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Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts

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Exclusive: Sources believe AI tech company’s engineers have been granted access to directory of up to 1.5m staff UK politics live – latest updatesHealth service staff have expressed alarm that engineers working for controversial tech company Palantir have been given NHS email accounts.Employees using NHS.net email accounts have access to a directory with the contact

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Scientists develop AI tool to spot heart failure risk five years before it strikes

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Oxford team’s technology picked up danger signs with 86% accuracy in study of 72,000 patients in EnglandOxford scientists have developed a simple AI tool that can predict the risk of heart failure five years before it develops.More than 60 million people worldwide have the condition in which the heart cannot pump blood around the body

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Children in UK report online sextortion attempts in record numbers

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Exclusive: Call for nudity-detection tech on phones as number of under-18s reporting blackmail attempts rises by 34%• ‘I felt ashamed and scared’: how an online friendship became a sextortion nightmareChildren are reporting online sextortion attempts in record numbers in the UK, as campaigners urge tech companies to do more to stamp out the crime.The Report

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‘There’s a lot of desperation’: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat

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They have degrees, expertise and years of experience – but can’t find work. For many Americans, AI training has become a last refuge in a brutal job marketWhen Patrick Ciriello lost his job and couldn’t find work for nearly a year, his family’s foundation crumbled.“You hear about people who hit rock bottom,” Ciriello told the

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Anthropic’s refusal to arm AI is exactly why the UK wants it

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The Anthropic UK expansion story is less about diplomatic courtship and more about what happens when a government punishes a company for having principles. In late February, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a stark ultimatum: remove guardrails preventing Claude from being used for fully autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance,

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Is the UK falling out of love with social media?

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Ofcom data points to more passive consumption amid changes to apps and fears about mental health and past postsPosting significant events in your life, from birthdays to weddings and promotions, is a social media staple. But Jenny, like many other Britons recently, has hesitated over contributing to the infinite scroll.“I wouldn’t have even posted my

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MP rejects Palantir’s claims that criticism of NHS England deal is ‘ideologically motivated’

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Head of committee says it was appropriate for government to seek guidance on way out of £330m deal with US data companyClaims by Palantir that concerns over the US data analytics company’s multimillion-pound NHS contract are “ideologically motivated” have been rejected by the chair of a parliamentary committee.It was also appropriate for the government to

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Revealed: the vast illegal casino network targeting UK gamblers

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Calls for tougher laws as network stretching from Caribbean to Georgia generates riches for offshore tycoons by appearing to prey on the vulnerableImmaculately groomed and beaming from ear to ear, Andres Markou looks every inch the golden boy of the gambling sector. The youthful boss of MyStake, a fast-growing digital casino, has been pictured shaking

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Why every woman can see herself in the story of a German celebrity couple’s split | Fatma Aydemir

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Many will recognise their own experiences of digital abuse in Collien Fernandes’s allegations – the sense that technology offers perps both tools and coverSome stories that unfold in real life would read like the plot of a bad crime novel if you wrote them down. Too obvious, too contrived, almost lazy in their cruelty. For

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The jobs AI can’t do – and the young adults doing them

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For many young people entering the workforce, the stigma of hands-on jobs is fading. There a competitive appeal – and they all require human expertiseGib and Michelle Mouser are proud of their son’s career – just not in the way they once imagined.Only 23 years old, Cale Mouser already earns well over six figures, and

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