OpenAI says Sky' is not an imitation of actor's voice after users compare it to AI companion character in film HerOpenAI removed a heavily promoted voice option from ChatGPT on Monday, following a widespread reaction to the flirtatious, feminine voice that sounded almost identical to Scarlett Johansson.The company used the voice, which it calls Sky", during its widely publicized event last week debuting the capabilities of the new ChatGPT-4o artificial intelligence model. Researchers talked with the AI assistant to show off Sky's personable and responsive affectations, which users and members of the media immediately compared to Johansson's AI companion character in the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her. Continue reading...
Juergens had never acted before she played the fearsome but troubled Senua in Ninja Theory's game - and won a Bafta for it. Now she's back to battle the character's demons in a sequelI hope people can relate to Senua," says actor Melina Juergens, who plays the lead character in Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, the newest game from British developer Ninja Theory. I hope people play it and feel what somebody goes through on a daily basis who suffers from mental health issues - particularly psychosis. [They] come away with an understanding of it, able to empathise with people more."Juergens did not expect to be playing this role for the second time. In fact, she never expected to play it the first time. She was a video editor at the independent games studio when the first Hellblade game, Senua's Sacrifice, was gestating in 2012. They were looking for an actress, but in the meantime they asked me to step in to help out with [performance capture] tech experiments," she tells me. At some point, they asked me to perform a scene. The director really liked it and offered me the role." Continue reading...
Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groupsThe Facebook and Instagram owner Meta approved a series of AI-manipulated political adverts during India's election that spread disinformation and incited religious violence, according to a report shared exclusively with the Guardian.Facebook approved adverts containing known slurs towards Muslims in India, such as let's burn this vermin" and Hindu blood is spilling, these invaders must be burned", as well as Hindu supremacist language and disinformation about political leaders. Continue reading...
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Apple's mid-range tablet gets larger screen option and more power, being pro' enough for mostApple has more options than ever for those after a tablet with different sizes, prices, screens and power, but the iPad Air is fairly simple to understand - it is the premium big-screen iPad for those who don't want to fork out thousands for an iPad Pro.The Air starts at 599 (699/$599/A$999) and is now available in two screen sizes: the original 11in and a larger 13in model for big-screen viewing. That puts it right in the middle of Apple's lineup, with the 10th-gen iPad starting at 349 at the bottom and topped by the new iPad Pro M4 starting at 999. Continue reading...
All five systems tested were found to be highly vulnerable' to attempts to elicit harmful responsesGuardrails to prevent artificial intelligence models behind chatbots from issuing illegal, toxic or explicit responses can be bypassed with simple techniques, UK government researchers have found.The UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI) said systems it had tested were highly vulnerable" to jailbreaks, a term for text prompts designed to elicit a response that a model is supposedly trained to avoid issuing. Continue reading...
Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impactYour email inbox is full of spam. Your letterbox is full of junk mail. Now, your web browser has its own affliction: slop.Slop" is what you get when you shove artificial intelligence-generated material up on the web for anyone to view. Continue reading...
AI Overviews, announced this week, are the culmination of a long line of products dedicated to keeping you on Google.comGoogle announced this week that it would begin the international rollout of its new artificial intelligence-powered search feature, called AI Overviews. When billions of people search a range of topics from news to recipes to general knowledge questions, what they see first will now be an AI-generated summary.Google touted AI Overviews at its annual I/O developer conference as a way of delivering customers quick answers and simplifying the online search experience, but it also has another effect on the way that people engage with the internet: keeping users, and advertisers, on Google.com. It's a new era in Google's years-long quest for your attention. Continue reading...
Jan Leike, a key safety researcher at firm behind ChatGPT, quit days after launch of its latest AI model, GPT-4oA former senior employee at OpenAI has said the company behind ChatGPT is prioritising shiny products" over safety, revealing that he quit after a disagreement over key aims reached breaking point".Jan Leike was a key safety researcher at OpenAI as its co-head of superalignment, ensuring that powerful artificial intelligence systems adhered to human values and aims. His intervention comes before a global artificial intelligence summit in Seoul next week, where politicians, experts and tech executives will discuss oversight of the technology. Continue reading...
