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At WIRED’s AI Power Summit on Monday, industry executives and officials discussed the impact artificial intelligence is having on every corner of society—and where it goes from here.
Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources say. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.
DeeperDive, a new tool that converses with readers, is an effort to beat the AI industry at its own game.
Tesla shares rose by more than 8% after news of CEO’s transactions, a week after he was offered $1tn pay packageElon Musk, the Tesla CEO, has purchased nearly $1bn worth of the electric-vehicle maker’s stock, a regulatory filing showed, reinforcing Musk’s push for greater control over Tesla.Tesla shares jumped more than 8% in premarket trading on Monday following the news. Continue reading...
Nostalgic tech; autumn garden hacks; and what to wear when it rains• Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhen I was 18, I bought a heavily reduced MiniDisc player. This wasn’t even what you could charitably call “fashionably late”, given the format was already on its last legs, but I loved it, and because nobody else was interested, blank discs were dirt cheap. I have a vague recollection of...
iPhone upgrade joined by watchOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 Tahoe, adding a new look and features to devicesApple will release some of the biggest software updates for its iPhone, iPad and smartwatch on Monday, radically changing the way icons, the lock screen and the system looks, as well as adding features for compatible devices.Announced at the company’s developer conference in June, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26...
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet tomorrow’s rising stars of computing Each year, MIT Technology Review honors 35 outstanding people under the age of 35 who are driving scientific progress and solving tough problems in their fields. Today…
Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of Thurrock ‘hyperscale’ unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacityBusiness live – latest updatesUK and US line up deals to build modular nuclear reactors in BritainA new Google datacentre in Essex is expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year , equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week, planning documents show.Spread across 52 hectares...
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.
Top-spec cameras, cutting edge AI, great software and stunning screen squeezed into a more manageable frameThe Pixel 10 Pro is Google’s best phone that is still a pocketable, easy-to-handle size, taking the excellent Pixel 10 and beefing it up in the camera department.That makes it a contender for the top smaller phone with Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro, offering the best of Google’s hardware without an enormous screen. It is...
What once seemed a pretty fringe subculture of hobbyists riffing on stories that got them privately hot is now bringing mainstream cinema to a rolling boilThere was a time when fan fiction meant furtive scribbles uploaded to shadowy corners of the internet, in which Mr Darcy was recast as a moody vampire flatmate, Captain Kirk discovered his inner romantic, or Gandalf finally got around to opening an artisanal shop in...
What once seemed a pretty fringe subculture of hobbyists riffing on stories that got them privately hot is now bringing mainstream cinema to a rolling boilThere was a time when fan fiction meant furtive scribbles uploaded to shadowy corners of the internet, in which Mr Darcy was recast as a moody vampire flatmate, Captain Kirk discovered his inner romantic, or Gandalf finally got around to opening an artisanal shop in...
Met forced to rebut misinformation amplified by X users as Musk accused of inciting violence with protest commentsThe Metropolitan police has had to counter false suggestions by the artificial intelligence on Elon Musk’s X platform that the force passed off footage from 2020 as being from Saturday’s far-right rally in the city.The claim by the chatbot Grok was in answer to an X user’s query about where and when footage...
The ubiquitous AI tool has a divisive effect on educators with some seeing it a boon and others a menace. So what should you know about where to draw the line between check and cheat?For many students, ChatGPT has become as standard a tool as a notebook or a calculator.Whether it’s tidying up grammar, organising revision notes, or generating flashcards, AI is fast becoming a go-to companion in university life. But as...
Research suggests increase in office snooping in trend that some managers claim undermines trust with staffHow employers are gathering Australian workers’ dataShare your experience of tech surveillance at work in the UKA third of UK employers are using “bossware” technology to track workers’ activity with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing.Private companies are most likely to deploy...
From avoiding recycling a password, even part of it, to two-step verification, steps to closing an open door for hackersThe first you know about it is when you find out someone has accessed one of your accounts. You’ve been careful with your details so you can’t work out what has gone wrong, but you have made one mistake – recycling part of your password.Reusing the same word in a password – even if it is altered to...
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Calm, practical playbook—email, one-page sketch, and a small Java guard that made “free” sound expensive. Not legal advice.Continue reading on Medium »
A surprising lesson in how profit shows up when you stop overthinking and start building.Continue reading on Codrift »
Hey everyone! I wanted to share something really cool I’ve been working on lately, building an offline keyword detection system for my AI…Continue reading on DataEngineering.py »
When I met my wife, it happened the traditional way, in person, face-to-face.Continue reading on Medium »
Forget the overhead. Launch, run, and scale a profitable business on your own terms with AI.Continue reading on Medium »
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Splitting a monolith is one of those engineering rites of passage.Continue reading on Medium »
US-based tech boss was addressing the ‘unite the kingdom’ protest organised by Tommy Robinson via video link Elon Musk has called for a “dissolution of parliament” and a “change of government” in the UK while addressing a crowd attending a “unite the kingdom” rally in London, organised by the far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson.Musk, the owner of X, who dialled in via a video link and...
Quantum sensing, satellite tracking and AI are part of an accelerating arms race in detection that should prompt a re-evaluation of Australia’s defence strategyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMilitary history is littered with the corpses of apex predators.The Gatling gun, the battleship, the tank. All once possessed unassailable power –...
Artificial intelligence is changing how students learn and the world they’ll graduate into. Experts reveal how applicants can get aheadOpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told a US podcast that if he was graduating today, “I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history.”Altman, whose company developed and released ChatGPT in November 2022, believes the transformative power of AI offers unprecedented opportunities for...
Phil Bellamy’s daughters refuse to ride in his electric car without travel sickness tablets. Are there other solutions?It was a year in to driving his daughter to school in his new electric vehicle that Phil Bellamy discovered she dreaded the 10-minute daily ride – it made her feel sick in a way no other car did.As the driver, Bellamy had no problems with the car but his teenage daughters struggled with sickness every...
Exclusive: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structureIt is the work shortcut that dare not speak its name. A third of people do not tell their bosses about their use of AI tools amid fears their ability will be questioned if they do.Research for the Guardian has revealed that only 13% of UK adults openly discuss their use of AI with senior staff at...
When people think of Google’s success, they think about clean interfaces, massive data centers, or even Android. But underneath it all…Continue reading on Medium »
A few months ago, I was debugging a Python script at 2 AM. My brain was fried, I had too many Chrome tabs open, and I couldn’t figure out…Continue reading on Codrift »
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Learn to use Wfuzz, the key tool for web fuzzing in cybersecurity. Discover directories, files, and vulnerabilities with this essential…Continue reading on Medium »
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