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OpenAI boss Sam Altman denies sister’s sexual abuse lawsuit claims | US News
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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has denied allegations of sexual abuse made by his sister. Ann Altman’s lawyers filed a lawsuit in the US accusing him of regularly sexually abusing her between 1997 and 2006. In a joint statement with his mother and two brothers, Mr Altman, 39, said: “All of these claims are utterly…
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Meta scraps third party fact checkers – and UFC boss Dana White joins board | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Meta is scrapping its third party fact-checking service in the US after nine years and replacing it with a “community notes” system, similar to the one used by X. It says it will help promote free expression and stop harmless content getting taking down. Users on sites such as Facebook and Instagram will be able…
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Jaguar boss defends rebrand after backlash – as new electric car revealed | UK News
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Jaguar wants “to be bold and disruptive” with its new electric car and redesign, the luxury vehicle maker’s managing director told Sky News. The British car maker sparked widespread controversy last month when it unveiled its rebrand ahead of becoming a fully electric brand. Speaking to Sky News business and economics correspondent Gurpreet Narwan, managing…
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HS2 boss reveals £100m bill for a railway line ‘bat shed’ that ‘isn’t needed’ | Money News
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HS2 is spending more than £100m on a “shed” to protect bats on a section of the line, even though there is “no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats”, the project company’s chairman has said. Sir Jon Thompson said the 1km (0.6 mile) curved structure at Sheephouse Wood in Buckinghamshire will create a barrier…
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British Google AI boss Sir Demis Hassabis among scientists awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry | UK News
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Briton Sir Demis Hassabis has been awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry, jointly with two other scientists. The trio of Sir Demis, as well as Americans Professor David Baker and Dr John Jumper, were honoured on Wednesday for their work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones. The research has helped advances…
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CrowdStrike boss apologises for ‘mistake’ that caused global IT outage | Science & Tech News
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A senior executive at CrowdStrike has apologised for a faulty software update that caused a global IT outage in July. The incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and impacted industries around the globe including banks, health care, media companies and hotel chains. The outage disrupted internet services, affecting 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices. Adam Meyers,…
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Planning laws preventing faster internet, BT boss Marc Allera tells Sky News | Business News
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Planning regulation is slowing down the rollout of faster internet, the chief executive of BT’s consumer division has told Sky News. Planning rules were said to be the “key barrier” to implementing 5G mobile phone signal by BT consumer division CEO Marc Allera. He described the legislation as “very arcane and really not favourable to…
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GCHQ boss says China’s ‘genuine’ cyber threat ‘weakens security of internet for all’ | Science & Tech News
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GCHQ now “devotes more resource to China than any other single mission,” according to the intelligence agency’s director, Anne Keast-Butler. China poses an “epoch-defining challenge” to the UK, she said at CyberUK, the National Cyber Security Centre’s conference in Birmingham. Last week, Sky News discovered China had hacked the Ministry of Defence’s payroll system and…
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Changpeng Zhao: Former boss of world’s largest crypto exchange Binance jailed for allowing money laundering | Business News
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The former boss of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has been jailed for four months for allowing money laundering. The sentence was handed down to Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, nicknamed CZ, after he pleaded guilty to breaching US anti-money laundering laws designed to prevent terrorist financing and funds going to sanctioned countries. The prison term…
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Are Facebook and Instagram still down? Meta boss apologises for ‘technical issue’ which hit thousands of users | Science & Tech News
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Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads suffered widespread problems on Tuesday afternoon, with users locked out of their accounts and pages failing to load properly. Facebook outages reported on Down Detector shot up just before 3pm, with more than 300,000 problems logged. More than 25,000 Instagram outages were also reported via the website, which collates status…