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Some experts think xAI used OpenAI model outputs to fine-tune Grok.

A U.S. judge on Monday upheld Texas' ban on state employees', including public university employees, using Chinese-owned short video app TikTok on state-owned devices or networks....

Sony’s content removals and unexpected account bans are timely reminders of why you don’t really own digital content.

OEMs collect too much personal data and share it too freely, says Senator Markey.

Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.

Social Links, a surveillance company that had thousands of accounts banned for mass-scraping Facebook and Instagram, is now using ChatGPT to make sense of data it grabs from social media....

Clyde will disappear by December 1st and it’s not clear why.

Apple’s support for the widely used messaging standard will make it easier for Android phones to share messages with iPhones—while ditching the old and flawed SMS standard.

Have you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?

Threads still requires an Instagram account to sign up, though.

As this magazine had been classified as abandoned after being inactive for months, my application to take over its ownership was approved....

NFTs and blockchain technology are revolutionizing the supply chain industry. By providing transparent and tamper-proof digital ledgers, blockchain ensures trust and security in the supply chain, reducing fraud and errors. NFTs enable the unique identification and tracking of products, enhancing provenance and authenticity...

This has been bugging me for a while now, windows 10, new motherboard, HDMI to 4k tv [600 nits], intel uhd on board display adapter running at 60hz, when I play a 1080p encoded video with, for example, Windows Movie and TV app, it plays fine, but when I play the same move or show in a 2160p encoded video it shows so much darker...

Threads is about to get vastly more useful as Meta has started rolling out the option to see a chronological feed of posts from the people you follow.

I created this magazine when the wave of redditors started happening - me being one of them. Unfortunately I don't have the time to moderate it, so I'm open to adding at least three moderators for now....

Meet the people who have already lost their jobs to AI.

I don't need apps, or advanced health tracking — just the basics. When smartwatches miss 3 key criteria for Ben.

Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has built a bridge between large language models and robots that promises more humanlike gestures while dispensing with traditional hardware-dependent controls.

San Francisco police Sergeant David Radford contacted Tesla in May 2020 with a request on a case: Could the automaker provide data on an alleged stalker’s remote access to a vehicle?...

Under pressure from regulators, Adobe calls off its plans to acquire a leading competitor....

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Threads will use ActivityPub, the same technology that other networks such as Mastodon have embraced as a way to make social media more open.

Amazon.com Inc., which launched its first internet satellites in October, says it will use space lasers to ensure reliable broadband coverage even in the middle of the ocean....

A US court ruling against Google’s app store policies has shaken the layout of these gardens a bit, but they’ll stay in place—for now....