Tech firm says it has developed robust' safety measures after home secretary and campaigners condemn moveMark Zuckerberg's Meta has been accused by the UK government of empowering child sexual abusers after the tech firm began rolling out the automatic encryption of all messages on its Facebook and Messenger platforms.The home secretary, James Cleverly, described the move as a significant step back" for child safety after Meta said it would introduce end-to-end encryption on the apps. The move means that only the sender and receiver of messages on the platforms will be able to access their content. Continue reading...
Court decides postal service does not have to deliver licence plates, for now, in latest twist in row over collective bargainingTesla has lost a legal action against Sweden's postal service as a dispute with Nordic trade unions escalates.A Swedish court said on Thursday that PostNord did not, for the time being, need to deliver licence plates to the electric carmaker that were being blocked by the postal service's workers, in the latest twist in a battle over collective bargaining agreements. Continue reading...
Media watchdog says layoffs at top social media firms affecting moderation create toxic environment' as 2024 elections approachAs the 2024 elections approach, experts warn that top social media firms have rolled back vital safety policies and laid off moderation staff, creating a a toxic online environment" vulnerable to exploitation that threatens democracy.A new study from the non-profit media watchdog Free Press documented 17 major platform policies affecting online content integrity that have been rolled back in the past year at Alphabet, Meta and Twitter/X. It also cited more than 40,000 layoffs at these companies as a threat to the health and safety of their platforms. Continue reading...
Foreign Office minister tells MPs that FSB is behind sustained effort to interfere in our democratic processes' UK politics live - latest updatesRussian spies have been targeting British MPs, peers, civil servants, journalists and others with cyber-hacking since 2015 as part of a concerted attempt to meddle in British politics, a Foreign Office minister has said.Leo Docherty, a minister under David Cameron, told the House of Commons that the Russian federal security service was using cyber interference" to target politically connected people. Continue reading...
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Under the changes, Meta will no longer have access to the contents of what users send or receive, unless a user reports a messageFacebook's parent company has begun rolling out end-to-end encryption across Messenger and Facebook, Meta announced on Thursday.The company's vice-president for Messenger, Loredana Crisan, said the encryption was built on the Signal protocol and Meta's own Labyrinth protocol. Continue reading...
Check written to Radio Shack joins a hot market for Jobs' signature and memorabiliaA $4 check that the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wrote to Radio Shack in 1976 was auctioned off at Boston-based RR Auction for more than $36,000 on Wednesday. .The signed check, drawn against an Apple Computer Company" account at a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Los Altos, California, joins a hot market for Jobs's signature and memorabilia. Continue reading...
Alan Rosa says he objected to budget cuts that would have put Twitter, now X, at risk of violating a security practices settlementA former executive at Twitter, now called X, has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired for objecting to budget cuts after Elon Musk acquired the company. The executive said Musk's proposed slashing would prevent the company from complying with a US government settlement over its security practices.Alan Rosa, who was Twitter's global head of information security, filed the lawsuit late on Tuesday in New Jersey federal court, alleging breach of contract, wrongful termination and retaliation, among other claims. X Corp did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Continue reading...
Gemini is being released in form of upgrade to Google's chatbot Bard, but not yet in UK or EUGoogle has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that it claims outperforms ChatGPT in most tests and displays advanced reasoning" across multiple formats, including an ability to view and mark a student's physics homework.The model, called Gemini, is the first to be announced since last month's global AI safety summit, at which tech firms agreed to collaborate with governments on testing advanced systems before and after their release. Google said it was in discussions with the UK's newly formed AI Safety Institute over testing Gemini's most powerful version, which will be released next year. Continue reading...
