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WhatsApp Adds Tools to Save You From Scams

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 05:00:00

WhatsApp, the popular smartphone messaging service, says it's cracking down on millions of accounts linked to scam networks and providing users new tools to alert them when they might be targeted. In a post on Tuesday, the Meta-owned service says it took down more than 6.8 million accounts linked to scam networks primarily based in Southeast Asia. WhatsApp said that many of them are driven by cryptocurrency investment scams and pyramid schemes, and that some use ChatGPT to generate text and lin

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Google’s NotebookLM is now available to younger users as competition in the AI education space intensifies

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-12 11:03:39

Google’s AI note-taking app is now open to younger users, having previously been limited to users 18 and older. The tech giant announced that NotebookLM is available to Google Workspace for Education users of any age and for consumers ages 13 and up. The removal of age restrictions is intended to provide younger students with access to the AI research tool, allowing them to better understand their class materials. Now, students can access features such as the ability to convert notes into podca

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What happens to your files when you stop paying your cloud storage subscription?

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-13 02:57:00

In brief: The end of a cloud storage subscription does not immediately erase your files, but it does set a countdown clock in motion. Timelines and policies differ, but the underlying risk is the same: unless quick action is taken to download, move, or delete files, the content may eventually be lost for good. For many consumers, digital subscriptions have become a routine monthly expense. They cover a wide range of services – music, video, software, games, and increasingly, cloud storage. As t

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After a Deluge of Mental Health Concerns, ChatGPT Will Now Nudge Users to Take ‘Breaks’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-13 02:05:00

It’s become increasingly common for OpenAI’s ChatGPT to be accused of contributing to users’ mental health problems. As the company readies the release of its latest algorithm (GPT-5), it wants everyone to know that it’s instituting new guardrails on the chatbot to prevent users from losing their minds while chatting. On Monday, OpenAI announced in a blog post that it had introduced a new feature in ChatGPT that encourages users to take occasional breaks while conversing with the app. “Starting

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Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-13 06:01:02

A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users’ consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes. The plaintiffs, claiming to represent millions of Flo users, had accused Flo and Meta of collecting private health data, like their period dates and fertility goals, via Flo’s app without permission, therefore violating Cali

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xAI’s new Grok image and video generator has a ‘spicy’ mode

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-13 16:20:32

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. xAI’s new Grok Imagine tool is an AI image and video generator that encourages users to make NSFW content. In contrast to rival generative AI video tools like Google’s Veo and OpenAI’s Sora, which try to block users from generating anything seedy, the Grok chatbot’s Imagine feature provides a “Spicy” generation mode that actively directs it to spit out nudity and sexualized content. Grok Imagine includes te

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OpenAI Admits ChatGPT Missed Signs of Delusions in Users Struggling With Mental Health

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-13 16:12:59

After over a month of providing the same copy-pasted response amid mounting reports of "AI psychosis", OpenAI has finally admitted that ChatGPT has been failing to recognize clear signs of its users struggling with their mental health, including suffering delusions. "We don't always get it right," the AI maker wrote in a new blog post, under a section titled "On healthy use." "There have been instances where our 4o model fell short in recognizing signs of delusion or emotional dependency," it

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Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 18:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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Is It FOSS?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 00:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-14 05:42:05

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s ChatGPT will reach 700 million weekly active users this week, the company announced Monday, cementing its position as one of the fastest-adopted software products in history just as the company prepares to release its most powerful language model yet. The surge is a 40 percent jump from the 500 million weekly users ChatGPT had at

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Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-14 11:52:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple reportedly has an AI search in the works. The AI search experience could have a standalone app and power Siri. Timely and strategic release with broader success of AI search engines. With the launch of Apple Intelligence, Apple sought to enter the AI space after a somewhat late entry. However, several delays of its most sought-after feature, including Siri 2.0, have made it difficult to keep up with more established competitors. A new report d

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ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 21:02:21

OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will now remind users to take breaks if they're in a particularly long chat with AI. The new feature is part of OpenAI's ongoing attempts to get users to cultivate a healthier relationship with the frequently compliant and overly-encouraging AI assistant. The company's announcement suggests the "gentle reminders" will appear as pop-ups in chats that users will have to click or tap through to continue using ChatGPT. "Just Checking In," OpenAI's sample pop-up rea

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CTM360 spots Malicious ‘ClickTok’ Campaign Targeting TikTok Shop users

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 11:25:36

CTM360 has discovered a new global malware campaign dubbed "ClickTok" that spreads the SparkKitty spyware through fake TikTok shops to steal cryptocurrency wallets and drain funds. The unique unique spyware trojan discovered by CTM360 is specifically engineered to exploit TikTok Shop users across the globe. Dubbed as “ClickTok”, this highly coordinated scam operation employs a hybrid scam model that combines phishing and malware to deceive buyers and affiliate program participants on TikTok’s

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OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-15 11:25:13

ChatGPT’s impressive growth as a consumer app continues as the chatbot is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users this week, the company says. The app had earlier reached 500 million weekly active users as of the end of March, noted Nick Turley, OpenAI VP and head of ChatGPT’s app, in a post on X. He also said the app has grown 4x since last year. “Every day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving harder problems. Big week ahead. Grateful to the team for making ChatGPT mo

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My Ideal Array Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 21:05:08

