Articles from www.theguardian.com

Articles from www.theguardian.com

The UK bans hidden fees imposed by online businesses as well as the use or commissioning of fake reviews, effective April 6, with compliance enforced by the CMA (www.theguardian.com)
2025-4-7

Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok's algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having policies against begging (www.theguardian.com)
2025-4-7 Algorithm

Q&A with Reid Hoffman on making people AI-curious through his new book Superagency, writing with AI, why AI “gloomers” are wrong, tech's DEI rollback, and more (www.theguardian.com)
2025-3-24 AI

Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current methods (www.theguardian.com)
2025-3-21 AI

The UK's NCSC urges large entities, including energy and transport firms, to introduce “post-quantum cryptography” by 2035 to protect against quantum hackers (www.theguardian.com)
2025-3-20 Energy Quantum

How Elon Musk targeted 18F, as ex-employees say the GSA's group focused on increasing bureaucratic efficiency through tech, similar to what DOGE claims to do (www.theguardian.com)
2025-3-17 Elon Musk

A hearing in Apple's legal battle with the UK government over providing a backdoor in its Advanced Data Protection service was held without media present (www.theguardian.com)
2025-3-15 Apple

The Xbox Kinect, released in 2010 and discontinued in 2017, has found applications beyond gaming, including in interactive art, pornography, and ghost hunting (www.theguardian.com)
2025-3-4 Xbox

Patrick Soon-Shiong says LAT opinion pieces will show an AI-generated rating of their political content, and an AI-generated list of alternative political views (www.theguardian.com)
2025-3-4 AI

Some parents are teaching their children how to use AI chatbots so they are prepared to deploy the tools responsibly as personal assistants when they are older (www.theguardian.com)
2025-3-3 AI chatbot

Recent incidents indicate the US no longer characterizes Russia as a cyber threat; source: CISA analysts were told not to follow or report on Russian threats (www.theguardian.com)
2025-3-1 Russia

OpenAI says Sora is now available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-28 Switzerland Norway

The FBI says North Korea was responsible for the $1.5B Bybit Hack, referring to this particular form of North Korean malicious cyber activity as “TraderTraitor” (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-27 Korea FBI

Over 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, “co-write” a “silent” album to protest a UK proposal letting AI train on their copyrighted work if they don't opt out (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-25 AI

All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-21

An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-17 Interview

A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against a professor, including by creating chatbots on Crushon.ai and JanitorAI using her personal info (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-2 AI chatbot

WhatsApp says it disrupted a campaign in which 90 journalists and other members of civil society were targeted using spyware from Israel-based Paragon (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-1 Israel WhatsApp

An ex-OpenAI safety researcher says he's “terrified” by AI development's pace and that labs racing to AGI can cut corners on alignment, pushing all to speed up (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-29 AI

An investigation reveals how the Israeli military's reliance on Microsoft's cloud and AI systems surged during the most intensive phase of the Israel-Hamas war (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-25 Israel Microsoft AI

UK's tech secretary says its Online Safety Act is “not up for negotiation,” after Zuckerberg vowed to work with Trump to pressure countries “censoring” content (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-12 Trump Zuckerberg

Emmanuel Macron joins growing European criticism of Musk, says “the owner of one of the world's largest social networks” is “intervening directly in elections” (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-7 Europe

A look at the rise of Watch Duty, a wildfire alert app that is active in 14 US states and has gained up to 7.2M active users in three years since its launch (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-6

Internet freedom advocates criticize Vietnam's Decree 147, which goes into effect on Dec. 25 and requires social media users to verify their identities and more (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-24 Vietnam

The UK ICO criticizes Google's plans to no longer prohibit companies using its ad products from employing fingerprinting techniques from 16 February 2025 (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-20 Google ICO

A coalition of newspapers, writers, movie producers, and others rejects UK's plans to create a copyright exemption for AI companies to train their models (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-20 AI

Sports stars promoting crypto coins and exchanges with little knowledge highlight the lack of mechanisms for consumers to distinguish opportunities from scams (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-15

Similarweb: X's US DAUs dropped by 8.4% from 32.3M to 29.6M between early October 2024 and now, while Bluesky's US DAUs rose 1,064% from 254,500 to ~2.7M (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-11

An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-8 Trump Elon Musk

The number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths at a clinic in Malawi has fallen by 82% after starting an AI-supported program for regular fetal observation (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-7 AI

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