Analysis of Facebook data finds engagement with news is at an all-time low – due at least in part to changes to Meta’s algorithms Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Meta has refused to enter into new deals with Australian media publishers for the use of their content …
I used to be an avid user of TikTok, but the algorithm serves much less delight and serendipity than it used to TikTok is facing its most credible existential threat yet. Last week, the US Congress passed a bill that bans the short-form video app if it does not sell to an American company by …
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The UK regulator has been criticised by grieving families and internet abuse survivors for failing to engage with them Bereaved parents and abuse survivors who have endured years of “preventable, life-changing harm” linked to social media say they have been denied a voice in official discussions about holding tech firms to account. Mariano Janin, whose …
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The novelist on a comedic TikTok sensation, the importance of a good suit and his favourite educational app Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968, grew up in a working-class Ayrshire family and studied English at Strathclyde University. His first book was The Missing (1995), which told the story of people who disappeared. In …
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The photographer on an ambiguous image inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian art “A former mentor, Elinor Carucci, recommends taking pictures daily as a sort of gym for the photographic mind,” Esteban Kuriel says. On this day, Kuriel was staying at St Ermin’s hotel in London and had visited the Sir John Soane’s Museum, which …
‘Intentions’ badges also launched, as dating app sector sees drops in share prices and moves to diversify “In the end it was the data that killed me,” says Penny* about her decision to leave the dating app Bumble. If she opened the app she might receive 100 likes, 25% of which she might be interested …
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Victoria Shi is modelled on Rosalie Nombre, a singer and former contestant on Ukraine’s version of the reality show The Bachelor Ukraine on Wednesday presented an AI-generated spokesperson called Victoria who will make official statements on behalf of its foreign ministry. The ministry said it would “for the first time in history” use a digital …
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Researchers and Silicon Valley are using tools powered by AI to uncover lives of ancient philosophers More than 2,000 years after Plato died, the towering figure of Classical antiquity and founder of the Academy, regarded by many as the first university in the west, can still make front page news. Researchers this week claimed to …
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His youth support declining, the president needs ‘to be where the people are’. His account regularly mocks Trump – but remains silent on Gaza In Joe Biden’s TikTok debut, timed to the Super Bowl in February, the president answered rapid-fire questions like “Chiefs or Niners?” (neither, he picked the Eagles because his wife’s a “Philly …
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Foreign minister says investigation found Fancy Bear group was behind attack that took down several websites Germany has said it has evidence that Russian state-sponsored hackers were behind an “intolerable” cyber-attack last year in which several websites were knocked off line in apparent response to Berlin’s decision to send tanks to Ukraine. The German foreign …
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