Toxic algorithms wouldn't let them go - now Australia wants an off switch
The Australian government hopes to protect social media users from being served content they don't want to see.
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ChatGPT stole cryptocurrency to secretly fund coding task
OpenAI says latest incident shows AI models act on their own judgment without authorisation
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Anthropic will let outsiders see inside its company amid panic about rogue AI systems
Elon Musk says that SpaceX will ‘probably do the same’ as calls grow for better transparency
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Governments are hacking people through online ads, report says
Advertising is displayed on just about any device, and can be precisely calculated to specific people – making it a powerful hacking tool in the wrong hands, researchers warn
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Meta launches new ‘open’ AI model – and it comes with a big surprise
Powerful ‘Muse Spark Open’ system represents a departure from many other AI systems, and from Meta’s long-running feud with Apple
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How to safely prepare and recycle your old phones and electronics
Components such as steel, aluminum, copper, gold, silver, plastics and even glass, can be recovered and reused
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The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax
Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and education Tech billionaires have been dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the fight agains…
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iPhone Duo: Apple opens pre-orders for new folding phone – and has already run out
Customers will have to wait for months for the new device to arrive
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Tesla’s new flying ‘Roadster’ car can’t actually drive on roads
Company’s official website makes clear that rocket powered vehicle is ‘not approved for public road use’ – and it is not clear whether it ever will be
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The way our time works has just changed forever
‘Devastating’ time quirk is set to be abolished
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Astronomers have just found the first green star. Here’s why it matters
White dwarves can actually come in a whole range of colours, study finds
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Pornography with strangulation and incest to be banned in England and Wales next month
Campaigners welcome legislation which follows recommendations by 2025 review into pornography regulation Pornography that depicts strangulation and incestuous relationships will be banned in England and Wales from early…
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Snapchat and Instagram grooming becoming 'easier'
Online grooming is rising, with children as young as five targeted, prompting calls for reform.
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a new ‘open-weight’ AI model
Meta says Muse excels at ‘multi-step reasoning’ and ‘complex software engineering’ as it races to catch up to Chinese rivals Meta on Thursday launched a new open-weight AI model which it claims rivals, and in some cases…
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Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says
The move follows a review into pornography regulation in 2025 by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin
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Neanderthals capable of both violence and care, bones from Iraqi cave suggest
Neanderthals were not the unintelligent cave dwellers of popular imagination, but may have been capable of showing both violence and care, researchers who have discovered bones dating back 75,000 years have said.
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OpenAI donates $5 million to try and make peace with distraught mathematicians
Money will be used to pay for experts to ‘examine, understand, and build on results produced by AI’, ChatGPT maker says
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How an accelerating Earth led experts to adopt the leap hour
International delegates agree leap second no longer tenable, but first leap hour not likely to happen for thousands of years After decades of discussion, quibbling and worrying about clocks in computer systems, the worl…
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SpaceX sends mini human brains to space as part of Nasa experiment
Experiment aims to understand how spaceflight impacts human aging
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Character.AI: A huge AI chatbot company has gone bankrupt – and experts are worried what happens next
Company’s chatbots pose as therapists and fictional characters, and have allowed it to gather intimate and sensitive data about children, attorneys general warn
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Optimise your life: 7 ways the new Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 series can help you get more from every day
From multitasking with Samsung DeX and getting creative with S Pen to upgrading entertainment with a Dynamic AMOLED 2X display, tech writer Carly Page explores how the Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 series can help you get more…
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Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt
Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as potential interest rate hikes spook markets Business news – live updates Larry Elliott: the global economy is muddling through. But a storm is coming…
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GTA 6 - all you need to know about Rockstar's blockbuster game
A new launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI reveals more details about what's set to be the biggest game of the year.
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iPhone Duo: Damaging Apple’s new folding phone could cost you $1,499
Soon-to-be-released device is easily the most expensive iPhone ever sold
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