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Sam Altman launches job search to fill ‘critical role’ to guard against AI’s harms

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New head of preparedness at OpenAI will face daunting in-tray amid fears from some experts that AI could ‘turn on us’The maker of ChatGPT has advertised a $555,000-a-year vacancy with a daunting job description that would cause Superman to take a sharp intake of breath.In what may be close to the impossible job, the “head

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The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2025 | First Dog on the Moon

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From the world’s first social media ban to the world’s richest Jeff, revisit five of the best strips by the Guardian Australia cartoonistSign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue

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‘Undermines free speech’: Labour MP hits back at US government over visa ban on UK campaigners

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Chi Onwurah speaks out after Marco Rubio accused five Europeans, including two Britons, of ‘seeking to suppress American viewpoints they oppose’ A senior Labour MP has accused the Trump administration of undermining free speech after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, announced sanctions against two British anti-disinformation campaigners.Chi Onwurah, the chair of parliament’s technology

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Visa ban for European critics of online harm is first shot in US free speech war

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Legislation that seeks to curb harmful content is viewed as a threat to Silicon Valley by many Maga politiciansUK politics live – latest updatesFor Maga politicians, European tech regulation hits hard in two areas: at the economic interests of Silicon Valley and at their view of free speech.The action against five Europeans who are taking

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Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify

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Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadataAn activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is preparing to release them online.Observers said the apparent leak could boost AI companies looking for material to develop their technology. Continue reading…

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Should we turn the internet off?

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue worldThe internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy – from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face

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The Com: the growing cybercrime network behind recent Pornhub hack

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Criminal ecosystem is made up of mostly male native English language speakers aged from 16 to 25Ransomware hacks, data theft, crypto scams and sextortion cover a broad range of cybercrimes carried out by an equally varied list of assailants.But there is also an English-speaking criminal ecosystem carrying out these activities that defies conventional categorisation. Nonetheless,

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UK Foreign Office victim of cyber-attack in October, says Chris Bryant

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Minister says risk to ‘any individual’ from cyber-attack is low and that it is still unclear who is responsible The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office was hacked in October, a minister has said.Chris Bryant, a trade minister in Keir Starmer’s government, told Sky News there was a low risk to “any individual” from the

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‘It has to be genuine’: older influencers drive growth on social media

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As midlife audiences turn to digital media, the 55 to 64 age bracket is an increasingly important demographicIn 2022, Caroline Idiens was on holiday halfway up an Italian mountain when her brother called to tell her to check her Instagram account. “I said, ‘I haven’t got any wifi. And he said: ‘Every time you refresh,

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Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar

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Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackersIt is a hacker’s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that “admin” is the most commonly used password in the UK.The second most popular, “123456”, is also unlikely to keep hackers at bay. Continue

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