In this week's newsletter: We know we'll return to Vice City for Rockstar's next epic - but what else did we learn? Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt's 16 September 2013. I've just arrived in Japan to cover the Tokyo Game Show. Before I boarded the plane, my life had been consumed for weeks by Grand Theft Auto V. I'd spent six days playing it for every waking second, written a review, and scripted and recorded a video review for IGN, where I was working at the time. The pressure was immense. I had not thought about anything else for so long that the lines between my real life and my virtual life in San Andreas had started to blur; I remember, on a short snack trip to the Co-op across the road from my old flat, vividly envisioning putting my elbow through the window of the Prius parked outside and driving away in it.That review was published a few hours after I disembarked on the other side of the world. It's the most popular thing I will ever write, read by more than 10 million people by the end of that year. In the decade since, no game has come close to capturing that level of fervour. From the second Grand Theft Auto V was announced in 2011 until its release, people ate up every scrap of information that Rockstar flung their way. Continue reading...
The witty singer's superb comeback is a delight to behold in this entertaining fly-on-the-wall documentaryChris Atkins' highly entertaining documentary about the soldier turned million-selling singer-songwriter effectively marks the apotheosis of James Blunt's superb comeback - his rearguard action, in fact, against all the tabloid journalists, trolls and panel-show comics who were using him as a punchline, nettled at his overwhelming success and poshness.Using skills honed at boarding school, and the possibilities of social media, Blunt neutralised the bullies by laughing at himself first, while also (with a dash of ruthless cunning) picking on civilians, quote-tweeting some member of the general public making a nasty remark and adding a very good gag notionally at his own expense but also embarrassing his tormentor. His Twitter game turned it around - though his sales never appear to have been really affected by the mockery. And throughout this fly-on-the-wall account of Blunt's international tour, much delayed by Covid, the star retains a very droll and unashamedly well-bred irony, wit and down-to-earth attitude. Continue reading...
For all the billions spent, the dream of these vehicles ruling the roads remains just that. It would be much smarter to focus on public transportDeveloping driverless cars has been AI's greatest test. Today we can say it has failed miserably, despite the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars in attempts to produce a viable commercial vehicle. Moreover, the recent withdrawal from the market of a leading provider of robotaxis in the US, coupled with the introduction of strict legislation in the UK, suggests that the developers' hopes of monetising the concept are even more remote than before. The very future of the idea hangs in the balance.The attempt to produce a driverless car started in the mid-00s with a challenge by a US defence research agency, offering a $1m prize for whoever could create one capable of making a very limited journey in the desert. This quickly turned into a race between various tech and car companies (OEMs, as they are now known - original equipment manufacturers) to produce what they thought would be the ultimate cash cow: a car that could operate in all conditions without a driver. Continue reading...
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Trevor Daniel Jacob, 30, sentenced for obstructing investigation after deliberately crashing his plane in CaliforniaA California YouTuber who authorities say deliberately crashed his plane and posted a video of it online was sentenced to six months in federal prison for obstructing the investigation by destroying the wreckage.Trevor Daniel Jacob, 30, an experienced pilot and skydiver, pleaded guilty in June to one count of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation. Jacob destroyed wreckage from the small single-engine plane that he crashed in Los Padres national forest in 2021, authorities say. Continue reading...
Group does not include Microsoft, OpenAI or Google, setting up potential clash over regulation and responsible practiceFacebook's parent company, Meta, and IBM on Tuesday launched a new group called the AI Alliance advocating for an open-science" approach to AI development that puts them at odds with rivals Google, Microsoft and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.These two diverging camps - the open and the closed - disagree about whether to build AI in a way that makes the underlying technology widely accessible. Safety is at the heart of the debate, but so is who gets to profit from AI's advances. Continue reading...
Is artificial intelligence going to put artists out of a job? Alan Warburton decided to make a film posing that very question - using AI. The result was disturbingly watchableA toilet bubbles over with sticky yellow goo. Bedazzled executives are treated to a speech by a cartoon ghost. Someone's dog walks across a wall before reconfiguring its own body parts. Alan Warburton has created some truly mind-blowing images for his new documentary The Wizard of AI. But what's most impressive - or maybe most alarming - is the fact that he didn't actually create any of them at all.I would say 99% of it was made using generative artificial intelligence tools," says the 43-year-old artist film-maker. So could his 20-minute film really be, as he has claimed, the world's first ever AI documentary? Continue reading...
