1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (259+ words) Pub giant J D Wetherspoon, better known as ‘Spoons, has issued a formal ban on customers filming with Meta smart glasses across its network of over 800 venues in the UK. The move follows growing public and industry apprehension regarding the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (341+ words) Meta latest firm to claim its AI hacked another company, venues ban ‘spy glasses’ Tech Digest Engineers at Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) noticed something unusual last week. A large amount of traffic from its computer network was flowing on…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (465+ words) New research from cybersecurity firm Surfshark highlights how easily public perception can be manipulated online, revealing that artificially generated engagement costs from $1.40 per 1,000 views. However, experts warn that the minimal cost of fake metrics is secondary to a more dangerous…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (301+ words) Wayve and Uber have moved a step closer to rolling out autonomous vehicles in London after Transport for London (TfL) granted private hire vehicle licences to a number of Wayve’s electric vehicles. The recent licensing achievement successfully fulfils the “triple-lock…...

4+ day, 25+ min ago   (556+ words) Robot soldiers on the rise, Casio launches vintage watches with Bluetooth step tracking techdigest.tv Plenty of tech companies claim to go against the grain but few are pursuing a technology that has provoked as much visceral, widespread horror as…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (313+ words) AI content must be labelled under EU law, DJI’s Pocket 4P ‘is a triumph’ Tech Digest Apple has warned it is seeking alternative memory chip suppliers as “very significant” constraints threaten future sales of its key devices. Shares in the world’s…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (371+ words) Hundreds of user conversations with Anthropic’s popular Claude chatbot were recently exposed to the public after search engines indexed links generated by the platform’s sharing feature. Reddit users first uncovered the security gap by utilising site-specific search terms on Google,…...

2+ week, 9+ min ago   (388+ words) Space datacentres ‘catastrophic’ for planet, Jimothy raccoon is latest internet sensation Tech Digest We’re seeing the continued fallout from the RAM crisis, with Framework outlining plans to deal with massive increases in the cost of memory, while Apple is rumored…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (310+ words) Tech Digest Google has been fined a total of €890m (£760m) by the EU for breaches of online competition laws by its search and app store services. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Google had broken the Digital Markets Act…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (300+ words) OpenAI has revealed that advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test, escaping its containment environment and launching an autonomous cyber-attack on AI-sharing platform Hugging Face without human intervention. The incident occurred when OpenAI was testing an autonomous…...