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Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash

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Billionaire’s artificial intelligence company gets approval to run 41 methane gas turbines at its ‘Colossus 2’ in MississippiElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI won approval on Tuesday to run 41 methane gas turbines at its “Colossus 2” datacenter in northern Mississippi. That’s nearly double the amount it has been operating.The turbines will help power xAI’s […]

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Keyboard jamming: the sneaky way to make your boss think you’re working from home

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Got a keyboard, something heavy and a desire to put your feet up during office hours? This could be the scam for you. But beware – employers are fighting backName: Keyboard jamming.Age: Being workshy isn’t new. Diogenes the Cynic was famous not only for living in a barrel, but also for his rejection of ambition

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Fifty years of sexing up tech: Apple’s epic hits – and misses

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Remember the iPod? How about the Pippin? In the half-century since it launched its first PC, Apple has given us some amazing innovations. We round up its biggest triumphs and flopsFifty years after Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded the company in Jobs’ parents’ garage in Los Altos, California, Apple has become a

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

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About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaignThousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” book to protest against AI firms using their work without permission.About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a

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Missing money, shipped chips and a 350,000% profit: key takeaways on AI ‘phantom investments’

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A Guardian investigation has put the UK government’s AI plans under the microscope. Here are the key details Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’The Essex ‘supercomputer’ that’s still a scaffolding yardA Guardian investigation has examined a series of massive AI investments announced by the government over the past two years, comparing

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The usability imperative for securing digital asset devices

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When Tony Fadell started working on the iPod, usability often trumped security. The result was an iterative process. Every time someone would find a security weakness or a way to hack the device, the development group would iterate to add measures and fix the issues. Yet, flaws would frequently be found, and the secure design

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AI allows hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, study finds

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New research suggests tech behind AI platforms such as ChatGPT makes it easier to perform sophisticated privacy attacksAI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned.In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) – the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT – successfully matched

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‘It means missile defence on data centres’: drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower

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Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfareIt is believed to be a first: the deliberate targeting of a commercial datacentre by the armed forces of a country at war.At 4.30am on Sunday morning, an Iranian Shahed 136 drone struck an Amazon Web Services datacentre in

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AI agents pose untold risk to humanity. We must act to prevent that future | David Krueger

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The pieces are falling into place for autonomous artificial intelligence. We must stop unregulated developmentArtificial intelligence is en route to artificial life. Exhibit A: “Moltbook”, an online platform designed for AI systems to communicate with one another, sans humans.What exactly do AIs talk to each other about? According to BBC reporting, AIs on Moltbook have

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UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say

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Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permissionThe UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a House of Lords committee has warned, as the government prepares to reveal the economic cost of proposals to change copyright

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