Rockstar Games finally gives players their first glimpse at Grand Theft Auto VI, set in a fictional version of Miami, after trailer leaked onlineRockstar Games has released the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, the next game in its generation-defining, open-world crime series, after it leaked early online.The previous GTA game, Grand Theft Auto V, has sold more than 190m copies since its release in 2013. Combined with its online iteration GTA Online, it is the single-most profitable entertainment product of all time, having generated more than $7.7bn (6.3bn) for publisher Take-Two. Continue reading...
US company says threat actor' responsible for security breach that affected nearly half of its 14m reported usersThe genetic testing company 23andMe has said that nearly 7 million people have been affected by a security breach that put DNA ancestry information into the hands of hackers who broke into the site in early October.On Friday, the California-based company said in a regulatory filing that the personal data of 0.1% of customers - or about 14,000 individuals - had been accessed by threat actors". But the filing warned that hackers were also able to access a significant number of files containing profile information about other users' ancestry". Continue reading...
The owner of Instagram and Facebook thought an ad-free subscription service would satisfy European data cops - some advocacy groups aren't so sure Don't get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereLate last week, Europe's largest consumer rights group filed a complaint against Meta over paid versions of Instagram and Facebook that give users ad-free versions of the social media sites. The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) says the subscriptions - 9.99 per month for the web versions and 12.99 for the apps - are too expensive.The tech giant's pay-or-consent approach is unfair and must be stopped," the BEUC said. The organisation, which filed its complaint with the EU's network of consumer protection authorities, called the prices very high" and said Meta is using unfair, deceptive and aggressive practices" while giving consumers misleading and incomplete information", according to a report by Ars Technica. Continue reading...
Experts say skills can teach critical thinking and even combat the youth mental health crisisCalifornia next year will become one of the few US states to teach students media literacy, a move experts say is imperative at a time when distrust in the media is at an all-time high and new technologies pose unprecedented challenges to identifying false information.A state bill signed into law this fall mandates public schools to instruct media literacy, a set of skills that includes recognizing falsified data, identifying fake news and generating responsible internet content. Continue reading...
Its GoElectric Overnight tariff promised drivers big savings - only problem, it couldn't deliverEDF is inviting customers to sign up to its GoElectric Overnight tariff which promises super cheap off-peak rates of just 8p a kWh to power your electric car and home appliances for less".If you sign up, you receive an automated email saying the switch will take place within five working days. And then nothing happens. Continue reading...
Ed Miliband asks for urgent assurances about government and regulators' actions after vulnerabilities at nuclear site are revealedMinisters are under pressure to explain the actions of the government and regulators over cybersecurity at Europe's most hazardous nuclear site after a Guardian investigation revealed disturbing vulnerabilities in its networks.The shadow energy secretary, Ed Miliband, called on the government to urgently provide assurances" about Sellafield, after the Guardian revealed it had been hacked by groups linked to Russia and China. Continue reading...
Foxconn and Pegatron temporarily shut factories near Chennai because of torrential rains that have claimed at least four livesTaiwan's Foxconn and Pegatron have halted production of Apple iPhones at their factories near Chennai in southern India because of heavy rains, sources close to the matter said on Monday.In Tamil Nadu's capital Chennai, the state's largest city and a major electronics and manufacturing hub, at least two people died and the runway of one of the country's busiest airports was submerged after torrential rain as the city braced for a severe cyclone expected to hit in the next 24 hours. Two others had died elsewhere. Cyclone Michaung was expected to make landfall on the coast of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh around noon on Tuesday, the country's weather office said, with sustained winds of 90kph to 100kph (56mph to 62mph), gusting to 110kph. Continue reading...
Computer and AI giant rolls out machine using Heron' chips using subatomic particles instead of ones and zerosThe computer and artifical intelligence technology giant IBM on Monday unveiled a new quantum computing chip and machine that the company says could serve as the building blocks of much larger and faster systems than traditional silicon-based computers.IBM's rollout of what it calls Quantum System Two, which uses three Heron" cryogenically cooled chips, comes as tech rivals including Microsoft, Alphabet's Google, China's Baidu and others are racing to develop machines that use quantum bits - subatomic particles that unlike the ones or zeros of traditional computing can be in superposition" of both one and zero at the same time. Continue reading...
