CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn security.cyber Article 504 words 35 votes
We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny. social media facebook Article 1314 words 43 votes
Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI’s Sam Altman would make a good Marvel villain after voice dispute Article 586 words 33 votes
Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour social media Article 2601 words 18 votes
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ google Article 487 words, published May 9 2024 41 votes
Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X social media Article 427 words 70 votes
‘Time is running out’: can a future of undetectable deepfakes be avoided? Article 1127 words 12 votes
EU fines Apple €1.8bn over App Store restrictions on music streaming apple.app store Article 348 words 26 votes
AI firm [Midjourney] considers banning creation of political images for 2024 elections Article 737 words 31 votes
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Article 604 words, published Jan 8 2024 44 votes
Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege social media facebook Article 558 words 24 votes
Australian academics apologise for false AI-generated allegations against big four consultancy firms google Article 685 words, published Nov 2 2023 10 votes
Online vitriol could undo decades of political progress, warns Dutch deputy PM social media Article 1006 words 18 votes
Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him. internet Article 648 words 84 votes
Prosecutors in Finland have charged a hacker accused of the theft of tens of thousands of records from psychotherapy patients privacy security.cyber Article 343 words 9 votes
Finland faces growing Russian online threat, Finnish security services say – espionage attempts have increased since Ukraine invasion security.cyber Article 584 words 22 votes
New Zealand Matrix fan film becomes oldest active torrent in the world internet Article 1027 words 47 votes
EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation followed by Facebook facebook microsoft google Article 746 words 34 votes
And then Elon Musk said there’ll be no more war – not via his satellite. Aren’t we lucky to have the world in his hands? internet.satellite Article 907 words 69 votes
Google goes to trial in biggest US challenge to tech power in decades google Article 625 words 32 votes
Fairphone 5 review: Could this be the first phone to last ten years? android Article 1292 words 45 votes
European Union Digital Markets Act aims to allow more competition and let consumers delete preloaded phone apps Article 751 words, published Sep 6 2023 27 votes
Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses social media Article 1155 words 21 votes
TSMC blames struggle to build Phoenix plant on skilled labor shortage but workers cite disorganization and safety concerns Article 1908 words 31 votes
Huawei accused of building secret microchip factories to beat US sanctions Article 458 words 19 votes
Two authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT unlawfully ‘ingested’ their books Article 868 words, published Jul 5 2023 36 votes
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Emmanuel Macron social media Article 894 words 12 votes
Streaming sites urged to stop AI from cloning pop stars apple.music Article 663 words, published Apr 12 2023 7 votes
AI can fool voice recognition used to verify identity by Centrelink and Australian tax office security Article 1108 words, published Mar 16 2023 11 votes
Testing Spotify's virtual radio host – the service curates a stream of songs I've heard before. Do I really need this? Article 698 words 3 votes
Food delivery drivers fired after ‘cut-price’ GPS app sent them on ‘impossible’ routes Article 1366 words, published Jul 2 2022 8 votes
Facebook, Instagram taking down posts about US abortion pills social media facebook Article 656 words 5 votes
Even a mugger didn’t want my old Nokia. So why are so many people turning to ‘dumbphones’? apple Article 1015 words, published Mar 29 2022 12 votes
Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police security privacy Article 4002 words 14 votes
Los Angeles Police Department told to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime social media privacy Article 1500 words 14 votes
Apple agrees to App Store changes letting developers email users about payment options apple.app store Article 477 words 16 votes
Why right to repair matters – according to a farmer, a medical worker, a computer store owner Article 1633 words 17 votes
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account facebook social media Article 2669 words 11 votes
Life’s a Bitche: Facebook says sorry for shutting down town’s page social media facebook Article 501 words 6 votes
Tim Berners-Lee: We need social networks where bad things happen less internet social media facebook Article 2762 words 10 votes
Grindr fined 10% of their global annual revenue ($11.7 million) in Norway for sharing deeply personal information with advertisers, including location, sexual orientation and mental health details social media Article 496 words 28 votes
Twitter has removed a post by China’s US embassy claiming that Uighur women have been “emancipated” from extremism and were no longer “baby-making machines” social media Article 644 words 15 votes
Dutch researcher claims that he accessed US President Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing password social media Article 305 words 21 votes
"They demolished my house for this?" In Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, families were forced out for a huge Foxconn factory, but three years later, it still hasn’t been built Article 1912 words 22 votes
Amazon's launch of a Swedish retail site has caused embarrassment – confusing, nonsensical and occasionally vulgar product listings scattered across the catalogue amazon Article 351 words 6 votes