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The Latest Articles by John Naughton

I’m glad you’ve bought an electric vehicle. But your conscience isn’t clean

First, you’ve got to drive a long way before you overcome your EV’s embedded carbon debt. And then there’s the trouble with the minerals in its battery…

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Thank the Lords someone is worried about AI-controlled weapons systems

While politics as usual dominates the Commons, thankfully a few people from the upper chamber are thinking about the big picture

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Rupert Murdoch was ever a master strategist, but he’s beginning to lose his grip

The $787m Fox News settlement was money well spent in saving the media mogul from an embarrassing ordeal

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Can China keep generative AI under its control? Well, it contained the internet

When the Chinese embraced capitalism, the west predicted it would crumble. Then that the web would break it. We may be proved wrong again

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Elon Musk hates journalists but journalists love Twitter. Where does that leave us?

The billionaire’s hamfisted handling of his new toy won’t much matter as long as politicians and media types remain bewitched

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As AI weaponry enters the arms race, America is feeling very, very afraid

Will technological advantages be enough for China to replace the US as the world’s AI superpower?

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Programmers, beware: ChatGPT has ruined your magic trick

The generative AI tool can write code on request, making the specialist skill of programming open to everyone

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Yes, it’s crazy to have TikTok on official phones. But it’s not good for any of us

Fears for data security lie behind recent government bans on the Chinese-owned app, but zombie scrolling has health dangers too

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You wait ages for an AI chatbot to come along, then a whole bunch turn up. Why?

The fact that ChatGPT isn’t the only machine-learning program out there is down to the way in which tech breakthroughs arise

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The SVB debacle has exposed the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley

US tech innovators have a culture of regarding government as an innovation-blocking nuisance. But when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, investors screamed for state protection

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Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet

There is a new word for the degradation of the internet, but it’s been happening for years. Why do we tolerate it?

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Misplaced fears of an ‘evil’ ChatGPT obscure the real harm being done

Our tendency to humanise large language models and AI is daft – let’s worry about corporate grabs and environmental damage

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Crypto is intended to be hard to regulate, but at least the Treasury wants to have a go

The government’s consultation document on cryptocurrency highlights the challenges that must be faced in the regulatory process

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Cold war 2.0 will be a race for semiconductors, not arms

Taiwan and its huge silicon foundry look set to become the centre of the geopolitical conflict between the US and China

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Well, I never: AI is very proficient at designing nerve agents

Researchers for a pharmaceutical company stumbled upon a nightmarish realisation, proving there’s nothing intrinsically good about machine learning

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ChatGPT isn’t a great leap forward, it’s an expensive deal with the devil

The new chatbot is generating a lot of hype, but we would do well to consider its human and environmental cost

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Why has Alphabet hit the panic button? Only Google can answer that question

The economic downturn, US lawsuits and the fear of rising tech rivals could be reasons for the firm’s 'code red” alert, but it still has an AI ace up its sleeve

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Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation

The new social network with its interconnected ‘fediverse’ is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk

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Computers need to make a quantum leap before they can crack encrypted messages

The latest claims by scientists that they are able to break the most common digital encryption system are far-fetched

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The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel

A new AI-assisted chatbot that can generate eerily fluent prose is only the latest in a long series of useful tech accessories

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Sport, TV, tech and fashion: what does 2023 have in store for us?

From culture to politics, the cost of living crisis, lifestyle, the environment and science – the next 12 months will bring new stars, trends and challenges. Our experts point the way

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Something is afoot with copyright this Public Domain Day

On New Year’s Day, copyright in the US expires on a new clutch of artistic works. But shady legal shenanigans mean it’s a little overdue…

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Elon Musk is a Jekyll and Hyde character. And as head of Twitter, Hyde is winning

On the one hand, he’s a creative genius. On the other, he’s destroying a key debating chamber

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Why were the media hypnotised by Sam Bankman-Fried?

Credulous or ignorant interviewers made it easier for the disgraced crypto wunderkind to pull the wool

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I wrote this column myself, but how long before a chatbot could do it for me?

The impressive and wildly popular ChatGPT is the latest instalment in a long-running debate about whether we’re creating machines to help us or replace us

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