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OpenAI says teen ChatGPT use limited but research finds it an 'unacceptable risk'

Wed, 10/07/2026 - 4:34pm
The research found that important guardrails for teens using ChatGPT often failed.

Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds

Wed, 10/07/2026 - 3:09am
Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?

Braid-creator Jonathan Blow on making the 'biggest puzzle game ever'

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 7:01pm
Order of the Sinking Star is due out on Thursday and has roughly 1,500 puzzles for players to try

Tech Life

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 3:30pm
What is a supercomputer for? How does it work? And who gets to use it? We explain all.

Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 1:15pm
The order affecting two planned data centres follows concerns over forest clearance.

Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 7:24am
Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second audio to a EU agency in a bid to protect her voice from deepfakes.

ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 6:37am
Dozens of people appear to have received a strange message from the clothing and beauty store's app.

Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants feature

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 5:04am
The regulator said Instagram had not fully assessed risks posed by its Instants feature prior to launching it.

Lego fraudster among last year's most high-profile insurance scammers

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 3:03am
The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, the insurance trade body, the ABI said.

Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools after blacklisting company, BBC told

Mon, 10/05/2026 - 12:13pm
It labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.

Trump chooses top spy boss to run new AI taskforce

Mon, 10/05/2026 - 6:03am
The US president said his national intelligence chief will lead the group as worries over AI grow.

Tech Now

Fri, 10/02/2026 - 9:00pm
Alasdair Keane heads to the Pokémon World Championships in San Francisco.

OpenAI fires workers for 'mishandling sensitive information'

Fri, 10/02/2026 - 4:20am
The former employees were investigated for sharing data with an outside AI evaluation group.

Crypto thieves attack man in home and threaten to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery

Thu, 10/01/2026 - 7:45pm
The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.

Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names

Thu, 10/01/2026 - 7:37am
The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.

AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns

Thu, 10/01/2026 - 12:03am
Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".

Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Wed, 09/30/2026 - 7:10pm
Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

The AI telling farmers when to harvest

Wed, 09/30/2026 - 7:02pm
Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

WhatsApp introduces optional parental controls for teenagers

Wed, 09/30/2026 - 9:01am
The social messaging app will let parents decide on privacy settings for their child's account.

Regulating AI 'not the right place to start' says Bailey

Wed, 09/30/2026 - 6:20am
AI needs "rigorous" testing and safeguards to contain risk, Andrew Bailey says.

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