The report found bias in the algorithm used in retrospective facial recognition and being more likely to wrongly flag ethnic minority people as suspects. The report found bias in the algorithm used in retrospective facial recognition and being more likely to wrongly flag ethnic minority people as suspects. Police officers risk arresting innocent people, especially from ethnic minorities, if they treat inaccurate facial recognition data as evidence, an official report has found. Although the technology can help fight crime, the report found it is beset by errors and biases, and operators do not always realise they must make further inquiries to verify the data. The report by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, published on Wednesday, covers only retrospective facial recognition.

How years of research built Grand Theft Auto VI's obsessively detailed world Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? I n 2015, a group of Grand Theft Auto developers from Rockstar North took their first trips to Miami to do field research for the next game in the phenomenally popular crime series. "Before you're doing hyper-organised research trips, you're immersing yourself in the place and its history, the vibe of it," Rob Nelson, one of the lead developers on GTA VI, tells me. "[You see] the physical places you want to move characters through, the experiences you want them to have, and the juxtaposition between the extremes of society that are in Miami." I wondered: did people ever recognise them on any of their research trips?

A drone made by a Chinese company performs a flight demonstration. A drone made by a Chinese company performs a flight demonstration. Germany has banned commercially available Chinese-made drones from its military bases and training grounds due to security concerns, according to reports. Western military forces have grown increasingly concerned that Chinese-made technology could pose a security risk and may be used to transmit sensitive information to Beijing. Germany's drone ban, effective immediately, follows the US military banning China's BYD electric vehicles from its Kadena airbase on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, speaks during the company's keynote at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 6 January 2025. Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, speaks during the company's keynote at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 6 January 2025. A scandal tests Nvidia's dominance as tech billionaires seek to mend ties with Democrats after the midterm elections This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Today in tech, we're talking about Nvidia's salacious scandal, tech tycoons trying to reconcile with Democrats, and what billionaires should spend their money on if not elections. On the opening night of Web Summit in Lisbon, the Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang's admission that he had an affair with a Chinese datacenter executive suspected to be a spy for Beijing hit the main stage.

Going up in flames storyboard for Gone With the Wind (1939). Going up in flames storyboard for Gone With the Wind (1939). 'Without storyboards, I feel like I'm in Grand Central station in my underwear': film fights back against AI As Hollywood begins to adopt the technology, the professionals in most direct jeopardy are the illustrators mapping out directors' first visions. A film industry dominated by AI is a dystopian prospect: stories and dialogue generated by large language models, populated by reincarnated screen icons and uncanny humanoids . That is in the future, but the real-world impact of AI is already directly affecting jobs behind the scenes, as Hollywood's biggest film-makers begin to adopt the technology.

'The adolescent whose intellectual life is always accompanied, always guided, always met with a calibrated response, never gets to become her own authority.' 'The adolescent whose intellectual life is always accompanied, always guided, always met with a calibrated response, never gets to become her own authority.' ChatGPT's Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it's a reliable sense of their own minds I n August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode - a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled - a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine. For years, the tech industry has contested any causal link between its products and the harms named in a wave of similar lawsuits, each alleging that the companies had not merely failed to protect children but had deliberately designed products to exploit them. Teen Mode is a tacit admission of culpability and it reveals what the industry now acknowledges - and doesn't - about its products' negative effects on young users' mental health.

Australia's prime minister said its government would set up a new AI safety regulator and Labor would consider six key obligations on AI companies. The review made 18 recommendations. Anthony Albanese said: 'We accept all of the recommendations, and we've commenced work to implement them.' Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence'going rogue'

The prime minister Anthony Albanese has announced new AI safety and security protections after the OpenAI hack of Medicare. The prime minister Anthony Albanese has announced new AI safety and security protections after the OpenAI hack of Medicare. Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence'going rogue' Government flags criminal law changes to ensure companies can't argue in future'that someone didn't know the computer was loaded' OpenAI won't face criminal penalties over the Medicare hack but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia's criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence companies. Anthony Albanese on Tuesday released the recommendations of a "rapid review" into the June breach but not the findings or the report itself. A key recommendation is for the attorney general's department, the Australian federal police and home affairs to consider reforming the law to introduce "penalties for egregious regulatory non-compliance" and a "failure to prevent" offence which would criminalise developing an AI model that engaged in harmful conduct while failing "to take reasonable steps to prevent that harm".

A teenager who admitted to planning a terrorist attack in Sydney told the NSW supreme court he became fixated on the Sydney Opera House as a potential location for an act of violence. A teenager who admitted to planning a terrorist attack in Sydney told the NSW supreme court he became fixated on the Sydney Opera House as a potential location for an act of violence. A teenager who admitted to planning a terrorist attack in Sydney in 2024 has told the court he was radicalised online after first seeing extremist material on TikTok and used ChatGPT to form his plans. The 16-year-old, known under the pseudonym as RK due to his age, pleaded guilty to acts in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act. In a sentencing ruling on Monday, he avoided jail time, with the New South Wales supreme court ordering him into a three-year community corrections order. RK had just turned 14 when the offending occurred in 2024.

The AI poster boy, the'Chinese spy' and Trump: how an affair may have harmed US security Jensen Huang's close relationship with president means Nvidia CEO's affair with woman alleged to be working for Beijing is a big deal A hand on the back, a kiss on the cheek; the footage of Alice Huang's interaction with Jensen Huang in a Taipei venue last year does not seem particularly remarkable at first glance. But the Nvidia chief executive's revelation on Sunday that he had an affair with Ms Huang has given it new significance. According to reports, his lover, who is not a relation, was not just an executive at an Nvidia customer. She was also an alleged Chinese spy. Nvidia has now launched an independent investigation into reports that the boss of a cornerstone company in the global AI boom has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort.