WASHINGTON -- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced su...
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Scarlett Johanssonis speaking out afterOpenAIannounced on Sunday that it would be pausing the use of an emotive voice on its newest version ofChatGPTthat sounded like the actress. In a statement from Johansson’s...
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A woman in California has been convicted of stealing over $60,000 worth of merchandise over a span of more than 100 visits to the same Target store in San Francisco, officials said. Aziza Graves, a 43-year-old woman from San Francisco, allegedly ent...
Donald Trump and his Republican rivals are making last-ditch pitches to win support in Iowa, hours before voters in the state will kick-off the 2024 race for the White House. Candidates are holding final events, but frigid conditions have...
Booking.com users have spoken of their anger at the company's failure to stop them falling victim to cyber-criminals. For at least a year, fraudsters have been able to infiltrate its app and trick users out of hundreds of pounds....
Some of the UK's most visited websites could face fines unless they make it clearer that cookies are optional. Cookies are small files websites store on your computer to collect analytic data, personalise online ads and monitor web browsi...
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Hospital and school caterers are not doing enough to stop farmers from overusing antibiotics in their animals, according to campaign groups. Such overuse raises the risk of antibiotic resistance rendering key human medicines ineffective....
US regulators have sued Amazon, alleging that the internet giant is illegally maintaining monopoly power. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Amazon uses "a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies" to push...
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The nights are drawing in, the schools are going back and a new Covid variant is circulating. It all sounds very familiar. But we are a long way from the autumn of 2020 when the coronavirus dominated our lives and there were different &qu...
Bosses at three of the UK's water companies have decided not to take their annual bonuses after widespread public criticism over sewage pollution. Thames Water's Sarah Bentley said it did not \\\\\\\"feel right\\\\\\\" to take the bonus, alon...
The winner of a major photography award has refused his prize after revealing his work was created using AI. German artist Boris Eldagsen's entry, entitled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, won the creative open category at last week's Sony...
Italy has become the first Western country to block advanced chatbot ChatGPT. The Italian data-protection authority said there were privacy concerns relating to the model, which was created by US start-up OpenAI and is backed by Microsoft...
An Illinois man has been indicted for allegedly cheating the U.S. government out of millions of dollars for his pop-up COVID testing company and allegedly lied about test results. Zishan Alvi, 44, was the co-owner of Laboratory Elite, head...
No-one likes weeding, but new technology is helping farmers around the world tackle weeds in a more efficient and environmentally friendly way. Deanna Kovar from US farming equipment giant John Deere says that the company's new tractor-pu...