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A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis

300+by Nick Robins-Early / 14h

A controversial tweet may make it to the news, but reading every post from the world’s richest man shows how frenzied and extreme he really is It’s just after midnight mountain standard time in the US on 13 August when Elon Musk makes his first post of the day on X , the platform he bought for $44bn when it was known as Twitter. Musk has been tweeting for hours about his interview with Donald Tru

OpenAI to launch models with ‘reasoning’ abilities that are ‘much like a person’

OpenAI releases reasoning models Orion Strawberry

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500+by Reuters / 2d

‘Strawberry’ models can break down complex problems into smaller logical steps, an area where other AIs stumble OpenAI said on Thursday it was launching its “Strawberry” series of AI models designed to spend more time processing answers to queries in order to solve hard problems. The models are capable of reasoning through complex tasks and can solve more challenging problems than previous models

Academy chain with 35,000 pupils to be first in England to go phone-free

500+by Richard Adams Education editor / 1d

Exclusive: Ormiston academies trust says impact of phones on learning and mental health has been ‘catastrophic’ How going phone-free taught pupils ‘to socialise, old school’ A national academy chain is to become the first in England to be phone-free, removing access to smartphones from its 35,000 pupils during the school day due to their “catastrophic” impact on children’s mental health and learn

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Fresh starch: how TikTok helped spark a baked potato revival in the UK

100+by Hannah Al-Othman and Dan Milmo / 16h

Customers are coming to Preston’s Spud Bros from as far away as Australia thanks to a revival of the humble jacket potato on social media The humble baked potato is enjoying a renaissance, with TikTok algorithms bringing the stuffed spud to new audiences and transforming this once-tired classic into the lunch of the moment. Young potato sellers are breathing new life into the traditional British

Anthony Albanese fires back at Elon Musk’s ‘fascist’ comment as feud simmers on

Musk criticizes Australia's misinformation laws

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100+by Kate Lyons / 20h

Tech billionaire has clashed with Australian government several times over past year, including a refusal to take down clips of a Sydney bishop allegedly stabbed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has dismissed Elon Musk’s claims the Labor government was “fascist”, saying the US billionaire needed to recognise X “has a social responsibility”. “If Mr Musk

‘Opaque and complicated’ card surcharges are costing Australians billions. Is an overhaul needed?

61by Jonathan Barrett Senior business reporter / 22h

Consumers are the big losers in a world where top retailers get ‘sweetheart deals’ while small businesses get confused, advocates say Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Debit cards have long been promoted as a replacement to cash. But a complicated system of opaque fee charges has created a multibillion-dollar revenue opportunity for the payments sector and left many con

From spy cams to deepfake porn: fury in South Korea as women targeted again

Deepfake pornography crisis in South Korea

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30by Raphael Rashid in Seoul and Justin McCurry in Tokyo / 1d

National police agency says it is investigating 513 cases of deepfake pornography as a new scandal grips the country The anger was palpable. For the second time in just a few years, South Korean women took to the streets of Seoul to demand an end to sexual abuse. When the country spearheaded Asia’s #MeToo movement, the culprit was molka – spy cams used to record women without their knowledge. Now

How going phone-free taught pupils at English secondary ‘to socialise, old school’

44by Richard Adams Education editor / 1d

At Tenbury High students play tag rather than stare at screens after it brought in one of toughest phone policies Academy chain with 35,000 pupils to be first in England to go phone-free Vicki Dean, the principal of Tenbury High academy, says visitors to her secondary school in the Worcestershire countryside think its pupils appear less mature than others their age because they are running about

The US government is right to investigate Nvidia for alleged unfair practices | Max von Thun

by Max von Thun / 1d

Competition authorities were too slow to stop tech giants from dominating Web 2.0. They can’t repeat that mistake with AI When a company triples in value in just a few months, as computer chip company Nvidia has, investors take notice. But regulators do too, because they know from experience how monopolies engage in illegal anti-competitive behavior that squashes competitors and manipulates the m

Elon Musk calls Australian government ‘fascists’ over move to regulate online misinformation

Musk criticizes Australia's misinformation laws

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200+by Australian Associated Press and Josh Taylor / 1d

Labor ministers hit back at US billionaire, saying he is inconsistent on free speech and calling his comment ‘crackpot stuff’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Elon Musk has called the Australian government “fascists” over new legislation aimed at tackling deliberate lies spread on social media. Social media compani

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Parents ‘don’t use’ parental controls on Facebook and Instagram, says Nick Clegg

Parents ignore social media controls

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by Dan Milmo Global technology editor / 1d

Meta’s global affairs chief points to ‘behavioural issue’ around child safety tools on the social media platforms Parents do not use parental controls on Facebook and Instagram, according to Meta’s Nick Clegg, with adults failing to embrace the 50 child safety tools the company has introduced in recent years. Meta’s global affairs chief said there was a “behavioural issue” around using the tools,

Technology helping solar farms counter growing hailstone threat

23by Paul Brown / 1d

With storms becoming more frequent due to the climate crisis, insurers are forcing operators to respond One of the least considered hazards of climate change is the increasing frequency of hailstorms and the size and the impact of the pieces of ice they produce. This, in turn, threatens one of the most promising solutions to the climate crisis: solar farms. In the last year, the number of hailsto

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