Joan Donovan says funding was cut off for criticizing Meta when university was receiving $500m from Mark Zuckerberg's charityOne of the world's leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by Harvard University for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg's charity.Joan Donovan says her funding was cut off, she could not hire assistants and she was made the target of a smear campaign by Harvard employees. In a legal filing with the US education department and the Massachusetts attorney general first published by the Washington Post, she said her right to free speech had been abrogated. Continue reading...
Music streaming service axes 17% of workforce in latest round of redundancies at big tech companiesSpotify is cutting more than 1,500 jobs as the music streaming service blamed a slowing economy and higher borrowing costs in the latest round of redundancies at big tech companies.Daniel Ek, Spotify's billionaire founder and chief executive, said it had decided to cut 17% of its workforce, the third and steepest round of redundancies of 2023, as the company faces pressure from an activist investor. Continue reading...
Everyone from Samsung to Victoria's Secret is getting in on Roblox. We hunted down the very worst branded experiences in the all-ages game platform (and an unofficial Ryanair world)Gone are the days where a billboard at the side of the road and an expensive TV advert during the X Factor were enough to get your product noticed. Now you've got to advertise in online video games, such as Roblox. If you haven't heard of Roblox, it's basically a more rubbish version of Minecraft. Instead of creating worlds, people - mostly children - create complete games. Then, they can upload and potentially monetise them.Roblox now houses more than 50m games that can be played on your phone, computer or games console, and 19% of all children in the UK are said to play it. It has had its success stories, turning the occasional teenager into a millionaire from their bedroom, but it also has a dark side, with children running up bills in the thousands buying pixelated meta-tat and, worse, receiving allegations of games being used for grooming. But none of that has stopped corporations getting involved with their own branded Roblox worlds. Who wouldn't want to virtually recreate the thrills and spills of checking in to a budget airline flight, or learn how frozen chips are made? We trawled our way through the worst Roblox corporate tie-ins and an unofficial Ryanair world, so you don't have to. Continue reading...
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If you are tempted to ask Santa for the latest smartwatch or phone, think againThis Christmas, many Apple enthusiasts will be mulling over whether to shell out almost 800 for a new iPhone 15, while some commuters will be thinking of putting the new Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones on their list, although at 450, Santa will need to be feeling generous.But is it really necessary to keep on updating our phones, laptops, smartwatches and headphones as new models hit the market? The simple answer is no. Continue reading...
Machine learning used to analyse compounds in a bottle of wine and trace them back to estateFraudsters who pass off ropey plonk as a high-end tipple may soon have artificial intelligence on their case; scientists have trained an algorithm to trace wines to their origins based on routine chemical analyses.Researchers used machine learning to distinguish wines based on subtle differences in the concentrations of scores of compounds, allowing them to track the wines back not only to a particular vine-growing region, but to the estate where the wine was made. Continue reading...
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsI've just been looking at my photos from a recent trip to the Grand Canyon and I'm thoroughly unimpressed. Why do photographs of beautiful scenery never do it justice? Alex Robinson, SuffolkPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading...
The EU's artificial intelligence safety bill enters its final stages this week, but seems already to have been nobbled by the big names in the USWednesday will be a fateful day in Brussels, a faraway city of which post-Brexit Britain knows little and cares less. It's the day on which the EU's AI proposals enter the final stages of a tortuous lawmaking process. The bill is a landmark (first in the world) attempt to seriously regulate artificial intelligence (AI) based on its capacity to cause harm and will soon be in the final phase of the legislative process - so-called trilogues" - where the EU parliament, commission and council decide what should be in the bill, and therefore become part of EU law. Big day, high stakes, in other words.However, the bill is now hanging in the balance because of internal disagreement about some key aspects of the proposed legislation, especially those concerned with regulation of foundation" AI models that are trained on massive datasets. In EU-speak these are general-purpose AI" (GPAI) systems - ones capable of a range of general tasks (text synthesis, image manipulation, audio generation and so on) - such as GPT-4, Claude, Llama etc. These systems are astonishingly expensive to train and build: salaries for the geeks who work on them start at Premier League striker level and go stratospheric (with added stock options); a single 80GB Nvidia Hopper H100 board - a key component of machine-learning hardware - costs 26,000, and you need thousands of them to build a respectable system. Not surprisingly, therefore, there are only about 20 firms globally that can afford to play this game. And they have money to burn. Continue reading...
