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Trump family disown debut of crypto wallet: ‘I know nothing about this project!’
Latest spat appears to stem from fight between president’s sons and Bill Zanker, longtime Trump business partnerA splashy website featuring an illustration of Donald Trump, looking buff and pumping his fist in the air, appeared online on Tuesday. The image is the logo of one of Trump’s digital currencies, and the website claims to be the “Official $Trump Wallet”, hawking a product that would allow customers to buy and...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:
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Peers vote to defy government over copyright threat from AI
Government suffers fifth defeat in House of Lords over plans to allow AI companies to use copyrighted material Defiant peers have delivered an ultimatum to the government – calling on it to offer artists copyright protection against artificial intelligence companies or risk losing a key piece of legislation.The government suffered a fifth defeat in the House of Lords over controversial plans to allow the AI companies...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot
Social media platform claims firm used bots to access content, without requesting consent, to train ClaudeThe social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access the social network’s content despite being asked not to do so, and...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:100,000 UK taxpayer accounts hit in £47m phishing attack on HMRC
MPs on Treasury committee hear that those affected were being contacted and would face ‘no financial loss’ HM Revenue and Customs has lost 47m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard.Two senior civil servants at the tax authority told the Treasury committee on Wednesday that 100,000 people had been contacted, or were in the process of being contacted, after their...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Trumpworld Is Fighting Over ‘Official’ Crypto Wallet
The President's sons are feuding with the organization behind the Trump memecoin, as both parties claim to be involved in launching Trump-affiliated crypto wallets.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Perplexity’s CEO Sees AI Agents as the Next Web Battleground
Aravind Srinivas says agents need access to apps and claims that letting OpenAI take control of Chrome would be a disaster for the open Web.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Janet Anderson: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The actor and writer provides a crash course in queer comedy, from Cole Escola to Trixie and KatyaGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTo reduce all the funny things I’ve seen in my time on the internet into 10 things is like reducing the Library of Alexandria to a Post-it note. And I need you, gentle reader, to know that these 10 things do not define my humour, but reflect the expanse of my research into stupid...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint
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. What’s next for AI and math The modern world is built on mathematics. Math lets us model complex systems such as the way air flows around an aircraft, the way financial markets fluctuate,…
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Nintendo’s Switch 2 is the upgrade of my dreams – but it’s not as ‘new’ as some might hope
The long-trailed console offers sturdier hardware, improved graphics and seamless online functionality. But it’s more of an update than a revolutionLaunch week is finally here, and though I would love to be bringing you a proper review of the Nintendo Switch 2 right now, I still don’t have one at the time of writing. In its wisdom, Nintendo has decided not to send review units out until the day before release, so as...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Facing a Changing Industry, AI Activists Rethink Their Strategy
As power over artificial intelligence concentrates in a handful of companies, a new report urges advocacy groups to expose the technology’s connection to broader economic struggles.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:The Race to Build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System Is On
President Donald Trump has proposed building a massive antimissile system in space that could enrich Elon Musk if it materializes. But experts say the project’s feasibility remains unclear.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Demis Hassabis Embraces the Future of Work in the Age of AI
The CEO of Google's DeepMind says systems as smart as humans are almost here—and that the job market will undergo "scary" changes.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Google DeepMind’s CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfish
Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we’ll need to radically change how we think and behave.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:What’s next for AI and math
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of themhere. The way DARPA tells it, math is stuck in the past. In April, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off a new initiative called expMath—short…
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:What to do if your email account is stolen – and how to stop it happening again
A hacked or compromised account can be a nightmare. But with these tips, it need not be the end of the worldEmail accounts have become more than a longstanding method of communication, morphing into the centre of your digital world as the user login for hundreds of services from shopping to socials. So when you forget your password, your email gets stolen or hacked, it can be a total nightmare.Here’s what to do if the...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Surface Laptop 13in review: Microsoft’s cheaper, more compact Windows 11 machine
Cut-down version of top Windows 11 AI notebook offers premium experience in smaller and less expensive packageMicrosoft’s latest Surface Laptop is smaller and cheaper, managing to condense most of what is great about its larger siblings into a more compact frame without compromising too much on power.The Surface Laptop 13in joins the current seventh-generation Laptop 13.8in and 15in that were launched in the summer...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Noughties nostalgia trends on TikTok as fans revisit music and TV favourites
Older series from Vampire Diaries to Skins are among the most popular on the platform as decade enjoys a revivalIt is the social media platform that likes to see itself as being on the cutting edge of the latest youth culture and setting the latest trends for others to follow. But across music, television and observations on British daily life, something more familiar is trending on TikTok – a new generation of...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Pornhub owner to suspend site in France in protest at new verification law
