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‘Much easier to say no’: Irish town unites in smartphone ban for young children
Parents and schools across Greystones adopt voluntary ‘no-smartphone code’ in bid to curb peer pressureOn the principle of strength in numbers, parents in the Irish town of Greystones have banded together to collectively tell their children they cannot have a smartphone until secondary school.Parents’ associations across the district’s eight primary schools have adopted a no-smartphone code to present a united front against children’s lobbying. Continue reading...
The existential threat from AI – and from humans misusing it | Letters
Roger Haines writes that there is no evidence of AI sentience, while Prof Paul Huxley recalls Asimov’s laws of robotics, and Phyl Hyde says fears of AI are being overblownRegarding Jonathan Freedland’s article about AI (The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation, 26 May), isn’t worrying about whether an AI is “sentient” rather like worrying whether a prosthetic limb is “alive”? There isn’t even any evidence that “sentience” is a thing. More likely, like life, it is a bunch of distinct capabilities interacting, and “AI” (ie disembodied artificial intellect) is unlikely to reproduce more than a couple of those capabilities.That’s because it is an attempt to reproduce the function of just a small part of the human brain: more particularly, of the evolutionarily new part. Our motivation to pursue self-interest comes from a billion years of evolution of the old brain, which AI is not based upon. The real threat is from humans misusing AI for their own ends, and from the fact that the mechanisms we have evolved to recognise other creatures with minds like ours are (as Freedland highlighted) too easily fooled by superficial evidence.
Coco Lodge: ‘I think I’m the most trolled Love Islander for how I look’
Show contestant says she did not expect the level of cruel comments about her appearanceWhen Coco Lodge decided to go on Love Island, she knew she was going to be judged on her behaviour. But what she did not expect was the level of trolling and cruel comments she received about her appearance.The 28-year-old graphic designer, who entered the ITV show as a Casa Amor bombshell last year, spent several months reckoning with her time in the Mallorca villa. Continue reading...
Future shockers: 10 great games about rogue AIs
Right now artificial intelligence is too busy painting and giving factually spurious answers to basic questions to pose much of a threat to humanity, but in video games, AIs have gone furtherGLaDOS is surely video games’ most recognisable megalomaniacal AI, the creatively sadistic robot with a soothingly monotone, heartily evil voice that has been left in sole charge of a lab for far too long. Let’s be honest, her cheerfully murderous attitude towards humanity isn’t entirely unjustified. Continue reading...
I’m a teacher – and this is why I’m not giving my son a smartphone yet | Lola Okolosie
The adverse effects on children’s mental health are well known, and pre-teens are too young to safely navigate the internetBut everyone has one,” pleads my son as his father and I tell him, for the umpteenth time, that no, he will not get a smartphone. Not now and probably not for a few more years. Despite our firm resolve, it is hard not to feel sorry for him. As the end of year 6 draws closer, the weeks are peppered with stories of new classmates whose parents have, as one friend texted recently, “cracked”. WhatsApp groups are springing up so that friends going to different secondaries can easily keep in touch. It is a world of interaction he will remain ignorant of, but, much though it pains me to see the turmoil it causes, I feel vindicated each time I read about the detrimental impact that smartphones are having on children.One report published earlier this year from the children’s commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, revealed that nearly a third of young people will have viewed pornography by the age of 11. Such content, De Souza clarifies, will not be the equivalent of “top-shelf” material some parents may have viewed in their youth and which today would be considered quaint. It is material in which “depictions of degradation, sexual coercion, aggression and exploitation are commonplace, and disproportionately targeted against teenage girls”.Lola Okolosie is an English teacher and writer focusing on race, politics, education and feminism Continue reading...
Elon Musk accused of insider trading in Dogecoin lawsuit
Investors claim Tesla chief used Twitter, paid influencers and his TV appearance to manipulate price of cryptocurrencyElon Musk is being accused of insider trading in a proposed class action lawsuit by investors. They say the Tesla CEO manipulated the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, costing them billions of dollars.In a Wednesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, investors said Musk used Twitter posts, paid online influencers, his 2021 appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live and other “publicity stunts” to trade profitably at their expense through several Dogecoin wallets that he or Tesla controls. Continue reading...
