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The supermarket freezer attack has reached Britain, and one meat supplier’s cold unit was set to 100C
Monday’s attack on European supermarket fridges has touched the UK food supply chain. The NCSC worked through the night; its chief says the…
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Scammers are sending AI photographs of missing cats, then threatening to kill them
Three British owners describe being sent convincing AI images of their missing cats, then asked for gift cards or £40,000, then threatened…
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Canva is cutting, moving or rewriting 1,271 jobs — 22% of the company
Co-founder Melanie Perkins told staff that 1,271 people will lose their jobs, relocate or change roles. Backers have cut the valuation from…
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Gemini will build an avatar from your face and your voice, and let other people use it
You record a face and a voice once, then generate images and video without filming again. Permission can be granted for a set period and…
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The ICT Division wants your NID, passport, birth record and tax file to become one identity
Scattered citizen databases would be joined under a single identity. The same meeting set out a sovereign AI model, 120 cybersecurity hires…
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A coroner has named Meta and Snapchat in a boy’s inquest, and asked fifteen companies for data
The first inquest lasted 23 minutes. The High Court quashed its conclusion after evidence emerged about the role of social media.
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OpenAI published maths papers with AI as the only author. Researchers said they could not follow the proofs
If no human understands the work, no human can take responsibility for it — which is what every authorship rule currently requires.
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AI describes photographs and captions speech. A survey asked disabled users what happens when it is wrong
Image description and live captions are genuinely useful. The failure mode is that a wrong description arrives in the same confident voice…
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How attackers take over an account without ever knowing the password
Session hijacking bypasses the password entirely, and often bypasses two-factor as well. Closing the tab is not the same as logging out.
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A power bank caught fire in the row in front: why regulators now call batteries the biggest fire risk on planes
The flight turned back before reaching the Channel. The CAA has launched a campaign on lithium-ion devices, which must be kept in the cabin.
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Neuralink is building two chips: one to control a computer by thought, one to restore sight
Musk says Blindsight’s engineering work is finished and the chip is waiting on regulators. Both are wireless brain-computer interfaces.
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An Amazon engineer stopped her epilepsy medication on ChatGPT’s schedule. Her parents are suing OpenAI
Bawen Wan, 31, asked the chatbot about reducing her dose in January. Her neurologist says he would never have advised stopping.