Elderly people take advantage of courses on how to navigate mobile devices and avoid ‘analogue isolation’ It’s not only young people whose gaze is fixed on tiny screens. But for these users in Tokyo, clicking and scrolling is anything but second nature. “I can’t deal with all of the apps that jump out at me,” …
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Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant’s anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing Hundreds of previously redacted records reveal how Amazon has put pressure on independent sellers using its platform into raising their prices on the sites of competitors such …
Spy-tech company and founder Peter Thiel should ‘have their hands ripped off our NHS’, say MPs MPs have queued up to demand the government scraps its £330m NHS contract with the spy-tech company Palantir, calling it “dreadful” and “shameful” in a debate on Thursday, after which the government said it was “no fan” of the …
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Chair’s decision to not seek re-election ‘not as a result of any disagreement’, company says in filing Reed Hastings, the Netflix chair, is leaving the streaming service he co-founded nearly 30 years ago as the company regains its footing after losing out on a $72bn (£53bn) deal for Warner Bros Discovery. In a 14-page letter …
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Release of new Claude model, so far limited to US firms, will expand to British institutions in coming days British banks will be given access in the next week to a powerful AI tool that was deemed too dangerous to be released to the public, as a series of senior finance figures warned over its …
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Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word …
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PC, Xbox; Sad Cat StudiosThis pulpy sci-fi thriller is a beautiful, if deferential, homage to the genre greats, with a poignant real-world echo For all of cyberpunk’s cautionary tales of shady corporations and transhumanist folly, it is the genre’s arresting imagery that looms largest in the pop culture imagination. Petroleum flares light up the perpetually …
Replaced review – nostalgic cyberpunk tribute has few ideas of its own Read More »
These digital security organizers bring the fight for online privacy to dance parties, wine meetups and reading groups Imani Thompson shows up at Wonderville Bar in Brooklyn looking ready for a DJ set, or to drink, or to dance the night away with friends. While she’ll probably do the latter, she’s also a cybersecurity organizer …
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Lawsuit in Norway alleges Telenor passed on data helping Myanmar military arrest 1,200 activists, some in safe houses When even two weeks of torture could not force Aung Thu to betray his fellow anti-coup activists, his military interrogators in Myanmar tried something different: they asked a Norwegian telecoms company, Telenor, then the largest one operating …
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PM summons senior figures from Meta, TikTok, Google and X and says social media is ‘putting our children at risk’ Keir Starmer has told social media bosses “things can’t go on like this” in a Downing Street meeting over internet safety. The prime minister summoned senior figures at Meta, TikTok, Google and X to No …
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