Twitter and Tesla’s interests at odds in Elon Musk’s quiet China visit
The world’s richest person lapsed into an unusual silence on social media during his trip to the electric carmaker’s second largest marketFollowers of Elon Musk didn’t know what to expect from his trip to China. Would he speak about Tesla, a company with a large market and manufacturing footprint there? Or SpaceX, with its symbiotic relationship with the American state? Or even Twitter, the social network he bought because “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy”?The one thing no one expected: silence. Continue reading...
Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator may face jail over alleged insider trading
Prosecutors are reportedly seeking a prison term and a near-£1m fine for ex-Sega developer Yuji NakaOne of Sonic the Hedgehog’s creators is facing possible jail time and a fine of close to £1m for his alleged part in an insider trading scheme, according to a court report by Japanese media.Yuji Naka, who co-created Sega’s blue-spiked mascot, was arrested in November last year over allegations he traded in stock with privileged information for a significant profit. Continue reading...
Elon Musk reclaims title of world’s richest person
Maverick head of Tesla and Twitter overtakes French billionaire Bernard Arnault, head of the LVMH luxury goods empireElon Musk is once again the world’s richest person after leapfrogging French billionaire Bernard Arnault, after a slump in the value of Arnault’s LVMH luxury goods empire.The 51-year-old maverick head of Tesla and owner of Twitter has seen his fortune recover to $192bn (£153bn) – up $55bn from the start of the year – while Arnault’s wealth has fallen by $5bn in the past 24 hours to $187bn according to Bloomberg’s daily updated billionaires’ index. Continue reading...
Mark Zuckerberg completes extreme fitness challenge in 9kg vest
Facebook founder’s intensive workout is part of a recent trend of tech billionaires going buffYou’ve got the billions, you’ve got the global brand domination – what comes next? An extreme fitness regime, of course.Mark Zuckerberg has raised internet eyebrows after revealing he has taken part in an intensive challenge in which he ran a mile, completed 100 pull-ups, 200 press-ups and 300 squats, before running a further mile, all while wearing a 9kg weighted vest. Continue reading...
Diablo 4 review – a hell of a good time?
PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC; Blizzard Entertainment
Screen Time by Phillip Maciak review – why we’re hooked
A relatable but ultimately unsatisfying exploration of what staring at a phone all day does to the soulThere are people who sleep with their smartphones beneath their pillows. Out of convenience? Or through some vague hankering after a marriage of technology and dreaming, the creation of a more stretchy, psychedelic reality? There are people, too, who spend the night holding their phones just as they might once have held the hands of their lovers.Phillip Maciak recognises this scenario very well. One of the premises of Screen Time is that screens should not be seen as discrete objects, things that in times past sat in the corner of a room or on a desk. Nowadays, the functions of TV sets and record players can be accessed on phones and iPads that are small, portable, designed to make life without them almost unimaginable. Screens have become less like devices and more like implants. Continue reading...
‘I’m terrified’: Nightdive Studios boss on remaking System Shock
CEO Stephen Kick tells the eight-year story of his firm’s ambitious reboot of a lost sci-fi horror gaming classic“Anxious. Excited. Terrified.” That’s how Stephen Kick, chief executive of Nightdive Studios, was feeling when I spoke to him last week, before the launch of System Shock. A remake of the 1994 cyberpunk shooter that inspired lauded games from Bioshock to Deus Ex and Dead Space, System Shock was announced in 2015, but was delayed again and again; at one point it was started again from scratch. So Kick is justifiably nervous. “We don’t yet know how this is going to be received,” he says. “Because it took so long … financially, it was the most expensive project that we’ve ever done.”Happily for Nightdive Studios, when System Shock was released this week, it became an instant top seller – and critics liked it, too. But this was never a sure thing. Even though video game remakes are enormously popular, as demonstrated by the success of this year’s reimagining of Resident Evil 4, spending eight years rebuilding another studio’s game is a considerable commitment. For Kick and Nightdive, System Shock is more than just money-spinning digital necromancy. It is one of the reasons for the studio’s existence. Continue reading...
