Social media platforms should fight online grooming by not suggesting children as “friends” by default, the communications watchdog says. The warning is contained in Ofcom’s first guidance for tech platforms…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is in hospital in Mexico, according to multiple reports. It is not currently clear what the cause is. The 73-year-old was in Mexico City attending the…
A former senior staff member at Meta said Instagram is not doing enough to protect teens from sexual harassment. Arturo Béjar, who is testifying in front of the US Congress…
Millions of Australians were left without mobile and internet after a network failure at telecoms firm Optus. The failure caused transport delays, cut hospital phone lines, and shut down payment…
An Italian judge has ordered the seizure of €779.5m ($835.5m; £676.8m) from short-term rental giant Airbnb, over alleged tax evasion. Prosecutors say the firm failed to collect a tax from…
Artificial Intelligence has the ability to perform illegal financial trades and cover it up, new research suggests. In a demonstration at the UK’s AI safety summit, a bot used made-up…
Popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT now has more than 180 million users, but jeweller Harriet Kelsall says it isn’t for her. Being dyslexic, she admits that using it might…
People should not be worried about the impact of AI on jobs because education reforms will boost skills, Rishi Sunak has said. Speaking after the UK’s first AI safety summit,…
Deadly robots that can climb trees, AI friends and a work-less future were among the topics as Rishi Sunak sat down with Elon Musk. The prime minister had a special…
The UK government has announced a “world first agreement” on how to manage the riskiest forms of AI. It focuses on so-called “frontier AI” – what ministers consider highly advanced…
