Non classé

Exclusive: Revelation comes as company faces mounting scrutiny over use of AI to provide health tips Google has dropped a new artificial intelligence search feature that gave users crowdsourced health advice from amateurs around the world. The company had said its launch of “What People Suggest”, which provided tips from strangers, showed “the potential of …

Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice Read More »

Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devices The video’s opening shot shows a man hiding under a bed snipping in a hole in someone’s sock. Seconds later, the same man uses a saw to shorten a table leg so that it wobbles during breakfast. “My job is to …

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ Read More »

A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner It was March 2016, and at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, the world was gathered to watch the culmination of a battle 2,500 years in the making. On one side was the South Korean Lee Se-dol, …

The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review – the story of the man who changed the world Read More »

Latest Android superphone packs great cameras, fast chips, long battery, a stylus and first-of-its-kind privacy display Samsung’s latest Ultra superphone promises to keep shoulder surfers out of your business with a first-of-its-kind privacy display built into its huge 6.9in screen. The Galaxy S26 Ultra is Samsung’s top-of-the-line phone costing £1,279 (€1,449/$1,299/A$2,199) and is one of …

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: its huge screen blocks shoulder surfers from spying on you Read More »

Covid exposed the lack of data on the country’s 140 million mobile migrant workers, but a new project in Odisha is helping to fill in the gaps Raja Pradhan is sitting cross-legged, scrolling on his phone in his village in eastern India when a green WhatsApp chat bubble pops up on the screen. “Namaskar! Apana …

India’s scattered workforce: the chatbot keeping families in touch during emergencies Read More »

Marianna Spring goes Inside the Rage Machine. Plus: the finale of the brilliant comedy Small Prophets. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC Two“My goal is to not get sued,” says Matt Motyl, a former senior staff researcher at Facebook and Meta. He is one of the ex-employees who give reporter Marianna Spring the …

TV tonight: inside Facebook and Meta with ex-staff and whistleblowers Read More »

From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high There is an Israeli military strategy called the “fog procedure”. First used during the second intifada, it’s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in …

These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models Read More »

As platforms make less from advertising, creators are struggling to monetise work – leading to calls for more government investment and tax breaks On a humid afternoon in Lagos, a shoot for a comedy skit is under way on a set that looks more like a small film production. Dozens of people mill about: lighting …

Nigeria’s online content creator market has boomed. Can the skit-makers and streamers make it pay? Read More »

Colossal Biosciences’ CEO says its work follows a ‘moral obligation’ while critics say it’s ‘tech bro’ hype that could undermine conservation Can and should we resurrect animal species that have been extinct for thousands of years? Such weighty, existential questions were once the preserve of science fiction but are now being played out within an …

Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says they can Read More »

Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work? It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social media harm case against Meta and Google which heard closing arguments this week. The defendants were guilty, said Mark Lanier, …

Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts? Read More »