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An Australian regulator has sent legal letters to Twitter and Google telling them to hand over information about their efforts to stop online child abuse, drawing them into a crackdown that has already put pressure on other global tech firms.The action by the country's e-safety commissioner keeps a spotlight on the anti-exploitation practices at Twitter under the ownership of billionaire Elon Musk, who called child protection his top priority while also laying off more than half its employees since taking over last…

Norman Lear, Mimi Kennedy, George Takei, Marla Gibbs and George Wallace are encouraging Hollywood to take steps in creating more stories about the lives of older adults in a new #RethinkAging campaign. In partnership with the University of Southern California Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center, the industry veterans created an amusing video announcing that they’re still very much in the game — and their stories matter. “They said 91 is the new 60,” Gibbs said in the video. “I don’t know where they…

A US judge appointed two prominent US law firms as co-leaders of consumer claims against Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook, saying he hoped they would put aside their dispute over control of the antitrust case and work together. In a court order, US District Judge James Donato in San Francisco appointed Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan with "some reservations" given the past "rocky relationship" between the two law firms. "It is the court's expectation that the attorneys will treat this…

Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese regulators told Tencent, Ant Group, and others not to offer public ChatGPT services, after state media criticized chatbots over misinformation — State media outlet blasts chatbot as spreading U.S. government ‘misinformation’ — HONG KONG — Regulators … Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese regulators told Tencent, Ant Group, and others not to offer public ChatGPT services, after state media criticized…

Born in Cardiff, Shakin’ Stevens, 74, was the UK’s biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s, with songs such as This Ole House, Green Door and Merry Christmas Everyone. In 2016, he released the album Echoes of Our Times, and last year he toured with Status Quo. His latest single is It All Comes Round and his album Re-Set is out on 28 April. He has three children and lives in Buckinghamshire with his manager and second wife, Sue Davies.What is your greatest fear?A world without music.What is the trait you most deplore…

Microsoft is currently working on a massive update to its Bing search engine, which will provide rich and responsive text results. It is based on the powerful Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technology, which is also used by popular chatbot ChatGPT, developed by San Francisco AI startup OpenAI. An updated version of Bing, which has so far lagged behind search engine market leader Google, is now being tested by a few users online. A premium version of Microsoft Teams with capabilities powered by GPT 3.5 was also…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMichelle Yeoh has revealed that Jackie Chan texted her after she received her Oscar nomination for Everything Everywhere All At Once.Chan told her that he had in fact been offered the lead role first, which was originally written to be a man.In the film, Yeoh stars as Evelyn Quan, a laundromat owner who discovers the ability to travel through an infinite number of parallel…

Amazon told lawmakers it wouldn’t build storm shelters in its warehouses after a December 2021 tornado killed six employees at an Illinois location. Although the company changed its severe-weather response strategy after the incident, it essentially told the elected officials that since building storm shelters isn’t required by law, it won’t do that. The company responded to lawmakers Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Cori Bush (D-MO), who sent a letter on December…

Starting prices for the phones, at least in the US, remains the same as last year, with the base Galaxy S23 starting at $800, bumping up to $1,000 for the Galaxy S23 Plus and $1,200 for the Galaxy 23 Ultra. Samsung is reportedly increasing prices in parts of Europe and Australia, among other countries. Starting prices for the phones, at least in the US, remains the same as last year, with the base Galaxy S23 starting at $800, bumping up to $1,000 for the Galaxy S23 Plus and $1,200 for the Galaxy 23 Ultra. Samsung is…

Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images Hogwarts Legacy hits consoles and PC next week, so expect the ongoing debate over whether buying the game is supporting J.K. Rowling’s transphobia to reach stratospheric levels of anger. Arguments are already raging over whether buying the game is putting money in Rowling’s pocket (it is) or whether boycotting the game is hurting the innocent developers over at Avalanche Studios (probably not, they’ve been paid). But it’s worth examining how people involved in Harry Potter…