The competition for the world’s best AI talent is frenzied. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta, has personally taken charge of efforts to recruit for a “superintelligence” lab. The sums on offer are eye-watering: a rumoured $200m-plus to prise away the head of Apple’s AI models. OpenAI executives are said to be “recalibrating” compensation in…
The government has set out plans to lower the voting age across the UK to 16 by the next general election. Ministers argue the move will boost engagement in democracy and give young people a say in their future. But critics claim it could benefit Labour as young people are more likely to vote for…
A threat actor has used a patched vulnerability in SonicWall software The group is tracked as UNC6148 This allowed UNC6148 to potentially steal credentials and deploy ransomware A financially motivated threat actor, tracked by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group as UNC6148, has been observed targeting patched end-of-life SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances. These…
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base. (NASA/Bill Ingalls) For copyright and restrictions refer to – http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html America is struggling to keep up with a booming space industry. A particular space challenge is looming in the Pacific, where investments to bolster U.S. space launch infrastructure lag behind Florida’s highly-integrated…
MP Diane Abbott has been suspended by the Labour Party pending an investigation into comments she made about racism, the BBC understands. The move also means that Abbott will sit as an independent MP, known as losing the whip. Labour said it would not be commenting “while this investigation is ongoing”. It comes after she…
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Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to settle a multibillion dollar lawsuit with a group of shareholders over how top executives at Meta handled repeated privacy violations by Facebook. The shareholders were seeking $8bn (£6bn) in damages. It is unclear how much they agreed to settle for. The settlement was announced on Thursday by a lawyer for…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is expected to sit down with House Oversight Committee investigators behind closed doors in September, Fox News Digital has learned. A House Oversight Committee aide told Fox News Digital that she’s one of four high-profile former Biden officials who have…
Netflix has announced an Assassin’s Creed TV series is coming to the streamer It has been in the making for almost five years but we don’t have much information yet The plot describes the series as “a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions” Netflix has greenlit an Assassin’s Creed TV…
For the first time, a new study has revealed how and when we make eye contact — not just the act itself — plays a crucial role in how we understand and respond to others, including robots. Led by cognitive neuroscientist Dr Nathan Caruana, researchers from the HAVIC Lab at Flinders University asked 137 participants…
