Netflix's crackdown on password sharing appears to have achieved its initial goal, helping the company gain millions more subscribers.
Last year, the streaming service changed its settings to prevent customers from sharing their passwords with friends and family outside their homes, while also raising subscription prices.
As a result, in the last three months of 2023, Netflix gained 13.1 million subscribers worldwide.
Sir Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, told Tech & Science Daily that government officials and those in the tech industry working on AI models were not taking child protection measures seriously.
He said child protection charity Childline was receiving increasing calls from young people in the UK concerned about AI-generated online content.
The NSPCC said it had seen an extremely worrying new type of calls occurring in the past 12 months. Young people are reporting harm caused by AI-generated child sexual abuse material and deepfakes, as well as the spread of misinformation and bullying.
A new analysis of 24 9,000-year-old remains unearthed from the Peruvian Andes suggests that the true diet of hunter-gatherers at the time was actually about 80% plant-based. .
Archaeologists from the University of Wyoming in the US made the discovery after closely examining the chemical composition of human bones and tooth marks.
The discovery goes against the traditional hypothesis that hunter-gatherers ate primarily meat, and archaeologists say this is partly because “stone tools and animal bones are better preserved than plant parts.” We believe that this is because it deteriorates rapidly and is rarely observed. In the archaeological record. ”
The director of the Oxford Vaccine Group has warned that the UK is “not really safe” from the threat of future pandemics.
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard said he was concerned that not enough research was being done to study the range of viruses and bacteria that pose a threat to humans.
He said his team created the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 jab during the pandemic, but coronavirus vaccine research had already been going on for “decades” before the 2020 pandemic hit. .
He told the government's science and technology committee that “we are not yet at the starting point” for other microorganisms that could threaten us.
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