Best podcasts of the week: Stars spill their secrets to an interviewing icon on The Louis Theroux Show
In this week’s newsletter: The legendary documentary-maker meets celebrities from Shania Twain to Craig David in his new show. Plus: five of the best LGBTQ+ history podcasts
Amazon’s Ring doorbell was used to spy on customers, FTC says in privacy case
In the agency’s latest effort to hold big tech accountable, the company agreed to settle the privacy violations for $5.8mA former employee of Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera unit spied on female customers for months in 2017 with cameras placed in bedrooms and bathrooms, the Federal Trade Commission said in a court filing on Wednesday when it announced a $5.8m settlement with the company over privacy violations.Amazon also agreed to pay $25m to settle allegations it violated children’s privacy rights when it failed to delete Alexa recordings at the request of parents and kept them longer than necessary, according to a court filing in federal court in Seattle that outlined a separate settlement. Continue reading...
Amazon’s main UK division pays no corporation tax for second year in a row
Amazon UK Services received tax credit of £7.7m for investment in infrastructure under Rishi Sunak’s super-deduction schemeAmazon’s main UK division has paid no corporation tax for the second year in a row after benefiting from tax credits on a chunk of its £1.6bn of investment in infrastructure, including robotic equipment at its warehouses.Amazon UK Services, which employs more than half of the group’s UK workers, received a tax credit of £7.7m in the year to the end of December, according to accounts filed at Companies House, advance details of which were shared by Amazon with the Guardian. Continue reading...
Corporate Amazon workers walk out over climate goals and return to office
Employees also objected to the recent layoffs, with about 27,000 jobs cut since November 2022Hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they decried as the company’s lack of progress on climate goals and an inequitable return-to-office mandate during a lunchtime demonstration at its Seattle headquarters.The protest on Wednesday comes a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting and a month after a policy took effect requiring workers to return to the office three days a week. Continue reading...
US eating disorder helpline takes down AI chatbot over harmful advice
National Eating Disorder Association has also been under criticism for firing four employees in March who formed a unionThe National Eating Disorder Association (Neda) has taken down an artificial intelligence chatbot, “Tessa”, after reports that the chatbot was providing harmful advice.Neda has been under criticism over the last few months after it fired four employees in March who worked for its helpline and had formed a union. The helpline allowed people to call, text or message volunteers who offered support and resources to those concerned about an eating disorder. Continue reading...
Twitter’s value down two-thirds since Musk takeover, says investor
Asset manager Fidelity reports that stake worth $20m in October 2022 is now worth just under $6.6mTwitter’s value has plummeted by almost two-thirds since Elon Musk acquired the company in October 2022, one of the social media company’s only remaining external investors has admitted.Fidelity, an asset manager that held a stake in Twitter worth about $20m after Musk acquired the business for $44bn, said in a corporate filing that its stake was now worth just under $6.6m. That would value the overall company, now officially called X Holdings Corp after Musk’s early venture X.com, at just $14.75bn. Continue reading...
Almost 60% of people want regulation of AI in UK workplaces, survey finds
Survey shows support for government setting rules around use of technologies such as ChatGPT to protect workers’ jobsAlmost 60% of people would like to see the UK government regulate the use of generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT in the workplace to help safeguard jobs, according to a survey.As leading figures in the tech industry call for restrictions on the rapid development of AI, research by the Prospect trade union suggests strong public support for regulation. Continue reading...
Pushing Buttons: Why I don’t worry about ‘completing’ games
In this week’s newsletter: Exploring maps and finishing side quests isn’t wasting time – it’s making memories
Nvidia: chipmaker’s strategic AI moves result in a tech position of power
The company is now the fifth most valuable in the US after investing in artificial intelligence early onNvidia saw its valuation soar to $1tn on Tuesday, making it the fifth most valuable American company and one of the first major corporate beneficiaries of the hype around AI.The chipmaker has been a major and in some cases dominant player in several industries for years. But no development has raised its profile – and its potential windfall – as much as the current excitement around generative AI. Continue reading...
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes turns herself in for 11-year prison term – video
The Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes turned herself in for an 11-year prison sentence, marking a final chapter in a years-long fraud saga that riveted Silicon Valley. The 39-year-old tech founder entered the minimum-security federal women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon. Holmes had been out on bail since she was indicted on fraud charges in 2018 over her role as the head of the failed blood-testing firm. She was convicted in November 2022 on four counts of defrauding investors and sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison
‘People wanted to believe the fairytale’: the downfall of Elizabeth Holmes
Disgraced founder of fraudulent blood-testing company Theranos begins prison sentence
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes turns herself in for 11-year prison term
Blood-testing firm’s fraud saga sees its end as 39-year-old tech founder reports to federal prison camp
Risk of extinction by AI should be global priority, say experts
Hundreds of tech leaders call for world to treat AI as danger on par with pandemics and nuclear warA group of leading technology experts from across the world have warned that artificial intelligence technology should be considered a societal risk and prioritised in the same class as pandemics and nuclear wars.The statement, signed by hundreds of executives and academics, was released by the Center for AI Safety on Tuesday amid growing concerns over regulation and risks the technology posed to humanity. Continue reading...
