“you hope your antivirus product is on your side. you can assume that malware is not. but the similarities are striking”

Lawrence Klein is doing what many Computeractive readers have told us they hoped someone would. He’s suing Microsoft for ending support for Windows 10, and wants judges to force the company to postpon

STUART RUSSELL RECEIVES FOUR OR five emails a day from people who seem to be in the grips of psychosis, convinced their AI chatbot of choice is suddenly conscious. “It’s appointing them as its emissar

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The greatest trick Google ever played was convincing the world it’s a technology company, rather than an advertising giant. And its second greatest trick was introducing adverts so gradually in every

MATTHEW PRINCE HAD TO BE CON-verted to the belief that AI is eating the web. It was 18 months ago that he started getting calls from media executives, who complained to him about AI companies copying

Virtual private networks (VPNs) have been around since 1996, when their primary purpose was to let remote workers connect securely to corporate networks. Since then they’ve become an essential tool fo