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Nov 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Will Craft |Alex Clark |Andrew Witherspoon |Ashley Kirk |Lucy McCormick |Philip McMahon
Donald Trump has won the majority of electoral college votes to defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election. Despite polling gains for the Democrats after Biden’s exit from the race in July, Harris failed to maintain a lead and the election was neck-and-neck in the final weeks of the campaign. As of 9.10 ET (14.10 GMT) on Wednesday, more than 2,800 of nearly 3,200 counties had returned more than 90% of their votes.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Matteo Fagotto |Manisha Ganguly |Philip McMahon |Andrew Roth |Oliver Laughland | +3 more
This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 7 March 2024. For the past six months, the Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. These deepfakes are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?
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May 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Philip McMahon |Carmen Aguilar García |Carmen Garcia |Sarah Marsh
More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China. An international investigation by the Guardian, Die Zeit and Le Mondegives a rare inside look at the mechanics of what the UK’s Chartered Trading Standards Institute has described as one of the largest scams of its kind, with 76,000 fake websites created.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Philip McMahon
If you’ve ever scrolled through the Guardian homepage, you may have come across the ‘Contact the Guardian securely’ banner. This links to a page explaining how to share sensitive information with the Guardian in a number of different ways. Of these, the one that offers the best security is SecureDrop. SecureDrop is a system developed by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to enable sources to contact media organisations anonymously.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Matteo Fagotto |Manisha Ganguly |Philip McMahon |Andrew Roth |Oliver Laughland |Kateryna Malofieieva | +2 more
For the past six months, Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Matteo Fagotto |Manisha Ganguly |Philip McMahon |Andrew Roth |Oliver Laughland |Kateryna Malofieieva | +2 more
For the past six months, Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes that are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Alex Atack |Joshua Kelly |Philip McMahon
The first Miriam al-Adib learned of the pictures was when she returned home from a business trip. “Mum,” said her daughter. “I want to show you something.”The girl, 14, opened her phone to show an explicit image of herself. “It’s a shock when you see it,” said Adib, a gynaecologist in the southern Spanish town of Almendralejo and a mother of four daughters.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
msn.com | Pamela Duncan |Carmen Aguilar García |Philip McMahon
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Pamela Duncan |Carmen Aguilar García |Carmen Garcia |Philip McMahon
Hallucination, Barbenheimer and acabó were among the new and breakthrough words of 2023, according to an analysis of the Guardian archive. And do you have “rizz”? Dozens of new words appeared on the newspaper’s pages this year. And while the majority of these relate to people and placenames previously unrecorded on the news pages, some words were truly newly minted.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Philip McMahon
Since our migration from Mongo to Postgres in 2018, at the Guardian the search for the perfect database hasn’t stopped. In the last year on the Investigations and Reporting team we’ve spent a lot of time trying out AWS’s Serverless relational databases. We hope that by sharing our learnings we’ll help others avoid the pitfalls we hit along the way. Application characteristicsThe database in question is for a tool called ‘Lurch’.
