Category: Tech
Did AI mania rush Apple into making a rare misstep with Siri? | John Naughton
The company that prides itself on announcing products only when they’re ready grossly underestimated the demands of personalising its virtual assistant After ChatGPT broke cover in late 2022 and the tech industry embarked on its contemporary rendering of tulip mania, people started to wonder why the biggest tech giant of all – Apple – was…
What Australians flying to the US need to know about phone and device searches at the border
Can immigration deny you entry if you refuse to hand over your phone? What can officials look at or download, and how can you protect your devices? Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaign Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast If you are an Australian travelling to the United…
Data protection bill leaves room for governmental abuse, campaigners warn
Ministerial revision of privacy rules could allow targeting of voters with political messaging, rights groups fear Privacy campaigners have warned that voters’ personal data could be used to target them with political messaging under new laws. In a letter written to Chris Bryant, the data protection minister, and the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, campaigners…
Move fast, kill things: the tech startups trying to reinvent defence with Silicon Valley values
Venture capital-backed, $1bn companies are disrupting the way war will be waged with AI and futuristic weapons. Will they overthrow the traditional big military manufacturers, and what would that mean for the battlefield? Visit tech startup Skydio’s headquarters on the San Francisco peninsula in California and you’re likely to find flying robots buzzing on the…
How Afrofuturism can help us imagine futures worth living in | Lonny Avi Brooks and Reynaldo Anderson
Afrofuturism knows that futures are made – and that who gets to make them is a political question The digital age sings a seductive song of progress, yet a deliberate erasure echoes within its circuits. We stand at a crossroads, where technology, particularly the promise of artificial intelligence, threatens both to illuminate and to obliterate….
Floppy disks and vaccine cards: exhibition tells tale of privacy rights in UK
Forty items on display in Manchester, collated by information commissioner, chart evolution of personal data usage over 40 years Forty years ago, it would take a four-drawer filing cabinet to store 10,000 documents. You would need 736 floppy disks to hold those same files; now it takes up no physical space at all to store…
Trump extends deadline to keep TikTok running in US
The president has granted the app a second 75-day extension to comply with a law that requires it to either sell its US assets or face a ban. The president has granted the app a second 75-day extension to comply with a law that requires it to either sell its US assets or face a…
