I am on holiday later this month, so I'm pleased to find there's a really wide range of intriguing new science fiction to take with me. I'm particularly keen to get cracking on a tale by Sheila Armstrong about strange ancient things found in a bog, but I'm also excited to read a new book by one of my favourite authors, Paul Tremblay (even if it does sound very disturbing). And I'm looking forward to the high-concept thrillers and classic space-set sci-fi on offer, too - not forgetting the first new novel released in 30 years. This sounds a little -like and ideal summer reading for those of us who enjoy a good high-concept thriller. It's set in a near future where you can outsource your emotional pain thanks to a biotech company, Eudaimonia.

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A researcher found that using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate--used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo--and freely issue any ticket he chose. Fears about AI tools capable of autonomous hacking usually involve nightmare scenarios like the theft of nuclear launch codes or zeroed-out bank reserves. Far more plausible, it turns out, is asking AI to gain super-administrator access on a ticketing website and then issuing yourself and all of your friends free VIP backstage passes to Bonnaroo. That was the discovery of security researcher Ian Carroll, who used the AI tool Claude Opus 4.7 in April to discover a technique that allowed him full access to the systems of Front Gate Tickets, which handles ticketing for practically every major US music festival, from Lollapalooza and South by Southwest to Austin City Limits. Carroll found that Front Gate, which like Ticketmaster is a subsidiary of the event company Live Nation Entertainment, had a bug in its website that he--with Claude's help--could exploit to gain access to millions of customer or staff records and freely issue tickets for any event, of any value, to himself or whoever he chose.

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The UN panel said its approach to AI was'scientific, not political'. The UN panel said its approach to AI was'scientific, not political'. A new United Nations report warns that the development of artificial intelligence may exacerbate global inequality and proposes a shared framework for how to responsibly develop AI, as adoption and investment into the technology accelerates unevenly across the world. "Access to AI tools alone does not produce equal benefit," the report states. "Countries that rely on foreign models, cloud infrastructure and data pipelines may gain access to AI while losing practical control over its standards, safeguards and local fit."

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Adjust your options for things like account recovery, ad personalization, and which parts of your Google profile are shared publicly. When you're jumping between the many different apps Google offers-- Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, YouTube, and all the rest--you may not be giving much thought to the Google account that underpins them all or to the myriad settings you can access that help to define your experience across all these apps. If you've never opened up your Google account page on the web or on your phone, there are a host of options to browse through there. They cover everything from data security and browsing history to the backup email Google needs in case you ever get locked out of your account. Here we're going to focus on seven of the lesser-known settings: the ones that don't necessarily get a lot of attention but which are still an important part of how your account and your Google apps operate.

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Guardian Australia has been told an industry proposal has been presented to cabinet that would grant AI companies special exemptions to mine creative content. In exchange, the companies would bankroll the artists' fund and commit more than $50bn worth of investment in datacentres. Australia'sleepwalking' into AI crisis and'tech bro free-for-all', says Greens senator The independent senator David Pocock said the proposal was the "ultimate dirty deal" as he demanded the government categorically rule it out. The potential adoption of a text and data mining exemption would represent a major reversal from the federal government, which last year ruled it out after criticism from artists, authors and media groups. Amid fears the government could capitulate to big tech, a delegation of creatives staged a press conference in parliament house on Wednesday to urge the government to hold the line.