When I first saw the photos of all of the tech broligarchy lined up behind Donald Trump on his inauguration day something struck me as off. I couldn’t figure out what was bothering me until now. I realised they didn’t just look like very powerful attendees, they looked much more like very powerful shareholders in…
Instagram is one of the social networks where you might find yourself endlessly scrolling through various feeds and looking at reels, all while dealing with the ads that make Meta money. That doomscrolling experience is curated based on the accounts you follow, your interests, and how you use the app. Meta’s algorithm registers everything so…
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The past year has been crucial for Ukrainian-British tech cooperation. As one of the leading IT service exporters, Ukraine’s presence in the UK has never been stronger, with business ties growing deeper. Recently, the IT Ukraine Аssociation (ITU) published a comprehensive report on the state of the Ukrainian tech ecosystem. According to the report, Digital…
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Meta recently launched Meta AI in the European Union, although the company had to settle for an inferior experience compared to the rest of the world. By “launched,” I mean that Meta forced Meta AI on all European users whether they liked it or not. That colorful circular button is now present on Facebook, Messenger,…
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Banks and tech firms are coming together in an initiative to share information on fraud to give them visibility of the attacks targeted at customers. The collaboration is part of Stop Scams UK’s intelligence-sharing pilots, which have brought together banks such as HSBC, NatWest and Santander with tech firms Amazon, Google and Meta. Mobile telecommunications…
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It’s been a few weeks since Apple announced its most important Apple Intelligence feature would be delayed indefinitely. Facing a huge crisis with its AI platform, the company has shaken up its structure to finally deal with Siri and give it a proper revamp.After all, the last time Apple announced a product that wasn’t ready…
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Fintech trade body calls on the government to establish a national centre to help businesses across different sectors fight fraud through data sharing. Innovate Finance said that current data sharing initiatives designed to fight fraud operate in silos, which means the country lacks the “critical mass” or “scale” needed to stop fraudsters. The call for…
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In January, Meta announced it would phase out its fact-checking program for Facebook in the US and replace it with X-like Community Notes. Now, Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, Joel Kaplan, has revealed that this change will occur on April 7.In a post on X, Kaplan wrote: “By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the…
ChatGPT’s ability to ignore copyright and common sense while creating images and deepfakes is the talk of the town right now. The image generator model that OpenAI launched last week is so widely used that it’s ruining ChatGPT’s basic functionality and uptime for everyone.But it’s not just advancements in AI-generated images that we’ve witnessed recently.…
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Over the past few months, the editorial team at Computer Weekly’s French sister title, LeMagIT, has been evaluating different versions of several free downloadable large language models (LLMs) on personal machines. These LLMs currently include Google’s Gemma 3, Meta’s Llama 3.3, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, several versions of Mistral (Mistral, Mistral Small 3.1, Mistral Nemo,…
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