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Headlines have claimed the release of the first new GTA game in 13 years will hugely affect the global economy on Thursday – but there’s another story that’s been left behind A new pandemic is threatening planet Earth. It’s scheduled to hit 19 November. Entire offices and worksites will be emptied; employees struck down by a mysterious illness. But you need not panic: it isn’t fatal. It should pa…

The latest instalment of the epic crime saga is finally here. We visit Rockstar Games for a hands-on encounter with the cultural event of the decade – and can confirm it’s more than lives up to the hype It still comes as a surprise for many to learn that Grand Theft Auto, the brazenly American crime series that has been one of the world’s most popular and most controversial video games for the pa…

Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected spy is Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare come true The resignation this week of Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang is one of the most astonishing corporate scandals in memory, featuring allegations of international espionage and extramarital affairs involving one of the world’s most powerful men. As investigations mount into what went wrong at the $4tn chi…

The fine is among the largest an Italian authority has imposed on a tech giant and Meta says it plans to appeal the decision Italy’s data protection agency has fined Facebook parent company Meta €805m ($887m) for accessing users’ photos without their specific consent. Through the Facebook application for Android devices, Meta accessed photographs, videos and related metadata belonging to Italian …

Unlike familiar Captcha tests, this con asks you to press a series of keys. And that’s a way in for fraudsters to install malicious software You are looking for some gifts for Christmas and want to support small businesses when you shop. When you visit the site of one you’ve heard good things about you are asked to verify that you are human. Instead of clicking on a series of images, or typing le…

Fears for national college entrance exam next week as test taker admits sending photos of questions to AI tool The marks attained by the top scorer ⁠on South Korea’s national exam for aspiring tax accountants this year seemed too good to be true. On Sunday, sceptics were ⁠proven right when he ⁠confessed to ​using generative AI to cheat. The scandal follows months of speculation after he scored ne…

Shatterproof wine glasses, Jellycat plushies, ‘yoga paws’ and more gifts handpicked by our experts The best personalized gift ideas Nothing says holiday cheer quite like panic-browsing websites in pursuit of the perfect gift , toggling between 47 open tabs, eyes straining against your screen’s harsh blue light. But finding an item that elicits a squeal of delight from its recipient is one of the …

Tech company says operations restored to all customers and regions affected by one of worst IT failures in years Microsoft has said its service has been fully restored after a massive outage that saw widespread disruption to governments, businesses and public services around the world. The technology company said on Saturday morning it had restored service to the remaining customers affected by o…

Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems The Austrian logician Kurt Gödel was one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. His two incompleteness theorems , published in 1931, transformed mathematics and paved the way for the digital age. After his seminal results of the 1930s, Gö…

Ministers consider banning under-16s from online marketplaces amid reported misuse of messaging functions and users’ photos In June, Hannah* listed her seven-year-old daughter’s pink swimming costume for sale on Vinted, hoping other parents surfing the reselling site would snap up the £1 offer. Her inbox pinged. “So a little girl wore this yh [yeah]?” wrote a user with a male handle. Continue rea…

Once the ultimate symbol of Hollywood rebellion, the former Nvidia chief’s signature look is now being mocked as a midlife crisis cliche For nearly two decades a black leather jacket has been a key part of Jensen Huang’s look. Now it’s become a punchline. As the founder and chief executive of Nvidia resigned this week after reports of multiple affairs, his affinity for a leather jacket, an item o…

The privacy issues over the company’s surveillance cameras have caused protests in schools all over the country Angela Nguyen, a senior at Stanford University, has been on a mission to make sure her school doesn’t use automated license plate readers, like those made by Flock Safety, for mass surveillance. The 21-year-old computer science major helped collect hundreds of signatures earlier this ye…

Eccentric and overhyped, Tesla’s Cybertruck became a stand-in for Elon Musk during his ascent in the Republican party. It will join the ranks of other vehicles symbolic of their eras – for better or for worse Three days after a historic blue tsunami changed America’s political landscape, Elon Musk announced Tesla would end production of its hulking Cybertruck next year. Was it a coincidence? Mayb…

Former CEO Jensen Huang and US commerce secretary to appear before Congress amid bipartisan concern that America’s security was put at risk Nvidia scandal – latest updates Analysis: Jensen Huang built an AI kingdom. Now he’s gone, will Nvidia’s ramparts be breached? Nvidia’s ousted CEO Jensen Huang and Donald Trump’s commerce secretary are expected to testify before Congress in the coming weeks, …

CEO’s affair and resignation has brought company’s murky corporate contracts and supply chains into sharp focus Can the AI economy survive without its “central bank”? What does Jensen Huang’s fall mean for the world’s second-most valuable company, and what might a tremor in its fortunes mean for the world? Nvidia’s sky-high valuation is based on the fact that it designs and sells the advanced AI …