Russian officials are accusing Meta of “overt censorship” after the company banned Russian state media networks from its apps. RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other state media accounts were blocked around the world over claims they carried out covert operations to influence social media users. The Russian Embassy in the UK has now told Sky News the ban “casts doubt on ...
Scientists are creating “humanity’s last exam” to test AI and see when it has reached expert-level intelligence. People are being asked to submit their questions and create “the world’s most difficult artificial intelligence test” by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI. “Existing tests now have become too easy and we can no longer track AI developments well, ...
British scientists have stored DNA information for an entire human on a crystal, which could be used to bring back humanity if we become extinct. The team from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) used lasers to inscribe the data on a 5D crystal, which they said can survive for billions of years. Unlike other storage formats, it ...
The UK and its Five Eyes allies have issued a cyber attack warning over a China-backed “botnet” of more than 260,000 compromised devices. Businesses have been urged by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its allies in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to protect their devices from possible attacks. It says a company based in China, with ...
Making money was the driving force of the company behind the doomed Titan submersible and it involved “very little in the way of science”, OceanGate’s former operations director has said. The vessel imploded on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic in June last year, killing all five people on board. David Lochridge, who fulfilled the role for two ...
David Lammy chose to make his first major policy speech as foreign secretary in the lush surroundings of a glasshouse at Kew Gardens. He recalled how his father brought him to Kew as a schoolboy to experience the rainforest environment of his native Guyana. The sort of opening you might expect to hear from a politician – especially one promising ...
Teenage Instagram users will get new privacy settings, its parent company Meta has announced in a major new update. It is an attempt by Meta, which also owns WhatsApp and Facebook, to reduce the amount of harmful content seen online by young people. Instagram allows 13-year-olds and above to sign up but after the privacy changes, all designated accounts will ...
Tonight’s full moon is a harvest moon, supermoon and lunar eclipse all rolled into one. The spectacle should be visible across the UK, if skies stay clear. So what does it all mean? Lunar eclipse A partial lunar eclipse happens when the Earth passes between the sun and moon and casts a shadow. Tonight, it’ll be visible in the top ...
One in five GPs is using generative AI tools to help them do their job, despite the risks that come with it, and a lack of training. GPs are using commercially available tools like ChatGPT to write documentation and even suggest alternative diagnoses for patients, a new study in the British Medical Journal shows. It’s the largest study of its ...
One-year-old twin girls, conjoined at the head, have been successfully separated during a 14 hour operation led by a leading British surgeon. Professor Noor ul Owase Jeelani from Great Ormond Street Hospital used leading mixed reality technology to complete the complex procedure on Minal and Mirha in Turkey. Both are recovering in hospital and are expected to make full recoveries ...