Duncan McCann’s complaint is first one alleging major tech firm has broken new code A man has filed a formal complaint accusing YouTube of harvesting young children’s data, the first such complaint alleging a major tech firm has broken the new “age-appropriate design code”. Duncan McCann, a staff member at child advocacy group 5Rights, filed …
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Site unavailable for users in latest technical difficulty suffered by site since its takeover by Elon Musk Twitter was unavailable for users around the world for over an hour on Wednesday morning, the latest in a spate of technical difficulties suffered by the site since its takeover by Elon Musk. Beginning at about 10:20am UK …
Chaotic free speech on Ekşi Sözlük finally proved too much after devastating earthquakes hit country Launched on the eve of the millennium, Turkey’s most popular homegrown social media website has weathered lawsuits, criticism from the highest levels of government and even death threats directed at one of its founders. A simple editable online dictionary turned …
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Unlike a lot of throwbacks, a new remastered version of the 3D space adventure plays even better than it did two decades ago. Plus, your gaming questions answered Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! First up – last week’s newsletter had a few errors in …
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As players spend more and more time and money in the digital hangout spaces provided by video games, it makes sense for fashion brands to join them there – opening up exciting worlds of rule-breaking design In December 2015, the revered French fashion house Louis Vuitton made a surprise announcement about the advertising campaign for …
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A new documentary acts as a cautionary tale urging us to be more aware of how we store and preserve what we film and watch There’s a widely taken-for-granted consensus that in film lies immortality; in Damien Chazelle’s recent drama Babylon, a Tinseltown gossip columnist waxes rhapsodic about how actors captured on celluloid effectively live …
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Owner of Politico urges focus on investigative journalism and original commentary, as company prepares for job cuts at German papers Die Welt and Bild Journalists are at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, the CEO of German media group Axel Springer has said. The announcement was made as the publisher sought …
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Twitter owner’s net worth reportedly grows to $187bn after precipitous drop in late 2022 Elon Musk is once again the world’s richest man after a rally in Tesla’s stock price on Monday boosted the Twitter owner’s net worth by nearly $7bn to $187bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk’s recovery of the top spot …
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In a new exhibition at the Whitney, five artists tackle how concepts of self can cross between physical and virtual realms As technology takes an ever more significant role in shaping how we develop and embody our identities, the Whitney presents Refigured, a collection of five installations by artists using digital art to probe intersections …
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Federal agency best known for tracking down fugitives suffered security breach on 17 February The US Marshals service fell victim to a ransomware security breach this month that compromised sensitive law enforcement information, a spokesperson said on Monday. The federal agency which is perhaps best known for its work in tracking down and capturing fugitives …
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