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* UK legislators propose “kill switch” laws to halt runaway AI, citing critical infrastructure risks * Lord Clement‑Jones and MP Alex Sobel push amendments and new bills, backed by ControlAI advocacy group * Similar efforts emerging in US Sam Altman’s fear-based marketing for AI seems to have backfired, as now multiple
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Flock Safety’s latest search tools give police several ways to find people on camera, not just the license plates on their cars. The capabilities sit inside a suite of software now at the center of dozens of police-stalking cases. WIRED collected and analyzed that software, and created a mockup
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How To Don’t panic if you spot an illegally created image or video of you online – there are ways to request its removal 02 Sep 2026 • 5 min. read Tackling deepfakes has become something of a common cause across the political spectrum, in America and elsewhere. That’s down
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Part of wider infrastructure replacement upgrade project with HPE Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has ditched VMware as part of a wider datacenter and network refresh, saving itself more than 85 percent on licensing costs - though its Chief Technology Officer says the decision wasn't purely financial.
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CrowdStrike said on Wednesday that it will run OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber inside a purpose-built cyber harness. That word is doing a great deal of work. It is also the word that made this week’s other cybersecurity story alarming. The expanded OpenAI partnership, announced at the company’s
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Around 20 million children experienced sexual exploitation or abuse online in a single year across 21 countries, according to a UNICEF study published on Thursday. That is roughly one in five internet-using children aged 12 to 17 in the countries surveyed. The findings come from “Through Children’s Eyes: How
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ByteDance has landed a $29.6bn loan, the second-largest in Asia this year and roughly three times what the TikTok owner borrowed offshore in 2024. Banks put in more than $30bn of orders for a facility that started life at $20bn. The terms were first reported by Bloomberg. Citigroup and
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John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a Canadian lake. It was also not his decision to make. Apple Maps now shows Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to users in the United States. Mark Gurman reported the change
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In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the Army signed the contract to buy the production version. AeroVironment announced on Wednesday that it has won a $464.8m award from the Army’s
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Organizations are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, but technology alone isn’t going to determine success. The businesses that unlock AI's full potential will be those that give governance the same attention as innovation. Country Manager ANZ at OneTrust. In the rush to deploy AI tools, too many
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Sam Altman does not like smart glasses. Speaking on the Sources Podcast, the OpenAI CEO said he finds it “very uncomfortable talking to people with a camera and a light” and confirmed that he does not wear smart glasses himself. That is a surprisingly firm position considering where the technology