Parent company Aylo criticizes requirement that adult website visitors must confirm age with credit card or ID documentFrench visitors to the adult sites Pornhub, Youporn and RedTube will on Wednesday be greeted with a message denouncing the country’s age verification requirements, the company said on Tuesday.Parent company Aylo, in reaction to a French law requiring adult sites to take extra steps to verify that their...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:How I Went from 0 to 5,000 Newsletter Subscribers and Made $1,200/Month
I always wanted to grow an audience but hated the grind of social media.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Optimizing Blockchain Development with Enso and its Shortcuts Feature
Blockchain has been a transformative technology, but the complexity of developing cross network applications is still a big challenge.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Taking Word Wheel to another two levels | Brief letters
From excellence to genius | Effortlessly superb | Time flies | Describing misogyny | Unwanted AmericanismsI note that you have changed the achievement levels of your Word Wheel puzzle in the print edition, expanding from three (average, good and excellent) to five (beginner, good, brilliant, superb and genius). I appreciate the promotion from excellence to genius that this implies, but tend to the opinion that you have...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:MPs accuse Apple and Google of profiting from rise in phone thefts
Firms defend security features after police tell committee 80,000 phones were stolen in London in 2024MPs have accused Apple and Google of profiting from multimillion-pound phone-snatching operations that police say are masterminded by organised crime gangs in Britain, Algeria and China.In 2024, 80,000 phone devices of all kinds were stolen in London alone, up a quarter from 64,000 in 2023. The devices had a street...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:The best water flossers, tested: seven models for that dentist-clean feeling
Floss without the faff with our expert-tested water flossers, from travel-size models to countertop jets• The best electric toothbrushes, testedThere isn’t much I miss from my pre-Invisalign “gappy teeth” days, but it was far more difficult for food and plaque to get stuck in the gaps – something I took for granted at the time. Using floss between my pre-braces teeth was easy, but ultimately pointless, like using a...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:AI, bot farms and innocent indie victims: how music streaming became a hotbed of fraud and fakery
Fraudsters use fake artists to juice royalties from streaming services – but real musicians are getting blamed. Might they be better off without Spotify et al?There is a battle gripping the music business today around the manipulation of streaming services – and innocent indie artists are the collateral damage.Fraudsters are flooding Spotify, Apple Music and the rest with AI-generated tracks, to try and hoover up the...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Will AI wipe out the first rung of the career ladder?
Generative AI is reshaping the job market, and it’s starting with entry-level rolesHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, I’m wondering what my first jobs in journalism would have been like had generative AI been around. In other news: Elon Musk leaves a trail of chaos, and influencers are selling the text they fed to AI to make art.New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drug‘One day I...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Video stars: the booming VJ scene localising Hollywood films for Ugandans
Part-interpreters, part-comedians, video jockeys translate and contextualise western movies for audiences at homeOn a recent Saturday afternoon in an informal settlement in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, dozens of young men sat on benches in a dark shack to watch a bootlegged version of the Hollywood comedy-horror film The Monkey.As the English-language action unfolded on the screen, a voiceover translation in the Bantu...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:The Download: reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy use, and Caiwei Chen’s three things
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. Four reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy usage Two weeks ago, we launched Power Hungry, a new series shining a light on the energy demands and carbon costs of the artificial intelligence…
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Survival Kids proves Nintendo Switch 2 isn’t just about Mario Kart World
Everyone might be talking about the new title from gaming’s favourite plumber, but there’s at least one other interesting original launching with the new console this weekThe interesting thing about console launches is that you never know what unexpected treasures will emerge from the first batch of games. Who could have foretold that the hero of the PlayStation launch would be a fireworks simulation (Fantavision), or...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Inside the effort to tally AI’s energy appetite
After working on it for months, my colleague Casey Crownhart and I finally saw our story on AI’s energy and emissions burden go live last week. The initial goal sounded simple: Calculate how much energy is used each time we interact with a chatbot, and then tally that up to understand why everyone from leaders…
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home
Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with itThe novelist Ewan Morrison was alarmed, though amused, to discover he had written a book called Nine Inches Pleases a Lady. Intrigued by the limits of generative artificial intelligence (AI), he had asked ChatGPT to give him the names of the 12 novels he had written. “I’ve only written nine,” he says. “Always eager to...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star | Mark O’Connell
He’s spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive – and showered vast amounts of cash on lucky participants. But are MrBeast’s videos simply very savvy clickbait – or acts of avant garde genius?Jimmy Donaldson, the 27-year-old online content creator and entrepreneur known as MrBeast, is by any reasonable metric one of the most popular entertainers on the planet. His YouTube channel, to which he posts his...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:How Duolingo Became the Face of the Anti-AI Backlash
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Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:The Rise of China’s Red Tech and the downturn of Korean industry
Korea’s industry is facing intesnse challenges and competition from China. China has completed is status as a ‘manufacturing powerhouse’…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:The Propaganda of Scientific Progress
When advancement leaves no room for refusal: Whose future are we building?Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:10 Exciting Eco-Friendly Fashion Brands to Watch in 2025
Walk into any clothing store today and you’re bound to see sustainable, eco, clean, conscious, carbon-neutral buzzwords everywhere. Green…Continue reading on Medium »
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