Killer robots have arrived in Europe, as the Netherlands has officially become the first NATO country to deploy 'uncrewed ground vehicles' (UGVs). The Royal Netherlands Army has been trialling four armed THeMIS UGVs alongside the Dutch 13th Light Brigade in Lithuania since…
Hans Niemann, the teenage American grandmaster at the centre of the alleged anal beads cheating scandal, is suing world champion Magnus Carlsen, online platform Chess.com and others. On Thursday, the grandmaster filed a lawsuit suing his accusers for slander and libel and is seeking…
A frightening new technology that allows users to impose celebrities’ faces onto sex tapes is gathering momentum, with one murky site attracting over 13million visitors a month. As video manipulation technology becomes more advanced, there are fears that people may no longer…
Amazon might have to pay 900 million pounds ($1 billion) in Britain over allegations of abusing its dominant position by favouring its own products. Consumer rights advocate Julie Hunter plans to bring the collective action on behalf of British consumers who have made…
Twitter is working on damage control after documents appeared suggesting Elon Musk wants to lay off most of the company’s staff. Sources speaking to the Washington Post revealed the billionaire plans to cut nearly 75 per cent of Twitter’s employee base of…
Instagram has announced safety feature updates it says will help public figures better protect themselves from abuse. The move comes just days after another Premier League footballer revealed he had been racially abused on the platform. Brentford striker Ivan Toney took to…
Ten days after Medibank first detected a hack, which has put the most personal health information of a million customers at risk of exposure, clues are starting to emerge about how the hackers got in. Logs obtained by cybersecurity researchers and seen…
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One day, in the middle of the school holidays, my son asked Alexa to fart. To his nine-year-old glee, Alexa let a sonorous one rip, before perkily asking him if he would prefer an elephant fart or “say surprise me”. “Somebody has…