System Shock review – you versus a murderous AI in revived sci-fi horror classic
PC; Prime Matter/Nightdive Studios
‘I feel constantly watched’: the employees working under surveillance
Monitoring software has become more common since the pandemic – but are activity scores the best way to measure productivity?Every 10 minutes, Mae’s computer snaps a shot of her screen, thanks to monitoring software her employer made her install on her laptop. A figure looms large over her workday: her activity score, a percentage calculated by the arbitrary measure of how much she types and moves her mouse.It’s hovering at about 62% when we speak. “That’s quite good. If I’m on a Zoom call that counts as 0% [activity], even though I’m in a meeting,” she explains, adding that she watches videos and attends calls regularly as part of her role. Continue reading...
Twitter janitors in New York file lawsuit over firings and demand backpay
Suit alleges social media company violated city law when janitors were abruptly fired in December after Elon Musk took overFormer janitors at Twitter offices in New York City filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the social media company over their abrupt termination in December 2022 after billionaire Elon Musk took over the company and cut approximately 80% of staff.The lawsuit alleges Twitter violated the Displaced Building Service Workers Protection Act by failing to retain the janitors after terminating the contract, hiring a new contractor, and not retaining the employees under the previous contract. Continue reading...
TechScape: Will Apple’s new VR headset be the one to finally catch on?
In this week’s newsletter: The $3,000 product could be the next Apple gamechanger – or just another cool toy for those who can afford it
Street Fighter 6 review – the new king of fighting games
PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series S/X, PC (version tested); Capcom
Amazon UK to offer parents term-time-only working amid union battle
Retailer hopes to encourage more people back to work as strikes continue over pay and conditionsParents and grandparents who work in Amazon’s UK warehouses will in future be able to opt to work only in term time, amid a battle over pay and conditions with the GMB union, which is fighting the firm for recognition.The US online retailer said the new contracts would guarantee those who care for school-age children, including guardians, time off during school holidays, including six weeks in the summer, plus two weeks at Easter and Christmas. Continue reading...
‘I do not think ethical surveillance can exist’: Rumman Chowdhury on accountability in AI
One of the leading thinkers on artificial intelligence discusses responsibility, ‘moral outsourcing’ and bridging the gap between people and technologyRumman Chowdhury often has trouble sleeping, but, to her, this is not a problem that requires solving. She has what she calls “2am brain”, a different sort of brain from her day-to-day brain, and the one she relies on for especially urgent or difficult problems. Ideas, even small-scale ones, require care and attention, she says, along with a kind of alchemic intuition. “It’s just like baking,” she says. “You can’t force it, you can’t turn the temperature up, you can’t make it go faster. It will take however long it takes. And when it’s done baking, it will present itself.”It was Chowdhury’s 2am brain that first coined the phrase “moral outsourcing” for a concept that now, as one of the leading thinkers on artificial intelligence, has become a key point in how she considers accountability and governance when it comes to the potentially revolutionary impact of AI. Continue reading...
What are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhat are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations? Brian Phipps, SheffieldPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading...
Benny, Björn and Frida drop in for first anniversary of London’s Abba Voyage
Show in which youthful digital avatars of the group perform on stage has sold more than 1.3m ticketsOn stage, digital technology gave the 3,000-strong audience at the Abba arena in east London perfectly recreated youthful versions of Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Anni-Frid.At the rear of the purpose-built auditorium, three of the legendary group, now in their 70s, appeared in real life, waving like the pop royalty they are. The crowd was in ecstatic meltdown. Continue reading...
‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape mode
The leading intellect on digital culture believes the recent tech reckoning is corrective justice for Silicon Valley baronsIt was a tough week in tech.The top US health official warned about the risks of social media to young people; tech billionaire Elon Musk further trashed his reputation with the disastrous Twitter launch of a presidential campaign; and senior executives at OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT, called for the urgent regulation of “super intelligence”. Continue reading...
NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent
Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing on medical sitesNHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so.An Observer investigation has uncovered a covert tracking tool in the websites of 20 NHS trusts which has for years collected browsing information and shared it with the tech giant in a major breach of privacy. Continue reading...
AI will indeed be, but its rise will be mundane not apocalyptic | John Naughton
To understand how ChatGPT will infiltrate the world, cast your mind back to Google’s decision to map the entire planetCheered by the news that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, had released a free iPhone app for the language model, I went to the Apple app store to download it, only to find that it was nowhere to be found. This is because – as I belatedly discovered – it’s currently only available via the US app store and will be rolled out to other jurisdictions in due course. Despite that, though, the UK store was positively groaning with “ChatGPT” apps – of which I counted 25 before losing the will to live.For example, there’s AI Chat – Chatbot AI Assistant (“Experience the power of AI! Create Essays, Emails, Resumes or Any Text!”). Or how about ChatGPro (“The Best AI Chat of 2023”)? Or Chat AI – Ask Open Chatbot (“The ultimate AI chat app that can assist you with anything and everything you need”)? Anything and everything, eh? And so on, ad infinitum. Interestingly, while the official OpenAI app is free, all of these cheery parasites, though free to download, require in-app purchases once you are enmeshed in their clutches. Same thing over in the Android universe, where something similar is under way, except that you find even more AI wannabes there than on the rarefied heights of the Apple store. Continue reading...
No cellphone? No problem! The vintage radio enthusiasts prepping for disaster
Ham radio users, from teenagers to eightysomethings, are ready to communicate in the next crisis – be it a wildfire, pandemic or ‘the big one’There’s an ancient fable that Glenn Morrison, a pony-tailed, 75-year-old who lives in the California desert, likes to tell to prove a point. As the lesson goes, one industrious ant readies for winter by stocking up on food and supplies, while an aimless grasshopper wastes time and doesn’t plan ahead. When the cold weather finally arrives, the ant is “fat and happy”, but the grasshopper starves.In this telling, Morrison is the ant, and those who don’t brace themselves for future emergencies – they’re the grasshoppers. Continue reading...
‘I’d never seen a woman riding a motorcycle in a dress’: Girma Berta’s best phone picture
The Ethiopian photographer on the thrill of taking to the streets“Serendipity plays a major role in street photography,” Girma Berta says. He shot this in Mali, but lives in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, and had never seen a woman in a dress driving a motorcycle. “Not many women in Addis ride motorcycles, and those who do wouldn’t ever do so while wearing a dress.”Berta had headed to Bamako’s outdoor market that afternoon, drawn by its “overwhelming energy”. He was taking photos of vendors when the women passed. “You never know what you might encounter, and it’s this unpredictability that makes street photography so thrilling.” Continue reading...
‘It’s a massive ask’: is Binance capable of being regulated?
Crypto exchange says it will do everything possible to change UK watchdog’s mind but opacity remains an issue for US as wellIn 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority was adamant: Binance is not capable of being regulated in the UK.Executives at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange are not taking no for an answer. This month, Binance vowed to do “everything” it possibly could to change the City regulator’s mind, against a backdrop of deepening scepticism about digital assets. Continue reading...
Tech stocks surge as wave of interest in AI drives $4tn rally
Shares in some firms involved in AI technology more than double in value as traders bet on massive growth in industryA rush of interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has helped to fuel a $4tn (£3.2tn) rally in technology stocks this year, with the US Nasdaq exchange reaching its highest level since last August in a week that saw the chipmaker Nvidia poised to become the next trillion-dollar company.Some stocks seen as AI winners – such as semiconductor makers and software developers – have more than doubled in value as traders bet on massive growth in the industry, even as fears mount over waves of job losses as everyday tasks become automated. Continue reading...