The photographer found that a 15th-century castle formed a perfectly incongruous backdrop for a flock of pink sheepJennifer Cheung first visited Wanas Konst sculpture park, in Knislinge, Sweden, on the day of her elopement. On the way to the church where her husband's grandparents had married decades before, the almost-weds stopped for a brief visit. That was in 2013, and whenever she returns to Sweden from her home in LA, she tries to revisit. She shot this image, with a 15th-century castle as the backdrop for a flock of pink sheep, in 2017.Every time I visit Wanas there is something beautiful to capture. Some artworks are there permanently and some change," Cheung says. These sheep were a live exhibition by artist Henrik Plenge Jakobsen; he was inspired by Queen Marie Antoinette of France, who was said to have kept a flock of pink, perfumed sheep in a model farm she had built near her Versailles chateau. You don't need to know the artist's intention to enjoy the installation, of course, but it makes you curious to find out more." Continue reading...
As phone and video consultations increase, study examines safety incidents and offers advice for refining the processChristmas parties are once again on the calendar, but while some aspects of daily life are returning to pre-pandemic routines, others seem to have changed forever, not least GP consultations.According to figures from NHS England, 29.1% of appointments in October were conducted remotely. Continue reading...
X plans to cater to small and medium-sized businesses as big advertisers pull their dollarsMajor advertisers like Disney, IBM and Apple are still withholding ad dollars from Elon Musk's X two weeks after its owner endorsed an antisemitic tweet and two days after he launched an expletive-laden tirade to describe his feelings about the pull back. Marketing agencies are pulling back from it as well. In response, X has said it plans to attract smaller and medium-sized businesses to prop up its income.Small and medium businesses are a very significant engine that we have definitely underplayed for a long time," a statement given by the company to the Financial Times on Friday reads. It [was] always part of the plan - now we will go even further with it." Continue reading...
Inventor alleged that article criticising his championing of Brexit and move to Singapore was vicious and vitriolic'Sir James Dyson has lost his libel claim against the publisher of the Daily Mirror after a columnist at the newspaper stated that he had championed Vote Leave ... before moving his global head office to Singapore".The inventor gave evidence at the Royal Courts of Justice for two days during a trial against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over an article published in January 2022. Continue reading...
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Employees paid tribute to Mai Ubeid, who was killed in Gaza, and denounced Project Nimbus, which provides services to Israel's militaryIn the shadow of Google's sprawling New York City campus, former and current Google and Amazon workers gathered on Tuesday evening to pay tribute to Mai Ubeid, a young woman and software engineer who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza along with her whole family. The workers also took the opportunity to castigate their employers for contracts with the Israeli military.Ubeid had graduated from a Google-funded coding bootcamp, Gaza Sky Geeks, and later interned at a firm that was part of the Google for Startups accelerator program in 2020. Those who knew her have described her in written tributes and in interviews with the Guardian as a strong and determined visionary. She had muscular dystrophy and, as such, used a wheelchair to get around. Ubeid dreamed of one day developing a platform for people with disabilities to network and connect, according to Kathrine Tinggaard Nicolaisen, a former communications manager at Gaza Sky Geeks based in the West Bank who knew and had met Ubeid. Continue reading...
