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Apple in talks to bring Google's Gemini AI to iPhone: Report
Apple is in advanced negotiations with Google to adopt its powerful Gemini AI models for the iPhone, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
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Team develops blockchain-based method to protect and manage personal data on the internet
Entering a website and accepting cookies is a very common and oft-repeated gesture when navigating the Internet. But this small action, which is often done automatically and without thought, entails security risks: By consenting ...
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Is Reddit's IPO worth it? Social media site aims to go public 'out of necessity,' says finance expert
Despite never having made a profit in its nearly 20-year history, Reddit, the site that bills itself as "the front page of the internet," is gearing up to go public, targeting a valuation of about $6.5 billion.
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Australia demands tech giants tackle 'extremist' content
Australia's internet watchdog hit Google, X and Meta with legal notices on Tuesday, demanding the tech giants explain how they are clamping down on "violent extremist material".
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Monsters, asteroids, vampires: AI conspiracies flood TikTok
From vampires and wendigos to killer asteroids, TikTok users are pumping out outlandish end-of-the-world conspiracy theories, researchers say, in yet another misinformation trend on a platform whose fate in the United States ...
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Mar 18, 2024
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Gemini's flawed AI racial images seen as warning of tech titans' power
For people at the trend-setting tech festival here, the scandal that erupted after Google's Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers was seen as a warning about the power artificial intelligence ...
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Mar 17, 2024
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Reddit reveals FTC inquiry into deals licensing its users' data for AI training
Reddit said Friday that the Federal Trade Commission has opened an inquiry into the social media platform's sale, licensing or sharing of its users' posts and other content to outside organizations for use in training artificial ...
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Mar 16, 2024
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OpenAI partners with Le Monde and Prisa Media
OpenAI on Wednesday announced partnerships with French daily Le Monde and Spanish conglomerate Prisa Media, saying it intends to develop news-related uses of its ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool.
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Mar 14, 2024
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Cyberattack leaves health care providers reeling weeks later
Following a cyberattack on the largest health insurer in the United States last month, health care providers continue to scramble as insurance payments and prescription orders continue to be disrupted and physicians lose ...
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Mar 13, 2024
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Delete a background? Easy. Smooth out a face? Seamless. Digital photo manipulation is now mainstream
It's been a common refrain when seeking proof that someone's story or some event actually took place: "Pics, or it didn't happen."
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Mar 12, 2024
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Reddit aims to raise $500 mn in stock market debut
Reddit plans to raise some $500 million with its initial public offering of shares, using the money to improve the platform and its money-making power, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
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Mar 12, 2024
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Proliferating 'news' sites spew AI-generated fake stories
A sensational story about the Israeli prime minister's "psychiatrist" exploded online, but it was AI-generated, originating on one of hundreds of websites researchers warn are churning out tech-enabled fiction masquerading ...
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Mar 11, 2024
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For social platforms, the outage was short. But people's stories vanished, and that's no small thing
Once upon a time, there was a brief outage on some social media platforms. It got fixed. The end. On the face of it, kind of a boring story.
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Mar 7, 2024
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Hong Kong minister says no social media ban under security law
Hong Kong's justice minister said Wednesday the city does not plan to ban social media under a proposed national security law after a public consultation document included suggestions that some apps should be barred.
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Mar 6, 2024
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Meta suffers global Facebook, Instagram outage
Meta suffered a highly unusual outage of all its social media platforms on Tuesday with users of Facebook, Instagram and Threads locked out of their accounts.
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Mar 5, 2024
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Atlas of internet surveillance maps ownership of network infrastructures worldwide
A German-American research team led by the University of Konstanz has mapped the ownership of network infrastructures in democratic and authoritarian states worldwide to show how autocrats control the internet via state-owned ...
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Mar 5, 2024
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Five things to know about the EU's landmark digital act
The world's biggest digital companies will be forced to comply from Thursday with strict EU rules that Brussels hopes will make the online market fairer for all.
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Mar 5, 2024
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Supercharged EU armed—at last—to take on tech titans
Clamping down harder and faster on abuses of power by the world's biggest digital companies: such is the promise of the European Union's new legal arsenal, which comes into full force from Thursday.
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Mar 5, 2024
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One Tech Tip: Change these settings on X to limit calls and hide your IP address
Elon Musk's social media platform X has made audio and video calling capabilities available to all users, not just those with paid accounts. But a privacy issue has emerged from the rollout.
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Mar 5, 2024
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Unveiling the future: A comprehensive dive into Web3's revolutionary ecosystem
Web3 represents the next evolutionary phase of the internet, emphasizing decentralization and user empowerment. It is built on blockchain technology, aiming to transform the digital landscape by offering enhanced data ownership, ...
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Mar 4, 2024
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