Tag: Internet & Networking Technology

Snapchat is rolling out sponsored AI agents

It was only a matter of time before they found a way to use AI agents as...

Microsoft is reportedly offering voluntary buyouts to up to 7 percent of its employees

Microsoft is planning to get rid of more US employees via its first voluntary buyout program, CNBC...

France’s national agency for managing IDs and passports suffered a data breach last week

The French government confirmed that France Titres, also known as Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS), experienced...

Hey Meta workers, are you getting paid for those keystrokes?

No longer content to subsume recognizable intellectual properties, the majority of the indexed internet and books (basically...

Anthropic is investigating ‘unauthorized access’ of its Mythos cybersecurity tool

Anthropic is investigating potential "unauthorized access" to its Claude Mythos model that has been touted for its...

Mozilla says it patched 271 Firefox vulnerabilities thanks to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos

Anthropic's buzzy announcement about using AI to improve cybersecurity earlier this month was met with plenty of...

AI company deletes the 3 million OKCupid photos it used for facial recognition training

When online platforms violate their own privacy policies to sell your photos, have no fear: They just...

Yelp’s AI chatbot can now make your dinner reservation

Every business seems to think that its customers want more AI. Yelp is the latest to add...

Amazon will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic in a broad deal

Amazon and Anthropic are strengthening their ties once again, with steep financial commitments made on both sides....

Meta isn’t setting its Oversight Board free just yet

The Oversight Board — the policy body Meta created to weigh its most impactful moderation rulings —...

Google Search tackles sites that try to stop you from leaving when you hit the back button

Websites that act like a super-chatty colleague who just won't shut up and let you go when...

Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators

Dozens of civil rights organizations have written a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to warn of...

Rockstar Games has confirmed it was hit by third-party data breach

An experienced hacking group has claimed to have infiltrated Rockstar Games' cloud servers, while the game publisher...

Google has reportedly started to add Polymarket data to News results

Google News has begun showing Polymarket bets and odds alongside actual stories, according to a report by...

Instagram comments can now be edited (within 15 minutes)

Meta is giving users the ability to edit Instagram comments they leave on posts, though only within...

OpenAI ‘pauses’ its Stargate UK data center plan

OpenAI is putting the brakes on Stargate UK, according to Bloomberg. That’s the company’s AI infrastructure project...

UK Meta employee reportedly downloaded 30,000 private photos from Facebook users

A former Meta employee in the UK is under investigation after allegations that he illicitly downloaded about...

An Italian court ruled Netflix has to refund its customers for price hikes dating back to 2017

Instead of raising prices again, Netflix may have to lower its subscription costs in Italy. A court...

Proton adds a secure video conferencing service called Meet to its toolbox

We’ve written about the Swiss company Proton’s moves to take on Google and Microsoft with an expanding...

OkCupid settles FTC case on alleged misuse of its users’ personal data

Match Group and its subsidiary OkCupid has finally settled a lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission that...

Kash Patel’s personal email account was accessed by hackers linked to Iran

A hacking group called Handala has gained access to FBI Director Kash Patel's email account, Reuters reports....

European Commission confirms data breach

The European Commission has announced that it suffered a cyber attack that affected "cloud infrastructure hosting the...

EU says Pornhub and others failed to stop minors accessing adult content

The European Commission (EC) accused four porn platforms of not doing enough to prevent minors from accessing...

Oversight Board tells Meta expanding Community Notes outside of US poses ‘significant’ risks

Meta didn't consult its Oversight Board last year when it announced sweeping policy changes to content moderation...

OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot

OpenAI has "indefinitely" abandoned plans to release an a erotic chatbot for adults following concerns from employees...

Reddit will prompt some accounts to ‘verify humanness’ in latest bot crackdown

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has detailed the company's latest plan to fight bots and it means that...

Anthropic releases safer Claude Code ‘auto mode’ to avoid mass file deletions and other AI snafus

Anthropic has begun previewing "auto mode" inside of Claude Code. The company describes the new feature as...

X is changing its revenue-sharing policy to deter users pretending to be Americans

X is updating its revenue-sharing incentives to give more weight to engagement from a user’s home region,...

Baltimore sues xAI over Grok deepfakes

Grok has already taken extensive heat after the AI chatbot's image generation tool was used to create...

Alphabet no longer has a controlling stake in its life sciences business Verily

Alphabet's life sciences business Verily is restructuring and raising money as a new corporate entity. Verily announced...

Don’t be surprised that the FBI is buying your location data

The FBI has confirmed to the Senate it is once again buying data which can be used...

UK fines 4chan nearly $700,000 for failing its online safety act obligations

UK’s Ofcom has fined 4chan a total of £520,000 ($690,000) over the website’s failure to comply with...