The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentresIt's been called the largest coal-powered machine on Earth" - and most of us use it countless times a day.The internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the same emissions annually as aviation. But we barely think about pollution while snapping 16 duplicate photos of our pets, which are immediately uploaded to the cloud. Continue reading...
Town of Grunheide approved the US automaker's plan on Thursday to double the capacity of the site, despite oppositionEnvironmental protesters vowed to keep up the pressure on Tesla after failing to stop plans by Elon Musk's company from expanding its sprawling electric vehicle plant outside Berlin.The town council of Grunheide, guarded by police and plain-clothed security guards, gave the green light on Thursday to the US automaker after a heated, nearly three-hour debate disrupted by heckling and booing from the audience of about 200 people. Continue reading...
Google I/O attendees were redirected to another entrance as protesters denounced company's ties to Israeli military projectsHundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters chained themselves together in front of the entrance to Google's annual developer conference on Tuesday in protest of the tech company's ties to Israeli military projects. Thousands of attendees waiting to enter Google I/O were redirected to another entrance, and the event started on time.Groups including the No Tech for Genocide coalition and other groups from across the Bay Area held a sign reading Google stop fueling genocide". They chanted we won't stop til Nimbus gets dropped," referencing a $1.2bn project supported by Amazon and Google that provides provides artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli government. Continue reading...
Some of the threads connecting the chip to the brain began to retract. The Elon Musk-owned company did not explain whyNeuralink's first attempt at implanting its chip in a human being's skull hit an unexpected setback after the device began to detach from the patient's brain, the company revealed on Wednesday.The patient, Noland Arbaugh, underwent surgery in February to attach a Neuralink chip to his brain, but the device's functionality began to decrease within the month after his implant. Some of the device's threads, which connect the miniature computer to the brain, had begun to retract. Neuralink did not disclose why the device partly retracted from Arbaugh's brain, but stated in a blogpost that its engineers had refined the implant and restored functionality. Continue reading...
Company says it is aware of issue as users complain alarms are playing too quietly or not going offApple is working to fix a problem that has resulted in some users complaining that their iPhone alarms are not going off - or playing too quietly.The company said it was aware of the issue, which has been picked up by TikTok users, who have complained about incidents where their alarm has failed to sound. Continue reading...
Julie Inman Grant's order for Elon Musk's company to take down tweets containing video of a Sydney stabbing has implications for tech platforms globally
Challenger to market leader OpenAI says it wants to meet users where they are' and become part of users' everyday lifeOpenAI's ChatGPT is facing serious competition, as the company's rival Anthropic brings its Claude chatbot to iPhones. Anthropic, led by a group of former OpenAI staff who quit over differences with chief executive Sam Altman, have a product that already beats ChatGPT on some measures of intelligence, and now wants to win over everyday users.In today's world, smartphones are at the centre of how people interact with technology. To make Claude a true AI assistant, it's crucial that we meet users where they are - and in many cases, that's on their mobile devices," said Scott White at Anthropic. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Liz Bonnin's face used on insect repellant ads after faked message ostensibly granted permissionThere was something strange about her voice, they thought. It was familiar but, after a while, it started to go all over the place.Science presenter Liz Bonnin's accent, as regular BBC viewers know, is Irish. But this voice message, ostensibly granting permission to use her likeness in an ad campaign, seemed to place her on the other side of the world. Continue reading...
The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people's concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacyIt's almost enough to make you stop doomscrolling: dull devices are now cool.The Boring Phone is a new, featureless flip phone that is feeding the growing appetites of younger people who want to bin their smartphones in favour of a dumbphone. Continue reading...
Retailer doing whatever it takes' to halt organizing at warehouse in Moreno Valley, California, workers say, as Amazon faces unfair labor practice chargesFacing an insurgent campaign which threatened to unleash a wave of unionization across its vast workforce, Amazon stands accused of reaching for dirty tricks.Workers who tried to organize inside its warehouses claim the technology giant orchestrated an illegal counteroffensive, using scare tactics and spreading misconceptions. Continue reading...
