Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals by AI-generated video call Business live – latest updates The British engineering company Arup has confirmed it was the victim of a deepfake fraud after an employee was duped into sending HK$200m (£20m) to criminals by an artificial intelligence-generated video call. Hong Kong police said …
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Town of Grünheide approved the US automaker’s plan on Thursday to double the capacity of the site, despite opposition Environmental protesters vowed to keep up the pressure on Tesla after failing to stop plans by Elon Musk’s company from expanding its sprawling electric vehicle plant outside Berlin. The town council of Grünheide, guarded by police …
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Benediktas Gylys admits he was surprised by the rowdy behavior that came from the exhibit connecting people in the two cities The artist behind the controversial “Portal” art exhibit that visually linked New York and Dublin in real-time, but was then closed due to rowdy and extreme behavior by the public using it, has admitted …
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Being able to detect lowest form of wit could help AI interact with people more naturally, say scientists Never mind that it can pass the bar exam, ace medical tests and read bedtime stories with emotion, artificial intelligence will never match the marvel of the human mind without first mastering the art of sarcasm. But …
OpenAI’s updated chatbot GPT-4o is weirdly flirtatious, coquettish and sounds like Scarlett Johansson in Her. Why? “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Arthur C Clarke famously said. And this could certainly be said of the impressive OpenAI update to ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, which was released on Monday. With the slight caveat that it …
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Platforms including Instagram and WhatsApp may have addictive effects, says European Commission The European Commission has begun an investigation into the owner of Facebook and Instagram over concerns that the platforms are creating addictive behaviour among children and damaging mental health. The EU executive said Meta may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA), a …
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Exclusive: Paul Raffile held webinar where he said app failed to protect children, and his offer was rescinded hours later Meta revoked a job offer to a prominent cyber-intelligence analyst immediately after he criticized Instagram for failing to protect children online. Paul Raffile had been offered a job as a human exploitation investigator focusing on …
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Annapurna Interactive; PC, SwitchThis compulsive atavistic mystery is told through bewildering yet tantalising non-linear narrative strands that the player must tease apart It is both a pleasure and a relief to discover that while the titans of the mainstream games industry are tearing themselves apart in their unquenchable thirst for shareholder value, there are still …
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How can one broom tear apart a Canadian curling community? John Cullen investigates in Broomgate. Plus: five of the best post-apocalyptic podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here BroomgateWidely available, episodes weeklyNever before has a broom been responsible for so much scandal – in 2015, the Canadian curling community …
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Court order compels Google subsidiary to block local access to 32 videos of Glory to Hong Kong, judged to be prohibited content Alphabet’s YouTube on Tuesday said it would comply with a court decision and block access inside Hong Kong to 32 video links deemed prohibited content, in what critics say is a blow to …
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