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Online Safety Bill: social media bosses to face jail if children aren’t protected
Social media bosses who repeatedly fail to protect children from online harms will face jail, after the Government was forced to head off a potential rebellion by Tory backbenchers. Under the changes to the Online Safety Bill, executives whose platforms fail to block content involving abuse, suicide and self harm could get two years in…
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Meta settles data breach case linked to Cambridge Analytica scandal for £600m
Facebook owners Meta have agreed a £600 million settlement in a US case, over a data breach linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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New AI chatbot ‘ChatGPT’ interviewed on TV
ChatbotGPT is a new artificial intelligence programme designed to simulate human conversation and tackle complex questions. It’s made by Open AI foundation, a tech-startup co-founded by Elon Musk, and it draws on text taken from a variety of sources on the internet and its creators say it has learned how to answer academic questions, and…
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Plan to make big tech companies remove ‘legal, but harmful’ content scrapped from government’s Online Safety Bill
A plan to make big tech companies remove ‘legal, but harmful’ content has been scrapped from the Government’s Online Safety Bill – to the dismay of campaigners who’ve described it as a hugely backward step.
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Bank transfer scams reach record levels
It’s a fraud which is costing banks and consumers millions of pounds every month – cases of Authorised Push Payment fraud have reached record levels.
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Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, reached a deal to buy Twitter.
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Russia: Putin cracks down on media over Ukraine war
In Russia, TikTok has become the latest social media site to restrict operations.
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The Turkish-made drone Ukraine is using to tackle Russia’s military
If the Russians are relying on overwhelming force, how does Ukraine counter that?
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Workers’ welfare our ‘utmost priority’, Dyson global manufacturing director says
We were joined by Michelle Shi, the global manufacturing and procurement director at Dyson.
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Exclusive: Dyson faces legal action over ‘forced labour’ and exploitation
More than a dozen workers making products and components for Dyson are taking legal action against the company, alleging a string of labour abuses at a supplier in Malaysia, a Channel 4 News investigation can reveal.
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How will biotech, robotics and virtual reality change the world?
Welcome to the brave new world of biotech and robotics – where people can interact with each other through time and space in ways which were once the stuff of science fiction.
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Holmes alone: the fall of Theranos
What the unravelling of a once Silicon superstar tells us about the world of start-ups and high-level investors.
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Grumpy cat: AI powered app says it knows if your pet is happy
Have repeated lockdowns taken a toll on your pets’ mental health, or are they pleased to have you at home?
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Bitcoin: the future of money or a giant Ponzi scheme?
Today we speak to our Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi about cryptocurrency, the future of our financial system, and how she could have been a Bitcoin success story – if only she could find the key to the crypto she bought.
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Rolls-Royce secures funding to develop mini nuclear reactors
Rolls-Royce has secured more than £400 million in funds from private investors and the UK government to develop a new generation of small nuclear reactors.