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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.
G/O Media, who owns popular tech site Gizmodo along with a slew of other outlets, began publishing AI-generated articles last week, despite strong objections from many of the members of its staff, according to The Washington Post. The articles are all credited to various bots — Gizmodo Bot, for example — with no other...
A new law went into effect in New York City on Wednesday that requires any business using A.I. in its hiring to submit that software to an audit to prove that it does not result in racist or sexist…
Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.
A new quantum computer can execute calculations in mere moments that would take the most advanced supercomputers 47 years to process.
The platform cited a spike in hate speech and misinformation on X and plans to devote its time to Mastodon.
Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.
The lawsuit was brought last May against X, as Twitter is now known, by Areej al-Sadhan, the sister of a Saudi aid worker who was forcibly disappeared and then later sentenced to 20 years in jail. Lawyers for Al-Sadhan updated their claim last week to include new allegations about how Twitter, under the leadership of then-chief...
Three visual artists are suing artificial intelligence image-generators to protect their copyrights and careers.
Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."
A recently discovered vulnerability that affects lots of Intel CPUs could steal your data, but there's a fix. The downside? It'll cost you performance.
Universal Music Group , Sony Music Entertainment and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.
Researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender call on businesses not to succumb to this artificial “intelligence” hype.
Three Tesla owners in California on Wednesday sued the automaker in a proposed class action that accuses the company of falsely advertising the estimated driving ranges of its electric vehicles.
The pivot-to-video strategy, which has been attempted and failed at by countless content companies, has its own Wikipedia page.
Authoritarian countries - but also democracies - use surveillance technology from China.
The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request
MIT engineers created a carbon-cement supercapacitor that can store large amounts of energy. Made of just cement, water, and carbon black, the device could form the basis for inexpensive systems that store intermittently renewable energy, such as solar or wind energy.
Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses.
Threads collects reams of personal data, and its lack of privacy protections appears to be illegal in Europe. Here’s what we know so far.
Meta’s social media platforms will be barred from behavioral advertising in August.
Researcher claims that Swing VPN is a DDoS botnet that uses people’s devices to launch debilitating attacks on websites and online services.
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.
It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.
