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Elon Musk blamed scraping by these unknown entities for Twitter's decision to put a cap on how many tweets a user can see per day.

The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.

Our vultures ponder decentralization over convenience

The Biden administration is appealing a federal judge's ruling that ordered the government to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies. President Biden and the other federal defendants in the case "hereby appeal" the ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, according to a notice filed in US...

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts. U.S.

The social network X plans to compete with LinkedIn by offering job listings and more, CEO Elon Musk said in a new post.

Microsoft wants to enhance Windows with AI in more ways than one.

The paper notes that these types of attacks can be carried out with off-the-shelf equipment and algorithms.

Mozilla has announced today that its read-it-later service Pocket will be retiring its Mac app this month. Users are encouraged to install the iOS app on their Mac or use the web going forward. Here’s when and why Mozilla is shutting it down.

Hopefully we can avoid a repeat of the cryptomining-GPU situation.

Film companies lost another attempt to force Reddit to identify anonymous users who discussed piracy. A federal court on Saturday quashed a subpoena demanding users' names and other identifying details, agreeing with Reddit's argument that the film companies' demands violate the First Amendment....

OpenAI creator Sam Altman's new digital currency will use an orb-shaped device to scan irises in return for tokens - but at what cost?

Some seemingly innocuous APIs are misused to track users, Apple says.

The user was temporarily suspended early Wednesday morning. His account was back later that day.

A new digital watermarking technique for MIT CSAIL seeks to prevent unauthorized image edits by malicious AI..

A first-generation iPhone sells for almost 380 times its original price of $US499 ($735) when it first went on sale in 2007.

Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay "grossly exceeds" corporate norms.

It handily beat ChatGPT to the milestone while Twitter traffic is ‘tanking,’ according to Cloudflare CEO....

Just a couple of months ago, a leaked memo said to be from a Google researcher cast doubt on the company’s future in AI, stating that it has “no moat” in the industry — and now, we seemingly have confirmation that it was real. In an interview with Decoder, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind, told The Verge...

I like using RSS. I experimented with trying to get threads accounts into my RSS reader using the Mastodon method but just added .rss to the user's page. Unfortunately doesn't work....

Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.

YouTube automated AI could create professional videos in any niche, from any blog post/article.

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