CNN By Catherine Thorbecke Within hours of the mass shooting on Saturday at a Texas outlet mall, some Twitter users shared gruesome pictures of bloodied bodies, purportedly from the crime scene. At least one image appeared to be of a child. These images were harder to avoid on the platform, according to some users, in
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke Within hours of the mass shooting on Saturday at a Texas outlet mall, some Twitter users shared gruesome pictures of bloodied bodies, purportedly from the crime scene. At least one image appeared to be of a child. These images were harder to avoid on the platform, according to some users, in part
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN In the days after TikTok’s CEO was grilled by Congress for the first time, many TikTok users began posting about an alternative platform called Lemon8, sometimes with eerily similar language. Multiple creators described the app as being like “if Pinterest and Instagram had a baby, with TikTok’s algorithm.” Some compared it
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Just a few days ahead of its product launch, Google unveiled an early look at its first foldable smartphone. In a video posted to Twitter and YouTube, the company teased a Pixel phone with a vertical hinge that can be opened to reveal a tablet-like display. The company will host
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke and Clare Duffy, CNN Apple on Thursday reported that its revenue fell 3% to $94.8 billion for the first three months of the year, as consumers scale back spending on smartphones and computers due to looming recession fears. The company’s revenue was slightly better than what Wall Street had expected, but it
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN The White House on Thursday announced a series of measures to address the challenges of artificial intelligence, driven by the sudden popularity of tools such as ChatGPT and amid rising concerns about the technology’s potential risks for discrimination, misinformation and privacy. The US government plans to introduce policies that shape
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it would resume posting automated transit alerts to Twitter on Thursday after the social media company backtracked on a plan to charge public service accounts for access to the platform. In a statement Thursday, MTA Acting Chief Customer Officer Shanifah Rieara said Twitter had tried
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN The White House on Thursday announced a series of measures to address the challenges of artificial intelligence, driven by the sudden popularity of tools such as ChatGPT and amid rising concerns about the technology’s potential risks for discrimination, misinformation and privacy. The US government plans to introduce policies that shape
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The White House on Thursday announced a series of measures to address the challenges of artificial intelligence, driven by the sudden popularity of tools such as ChatGPT and amid rising concerns about the technology’s potential risks for discrimination, misinformation and privacy. The US government plans to introduce policies that shape how
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business By any standard, John August is a successful screenwriter. He’s written such films as “Big Fish,” “Charlie’s Angels” and “Go.” But even he is concerned about the impact AI could have on his work. A powerful new crop of AI tools, trained on vast troves of data online, can
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, BOSTON DYNAMICS, FOX NEWS SUNDAY By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business By any standard, John August is a successful screenwriter. He’s written such films as “Big Fish,” “Charlie’s Angels” and “Go.” But even he is concerned about the impact AI could have on his work. A powerful new crop of
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Kelly Microsoft is rolling out the new AI-powered version of its Bing search engine to anyone who wants to use it. Nearly three months after the company debuted a limited preview version of its new Bing, powered by the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT, Microsoft is opening it up to all users without a
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Facebook-parent Meta of violating its landmark $5 billion privacy settlement and called for toughening up restrictions on the company, after alleging Meta has improperly shared user data with third parties and failed to protect children as it has promised. The proposal to update the
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn The days of having to think up new passwords that aren’t “password123” may be coming to an end — at least on your Google accounts. Google on Wednesday began rolling out support for passkeys, an alternative sign-in method for apps and websites that the company says is meant to serve as an
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple and Google are working together on a new industry-wide effort to help limit the risk of Bluetooth devices like AirTags being used for unwanted tracking after a number of reports about these products enabling stalking. The companies announced a joint proposal on Tuesday for a new technical specification
Continue ReadingCNN, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, YOUTUBE, GOP, MIDJOURNEY, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, UKRAINE ALWAYS, NEWSFROMINDIAHERE, TIM BOUCHER By Samantha Kelly Microsoft is rolling out the new AI-powered version of its Bing search engine to anyone who wants to use it. Nearly three months after the company debuted a limited preview version of its new Bing, powered by
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Hackers have seized on worldwide interest in the artificial intelligence-powered tool ChatGPT in an effort to break into people’s devices, Facebook owner Meta revealed in a security report Wednesday, equating the phenomenon to the surge in cryptocurrency scams. Meta’s security team said it found hackers software that claimed
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Facebook’s parent company Meta announced Wednesday that it has taken down a network of more than 100 China-based accounts that posed as organizations in the US and Europe and pushed pro-Beijing talking points. The Facebook and Instagram accounts, which included a fictitious news organization and posed as a
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Korn Geoffrey Hinton, also known as the “Godfather of AI,” decided he had to “blow the whistle” on the technology he helped develop after worrying about how smart it was becoming, he told CNN on Tuesday. “I’m just a scientist who suddenly realized that these things are getting smarter than us,” Hinton
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN TikTok is about to lose a key safety executive as the app faces growing pressure from lawmakers and threats of a ban in the United States. TikTok’s Head of US Data Security Trust and Safety Eric Han is set to leave the company next week. His departure was confirmed to CNN
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