In a sea of Portakabins in Shoreditch, a pair of best friends are making a very British surreal comedy game based on their northern home townThank goodness you're here!" says a panic-stricken patron of Rog's Veg Hall. The shop owner has lost his rag after overhearing a comment about his corn-shaped head, leading to a full vegetable assault on any and all customers.After a careful creep around the aisles and a few jumps through some boxes and bins, I confront Rog with a reflection of what he's become, triggering a several-minute montage of the man's tormented life, from childhood bullies to first love to his wife asking for a divorce, unable to live a lie any longer. Rog comically breaks down as the customers escape and I head out to help more citizens. Continue reading...
In part two of our series exploring myths surrounding EVs, we weigh up the issues of resource extractionIn the deserts of Chile, the Australian outback and the plains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the earth is being peeled back and the water sucked up and dried out to find the minerals needed to feed the world's need for electric cars.The scars left on the earth by the search for battery minerals are regularly trotted out by opponents of the transition away from fossil fuels. But in our EV mythbusters series, we are taking a closer look at some of the most common criticisms of electric cars, highlighting the myths, the realities, and the grey areas. Continue reading...
1 December 1983: Electronic mail tends to be informal in style encouraging people to send brazen messages but even if you are abroad, work can follow you wherever you areA colleague and I were in different parts of the United States recently and were due to meet at an international airport. I arrived to meet his 6 o'clock flight and to pass the time, went to a call box, put in 10 cents, dialled a local number and linked my handheld computer, via a local computer, to another computer in Britain. I then interrogated my electronic mailbox in London.There was one new message. It read I got an earlier flight and have been sitting in the United Airways arrivals lounge since. Why the hell don't you read your mail more often?" I found him, sitting indignantly, only 100 yards away. Continue reading...
CEO Elon Musk warned before delivery event it would take a year to 18 months to make the car a significant cashflow contributorTesla is set to start deliveries of its long-delayed, much-hyped Cybertruck electric pickup on Thursday after its CEO, Elon Musk, tempered investor expectations, citing problems in ramping production of what he called a radical" product.Cybertruck, Tesla's first new model in nearly four years, is critical to its reputation as a maker of innovative vehicles. At a time when the company is battling softening electric vehicle (EV) demand and rising competition, Cybertruck is also key for generating sales, though not to the extent of the company's high-volume Models 3 and Y. Continue reading...
Tech company said accounts impersonating Americans spread political content aiming to divide country ahead of election yearSomeone in China created thousands of fake Facebook and Instagram accounts designed to impersonate Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the US ahead of next year's elections, Meta said on Thursday.The network of nearly 4,800 fake accounts was attempting to build an audience when it was identified and eliminated by the tech company, which owns Facebook and Instagram. The accounts sported fake photos, names and locations as a way to appear like everyday American Facebook users weighing in on political issues. Continue reading...
Altman says tech giant, which owns 49% of ChatGPT maker after investing $13bn, will take non-voting, observer position on boardMicrosoft will take a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI's board, its CEO, Sam Altman, said in his first official missive after taking back the reins of the company on Wednesday.The observer position means Microsoft's representative can attend OpenAI's board meetings and access confidential information but will not have voting rights on matters including electing or choosing directors. Continue reading...
The NYPD has communicated via public channels for nearly a century. Now the system is being encryptedA crackle, a chirp and the voice of a dispatcher describing an unfolding crisis in rapid-fire code. For nearly a century, New York City police have communicated about crime and catastrophe over radio broadcasts on public channels. And for journalists and the public, these dispatches have been a reliable way to get real-time knowledge of what's happening in one of the world's most chaotic cities.Now the NYPD is encrypting these channels for the first time in its history - an upgrade" expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars before it's completed in December 2024. Over the summer, police began scrambling the channels for certain precincts, leaving anyone listening in with white noise. Continue reading...
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Deal resolves tech giant's concerns over Online News Act, which makes big companies share advertising revenue with publishersCanada and Google have reached a deal to keep links to news stories in search results and for the tech giant to pay $73.6m annually, or C$100m, to news publishers in the country.The deal resolves Alphabet-owned Google's concerns over Canada's Online News Act, which seeks to make large internet companies share advertising revenue with news publishers in the country. Continue reading...
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