Indigenous Australians fear exclusion by digital ID
Australia’s proposed digital ID risks excluding First Nations people who struggle to get official documents, prove heritage.
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How the AI that drives ChatGPT will move into the physical world
Companies such as OpenAI and Midjourney build chatbots, image generators and other artificial intelligence tools that operate in the digital…
Alibaba revamps staff incentives to better reward high-performing staff and bolster morale, people say
The changes are said to be aimed at improving the ‘certainty and liquidity’ of employee income. The main change is…
Hong Kong research centre under China Academy of Sciences launches AI tool to assist in complex brain surgery procedures
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics expects its new AI model to help neurosurgeons provide ‘more efficient clinical diagnosis’.…
Opinion: How layoff culture is destroying tech companies
Layoffs aren’t the issue. How leaders are choosing to conduct layoffs is the issue.
AI tools still permitting political disinfo creation, NGO warns
Tests on generative AI tools found some continue to allow the creation of deceptive images related to political candidates and…
The New York Times is taking legal action against developers of Wordle clones
While the popularity of Wordle at the tail end of 2021 gave birth to countless clones of the word guessing…
Bank noticed customer’s activity, led cops to man who was scamming her, US police say
Middlesex County police are crediting a bank for leading investigators to a Maryland man now accused of scamming an elderly…
Researchers demonstrate how AI may be vulnerable to viruses
Security researchers at Cornell University in the US have demonstrated the effectiveness – and therefore the potential danger – of…