Virgin Media suffered one of its worst broadband outages in years yesterday with thousands of users left unable to access the web. The first issue…

Read More Virgin users want compensation as broadband goes down but bills go up

WhatsApp users are, once again, coming under attack from nasty scam and it’s definitely one to watch out for. The infamous six-digit code attack was…

Read More All WhatsApp users placed on red alert as terrifying scam returns

SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday, the newsletter service Substack announced that it had built a Twitter competitor. On Thursday, Twitter prevented Substack writers from sharing…

Read More Twitter Takes Aim at Posts That Link to Its Rival Substack

The next time you visit Amazon to pick up a pair of earbuds or a new smartphone, you could get an alert urging you to…

Read More Amazon’s new warning to help millions avoid disaster- think twice

Apple’s AirPods might remain some of the most popular earbuds on the market but the competition keeps fighting back. Just last month, fledging tech brand…

Read More Sony rivals Apple’s AirPods with feature-packed wireless buds for £99

SAN FRANCISCO — A senior lawyer at Twitter submitted his resignation on Thursday, four people familiar with the matter said, becoming the latest in a…

Read More Senior Twitter Lawyer Resigns, the Latest in a Series of Executive Departures

One of the world's top leading AI scientists has warned that we need to 'shut it all down' or everyone will die. Eliezer Yudkowsky has…

Read More ‘Shut down major AI projects’ or everyone on Earth will die, warns top AI expert

If you have an older Windows device there’s some bad news, as a new update may leave you no choice but to buy a brand-new…

Read More Millions of Windows fans face new block that could mean making a co…

Financial comparison website Finder, co-founded by cryptocurrency enthusiast Fred Schebesta, is making about 40 staff redundant in the second wave of lay-offs to hit the…

Read More Finder cuts staff for the second time in three months

We all want and need better broadband but it seems some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are doing a better job of supplying the nation than…

Read More UK’s ‘worst’ broadband exposed – is your provider bottom of the list?

Trying to obtain an internship at a leading tech company or start-up can be a depressing quest for many college students, requiring a sustained, semester-long…

Read More This Historically Black University Created Its Own Tech Intern Pipeline

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios The companies offering generative AI to the public are mostly learning thesame lesson: People love using it, but they also love discovering…

Read More The public loves trying to push chatbots over the edge

ImageL Adobe As part of its effort to fight deepfakes, a coalition of tech companies co-led by Adobe has finalized the details for a standard…

Read More Exclusive: Adobe's effort to catch deep fakes hits key milestone

Image: Truepic Several leaders in AI have teamed up to create what they are calling the first transparent deepfake — a video that looks convincingly…

Read More A convincing AI-made video that tells on itself

In just the past year, Microsoft, Facebook and Google parent Alphabet have all seen their headcount rise by upwards of 20%. As Big Tech companies…

Read More Big Tech's recent hiring splurge will make cutting costs even harder

Young Americans of all stripes dream of working at Google, according to a new Axios/Generation Lab survey of college students around the country. The big…

Read More Gen Z loves Google

Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue A series of changes at Twitter have laid bare what the service has…

Read More At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free

I first met Sam Altman in the summer of 2019, days after Microsoft agreed to invest $1 billion in his three-year-old start-up, OpenAI. At his…

Read More The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be

Illustration: Eniola Odetunde/Axios The Justice Department's second-in-command is readying her case for Capitol Hill on why a controversial surveillance tool is key in the fight…

Read More Top DOJ official says department is open to limited changes in FISA program

On the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving, Randal Quran Reid was driving his white Jeep to his mother’s home outside Atlanta when he was pulled over…

Read More Police Relied on Hidden Technology and Put the Wrong Person in Jail

Fancy artificial intelligence has finally met its match in Wordle. The ChatGPT-4 app struggles to solve the popular word puzzle game, which is played by…

Read More Artificial intelligence has met its match in popular ‘human-only’ Wordle

A brain wave reader that can detect lies. Miniaturized cameras that sit inside vape pens and disposable coffee cups. Massive video cameras that zoom in…

Read More A.I., Brain Scans and Cameras: The Spread of Police Surveillance Tech

Facebook and Instagram users across Europe—including the UK—will soon be given the chance to 'opt out' of 'user tracking'. According to the Wall Street Journal,…

Read More You can opt out of being tracked online by Facebook and Instagram with new form

Amazon has just slashed a whopping £726 from a brilliant laptop—a bargain that's rare to see outside of Black Friday. The laptop usually costs £1024.99…

Read More You can get a £1000 Windows laptop for less than £300 in massive Amazon sale

With a new name, bigger sound and refreshed design this is a new Era for Sonos What we love New design looks sublime Bigger sound…

Read More Sonos Era 100 review: Bigger sound comes at a higher price

Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios An open letter calling for a 6-month "pause" in work on advanced artificial intelligence is dividing the tech industry — not just…

Read More Open letter sparks debate over "pausing" AI research over risks

Elon Musk speaks during a press conference. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Dozens of scientists, experts and tech leaders, including Twitter and Tesla CEO…

Read More Key lines from Elon Musk, others’ call to pause AI development

Ditch Spotify and Apple Music for FREE music streaming from Amazon £32.97 £0 View Deal Amazon is offering three months of Music Unlimited streaming for free! This…

Read More Ditch Spotify, stream millions of songs for FREE with Amazon deal

More than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers, including Elon Musk, have urged artificial intelligence labs to pause development of the most advanced systems, warning in…

Read More Elon Musk and Others Call for Pause on A.I., Citing ‘Profound Risks to Society’

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Mastodon has emerged as one of the fastest-growing and highest-profile options for people looking for an alternative to Twitter in the wake…

Read More Quitting Elon Musk's Twitter? Here's how to join Mastodon