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Summary Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger believes AI has a greater than 10% chance of causing human extinction within the next decade. Today’s more immediate AI threats include autonomous security breaches, increasingly convincing scams, and possible declines in unaided critical-thinking performance. Protect yourself by securing personal data and using AI selectively instead of outsourcing every task — and your underlying skills — to it. An Anthropic safety researcher says he believes there’s a greater than 10% chance AI kills us all within the next decade. Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic’s Alignment Science team, made the extraordinary estimate after his colleague Jacob…
My Roku Streaming Stick 4K has sat on Auto since the day I plugged it into my LG OLED. I never questioned it because Auto sounds like the setting a company chooses when its engineers have already solved the problem for you. Besides, with all the free Roku content, why would I second-guess a default? And then it happened. During a movie, half a conversation disappeared during a fight scene, and I had to rewind twice to catch what I’d missed. A few nights after that, a swell in a soundtrack on another film turned into something closer to static…
The iPhone Duo is here. If you fancy spending as much as a MacBook Pro on a bend-o-phone with an Apple logo, boy are you going to want to save up your pennies before the 16 October pre-order date. But now that an iPhone can multitask, letting you use more than one app at once, maybe you don’t even need a Mac now, right? And definitely not an iPad? Spoiler: wrong. Second spoiler: I’m miffed about this, because so many other decisions Apple made about the iPhone Duo software are really good. I know. Usually, I’m grumpy, cynical and jaded. I’d normally…
One of this year’s hottest upcoming phone series has just been revealed. Yes, it’s time for the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max (as well as the iPhone Duo), but as you’ll hear, it isn’t time for the standard iPhone 18 – yet. What’s the difference this year? For some time now, reports have suggested that Apple would break its regular yearly cycle of iPhone launches as it juggles with multiple different models of iPhone and smartphone development slows down year-to-year. So we have a premium-only iPhone lineup coming this year, in the shape of the iPhone 18 Pro and 18…
After months, possibly even years of speculation, Apple has finally thrown its hat into the foldable phone ring. The Apple iPhone Duo has been officially revealed and will shortly be going on sale to do battle with the Android-powered competition – which have, until now, had the class to themselves. Rather than do the traditional tall and thin thing, however, Apple has gone for a wider style of fold. That puts it squarely up against one major name: Samsung. While Asian audiences have a little more choice here, the Galaxy Z Fold8 is the only wide foldable currently on sale…
Like clockwork, Apple used its September event to show off a new iPhone generation – except 2026 took a break from the norm by focusing entirely on the iPhone 18 Pro and all-new iPhone Duo foldable phone, leaving the regular iPhone to stick around a little longer than expected. The biggest news was of course the iPhone Duo, but we also got a more in-depth look at Siri AI; AirPods 5 brought active noise cancellation to the firm’s open fit in-ears; and the Apple Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4 went hard on fitness improvements. While the event took…
Apple has taken the wraps off Apple Watch Ultra 4, and it’s a big leap that we’ve been waiting for. There’s a new health sensing system, genuinely useful AI features baked into the microphone, and battery life long enough to make plenty of dedicated GPS watches *cough* Garmin *cough* nervous. I’ve gone through Apple’s announcement and pulled out the ten things that you need to know about, whether you’re due an upgrade or just Apple Ultra-curious. 1. It has the most accurate heart rate sensing Apple’s ever made Apple Watch Ultra 4 is built around a new ‘Health Sensing System’,…
Unlike, say, a cheap fitness tracker, solar panels have never been an impulse purchase. Well, for me, at least. Costs aside, there’s traditionally been the need for roof surveys, scaffolding, professional installers, and a fairly intimidating bill to deal with first. No, thank you. But wait! That all changed on 27 August 2026, when the UK – technically Great Britain, as Northern Ireland’s separate regulations haven’t yet been updated – legalised compliant solar kits that end in an ordinary three-pin plug. Yes, it all sounds almost suspiciously simple – and in the right home, it nearly is. But there are…
HBO is working on a new TV show based on the Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling, about a boy who learns he’s actually a wizard and gets whisked away to a world of magic and wonder. The first season will premiere this Christmas, and it’s going to be an enormous hit. A second season is already in the works.
I love my smart TV. It’s my portal to the undeniable and wonderful convenience of on-demand streaming services, where I can sit and imbibe the best from the world of entertainment. But after a while, it dawned on me that, like most other computers, my smart TV might not always have my best interests at heart. Smart TVs can and do collect data on you while you watch. It’s led some to say that their biggest surprise privacy leak was easily a smart TV — and that’s exactly why I’m taking steps to lock mine down. Related Your smart TV…