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Braverman puts pressure on Meta to pause end-to-end encryption plans

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Home secretary Suella Braverman is stepping up pressure on Meta over its plans to roll out end-to-end encrypted message services on Facebook and Instagram. The government claims that plans by the social media company to introduce encrypted messaging services will have a “catastrophic impact” on the ability of police to detect and prosecute child sexual…

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UK minister fails to reassure tech companies over encryption risk

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The government yesterday attempted to quash industry concerns that the “spy clause” in the Online Safety Bill, which aims to crack down on child abuse and other harmful online content, would fundamentally weaken end-to-end encrypted services. Junior arts and heritage minister Stephen Parkinson told the House of Lords yesterday that regulators would not use controversial…

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Ducktail social media marketing malware rears its head again

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Cyber criminals targeting the accounts of social media users with an infostealer malware known as Ducktail are dramatically increasing their activity, and threat actors based out of Vietnam continue to drive the new surge, according to intelligence compiled by WithSecure. Ducktail first emerged a little over 12 months ago, targeting business accounts on Facebook and…

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Cover Reveal – Assassin’s Creed Mirage

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Ubisoft revealed Assassin’s Creed Mirage last September as part of a special stream celebrating the series’ 15th anniversary. Now, one year later, and a little over one month before the game hits PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, it’s getting the Game Informer spotlight on our latest cover! We traveled to France to speak with Ubisoft Bordeaux,…

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Alternative perspectives: relational and virtue ethics in tech

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Apple, augmented reality, Facebook, Google, Meta, social media, Tech, Technology / By

If you are involved in collecting and analysing data, or developing or applying algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, you probably want to do so responsibly. You can turn to documents that list and discuss ethical principles, such as preventing harms, human dignity, human autonomy, fairness, equality, transparency and explicability. Great principles – but they…

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Most Influential Women in UK Tech: Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame

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Computer Weekly’s list of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology has been running since 2012 to make female role models in the UK’s technology sector more visible and accessible.In 2015, the Hall of Fame was introduced alongside the top 50 to recognise women who have made a lifetime contribution to the technology sector, as…

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Risks of opening up AI

5 minutes of reading / Accenture, AI, AWS, Azure, Facebook, Git, GitHub, HP, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, open source, Palo Alto Networks, social media, Tech / By

Earlier in July, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced the availability of Llama 2, which will be made available in the Microsoft Azure AI model catalogue, as well as AWS. Meta describes Llama 2 as “the next generation” of its open source large language model. But while it is free for research and commercial…

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Meta results show impact of data fines and datacentre upgrade strategy

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Meta, the owner of Facebook, has posted earnings of $32bn for the second quarter of 2023, an 11% increase compared with the same quarter in 2022. The company’s chief financial officer, Susan Li, said she anticipated that Meta’s full-year 2023 expenses would be in the range of $88-91bn, an increase of between $1bn and $2bn…

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Rapidus Wants to Supply 2nm Chips to Tech Giants, Challenge TSMC

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It has been a couple of decades since a Japanese fab has offered a leading-edge chip manufacturing process. Even to this day, none of the Japanese chipmakers have made it as far as adopting FinFETs, something that U.S. and Taiwanese companies adopted in early-to-mid-2010s. But Rapidus, a semiconductor consortium backed by the Japanese government and…

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