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Discord Wants to Estimate Your Age Without Asking for ID
Discord is rolling out machine-learning age assurance that estimates whether users are teens or adults without requiring most accounts to...more
LG Pushes Back on Claims That Its Smart TVs Are Spying on Users
Researchers allege LG smart TVs can capture ambient audio and scan home networks, while LG disputes the findings and explains...more
AI promises a productivity windfall – who will reap the benefits?
Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general...more
Meta’s $18bn settlement shows why the UK must act on children’s social media harms
Ministers must set out a clear timetable for raising the age of social media access to 16 and move at...more
CW@60: What Doom taught me about networking, security and trust
How John Kindervag went from setting up LAN parties for playing Doom at the office, to creating the zero-trust model...more
Transformers: More than meets the eye in datacentre grid connection
As hyperscale AI data centres scale up to handle intense workloads, advanced super-grid transformers are emerging as the hidden linchpin...more
Google Wants Android Apps to Look Beyond the Security Patch Date
Google’s new Android security libraries let apps and administrators inspect patch status by component instead of relying on a single...more
AWS Billion-Dollar Software Bug Explained
An AWS software bug showed some customers billing estimates in the billions and trillions. Here is what failed, why invoices...more
OpenAI’s New GPT-5.6 Is Coming Sooner Than You Think
OpenAI is set to launch GPT-5.6 after a US security review, raising new questions for enterprise AI access, safeguards, and...more
