Technology
Opinion
AI
Online scams are about to get more sophisticated than Nigerian princes
ChatGPT’s “evil cousin” WormGPT will allow bad actors to more accurately mimic the real deal in attempts to swindle and deceive people.
- by Suranga Seneviratne
Latest
Analysis
AI
Stolen information? The mystery over how tech giants train their AI chatbots
Google, Microsoft and OpenAI say they collect data legally from public sources, but others claim AI chatbots are trained using more nefarious methods.
- by Tim Biggs
Analysis
Video games
Hand-held video games have returned
From hand-held PCs to new takes on the classic Game Boy, new technology is enabling portable games to flourish despite the rise of smartphones.
- by Tim Biggs
Samsung unveils new foldable phones as it hits back at imitators
This year’s Z Flip5 is a big deal for Samsung after competitors brought several new flexible devices to market in the past year.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
AI
Christopher Nolan said Oppenheimer was a cautionary tale for AI. Was he right?
The logic of mutually assured destruction – as in the case of nuclear weapons – will also be essential to protect us from the self-inflicted dangers of artificial intelligence.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
Social media
Elon Musk is not a poison for Twitter, he’s a parasite
Twitter has the kind of recognition most brands can only dream of. Musk wants to bury it.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
AI
The world is scrambling to take back control of a risky technology
The sheer speed at which artificial intelligence has advanced has governments around the world scrambling to regulate a technology that carries as many risks to society as it does opportunities.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
‘Focused on their children’: Mike Cannon-Brookes and wife Annie separate
A source linked to the couple has confirmed they separated more than a month ago. They married in 2010.
- by Laura Chung and Lucy Macken
Reports of global Whatsapp outage
There are reports of a global outage on messaging app Whatsapp, with hundreds of thousands of users reporting errors.
Pikmin 4 Is Better Than Tears Of The Kingdom
Nintendo's long dormant franchise schools Zelda on pacing, economics and lore.
Facebook makes its ChatGPT rival Llama free to use
Facebook’s parent company Meta has built an artificial intelligence system that rivals the likes of ChatGPT and Google’s Bard but it’s taking a different approach: releasing it for free.
- by Alex Barinka