Editors and publishers are more on our guard with AI than they were with the internet and social media, writes John Micklethwait.
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A ransomware group called RansomHouse appears to have been responsible for an attack on Cell C that compromised the data of some of its clients.
There is a growing sense that developing practical fusion energy is no longer an if but a when.
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A stretch goal for the coming decade is the creation of a large-scale quantum computer free of errors.