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Court ends injunction on X over videos of Sydney church stabbing

Federal court refuses to extend ban on 65 posts on Elon Musk’s platform showing last months’s attack on bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The federal court has refused to extend an injunction against Elon …

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BT ramps up AI use to counter hacking threats to business customers

Firm has data from ‘when criminals try to attack’ and its Eagle-i technology suggests what action is needed BT has said it is increasingly using artificial intelligence to help it detect and neutralise threats from hackers targeting business customers amid repeated attacks on companies. The £10.5bn group is aiming to build up its business protecting …

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Internet use is associated with greater wellbeing, global study finds

Researcher cautions against ‘one-size-fits-all solutions’ amid growing debate over impact, particularly on young people Spending time online is often portrayed as something to avoid, but research suggests internet use is associated with greater wellbeing in people around the world. The potential impact on wellbeing of the internet, and social media in particular, has become a …

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Impact of pandemic on wellbeing of the young and the economy must not be trivialised | Larry Elliott

Mental health of young people is deteriorating, and shows up in employment data. More action is needed From the outset it was obvious the coronavirus pandemic would be brutal on the UK’s young people. Just how brutal has only become apparent over time. Children, teenagers and adults in their early 20s were the least likely …

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With its new iPad Pro ad, Apple is offering us the thin end of the wedge | Alex Clark

Maybe it’s my age, but the company’s brash new vision of digital minimalism looks like a portal to a sad and lonely world It was my birthday last week, and being these days a quiet rural dweller with a sweet pea obsession rather than the inner-city Dorothy Parker wannabe of yesteryear, I welcomed my appropriately …

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ChatGPT and the like will co-pilot coders to new heights of creativity | John Naughton

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation When digital computers were invented, the first task was to instruct them to do what we wanted. The problem was that the machines didn’t understand English – they only knew ones and zeros. You could program them …

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Making deepfake images is increasingly easy – controlling their use is proving all but impossible

New Australian laws will make it a crime to distribute non-consensual deepfake pornography – but there are deeper issues at play, experts say “Very creepy,” was April’s first thought when she saw her face on a generative AI website. April is one half of the Maddison twins. She and her sister Amelia make content for …

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‘A world first’: project recycles polyester into yarn for new clothes

A venture that uses methods applied to plastic bottles for old textiles aims to tackle the UK’s mountain of unwanted garments Football shirts, sports event banners and uniforms are piled up ready to be pumped into a machine which melts them down for recycling ready to be made into new clothes. In a world first …

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