Employees are threatening legal action against the crackdown on workplace issues at BP

Crackdown: City's top lawyers have said retroactively demanding relationship information stinks of the Stasi

BP requires employees to disclose intimate relationships with colleagues or remove their faces Employees were given three months to disclose any matters Rules follow Bernard Looney’s dismissal for failing to disclose past relationships By Mark Shapland Updated: 4:50 PM EDT, June 15, 2024 BP risks being hit with employee lawsuits after serious concerns were raised … Read more

Microsoft issues new warning for 70% of all Windows users

Microsoft’s new warnings come into effect as hundreds of millions of people are at risk of losing their support NurPhoto via Getty Images It turns out that convincing us that taking constant screenshots of everything we do on a PC might not be Microsoft’s biggest challenge in the coming year. Even if it should. Spoiler … Read more

OpenAI starts training the next AI model as it combats security issues

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI said it had started training its next generation of artificial intelligence software, even as the startup backtracked on previous claims that it wanted to build “super-intelligent” systems that were smarter than humans. The San … Read more

Wuthering Waves developer apologizes for launch issues

UPDATE 5pm UK: Wuthering Waves developer Kuro Games has detailed its improvement plan for the game after a shaky launch. Major improvements include redesigning the skip function and increasing the number of skippable scenes, plus optimizing combat with better controller usage and feedback. These points and more are outlined in a new blog post. To … Read more

JOHNNY NELSON: Tyson Fury and his camp are thuggish and rude and left me cold with their behavior in Saudi Arabia… mental health issues are no excuse for his behavior and it’s time to say ‘we’ve had enough’

Sympathy for Tyson Fury is in short supply after his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk

Let me address the elephant in the room, sympathy for Tyson Fury this morning is thin on the ground. I always love it when the Brit wins, but there are a growing number of people who follow our sport and are glad he didn’t. And you have to ask yourself: why is that? There is … Read more

Wiley closes 19 scientific journals due to AI paper mill issues

US publishing house Wiley this week shut down nineteen scientific journals overseen by its Hindawi subsidiary, at the center of a long-running scientific publishing scandal. In December 2023, Wiley announced that it would stop using the Hindawi brand acquired in 2021, following the decision in May 2023 to close four of its magazines “to combat … Read more