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ChatGPT founder announces plan to scan every human iris on the planet
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind ChatGPT has unveiled a plan to scan the iris of every person in the world to help distinguish real people from sophisticated machines. Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, on Monday launched his project Worldcoin in Britain and 34 other countries. The venture aims to scan billions of…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Apple warns it could shut down apps rather than break encryption
Apple has warned Suella Braverman that it would shut down apps such as FaceTime and iMessage in the UK rather than comply with an order to break encryption. The iPhone maker has told the Home Office that it would refuse to build a secret backdoor into its apps as it labelled government plans to extend…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Apple’s British sales bounce back to record £1.5bn
Apple’s UK sales have bounced back to a record £1.5bn amid strong demand for its top-of-the-range iPhones. The company’s UK retail arm, which includes its British bricks-and-mortar stores, reported a 61pc surge in revenues in the 12 months ending in September 2022. The uptick represented a sharp recovery after sales fell during the pandemic. Revenue dropped from…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Paedophiles using AI technology to create life-like child porn
Image: BBC Paedophiles are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create and sell life-like child sexual abuse material, the BBC has found. Some are accessing the images by paying subscriptions to accounts on mainstream content-sharing sites such as Patreon. Patreon said it had a "zero tolerance" policy about such imagery on…
Nearly 1 million apps rejected for privacy violations
From 2020 to 2022, Apple rejected 958,000 applications from appearing on the App Store due to privacy violations, recent findings by Atlas VPN reveal. Apple has shared three annual reports on App Store fraud prevention since 2020, detailing how many fraudulent transactions they stopped, how many apps were rejected, user and developer accounts terminated, and similar…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Apple strikes chip deal with US firm Broadcom
Apple says it has struck a multi-billion dollar deal with chipmaker Broadcom to use more US-made parts. Under the multi-year agreement, the two US companies will develop components for 5G devices that will be designed and manufactured in America. Apple says the deal is part of a plan it announced in 2021 to invest $430bn…
Tech Digest daily roundup: BT to slash workforce, replace with AI
BT has revealed plans to significantly reduce the number of people working for the telecoms group as part of efforts to cut costs and bolster profitability, with artificial intelligence (AI) due to replace thousands of roles. While outlining annual results, the company said it saw its "total labour resource" being reduced from 130,000 to between…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Brit pleads guilty to 2020 Twitter hack
A British national extradited to the US last month has pleaded guilty in New York to a role in one of the biggest hacks in social media history. The July 2020 Twitter hack affected over 130 accounts including those of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Joseph James O'Connor, 23, known as PlugwalkJoe, pleaded guilty to…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Free EV charging points down almost 40%
Tesco, which has been providing charging points to customers since 2019, stopped offering free electricity in November last year. Britain's electric car owners will have to pay more to recharge as thousands of free charging points have disappeared this year due to rising energy costs. The number of charging points that…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google moves step closer to ditching passwords
Google is moving one step closer to ditching passwords, rolling out its passkey technology to Google accounts from Thursday. The passkey is designed to replace passwords entirely by allowing authentication with fingerprint ID, facial ID or pin on the phone or device you use for authentication. Apple has begun using the technology in iOS16 and the…
