#theguardian.com. × Top of the flops: just what does the games industry deem ‘success’ any more?. Dragon Age: The Veilguard has reached 1.5 million gamers around the world – yet its developers have labelled it a disappointment. With unfair expectations, it’s the niche and left-field titles that wil
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#theguardian.com. × How Harrison Ford brought a strike over video game AI to the world’s attention. Voice actors demanding compensation when AI generates performances from their work have taken industrial action since July
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo. Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies on, says Sonia Kgomo, an organiser with African Tech Workers Rising
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Elon Musk owning OpenAI would be a terrible idea. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen | Chris Stokel-Walker. My heart says he is settling scores and making mischief. My head fears Trump might like an ally controlling the key AI company, says tech writer and author Chris Stokel Walker
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 review: Apple’s best workout buds are back with a bang. Better fit, great sound, noise cancelling, longer battery life and heart rate sensors upgrade just about everything
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Pressure from ‘higher up’ at ABC to sack Antoinette Lattouf from very first day on air, court hears. ABC manager who had approached Lattouf for temporary hosting role told the court she had ‘tried to stop them’ from firing journalist
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Elon Musk appears with Trump and tries to claim ‘Doge’ team is transparent. Key presidential ally, whose agency has operated in secrecy, also makes claim – without evidence – of fraud at USAid
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × World leaders and tech bosses focus on innovation at Paris AI summit – video highlights. The US and the UK refused to sign a declaration on ‘inclusive and sustainable’ artificial intelligence
#Feb.11.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events. Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for their model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts
#Feb.11.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × How Musk and Trump are flooding the zone. Musk raids a dizzying swath of agencies with the goal of ‘slashing waste and fraud’ as the two deploy brinkmanship
#Feb.11.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × US and UK refuse to sign Paris summit declaration on ‘inclusive’ AI. Confirmation of snub comes after JD Vance criticises Europe’s ‘excessive regulation’ of technology
#Feb.11.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Top Republican condemns Elon Musk for ‘supplication’ to China in new book. Exclusive: Tom Cotton, Senate intelligence chair, risks angering key Trump ally with harsh words for ‘tech titans’
#Feb.11.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × UK copyright law consultation ‘fixed’ in favour of AI firms, peer says. Exclusive: Beeban Kidron says plans will lead to ‘wholesale’ transfer of wealth from creative industries to tech sector
#Feb.11.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × How Meta abandoned Silicon Valley’s most ambitious diversity goals. Zuckerberg’s company once invested millions and attracted top talent as tech’s leader in corporate diversity. Those aspirations peaked in 2019 and just a few years later, Meta scuttled them altogether
#Feb.11.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs, BBC finds. Most answers had ‘significant issues’ when researchers asked services to use broadcaster’s news articles as source
#Feb.11.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts. US government auditors find cuts have ‘degraded USAid’s ability to distribute and safeguard humanitarian assistance’
#Feb.10.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Elon Musk-led group makes surprise bid of nearly $100bn for OpenAI. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, responded that he would not accept and offered to buy X instead
#Feb.10.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘Engine of inequality’: delegates discuss AI’s global impact at Paris summit. Emmanuel Macron’s tech envoy warns attenders current trajectory of artificial intelligence is unsustainable
#Feb.10.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Wait! The Sims is a lot bleaker than I remember. When EA surprise-dropped a rerelease of The Sims 1 and 2, I was delighted to return to a defining video game of millennial childhoods – but it feels different 25 years later
#Feb.10.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Want to know how the world ends? Try this Wikipedia page. Every year of human history has a dedicated Wikipedia entry. But surf far enough into the future, and you’ll find evaporating oceans, planetary collisions, and the ultimate apocalypse: the Big Slurp
#Feb.10.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Man who lost bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill. James Howells lost case to force Newport city council to allow him to search for hard drive discarded by accident
#Feb.10.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Major outage hits TPG, Vodafone, iiNet, Internode and Kogan customers amid wild NSW weather. Thousands of customers lose broadband access after power outage following widespread thunderstorms in Sydney and interstate
#Feb.10.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Last throw of the boule for Addis Ababa’s historic pétanque club as developers turn city into hi-tech hub. In the heart of the Ethiopian capital is a relic of the French-built railway but the government’s grandiose redevelopment plans threaten this friendly club
#Feb.10.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × AI race must be led by ‘western, liberal, democratic’ countries, says Peter Kyle. Tech secretary stresses UK’s important role before global AI summit in Paris discusses issues such as governance
#Feb.10.2025 ×
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