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Broadband

Most deprived areas being left in broadband slow lane, says LGA

People ask a chat bot function in mobile app

A-level students still learning about floppy disks but not AI, Parliament told

Coronavirus – Mon Oct 11, 2021

Phones should be banned in schools to tackle damage by pornography – MPs told

Kim Kardashian attends the Time100 Gala, celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world, at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in New York

Briton pleads guilty to Twitter hack that included Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk

An image of computer code with a human hand superimposed on it

UK-based tech company claims quantum computing ‘breakthrough’

Education World Forum

AI could take ‘much of heavy lifting’ out of teaching, says Education Secretary

A drone display at the Coronation Concert

Concert drone show organiser describes ‘nerve-wracking but exciting’ evening

Facebook

Facebook misled parents and failed to protect children’s privacy – US regulator

A facial recognition camera in front of a big screen

Critics hit out at police plan to use facial recognition on coronation crowds

Chat GPT

MPs raise concerns about AI ‘explosion’ and call for UK to form global standards

Sir Patrick Vallance

AI could affect jobs as much as the industrial revolution – Patrick Vallance

Nearly four in 10 older people are not managing their money online and could therefore be at risk of financial exclusion, according to Age UK (Yui Mok/PA)

Two in five over-65s with bank account ‘do not manage their money online’

There is going to be a crackdown on phone scams

Government to crack down on 'text scam misery' under fresh anti-fraud plan

Geoffrey Hinton quit Google and warned of the dangers of the tech he helped to create

AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton describes ‘nightmare scenario’ as he quits Google with warnings

A simple trick has allowed Twitter users to regain their blue ticks

Twitter bug allows users to reclaim blue tick without paying for monthly subscription fee

Jimmy Wales said he told Musk that Twitter was "making him stupid"

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says 'Twitter is making Elon Musk stupid' after billionaire's 'left-wing bias' claim

Chat GPT

ChatGPT responses to patients rated more empathetic than doctors – research

The NSPCC is backing a campaign on online safety (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Online abuse survivors ‘ignored and overlooked by tech companies’ write to PM