Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers (www.engadget.com)
YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.
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YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.
Meta and YouTube are looking to Demi Lovato, Tom Brady and other A-listers to mainstream the technology — flawed guardrails and all.
Altman explains why he decided to return to OpenAI and what comes next for the company.
Meta's Facebook lost the latest round of a court battle over privacy with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday after a federal judge ruled the regulator can seek to reduce the amount of money the social media company makes from users under 18.
Web storefront maker fixed the flaw, but not before blasting infoseccer
For most games, a license is either free or the cost of a medium-nice dinner.
A soft robot replica solves a mystery about the evolution of movement.
Three researchers have found a long-sought way to pull information from large databases secretly, moving us closer to fully private internet searches.
I hope Windows 12 brings back point releases.
Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem involving imperfect information.
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Sam Altman confronted a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed for months about who should fill board vacancies....
The Orion capsule's heat shield suffered some unexpected damage at the conclusion of the Artemis 1 mission.
Uno reverse.
X's complaint alleged that Media Matters "manipulated" the platform's algorithm to generate inorganic ad placements to form a "blatant smear campaign," but the complaint seemingly admitted that no statements that Media Matters published were false. Media Matters will likely argue that advertisers could interpret its reporting...
Seriously, avoid Nothing Chats and check your Apple ID.
Google has officially announced plans to gradually eliminate third-party cookies, a key aspect of its Privacy Sandbox initiative.
Sam Altman, the now former CEO of OpenAI, has departed his role and is leaving its board, according to a company post on Friday. But questions about his role at other entities like Worldcoin, the crypto project he co-founded, remain up in the air as its token falls on the news.
Seven months after a first attempt ended in a spectacular explosion, SpaceX's Starship spacecraft blasted off for a second test flight. The launch was presumed to have failed shortly after the ship reached space.
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....
The Deep Space Optical Communications tool on the Psyche probe achieved successful data transmission to and from Earth from an unprecedented distance.
Twenty years after ‘U.S. v. Microsoft,’ antitrust law is finally coming back for Big Tech.
The social network failed to hit the growth targets its new owner set in 2019. But were they ever compatible with what Tumblr does best?
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.