A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th-century horoscopes to 1930s plot genies' for coming up with storylinesHark. The end is nigh. In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker," writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. Today, it has comefor the writer, the professor, the physician, the programmer and the attorney." Like the end-of-the-planet movies that pelted the multiplexes at the turn of the millennium, newspapers and - increasingly - bookshops are awash with economists, futurologists and social semioticians talking up, down and about artificial intelligence. Even Henry Kissinger, in The Age of AI (2021), spoke of epoch-making transformations" and an imminent revolution in human affairs".Tenen, a tenured professor of English at New York's Columbia University, isn't nearly as apocalyptic as he initially makes out. His is an oddly titled book - do robots need literary theory? Are we the robots? - that has little in common with the techno-theory of writers such as Friedrich Kittler, Donna Haraway and N Katherine Hayles. For the most part, it's a call for rhetorical de-escalation. Relax, he says, machines and literature go back a long way; his goal is to reconstruct the modern chatbot fromparts found on the workbench ofhistory" using strings of anecdote and light philosophical commentary". Continue reading...
Johan Rohr's 2,700 songs have been streamed 15bn times and have more plays than Britney Spears or AbbaA secret" composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden's most-listened-to artist on Spotify - pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba.Johan Rohr, a Stockholm-based musician, has been unmasked as the person behind more than 650 different artists on the streaming service who have been played 15bn times, making him Sweden's current most-played artist. Continue reading...
Fun for beginners and seasoned players alike, the beautifully illustrated decks let you concoct your own adventures with some surprisingly deep and interesting possibilitiesOne of the most appealing aspects of games set in the Star Wars universe is that you get to concoct scenes and stories we would never see in the movies. Whether you're playing Knights of the Old Republic, Jedi: Fallen Order or the old Star Wars role-playing board game designed by Greg Costikyan in the 1990s, there will be individual moments unrepeatable on the big screen. I know this, because I just won a round of the new trading card game Star Wars Unlimited thanks to a heroic C-3PO wielding Luke Skywalker's lightsaber.On a basic level, Star Wars Unlimited works like most modern trading card games, such as Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic: The Gathering. You and an opponent each have a deck of cards, most of which feature a single character or vehicle, with a number for health and another number for power/damage. Usually the character will also have special abilities described on the face of the card, which add strategic depth. Players then take it in turns to place cards into the arena and attack their opponent's forces, and the winner is the player who destroys their rival's base. Star Wars Unlimited's starter kit gives you two complete decks, one of imperial forces and one of the rebels, but you can also buy booster packs to start customising your army and creating your own themed decks. Continue reading...
Lawyer says tech tycoon will testify in trial on charges of fraud and conspiracy in 2011 sale of company to HPA British technology tycoon once lauded as Britain's Bill Gates" was the driving force" behind a massive" years-long fraud, prosecutors alleged, as his criminal trial got under way in San Francisco on Monday.Prosecutors said Mike Lynch, co-founder of the UK software company Autonomy, ruled the firm with an iron fist" before its blockbuster takeover by Hewlett-Packard in 2011. Continue reading...
Tesla CEO tells Don Lemon people should be treated according to their skills and integrity'Elon Musk has defended his stance on diversity and free speech in a tense interview with the former CNN anchor Don Lemon.The Tesla chief executive was openly irritated by Lemon's line of questioning during the hour-long video interview, published on Monday. Continue reading...
