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The Latest Articles by John Naughton

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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Longtermism: how good intentions and the rich created a dangerous creed

Tech billionaires seem intent on giving away a lot of money. But are those who support ‘longtermism’ and ‘effective altruism’ ignoring the very real problems of today?

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Alexa, how did Amazon’s voice assistant rack up a $10bn loss?

The tech giant’s flawed business model for its popular smart devices has cost the company a fortune and thousands of jobs

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How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa review – tales of a moral giant

With this important memoir cum manifesto, the Nobel peace prize-winning journalist who took on Facebook and the murderous Duterte regime in the Philippines exposes the abuse of power

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Elon Musk needs to learn that more debate does not mean more truth

Beneath the billionaire’s blurry vision for Twitter lies the notion that it’s good to have a ‘marketplace of ideas’

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Ireland has raked in billions from tech giants. But what if the golden goose flies the nest?

The republic’s welcoming corporate tax policy has been a success, but it depends heavily on just a few big names

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Machine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’

Pretending that opaque, error-prone ML is part of the grand, romantic quest to find artificial intelligence is an attempt to distract us from the truth

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Elon Musk running Twitter? It’s like giving a monkey a delicate clock

The tech magnate’s purchase of the social media platform was the easy bit – now he must be responsible for toxic content, writes technology professor John Naughton

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LinkedIn has a fake profile problem – can it fix this blot on its CV?

Bogus users claiming to work for Apple and Amazon are doing serious reputational damage to the online service

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The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees

The question of whether social media firms should be responsible for content recommended to users is set to be re-examined – and not before time

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What are tech billionaires’ text messages like? Just as petty as ours, it turns out

Texts released in the legal wrangle between Elon Musk and Twitter are ‘astoundingly unastounding’ – apart from the sycophancy

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Tech firms say laws to protect us from bad AI will limit ‘innovation’. Well, good

For too long, the industry has escaped legal liability in the pursuit of its own interests – and the EU has had enough

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Molly Russell was trapped by the cruel algorithms of Pinterest and Instagram

The coroner’s verdict was a world first in citing social media as a causal factor in a death

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Vladimir Putin’s latest frightening gambit lies at the bottom of the ocean

If the Russian president has finally started listening to his military chief, you can bet he’ll soon target all those poorly protected internet cables at the bottom of the sea

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Adobe can’t Photoshop out the fact its $20bn Figma deal is a naked land grab

The software giant paying vastly over the odds for a small but strategically threatening company should alarm US regulators

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Will today’s tech giants reach a century? It’s all about the quality of the product

If you want to be an internet-age version of General Motors or IBM, you need to sell something people want and steer clear of political pitfalls

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