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"Sports Illustrated deleted web articles after a report claimed they were generated by artificial intelligence and published under fake author names. Tech publisher Futurism reported the issue after finding author headshots on an AI-generated image website. The Sports Illustrated Union said staff were "horrified" and demanded "basic journalistic standards". The publisher's owner disputed the report's accuracy, but it said it had launched an internal investigation. Arena Group, which owns the Sports Illustrated magazine and website, licensed the content from a third-party company, Advon Commerce, a company spokesperson said in a statement. Sports Illustrated has since removed the content after the allegations were raised, the statement added. Arena Group is now pursuing an internal investigation and has ended its partnership with Advon Commerce. "

"T The footage wouldn't look out of place on many of the world's news channels. For 22 minutes, a variety of polished news anchors stand in front of the camera and run down the day's news in a video posted on social media. But none of them are real. Instead, the anchors are generated by artificial intelligence (AI)."

""Kids forget passwords all the time," says Alexander Cole, the chief executive of Edinburgh-based Peekabu. "They're often unfamiliar with the concept of logging in, there is often no username or social media account to remind them of their password when they forget it. And it's a real problem because the BBC's really keen to have children creating accounts, making friends with one another, and playing multiplayer games with their friends from the real world."

It suggests how dependent on technology universities have become in their attempts to stop students copying work from the internet

The latest Snowden leak suggests US and UK cyberspies are taking advantage of Google's proprietary cookie technology in an effort to track suspects.

The creator of the world wide web would like to see the service become free for everybody to use.

Never trust your software too much these days, for the sake of your brain.

Car crashes could soon be eradicated, unless it happens to be the car's fault instead.

Microsoft will soon own Yahoo! and everything Yahoo! owns. However, this will only bring Microsoft a fraction closer to surpassing the might that is Google.

If you're out of the house and you tweet about it, the Internet will soon know about it!

A criminal who escaped prison has been taunting the police by posting pictures of himself on Facebook. Although he gained a supportive following, he was eventually captured again.

People in Germany are being warned about the risks of security when using Internet Explorer. Apparently anyone using versions six through eight are at risk, and are being advised to use another browser.

It turns out that 15% of free anti-virus softwares contain viruses themselves, according to Google.

"Virtual reality company, AVRT, has been collaborating with the force to create realistic computer generated scenarios officers might be in, such as dealing with a person in an alleyway or a rooftop"

Planned to be used in medical care.