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Hundreds of sexual ads using deepfakes ran on social media
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A massive advertising campaign launched this week by a deepfake app featured the faces of actresses...
FTC probes Twitter data practices after Elon Musk’s layoffs
The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. The Federal Trade...
China’s students leap ‘Great Firewall’ to get homework help from ChatGPT
Chinese schoolchildren are using ChatGPT to slash homework time, but teachers are worried over the possibilities for cheating and plagiarism....
9th Circuit says Twitter can’t disclose FBI ‘national security’ demands for user info
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Twitter may not publicly quantify the number of times the FBI demands user information from it...
Twitter admits ‘massive’ outage as woes continue
Twitter said the issue began with "unintended consequences" from a platform update. Twitter on Monday suffered a brief but unprecedented...
Proton VPN in media partnership against online censorship
Proton's deal with Deutsche Welle will allow users to bypass internet blocks. Internet privacy and access company Proton said Monday...
Betting on social media as a news destination for the young
John D'Amico, deputy executive editor for The News Movement (TNM), a social media news operation re-imagined for Gen-Z consumers, left,...
Cyclone Gabrielle broke vital communication links when people needed them most—what happened and how do we fix it?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Modern communication systems need two main things: power, and what engineers call "backhaul", the connections that...
Researchers test smart surfaces to improve wireless communication and localization
Credit: CC0 Public Domain It's happened to anyone with a cell phone—dropped calls or dead air because suddenly there is...
Incentives and threats: How to avoid scammers ‘phishing’ for money, personal information
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are certain rites of passage in life. Milestone birthdays, graduations, marriages or births. And of...
Here are the countries that have bans on TikTok
This photo shows a TikTok app logo in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2020. In the latest salvo in the battle...
TikTok sets new default time limits for minors
The TikTok logo is seen on a cellphone on Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. TikTok says every account held by...
The next phase of the internet is coming: Here’s what you need to know about Web3
The terms Web3 and Web 3.0 are often used interchangeably, but they are different concepts. Credit: Shutterstock The rapid growth...
Study analyzes fake interaction services on social media
Top 8 targeted platforms by services in SMM panels. The inner ring represents the percentage of different services (variations) identified....
‘Take It Down:’ a tool for teens to remove explicit images
A young man checks his phone by the Tagus river at Lisbon's Comercio square on a sunny winter day, Monday,...
Meta unveils more cautious approach to ChatGPT frenzy
Meta has unveiled its own version of artificial intelligence behind apps such as ChatGPT. Facebook-owner Meta on Friday unveiled its...
Facebook, Instagram roll out paid subscription in Australia, New Zealand
Meta has started a pilot rollout of its first paid verification service on Facebook and Instagram in Australia and New...
What to watch in US Supreme Court hearings on social media algorithms
Pamela Samuelson is a co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and co-facilitator of the university’s public interest technology...
Supreme Court unlikely to ‘break the internet’ over Google, Twitter cases—rather, it is approaching with caution
Credit: CC0 Public Domain "These are not, like, the nine greatest experts on the internet," noted Justice Elena Kagan—a reference...
Without access to high-quality, reliable spatial data, government functions and services will suffer
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Within the rapidly changing landscape of data providers, governments must address concerns over who collects and...
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