In 2024, Computer Weekly’s data and ethics coverage continued to focus on the various ethical issues associated with the development and deployment of data-driven systems, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). This included reports on the copyright issues associated with generative AI (GenAI) tools, the environmental impacts of AI, the invasive tracking tools in place across the…
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Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…
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After months of speculation, Jony Ive confirmed in mid-September that he and a team of former Apple designers are working on hardware that will have ChatGPT at the core. While Ive said his LoveFrom design company will be involved in creating the product (or products?), he didn’t reveal what form factor(s) we should expect.I labeled…
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When it demoed Project Astra at I/O 2024 in May, Google teased smart glasses for the first time. The company did the same thing during Wednesday’s big Gemini 2.0 announcement, where the wearable was part of a longer Project Astra demo. Google also suggested Gemini AI smart glasses might be coming soon.At the time, I…
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The RedLine and Meta infostealer malwares that have victimised millions of people worldwide have been taken down in a Dutch-led global law enforcement action uniting agencies from Australia, Europe, the UK and the US. Operation Magnus, which was supported by the National Crime Agency (NCA), saw three servers seized in the Netherlands, two malicious web…
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has reported a 19% increase in revenue to $40.6bn for the third quarter of 2024, driven in part by what founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “good progress with AI [artificial intelligence]”. “We had a good quarter driven by AI progress across our apps and business,”…
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Meta is putting a lot of effort into its AI products as it focuses on the next phase of computing, one in which smart AR glasses might replace your iPhone or Android phone. This won’t happen anytime soon, and AR glasses might initially accompany the iPhone and Android phones. The Orion demo shows Meta’s very…
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When Western Digital introduced its Ultrastar DC SN861 SSDs earlier this year, the company did not disclose which controller it used for these drives, which made many observers presume that WD was using an in-house controller. But a recent teardown of the drive shows that is not the case; instead, the company is using a…
Workforce reductions are mounting across the tech sector globally as firms attempt to free up more resources for their artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. According to tracking website Layoffs.fyi, tech companies laid off more than 165,000 people in 2022 and 264,000 people in 2023, with the latest data showing that 410 tech firms have laid off…
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has begun looking at whether it should investigate Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002. The CMA is already looking at Anthropic’s partnership with Google owner Alphabet, as well as Microsoft’s partnership with Inflection. In October 2023, Alphabet invested $2bn in OpenAI rival…
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