Tag: Elon Musk
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google not rushing forward with AI chatbots
The success this year of powerful new generative artificial intelligence models like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, have laid the groundwork for a new era of AI tech set to explode even further in 2023. Google, though equipped with its own powerful (but definitely not sentient) LaMDA AI chatbot, says it doesn’t plan rushing its models out…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Could TikTok be banned across US?
Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much these days, but have joined forces to unveil bipartisan legislation that would ban TikTok across the US. Representatives on both sides of the political divide in the House of Representatives and Senate have spoken out against what they perceive as a threat to national security. Those concerns were…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council
Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of nearly 100 independent civil, human rights and other organisations. The company, now run by Elon Musk, formed the council in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform. It had been scheduled to meet with Twitter representatives on…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Baby Tesla electric car to target VW ID.3
Image: AutoExpress Tesla ends 2022 without delivering either its much-delayed Cybertruck or the new Roadster – but the company is already putting fresh focus on the development of a smaller, cheaper model that could play a bigger role in EV adoption. Rumours of a vehicle positioned beneath the current entry point, the Model 3, have been swirling for…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Apple sued after AirTag devices ‘used for stalking’
Two women are suing Apple after they claimed AirTag devices made it easier for their ex-partners to track them down. Apple said it had made the devices "stalkerproof" - but a proposed class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco alleges this is not the case. Starting at £24, AirTags are small discs - about 3cm in…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google opens its first UK tech centre for disabled
An alarm clock for people who are deaf is on display at the Google tech centre. Image: Google If you design technology with disabled people in mind, you design technology better for everyone. This was the sentiment from Google as it opened its first UK research and development centre dedicated to…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Happy 30th Birthday to the text message
The text message is celebrating its 30th birthday - the first was sent to a mobile phone by a Vodafone engineer in Berkshire in the UK on 3 December 1992. It was sent in order to test out the tech, and read "Merry Christmas". Neil Papworth sent it to one of the firm's bosses, Richard…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter ends Covid misinformation policy
Twitter says it has stopped enforcing its policy on misleading information about coronavirus. According to the company's website, it stopped taking action against tweets breaching its Covid rules, on Wednesday, 23 November. Twitter had previously reported suspending more than 11,000 accounts for Covid misinformation as of September this year. BBC News has approached Twitter for…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Plans to remove harmful content axed from Online Safety Bill
Controversial measures which would have forced big technology platforms to take down legal but harmful material have been axed from the Online Safety Bill. Critics of the section in the bill claimed it posed a risk to free speech. Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan denied weakening laws protecting social media users and said adults would have…
Tech Digest daily roundup: New law will make sharing pornographic deepfakes a crime
A planned new law would make sharing pornographic deepfakes without consent a crime in England and Wales. Tackling the rise in manipulated images, where a person's face is put on someone else's body, is part of a crackdown on the abuse of intimate pictures in the Online Safety Bill. This law would also make it…
