Study says tagging posts with false claims on election fraud may make Trump voters more likely to think they’re true Labelling tweets featuring false claims about election fraud as “disputed” does little to nothing to change Trump voters’ pre-existing beliefs, and it may make them more likely to believe the lies, according to a new …
Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties Social media and online video companies are collecting huge troves of your personal information on and off their websites or apps and sharing it with a wide range of third-party entities, a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report …
Justice Alexandre de Moraes imposes $900,000 daily fine on banned social media platform in dispute with Elon Musk In the latest round of the dispute between Elon Musk and Brazil’s top court, a senior judge has accused X of a “willful, illegal and persistent” effort to circumvent a court-ordered block – and imposed a fine …
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Amazon has told staff they must return five days a week – but experts don’t all agree that flexible working cuts output Four years ago when the world of work was upended by the Covid pandemic, confident predictions were made that a permanent shift in remote working would follow the removal of lockdown restrictions. Much …
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Exclusive: Tech company wants Labour to relax laws that prevent AI models being ‘trained’ on copyrighted materials Google has said that Britain risks being left behind in the global artificial intelligence race unless the government moves quickly to build more datacentres and let tech companies use copyrighted work in their AI models. The company pointed …
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Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox series SX; DevolverMeta spin on arts-and-crafty games has you helping an eccentric trio able to access the world outside their story to battle the evil Humgrump There is a whole sub-genre of video games that use arts and crafts as the basis for their aesthetic, landscapes and storytelling: LittleBigPlanet, Chicory, …
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World Health Organization and Great British Menu among accounts that posted ‘this is a hacked account’ British politicians and international organisations have had their accounts on X hacked on Wednesday night. MPs including Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, and the Labour MPs Chris Elmore and Carolyn Harris all shared the same message on the social …
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With no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural medics are using tele-ICU systems to save lives • Photographs by Elke Scholiers for the Guardian Whenever an ambulance arrived with a critically ill patient, Dr R Mubarak’s heart would sink. His small country hospital in …
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In this week’s newsletter: The Oscar-winning actress goes back to her roots in Mind Your Own. Plus: five of the best comic book podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Mind Your Own Widely available, episodes weekly Lupita Nyong’o came up with the idea for this podcast when she …
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In this week’s newsletter: From platformers to side-scrolling space adventures and top-down racers, every experience from your gaming youth is recreated with passion and skill • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I filed this issue of Pushing Buttons late, because I have become obsessed with a 1985 strategy game …
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