Can't imagine why Meta is finding it so difficult to hire AI researchers www.reuters.com/business/met...
Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
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Rounding off an uncharacteristically long Telegraph Births column today
Somehow they made the robot more creepy by giving it clothes
This is all a huge vindication of the UK's decades-long move towards becoming a nation of lawyers, hairdressers and PR consultants that no longer makes things that can be tariffed
Nice solidarity here when Greene calls on an American: "I'm an American journalist, and I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking."
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last yr.Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene literally telling a British reporter to "go back to your country" and berating her for trying to ask a question. "We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
Relaxing Sunday trading laws feels like a popular, fiscally-neutral policy that would do a lot more for growth than increasing the contactless limit or whatever. Weird that there appears to be zero momentum behind it
I see all these stories about advertisers like Disney and Apple returning to X but my feed is all stuff like this
Sure, but does the picture caption need to mention his politics?
Meta ditching fact checkers might be a result of a wider shift in society’s approach to acceptable speech boundaries encapsulated by the US election. But if you asked me on a deeper level, I’d say Mark Zuckerberg would really like Trump to keep the TikTok ban
The actual use is running Chrome with all my tabs open
Wrote about the HS2 of the telecoms world, the Emergency Services Network, which still hasn't been switched on a decade after being announced www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
How Whitehall blundering created an ‘unfixable’ £14bn scandal
In a country notorious for delays and spiralling costs, the emergency services network upgrade still stands out
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Seasonal reminder that contrary to popular belief, sharing your Spotify Wrapped is NOT mandatory
The tax on EV owners without a driveway feels like something that’s going to need intervention sooner rather than later
Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...
Black Friday has really gentrified. Used to be a day when people queued up to lamp each other for a cheap telly and now it's a fortnight where you can renew your Economist subscription and phone contract for half price
The year is 2070, only the roaches and underground people survive. Apple is developing a more conversational Siri to catch up in AI
Bluesky does a good job with the starter packs but remember when you could just do this to build your social graph
The Bluesky juice is real but these Similarweb charts going round showing it overtake Threads are for *website visits* which isn’t a particularly meaningful metric in 2024
Britain has fallen to a record low in the global TOP500 supercomputer rankings The UK's most powerful supercomputer comes in at 62nd in November's list Comes after new government suspended funding for new exascale machine www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
UK falls to record low in world supercomputer ranking as Starmer pulls funding
Lack of investment threatens Britain’s position in global tech race
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Gmail has sent me a weekly 98% warning for 18 months now. Being cut off feels pretty unlikely at this point
How the foundation of Bluesky was built is so crucial for the future of social — so much so that @rmac.bsky.social & I wrote a whole chapter about it in our book. From day 1, @jay.bsky.team was insistent on independence, a decision that was extraordinarily prescient. (1/2)
You know Bluesky is the new Twitter because I’m already being mistaken for @jamestitcombe.bsky.social
One of the big post election scoops came from turning up to a payments infrastructure conference
Researchers say Twitter changed its algorithm to promote posts from Elon Musk and Republicans in the run-up to the election. "The date at which (the spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk's formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024." eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
This feels like an appropriate return to this app... Exclusive: The Guardian is preparing to quit X as left-leaning social media users grow disillusioned with Elon Musk's transformation of Twitter www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
The Guardian quits Elon Musk’s X after Trump victory
Publication’s decision to leave the platform comes as thousands of users move to rival app
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