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Too much discourse focuses on whether AIs are the end of society or the end of human suffering – I’m more interested in the middle ground Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here What if AI doesn’t fundamentally reshape civilisation? This week, I spoke to Geoffrey Hinton, the English psychologist-turned-computer scientist whose …

AI is feared to be apocalyptic or touted as world-changing – maybe it’s neither Read More »

Steve Wozniak says content created with artificial intelligence should be labelled and calls for regulation Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has warned that artificial intelligence could be used by “bad actors” and make it harder to spot scams and misinformation. Wozniak, who was one of Apple’s co-founders with the late Steve Jobs and invented the company’s …

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Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. But who was writing them, and why? In the 1980s, there was no better place than Bulgaria for virus lovers. The socialist country – plagued by hyperinflation, crumbling infrastructure, food and petrol rationing, daily …

On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world Read More »

Tech billionaire, 38, surprises onlookers by winning gold and silver medal at tournament in Redwood City, California Mark Zuckerberg is adding one more title to his résumé: medal-winning martial artist. The Facebook and Meta founder won gold and silver medals at his very first Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament in Redwood City, California, to the shock of …

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‘Intentional ambiguity’ over end-to-end encryption in online safety bill could lead to messaging app being withdrawn The UK government risks sleepwalking into a confrontation with WhatsApp that could lead to the messaging app disappearing from Britain, ministers have been warned, with options for an amicable resolution fast running out. At the centre of the row …

WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told Read More »

A tour of the sites, featuring fake facts and odd wording, left me wondering what was real Breaking news from celebritiesdeaths.com: the president is dead. At least that’s what the highly reliable website informed its readers last month, under the no-nonsense headline “Biden dead. Harris acting president, address 9am ET”. The site explained that Joe …

Nearly 50 news websites are ‘AI-generated’, a study says. Would I be able to tell? Read More »

Ben Smith was BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief when it was at its peak. He explains how the groundbreaking site and its rivals changed the media – and sowed the seeds for their own demise In any technological advance there is a golden age in which, for pioneers and believers, remaking the world seems within their grasp. For …

How the rivalry between Gawker and BuzzFeed drove a social media boom – and bust Read More »

Buzzfeed, Vice, Gawker and Drudge Report are all traffic-war casualties, but they succeeded in shaking up the media landscape Toward the end of Traffic, a new account of the early rock n roll years of internet publishing, Ben Smith writes that the failings of Buzzfeed News had come about as a result of a “utopian …

The digital media bubble has burst. Where does the industry go from here? Read More »

The pandemic ushered in an era of ‘quiet quitting’ and ‘bare minimum Mondays’ but workers have since lost leverage It seems that it was only yesterday that the media was filled with stories about workers calling the shots. There were the work-from-homers who refused to come back to the office after the pandemic was long …

The brief Age of the Worker is over – employers have the upper hand again Read More »

In an important new book, US economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson propose ways in which digital technology can be repurposed for human flourishing as well as private profit “Those who cannot remember the past,” wrote the American philosopher George Santayana in 1905, “are condemned to repeat it.” And now, 118 years later, here come …

Power and Progress review – why the tech-equals-progress narrative must be challenged Read More »