Arcade enthusiasts recall the heady days when Funland and SegaWorld at the Troc' in central London had all the latest and greatest cabinets, and united subcultures in a social gaming scene that anticipated the internetEntering central London's Trocadero complex in the late 1990s could be an overwhelming, intoxicating experience. The vast building was then home to SegaWorld, an indoor theme park" and arcade based on the Joypolis" concept that the Japanese gaming giant had seen thrive in its homeland. Leaving the bustle of Coventry Street behind, visitors would pass a statue of Sonic the Hedgehog at the doors before stepping on to the famed pair of rocket escalators": a vision of the future delivered in brushed steel and slashes of electric blue lighting. Taking people high up into the building through a vast central open area, the escalator ride afforded a glimpse of the varied attractions that occupied each floor - the Mad Bazooka bumper car ride, the Ghost Hunt VR experience - before visitors were deposited at the top, ready to snake their way down through themed zones such as the Carnival and the Sports Arena.All around, arcade machines chirped and sang, backed by a chorus of juddering AS-1 simulator rides, with their whining hydraulics, and the excited chatter of guests waiting in line for Sega's VR-1 virtual reality experience, with its eight-seater pods and interactive shooter games. Intermittently the sudden mechanical wail of the Pepsi Max Drop ride would fill the air, along with the screams of its occupants. Speakers belted out the era's biggest pop hits. Props including a full-size Harrier jump jet and carefully placed Formula 1 car occupied the gaps between the cabinets housing arcade icons such as Daytona USA and Virtua Fighter. The whole experience, Sega keenly asserted in promotional videos, was the ultimate in futuractive entertainment". Continue reading...
A mother describes how her autistic son became one of thousands of under-18s caught viewing or sharing indecent images of childrenLouise* thought she had been open and clear with her two children about the dangers of the internet. But last year there was a knock on her door at 6am. It was the police looking for her 17-year-old son.There were five or six police coming up my stairs," she says. When they said they were looking for my son because of indecent images I thought I was going to pass out. Continue reading...
Congress is spending $65bn to connect the rural US to the world. Orangeburg, South Carolina, knows the stakes better than anywhereOrangeburg, South Carolina, is not the middle of nowhere.It's an hour south of Columbia. It's an hour and 15 minutes north of Charleston. It's an hour and a half away from Augusta. It's just country enough to be out of the way but tantalizingly close to somewhere. Continue reading...
Multiple Australian projects are on the cutting edge of neurotech breakthroughs and man-machine interfaces - raising questions of security and privacy for human minds
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Exclusive: Psychologist accuses Meta of turning a blind eye' to posts she believes represent further danger to vulnerable womenA leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of turning a blind eye" to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit over lives.Lotte Rubaek, who has been on Meta's global expert group for more than three years, told the Observer that the tech giant's ongoing failure to remove images of self-harm from its platforms is triggering" vulnerable young women and girls to further harm themselves and contributing to rising suicide figures. Continue reading...
What are the chances of real romance via a missed connection'? And has the internet turned these interactions from the stuff of romcoms to just a bit creepy?In the beginning, Darcy had a boyfriend and an aisle seat. It was 29 March 2000, and she was the last person to board the plane from Atlanta, Georgia, to Sacramento in California. Hot, sweaty and tired from running to catch the flight, she was frustrated to see that someone else was in her seat. I'm sorry," the stranger said, do you mind switching with me?" The thing was, he explained, his wife was afraid of flying - he wanted to sit by her. Darcy McGaffic is 6ft tall - there's a reason she had booked to sit in the aisle of the exit row. The stranger gestured to his seat, right at the back of the plane. A middle seat. Darcy said: Fine." She laughed, made her way back, sat down, and then another stranger opened their mouth. I wouldn't have done that," the man next to her smiled.That man was Scott Germond - just a stranger named Scott back then. They spoke for the entire five-hour duration of their flight; Darcy, who was in her 30s, told him about her job sorting out the instant replays" for sports tournaments, and the pair told stupid jokes" that made each other laugh. At one point, Scott asked Darcy if she was dating anyone. She hesitated. Technically she was, but she had already decided to break up with her boyfriend the night before, because they had beenon the phone and he hadn't stopped talking abouthis ex-wife. Darcy stumbled over Scott's question. She couldn't tell him the truth: Well, I'm dating somebody, but I'm thinking about dumping him because I might like you." Continue reading...
