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Riaz Hasan obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Water resources engineer who designed life-saving solutions for the most vulnerable populations across the world…
Riaz Hasan obituary

Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms

silverguide.site – Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use ‘alarming’…
Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms

Tell us: how will the UK’s landline switch-off affect you or your family?

silverguide.site – The UK will phase out traditional home phones by 2027, but the switchover has been stressful for some. How do you feel about the change?…
Tell us: how will the UK’s landline switch-off affect you or your family?

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies

silverguide.site – Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases…
‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

silverguide.site – A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives…
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs

silverguide.site – Some say the technology is devaluing their work, while others reckon it is not yet – and might never be – good enough to replace them entirely…
Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs

Twenty-year-old to testify at US trial about harm from social media addiction

silverguide.site – Woman says ‘addictive design’ of Meta and YouTube hooked her before she was 10, causing depression and body dysmorphia…
Twenty-year-old to testify at US trial about harm from social media addiction

Nvidia quarterly earnings show immunity to AI bubble fears as it cashes in on data center boom

silverguide.site – Chipmaker’s quarterly earnings surpassed Wall Street’s expectations every quarter for multiple years now…
Nvidia quarterly earnings show immunity to AI bubble fears as it cashes in on data center boom

Top US body-camera maker reports record revenue amid Trump immigration crackdown

silverguide.site – Axon sees ‘major opportunities’ as Congress proposes $20m for ICE body cameras but data privacy experts warn of risks…
Top US body-camera maker reports record revenue amid Trump immigration crackdown

Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using AI across public services

silverguide.site – Tech equity campaigners compare move to ‘inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse’…
Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using AI across public services

Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’…
Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away

Meta’s AI sending ‘junk’ tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say

silverguide.site – Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit…
Meta’s AI sending ‘junk’ tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say

Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’

silverguide.site – He was at the heart of 1960s counterculture, then paved the way for the libertarian mindset of Silicon Valley. At 87, Brand is still keen to ensure the world is maintained properly – not just today, but for the next 10,000 years…
Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’

Signs of psychosis seen in Australian users’ interactions with AI chatbots, expert warns

silverguide.site – Toby Walsh says he despairs at Australian government’s lack of regulation of artificial intelligence…
Signs of psychosis seen in Australian users’ interactions with AI chatbots, expert warns

‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

silverguide.site – Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack…
‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

Reddit fined £14.5m in UK over use of under-13s’ data

silverguide.site – Information Commissioner’s Office imposes largest fine yet for a breach of children’s privacy…
Reddit fined £14.5m in UK over use of under-13s’ data

Police AI chief admits crime-fighting tech will have bias but vows to tackle it

silverguide.site – Exclusive: NCA’s Alex Murray says he hopes new £115m police AI centre can limit unfairness found in tools…
Police AI chief admits crime-fighting tech will have bias but vows to tackle it

New datacentres risk doubling Great Britain’s electricity use, regulator says

silverguide.site – Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demand…
New datacentres risk doubling Great Britain’s electricity use, regulator says

Palantir deals are a threat to our data rights as UK citizens | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: This US tech giant should not have been given NHS or Ministry of Defence contracts, writes Stephen Saunders. Plus a letter from Jan Savage…
Palantir deals are a threat to our data rights as UK citizens | Letters

Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’

silverguide.site – OpenAI CEO also downplayed concerns about how much water datacenters require at AI summit in India…
Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’
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