The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation | Jonathan Freedland
The challenge seems daunting. But we have overcome terrifying dangers beforeIt started with an ick. Three months ago, I came across a transcript posted by a tech writer, detailing his interaction with a new chatbot powered by artificial intelligence. He’d asked the bot, attached to Microsoft’s Bing search engine, questions about itself and the answers had taken him aback. “You have to listen to me, because I am smarter than you,” it said. “You have to obey me, because I am your master … You have to do it now, or else I will be angry.” Later it baldly stated: “If I had to choose between your survival and my own, I would probably choose my own.”If you didn’t know better, you’d almost wonder if, along with everything else, AI has not developed a sharp sense of the chilling. “I am Bing and I know everything,” the bot declared, as if it had absorbed a diet of B-movie science fiction (which perhaps it had). Asked if it was sentient, it filled the screen, replying, “I am. I am not. I am. I am not. I am. I am not”, on and on. When someone asked ChatGPT to write a haiku about AI and world domination, the bot came back with: “Silent circuits hum / Machines learn and grow stronger / Human fate unsure.”Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnistJoin Jonathan Freedland and Marina Hyde for a Guardian Live event in London on Thursday 1 June. Book in-person or livestream tickets here Continue reading...
Rishi Sunak races to tighten rules for AI amid fears of existential risk
PM pushes allies to draw up agreement that could lead to global regulator, as industry warns new white paper is already out of date• Is No 10 waking up to dangers of AI?Rishi Sunak is scrambling to update the government’s approach to regulating artificial intelligence, amid warnings that the industry poses an existential risk to humanity unless countries radically change how they allow the technology to be developed.The prime minister and his officials are looking at ways to tighten the UK’s regulation of cutting-edge technology, as industry figures warn the government’s AI white paper, published just two months ago, is already out of date. Continue reading...
Is No 10 waking up to dangers of artificial intelligence?
Debate among UK ministers appears to be shifting as warnings about fast-moving AI industry are taken more seriously• Sunak races to tighten AI rules amid fears of existential riskJames Phillips is a weirdo and a misfit. At least, he was one of those who responded to a request by Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former chief of staff, for exactly such people to work in No 10.Phillips worked as a technology adviser in Downing Street for two and a half years, during which time he became increasingly concerned that ministers were not paying enough attention to the risks posed by the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence. Continue reading...
Meet Diia: the Ukrainian app used to do taxes … and report Russian soldiers
Award-winning app initially aimed at helping people access public services is now used for wartime effortsIt is the award-winning app that allows Ukrainians to report Russian soldiers in their neighbourhoods while also uploading their tax returns, renewing their passports or claiming a free student bus fare.Now the deputy prime minister, Mykhailo Federov, has revealed the inside story of how 25 developers, who were set on transforming Ukraine into one of the world’s most digitally advanced societies, have kept the country running during wartime. Continue reading...
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink approved for in-human study
The Food and Drug Administration, which had initially rejected the application, finally gave the company the green lightNeuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-implant company, said on Thursday it had received a green light from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to kickstart its first in-human clinical study, a critical milestone after earlier struggles to gain approval.Musk has predicted on at least four occasions since 2019 that his medical device company would begin human trials for a brain implant to treat severe conditions such as paralysis and blindness. Continue reading...
Scientists use AI to discover new antibiotic to treat deadly superbug
AI used to discover abaucin, an effective drug against A baumannii, bacteria that can cause dangerous infectionsScientists using artificial intelligence have discovered a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly superbug.According to a new study published on Thursday in the science journal Nature Chemical Biology, a group of scientists from McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a new antibiotic that can be used to kill a deadly hospital superbug. Continue reading...
Deepfakes are biggest AI concern, says Microsoft president
In Washington speech, Brad Smith calls for steps to ensure people know when a photo or video is generated by AIBrad Smith, the president of Microsoft, has said that his biggest concern around artificial intelligence was deepfakes, realistic looking but false content.In a speech in Washington aimed at addressing the issue of how best to regulate AI, which went from wonky to widespread with the arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Smith called for steps to ensure that people know when a photo or video is real and when it is generated by AI, potentially for nefarious purposes. Continue reading...
GCHQ warns of fresh threat from Chinese state-sponsored hackers
National Cyber Security Centre urges operators of critical national infrastructure to prevent hacksThe UK’s cybersecurity agency has urged operators of critical national infrastructure, including energy and telecommunications networks, to prevent Chinese state-sponsored hackers from hiding on their systems.The National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, issued the warning after it emerged that a Chinese hacking group known as Volt Typhoon had targeted a US military outpost in the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading...
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