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Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates

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Washington accused of ‘coercion and intimidation’ after five Europeans behind campaign to regulate US tech giants targetedUK politics live – latest updatesThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Union have accused Washington of “coercion and intimidation”, after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at heart of […]

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Vince Zampella, co-creator of Call of Duty video game series, dies aged 55

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Game developer, who was also involved in Medal of Honor and Titanfall, was killed in a car crashVince Zampella, the co-creator of the Call of Duty video game series, has died aged 55.The head of the video game developer Respawn Entertainment and the co-founder of Infinity Ward was killed in a car crash in California,

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State of play: who holds the power in the video games industry in 2025?

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This year has brought us many brilliant video games – but as wealth continues to concentrate, and games are used to exert economic and political influence, we need to keep an eye on the top playersI love playing video games, but what interests me most as a journalist are the ways in which games intersect

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Extremists are using AI voice cloning to supercharge propaganda. Experts say it’s helping them grow

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Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideologyWhile the artificial intelligence boom is upending sections of the music industry, voice generating bots are also becoming a boon to another unlikely corner of the internet: extremist movements that are using them to recreate the voices and speeches of

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Elon Musk’s massive 2018 Tesla pay package restored by Delaware court

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Decision from state supreme court on deal once worth $56bn and now worth some $139bn overturns ruling that prompted angry Musk backlashElon Musk’s controversial $56bn pay package from Tesla was reinstated by the Delaware supreme court on Friday, two years after a lower court struck down the vast compensation deal as “unfathomable”.The reinstated pay package

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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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‘Uniquely evil’: Michigan residents fight against huge datacenter backed by top tycoons

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Locals band together in David v Goliath battle against facility they say would jack up bills, increase pollution and destroy area’s characterA who’s who of the nation’s most powerful politicians and tech tycoons are forcing through a proposal for a huge datacenter in rural Michigan as locals from across the political spectrum have come out

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AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims

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Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay costThe AI boom has caused as much carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere in 2025 as emitted by the whole of New York City, it has been claimed.The global environmental impact of the rapidly spreading

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This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Computing, Donald Trump, Europe, European Union, Ursula von der Leyen, US news, World news

Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him The unthinkable has happened. The US is Europe’s adversary. The stark, profound betrayal contained in the Trump administration’s national security strategy should stop any further denial and dithering in

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Democratic senators investigate data centers’ effects on electricity prices

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Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen demand answers from tech firms including Google and AmazonThree Democratic US senators announced on Tuesday that they are investigating whether big tech companies are passing the soaring utility costs of “energy-guzzling” data centers on to ordinary Americans. The trio sent letters to the heads of Google, Microsoft,

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