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No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK
Makers of phones, TVs and smart doorbells legally required to protect devices against …
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‘The science isn’t there’: do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?
The effectiveness of Tinder and Hinge is hard to judge without access to their data. B…
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BBC presenter’s likeness used in advert after firm tricked by AI-generated voice
Exclusive: Liz Bonnin’s face used on insect repellant advert after deal negotiated via…
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‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute
Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying e…
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The demise of Twitter: How a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’
In the early days it was seen as a place for ‘genuine public discourse’, but users hav…
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Workers accuse Google of ‘tantrum’ after 50 fired over Israel contract protest
Tech giant fired number of people who protested against $1.2bn Project Nimbus, which s…
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The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones
The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap int…
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Tesla Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator says
Federal transportation agency finds Tesla’s claims about feature don’t match their fin…
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ByteDance would shut down TikTok in US rather than sell it, sources say
App’s ‘secret source’ algorithm reportedly core to operations of parent company, which…
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‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’: how radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta Stone
Tired of colonial artefacts being hoarded, Chidi Nwaubani and Ahmed Abokor use tech to…
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What's behind the fight between Elon Musk's X and Australia's eSafety commissioner? – video
Elon Musk is at war with Australia — in particular Australia's online safety regul…
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‘I may be a troll but I’m not stupid’: super-stan Harry Daniels on singing loudly at Biden, Dua Lipa and Anna Wintour for clout
Harry Daniels’s TikToks of him singing awkwardly at stars alternate between trolling a…
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Senate passes bill banning TikTok if parent company does not sell it
Bill gives app owner, ByteDance, a year to divest, and while Biden is expected to sign…
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Tesla sees biggest revenue drop since 2012 but company shares still surge
Shares up despite dip in revenue and profits after company said it expects to release …
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TechScape: No WhatsApp in China, no TikTok in the US, and the return of Llama
In this week’s newsletter: While Apple removed the platform from App Stores without a …
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