The increasing use of digital technology has inspired many scare stories, but is it reducing our attention span, does smartphone addiction actually exist - and should we even be feeling bad about it?Digital technology is now inextricably woven into the fabric of society, and for many of us, that does not always feel like a good thing. As screens have become more numerous, so the anxieties that we have about them have become more salient and pressing. But what if we are focusing on the wrong sorts of worries? Here are five common questions about screen time, the answers to which may help us to frame the relationships we have with our tech more accurately. Continue reading...
Britain's Bill Gates' could spend up to 25 years in jail if convicted of fraud in the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-PackardMike Lynch, the technology tycoon, once dubbed Britain's Bill Gates, has spent the past 10 months in San Francisco, with a GPS bracelet strapped to his ankle and two armed guards monitoring him around the clock. This week he heads to court to face a long, hard fight for his freedom.It's been 13 years since one of Silicon Valley's most storied companies bought Lynch's business in a blockbuster takeover that seemed to confirm his image as one of the UK's most brilliant technologists. Now that deal is at the center of a criminal fraud trial. If convicted, Lynch could spend up to 25 years in jail. Continue reading...
Ivory Coast, Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso among countries experiencing outagesMuch of west and central Africa has been left without internet service, as operators of several subsea cables reported failures.The cause of the cable failures on Thursday was not immediately clear. Continue reading...
Those who - like me - have spent years looking for love on a six-inch screen know the pitfalls of these platformsOn Valentine's Day this year, a lawsuit was brought by six people in the US against Match Group, the company behind dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge and Match. The suit blames dating apps for game-like tactics that, they say, contribute to addictive behaviour, making miserable swiping addicts of us all.Match Group denies this, calling the claims ridiculous". But anyone who, like me, has spent years on and off the apps knows that there are clear parallels between love algorithms and online gaming - only with dating apps, we are the commodities.Georgina Lawton is the author of Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity and the Truth About Where I Belong Continue reading...
Thirty years after failing his grade two exam, our writer is banging out Handel, Billie Eilish and Elton John - and he's not alone. With apps to help with learning, there's never been a better time to tinkle the ivoriesMisplaced pride may have clouded my memories of learning the piano as a kid in the early 90s. I can still picture the piano itself, a knackered upright that was so old it had brass candleholders. I definitely remember my teacher, Issie, a local jazz musician. And I thought I'd done pretty well until ... what, grade three? Maybe even four?Forgot you failed grade two!" came a recent WhatsApp message from my mother, who had excavated the marking form from a filing cabinet. That made two of us. Continue reading...
Lemon said Musk texted contract terminated' after the former CNN anchor interviewed the billionaireThe former CNN anchor Don Lemon announced on Wednesday that Elon Musk had abruptly terminated a deal to exclusively host Lemon's new talkshow on X, formerly Twitter. Lemon said in a post on the platform that Musk cancelled the partnership hours after the two of them had filmed an interview, which was set to be part of the show's debut episode. Lemon said Musk texted him, contract terminated".His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me," Lemon said in the post. Continue reading...
In this week's newsletter: To win over the critics, a second instalment of the $1bn box-office smash should focus more on storytelling than nostalgic iconography Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWith classic oblivious timing, Nintendo chose 10 March - or Mar10 day, as the company likes to style it - to announce that it is working with Illumination Studios on another Mario movie, even though it was the Oscars that day and absolutely nobody was paying attention. Last year's Mario movie was a smash hit, grossing $1bn and finally ending the long era of the cursed video game film adaptation once and for all, so it's not surprising that another one is in the works for April 2026.What is surprising is that it's not necessarily going to be a direct sequel. Co-directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and writer Matthew Fogel will return, but neither Nintendo nor Illumination committed to calling the new film a sequel. In a video broadcast announcing a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros", Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto (that's Mario's dad) said: This time, we're thinking about broadening Mario's world further, and it'll have a bright and fun story." Continue reading...
