PlayStation Network down, leaving thousands unable to play digital games
Gamers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network, leaving some unable to play digital games for several hours. According to Down Detector, which tracks outages, tens of thousands of people have reported problems globally, external with the…
Google fined €890m by EU for favouring its own apps over rivals
Google has a long history of disputes with European regulators, having previously received billions of euros in fines over separate competition cases. EU competition chief Teresa Ribera said companies should succeed because of the quality of their…
Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs
Google parent Alphabet saw its business continue to grow in recent months, yet growing spending on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure put its leftover cash into negative territory. The company’s free cash flow, the cash it maintained after…
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched ‘unprecedented’ cyber-attack
Gina Neff, head of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the security tests – called sandboxes – are “supposed to be secure environments where you…
Tech Life – Smell the future
Available for over a year The nose of a dog is incredibly sensitive. And odour contains information. With the help of AI, electronic ‘noses’ are being used to sniff out complex odours, including diseases. Chris Vallance visits a company…
Manufacturing: How trainees combine tech and age-old skills
Ollie Priestley is not just doing any mechanical apprenticeship. Working at specialist car restoration business Tolman, Priestley, 29, has embarked on a “heritage vehicle technician” apprenticeship. He’s learning the skills to work on…
Apple sues OpenAI, its employees claiming theft of trade secrets
Apple has accused OpenAI of gaining access to valuable inside information through the hiring of its former employees. In a federal lawsuit filed on Friday, Apple sued the artificial intelligence (AI) company, two of its employees, as well as io Products,…
SpaceX share price drops below stock market debut
SpaceX’s share price has dropped below its stock market debut just over a month ago, falling sharply from a post-float peak. The price for a single share in Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence (AI) company fell to…
Teen hackers jailed after live streaming cyber attack on TfL
Two men who carried out a cyber-attack which crippled Transport For London (TfL) when they were teenagers have both been sentenced to five years and six months in prison. Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, and Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, pleaded…
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