The internet is filled with sites and services we loathe yet it seems, to paraphrase Brokeback Mountain, we just don’t know how to quit them. Consider the evidence: Facebook was widely reviled after its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, yet it still has over 3 billion monthly active users. Since Elon Musk’s takeover of […]
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Shady behaviour might be part of the Grand Theft Auto DNA, but leaking video game trailers on TikTok before launch is probably not what developers had in mind. Especially not when it can be traced back to a senior Rockstar developer’s son. The fact that fans will need to wait more than a year for
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TikTok has promised to invest €12bn as part of an ongoing push to appease European regulators, who have raised suspicions that the app’s user data is being monitored by the Chinese government. In response to repeated allegations of this nature, the short-form video app launched Project Clover in March. While it might sound like a
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My ancient Samsung Galaxy is ready for retirement. Cracks expand across the screen, photos are hazy blurs, and the battery barely survives a day. It’s time to buy a replacement. The initial contenders for my cash were the usual mix: Androids and iPhones with old names, incremental upgrades, and eye-watering price tags. While mulling over
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Security compliance (and particularly ISO 27001) is like the project in school you had the whole year to complete — and ended up starting in a panic the night before. Given the time, resources, and complexity of completing the certification, it’s one of the things startup founders are most likely to put off for a
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Deepfake fraud attempts have increased by a whopping 31 times in 2023 — a 3,000% increase year-on-year. That’s according to a new report by Onfido, an ID verification unicorn based in London. The company attributes the surge to the growing availability of cheap and simple online tools and generative AI. Face-swapping apps are the most
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With cybercrime on the rise across the UK and more SMEs being targeted, security is more important than ever before. Even if you believe your business is secure from data leaks and cyberattacks, if you’re not able to demonstrate this to potential clients, your sales team could be missing out on growth-driving deals. This is
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Over the past year, AI image generators have taken the world by storm. Heck, even our distinguished writers at TNW use them from time to time. Truth is, tools like Stable Diffusion, Latent Diffusion, or DALL·E can be incredibly useful for producing unique images from simple prompts — like this picture of Elon Musk riding
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Britain’s biggest chip plant has been bought by US semiconductor firm Vishay for $177mn. The Newport Wafer Fab in Wales was previously owned by Nexperia, which acquired the business in 2021. Nexperia is headquartered in the Netherlands, but the company is a subsidiary of China’s Wingtech. This ownership structure attracted intervention from UK lawmakers. Last year,
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It’s been a little over five years since the GDPR came into effect and fines keep amassing — especially for social media platforms. New research by Dutch VPN company Surfshark has found that, since 2018, five of the most popular social media (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Whatsapp, and X/Twitter) have been fined over €2.9bn for violating
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As the European Union prepares for elections next year, the bloc is developing new measures to protect the democratic process. The latest rules focus on advertising. On Tuesday, EU officials unveiled new regulations for online political ads, which aim to make campaigns more transparent and safe from interference. These are the five new measures that are being implemented:
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The Netherlands is building its own large language model (LLM) that seeks to provide a “transparent, fair, and verifiable” alternative to AI chatbots like the immensely popular ChatGPT. It seems that everyone and their dog is developing their own AI chatbot these days, from Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing Chat to the recently announced Grok,
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