Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Tech giants including Meta, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI are working on a pact to jointly crack down on AI content intended to deceive voters ahead of…
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Faulty machine translations litter the web
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Near the end of the last century, Bill Gates saw the prospect of unifying citizens of nearly 200 countries, speaking more than 7,000 languages, coming together…
Microsoft expands Office AI Copilot to consumers, smaller companies
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft Corp. is opening up its artificial intelligence assistant to consumers and making the corporate version available to smaller companies as it tries to increase the…
Meta toughens content curbs for teens on Instagram, Facebook
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri testified on January 5 at a Senate hearing about how the platform impacts the mental health and safety of teens and children. Meta on Tuesday…
Connecting rural African communities one bus at a time
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In urban African communities, communication infrastructure has made it possible for people to share information quickly and easily. However, the same cannot be said for rural…
Google agrees to settle $5 bn lawsuit over ‘incognito’ mode
A lawsuit against Google claims the company’s practices infringed on users’ privacy by ‘intentionally’ deceiving them. Google has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion…
US-Canada military center ‘tracks’ Santa for 68th year
The Santa tracker presented by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) dates to 1955. The joint US-Canadian military monitoring agency has continued its decades-long Christmas tradition of tracking Santa’s…
Fraud is a problem so big we need to start teaching children how to spot it in schools
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Have you or someone you know been a victim of fraud? If so, that’s not unusual. The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a rise…
What is Storm-1152, alleged top creator of fake Microsoft accounts?
Microsoft has seized the websites of Storm-1152, a Vietnam-based group it says is responsible for creating hundreds of millions of fake accounts. Microsoft has seized the websites of a Vietnam-based…
