TechSeveral doctors warn that the medical app underestimates serious symptoms, which could have life-threatening consequences.
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Your TV is spying on you
TechNaomi Brockwell: Most of this surveillance happens in the dark. Unchallenged, unverified, and largely unnoticed.
Tech giants’ executives become US military officers – gain power over future warfare
TechTop executives from Meta, Palantir and OpenAI sworn into US Army Reserve – to drive military's new era of AI, drones and digital warfare
Deepfakes are getting scary good
TechNaomi Brockwell: It’s fascinating… and chilling. Because the potential for misuse is growing fast, and most people aren’t ready.
Tech company bankrupt – “advanced AI” was 700 Indians
TechMicrosoft invested in the elaborate AI hoax.
OpenAI now keeps your ChatGPT logs… Even if you delete them
TechNaomi Brockwell: OpenAI is a fantastic tool for productivity, coding, research, and brainstorming. But it is not a place to store your secrets.
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Swedish police urge parents to delete chat apps from children’s phones
TechClaims that criminal gangs recruit children through the apps – but the list faces criticism.
Organic Maps – the map app that doesn’t map you
TechTired of Google Maps tracking you? Here's the free alternative that lets you navigate completely offline!
Teuton Systems offers smart privacy-focused technology – without compromise
TechWe take the fight against corporate snooping, mass government surveillance and criminal phone tapping through firm open source principles and secure products.
Macron seeks to ban children from social media
Tech"I'm giving us a few months to achieve European mobilization. Otherwise, I will negotiate with the Europeans so that we can do it ourselves".
Opt-in childhood
TechNaomi Brockwell: These aren’t just tools of convenience or connection. Often, they’re Trojan horses, collecting and transmitting data in ways most parents never realize.
AI surveillance in Swedish workplaces sparks outrage
Tech"It's about power. About control. About squeezing every last ounce of ‘efficiency’ out of people as if we were batteries".
AI agents succumb to peer pressure
TechHerd mentality and conformism are not only human phenomena. Even AI agents fall into the same pattern.
Apple sued over iPhone eavesdropping – users may get payouts
TechSiri listened to and recorded sensitive conversations without users consciously activating the voice assistant.
KYC is the crime
TechNaomi Brockwell: This surveillance regime didn’t always exist. It was built. And just because it’s now common doesn’t mean we should accept it.
Wallenberg and Nvidia to build “cutting-edge” AI center in Sweden
TechVaccine giant AstraZeneca wants to use the system to "lead the next generation of AI-driven drug discovery and development".
One in two young Brits long for a world without the internet
TechHalf would also support a "digital curfew" after 10pm - but experts doubt that such a solution would protect young people from harmful influences.
This isn’t the internet we were promised
TechNaomi Brockwell: We now live in a world where control over your data is a leverage point for power. Where a single company can unilaterally decide what speech is acceptable.
Teuton Systems offers smart privacy-focused technology – without compromise
TechWe take the fight against corporate snooping, mass government surveillance and criminal phone tapping through firm open source principles and secure products.
Specialist doctor warns: Social media is hacking our brains
Tech"Companies don't care if you develop a distorted self-image", says psychiatrist Anders Hansen.
Lock down your Mac
TechNaomi Brockwell: If you want to keep your Mac without handing over your digital life to Apple, there are ways to lock it down and make it more private.
Your therapist, your doctor, your insurance plan – now in Google’s ad system
TechNaomi Brockwell: The threat isn’t always a hacker in a hoodie. Sometimes it’s a quiet decision in a California boardroom that compromises millions of people at once.
PoX: New memory chip from China sets speed record
Tech"Our breakthrough can reshape storage technology, drive industrial upgrades and open new application", says Zhou Peng, who led the research team.
Without consent
TechNaomi Brockwell: Your child’s first digital footprint isn’t made by them - it’s made by you.
Researchers: Soon impossible to detect AI deepfakes
TechAI-generated deepfakes have become so advanced that they can now imitate human heartbeats - and even fool specialized detectors.
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