Category: Technology
Don’t weaken online safety laws for UK-US trade deal, campaigners urge
Child safety campaigners have warned the government against watering down landmark online laws as part of a UK-US trade deal, describing the prospect of a [more…]
On my radar: George the Poet’s cultural highlights
Born George Mpanga in north-west London in 1991, George the Poet is a spoken-word artist, author and podcast host. He studied politics, psychology and sociology [more…]
David Cronenberg says Brutalist AI controversy was a ‘campaign against’ the film by rival Oscar nominees
David Cronenberg has suggested the AI controversy over Adrien Brody’s Hungarian accent in The Brutalist was an issue manufactured by the campaign of a rival [more…]
Women in business held back by mobile data’s cost in developing world – report
The cost of a mobile data package is all that is holding back many female entrepreneurs in developing countries, according to recent research. While social [more…]
The Thinking Game review – DeepMind study offers wide-lens view of our tech lords and AGI
If you don’t follow science news much, you may only be aware of Artificial Intelligence as a new-fangled thingy that somehow makes TikToks of kittens [more…]
Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’
As a child, Daveed Diggs and his schoolfriend William Hutson drew pictures inspired by the space-age album covers of funk legends Parliament, filled with gleaming [more…]
Unison attacks ‘shambolic’ announcement of NHS England’s abolition – UK politics live
on Bluesky. “I don’t see why decisions about £200bn of taxpayers money… on something as fundamental to our security as the NHS should be taken [more…]
Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’
Digital blackouts reached a record high in 2024 in Africa as more governments sought to keep millions of citizens off the internet than in any [more…]
UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI
British universities have been warned to “stress-test” all assessments after new research revealed “almost all” undergraduates are using generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in their studies. [more…]
Ofcom calls on tech firms to step up action against ‘revenge porn’
Tech platforms should combat the rapid rise in explicit deepfakes and “revenge porn” by using a database of images to protect women and girls online, [more…]