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Do you have to brush your own hair, own an umbrella or keep at least one hand on your steering wheel? Don't blame these visionary thinkersThings can only get better", D:Ream promised, but they were wrong, and so were most people in history who have tried to predict the future.It never stopped us from trying, though, and a few visionaries have been pretty good at it. There was Leonardo da Vinci, of course, with his helicopters and fridges, and Joseph Glanvill, who in 1661 suggested moon voyages and communication using magnetic waves" might be a thing. Civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins, writing in 1900, predicted mobile phones, ready meals and global digital media (Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later"). Visionary US cartoonist Arthur Radebaugh's late 1950s and early 1960s Closer Than We Think series conjured wrist-worn TVs, robot-run warehouses and bloodless surgery. Continue reading...
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Could you live without the internet? Doctors' appointments, job applications, personal banking, key services and more are today mostly managed online. While the UK government details its plans for a digital future to transform public services, one in seven Britons are forced to live without the internet. This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be. Through enacted scenes from their lives, it makes visible the expanding digital divide - an issue too often unseen or ignored Continue reading...
The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill giving Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to sell that part of its businessChina could use social media app TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, has told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing.Asked by Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi if China's ruling Communist party (CCP) would use TikTok to influence the elections, Haines said we cannot rule out that the CCP would use it". Continue reading...
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LockBit was a sophisticated criminal operation, offering the tools needed to steal a company's data and hold it to ransom. Then it was itself hacked. Alex Hern reportsA ransomware site on the dark web has allowed criminals to extort hospitals, businesses and schools for years. By encrypting data or threatening to post data online, hackers have cost companies millions of pounds.It's called LockBit, and it was very successful until one day last month when hackers who logged on to the site found it had been hacked by authorities including the UK National Crime Agency and the FBI. These agencies announced they were in control of LockBit's site, marking a new stage in their war on cybercrime. Continue reading...
Change, made out of abundance of caution', now applies to US and India and will roll out in nations where elections are held this yearGoogle is restricting its Gemini AI chatbot from answering election-related questions in countries where voting is taking place this year, limiting users from receiving information about candidates, political parties and other elements of politics.Out of an abundance of caution on such an important topic, we have begun to roll out restrictions on the types of election-related queries for which Gemini will return responses," Google's India team stated on the company's site. Continue reading...
High prices, mega mergers and union busting are just water under the bridge judging from the scramble for a new bagWhat's so special about Trader Joe's new mini totes? Aesthetics-wise, nothing: the canvas bag resembles LL Bean's ubiquitous totes. The only difference is that these come stamped with the name of a supermarket chain known for its fancy cheeses, frozen dinners -and the fact that it's currently one of the corporations lobbying to declare the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. Union drip, these are not.Still, there are plenty of people who approach these bags with the same enthusiasm that Trader Joe's lawyers reportedly reserve for union busting. Young women on TikTok have taken to decorating their mini Trader Joe's totes with embroidery, patches and paint. It all looks very summer camp. CNN reported that the tote has reached a cult status not seen since ... well, just a few weeks ago, when pink Stanley tumblers took the world (or at least Target shopping aisles) by storm. Continue reading...
British Library says in review it weathered cyber-attack without paying hackers behind itRansomware gangs have been warned that there is no money in attacking the British state, after the British Library revealed that it weathered a damaging cyber-attack without paying - or even speaking to - the hackers behind it.The library, which was hit by a ransomware attack in October 2023, issued the warning as part a review of its response to the incident. Continue reading...
Platform said change will take effect by the end of next month as it seeks to simplify' security policy while prioritizing privacyAirbnb said on Monday that it's banning the use of indoor security cameras in rentals around the world by the end of next month.The San Francisco-based online rental platform said it is seeking to simplify" its security-camera policy while prioritizing privacy. The change will take effect 30 April. Continue reading...
AI makes the challenge of spotting manipulated or faked media even greaterAt a time when suspicion of manipulated media has reached a new pitch of concern, the Princess of Wales photo furore underlines the sensitivity around image doctoring.Catherine was the subject of an image editing row in 2011 when Grazia adapted a photo of her on her wedding day - but that was before breakthroughs in artificial intelligence put everyone on edge. Continue reading...
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