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Technology Feb 25
Shein's elusive boss hails Chinese roots in rare public appearance

His speech follows years of the firm focusing away from China as it moved its headquarters to Singapore....

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Technology Feb 25
US threatens Anthropic with deadline in dispute on AI safeguards

The AI developer laid out red lines on military use of its products, a source said....

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Technology Feb 25
Discord delays age verification plans after user outcry

Users were unhappy about plans for age verification to require facial or ID scans....

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Technology Feb 25
Google apologises for Baftas alert to 'see more' on racial slur

Google said the news alert was an error that should not have happened....

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Technology Feb 24
Reddit fined £14m for 'concerning' child age check failings

The UK's data watchdog said the failings meant children could be exposed to harmful material online....

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Technology Feb 24
Orbital space race heats up in Arctic north

Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up....

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Technology Feb 24
'The end of Xbox': fans split as AI exec takes over Microsoft's top gaming role

The executive shake-up has sparked online debate about new boss Asha Sharma's gaming credentials....

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Technology Feb 23
Porn company fined £1.35m by Ofcom over age check failings

Ofcom's £1.35m fine on 8579 LLC is the largest it has levied under the Online Safety Act so far....

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Technology Feb 21
Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting

OpenAI said the account's activity did not meet the threshold to flag it to authorities when it was identified....

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Technology Feb 21
Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media

Deepfakes showing grim taxpayer-funded waterparks have gone viral and drawn some racist responses....

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Technology Feb 21
Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games

As top games such as GTA 6 are speculated to cost $100 (£74), some developers are deliberately pricing lower....

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Technology Feb 20
Asos co-founder dies after Thailand apartment block fall

Quentin Griffiths co-founded Asos in 2000 and remained a significant shareholder after leaving the firm five years later...

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Technology Feb 20
Urgent research needed to tackle AI threats, says Google AI boss

But the head of the US delegation at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi says: "We totally reject global governance of AI."...

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Technology Feb 20
Starmer 'appeasing' big tech firms, says online safety campaigner

Baroness Kidron tells the BBC the PM has being "late to the party" in regulating social media....

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Technology Feb 20
Nasa boss says Boeing Starliner failure one of worst in its history

The agency released a critical report that puts the Starliner incident at same mistake level assigned to the fatal Colum...

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Technology Feb 20
The Chinese AI app sending Hollywood into a panic

Clips of Deadpool and other film characters have sparked alarm within Hollywood over copyright infringement....

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Technology Feb 20
Microsoft error sees confidential emails exposed to AI tool Copilot

The company says it has addressed the issue and it "did not provide anyone access to information they weren't already au...

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Technology Feb 20
SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium

A SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed to Earth last year. Now scientists have measured the pollution it caused....

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Technology Feb 19
Zuckerberg defends Meta in landmark social media addiction trial

The billionaire boss said he "always" regretted not making faster progress to identify users under 13....

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Technology Feb 19
Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new law

The government is proposing that intimate image abuse should be treated more severely....

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Technology Feb 18
Call of Duty advert banned for trivialising sexual violence

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd said the ad for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was targeted at adults....

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Technology Feb 18
V&A displays first YouTube video and watchpage

The original YouTube experience from 2005 has been recreated using internet archives....

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Technology Feb 18
'I do not trust them' - top streamers left concerned by Discord age checks

The platform's plan to roll out global age checks has caused concern in streaming communities....

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Technology Feb 18
Tech Life

We chat about a conversational AI that's almost human-like in its speech skills...

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Technology Feb 17
Could Bill Gates and political tussles overshadow AI safety debate in Delhi?

As global tech leaders meet Delhi, India hopes to level the playing field for countries outside the US and China....

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Technology Feb 17
Reddit's human content wins amid the AI flood

Reddit says its human contributors are valued amid an internet awash with AI-generated content....

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Technology Feb 17
How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from years of harm

Detectives desperate to locate a 12-year-old, seen abused online, found a surprising lead. ...

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Technology Feb 16
New Silent Hill game inspired by tiny fishing village in Fife

Silent Hill: Townfall is set in the fictional St Amelia, based on the real village of St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife...

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Technology Feb 16
ByteDance to curb AI video app after Disney legal threat

Videos featuring Spider-Man and other characters which are Disney's intellectual property have gone viral since Seedance...

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Technology Feb 16
We will do battle with AI chatbots as we did with Grok, says Starmer

The government's new plans will mean no online platform will get a "free pass" on children's safety on the internet, the...

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Technology Feb 14
Stroke survivors trial new at-home tech: 'It's given me my freedom back'

Participants in the NHS 'Triceps' trial wear a device in their ear which emits electrical pulses while they do rehab. ...

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Technology Feb 14
Tech Now

Alasdair Keane climbs aboard an electric boat in Norway....

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Technology Feb 13
AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads....

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Technology Feb 13
AI coding platform's flaws allow BBC reporter to be hacked

Vibe-coding tools - which let people without coding skills create apps using AI - are exploding in popularity....

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