government “absolute losers” over proposals to let tech firms use copyright-protected work without permission. The singer and songwriter said it was a “criminal offence” to change copyright law in favour …

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Features launching later this year to include live captions, braille reader improvements and accessibility ‘nutrition labels’ in the app store Apple has announced a broad range of new accessibility features for iOS focused on people with vision or hearing impairments, with the company downplaying the notion that the price of Apple hardware means accessibility comes …

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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 …

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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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