2025-07-20 What do I think the ideal array language should look like? The fundamental units of computation available to users today are not the same as they were 20 years ago. When users had at most a few cores on a single CPU, it made complete sense that every program was written with the assumption that it would only run on a single core. Even in a high-performance computing (HPC) context, the default mode of parallelism was (for a long time) the Message Passing Interface (MPI), which is a

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Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-15 21:00:00

Given the fact that social media apps these days are full of AI-generated videos, AI-native apps seem keen to cash in on the trend. The latest to jump on that bandwagon is Character.AI, which said on Monday that it is adding a social feed to its mobile apps that allow users to create AI characters and chat with them. The social feed, which first came to the company’s web platform in June, lets users share images, videos as well as their chatbots with other users. Users can also share snippets o

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Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-16 02:24:00

What just happened? Numerous organizations have repeatedly warned ChatGPT users over the years never to share personal information with OpenAI's chatbot. A recent incident involving a now-removed feature reveals that potentially thousands of people disclosed deeply intimate information with ChatGPT and also inadvertently made it discoverable through Google search. OpenAI recently confirmed that it has deactivated an opt-in feature that shared chat histories on the open web. Although the functio

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Hardening mode for the compiler

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 04:12:05

This is a joint proposal from: @AaronBallman, @shafik, @Endill, and @cor3ntin (with helpful input from others!) Safety and security of C and C++ programs has been an important issue in the ecosystem for a while. Both WG21 and WG14 are making plans on how to improve these aspects of the language from their end, but the standard is constrained by what it can talk about and the speed at which it can move. Implementations need to be the driving force behind improving this situation; we’re ultimatel

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Truecaller’s call-recording feature won’t work on iPhones from September 30

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-17 02:36:07

Truecaller is discontinuing its call recording function on iOS — just over two years after the feature was launched — as the Swedish company opts to focus on its core offering: fighting spam calls. On Friday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch that its call recording feature will no longer be available on iPhones starting September 30. Users with saved call recordings can either download them to their devices, share them via email or messaging apps, or switch their storage preference to iCloud

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ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-17 11:21:54

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results. Fast Company exposed the privacy issue on Wednesday, reporting that thousands of ChatGPT conversations were found in Google search results and likely only represented a sample of chats "visible to millions." While the indexing did not include identifying information about the ChatGPT users, some of their

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Pi-hole discloses data breach triggered by WordPress plugin flaw

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-17 16:13:01

Pi-hole, a popular network-level ad-blocker, has disclosed that donor names and email addresses were exposed through a security vulnerability in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin. Pi-hole acts as a DNS sinkhole, filtering out unwanted content before it reaches the users' devices. While initially designed to run on Raspberry Pi single-board computers, it now supports various Linux systems on dedicated hardware or virtual machines. The organization stated that they first learned of the incide

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Samsung TV glitch locks users out of apps worldwide (Update: Resolved)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 02:07:51

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung TV users around the world are reporting that they are unable to load any apps. The company has reportedly acknowledged a potential service disruption. Some users report that holding down the power button to fully restart the TV might help resolve the issue. Update, August 1, 2025 (10:07 AM ET): Samsung has reached out to us regarding this incident, and the company confirms that everything should be back to normal: Our TV service was affected f

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Instagram now requires users to have at least 1,000 followers to go live

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-18 02:00:43

Instagram users now need a public account with a minimum of 1,000 followers to go live on the platform, the social network confirmed to TechCrunch. Until now, Instagram has allowed anyone to go live, regardless of their follower count or whether their account is public or private. The move will be a blow to smaller creators on the platform who fall under the 1,000 followers requirement, as well as regular users who just liked to go live with their friends for fun. Users who don’t have public a

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Truecaller’s call recording feature won’t work on iPhones from Sept. 30

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-18 02:36:07

Truecaller is discontinuing its call recording function on iOS — just over two years after the feature was launched — as the Swedish company opts to focus on its core offering: fighting spam calls. On Friday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch that its call recording feature will no longer be available on iPhones starting September 30. Users with saved call recordings can either download them to their devices, share them via email or messaging apps, or switch their storage preference to iCloud

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Samsung TV glitch locks users out of apps worldwide

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 18:15:51

Samsung TVs seem to be facing a widespread issue where apps won’t load properly. The problem appears to be affecting users globally. A Reddit thread with over 700 comments shows that many Samsung TV owners are unable to use any apps on their TVs. According to users, most apps, including popular ones like Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video, are visible in the menu but won’t open. Instead, they show a “202 error” message, which usually points to an internet issue. However, affected users sa

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Samsung TVs are coming back online after apps stopped working

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-18 22:02:38

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Samsung smart TVs appear to be functioning normally again after experiencing a global outage yesterday. Users across Reddit and Samsung’s community forum started reporting issues with their TVs at around 5PM ET on Thursday, finding themselves unable to open apps like YouTube, Apple TV, Hulu, and Prime Video. While apps were still visible on the Samsung TV menu, attempting to open them would display a variet

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OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-18 21:49:25

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within hours of widespread social media criticism and represents a striking example of how quickly privacy concerns can derail even well-inten

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YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 11:27:34

Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the US ahead of a wider rollout of the age check system. Throughout the first half of August, YouTube will begin interpreting "a variety of signals" to determine if certain users are under 18. No new user data will be collected, but those signals could include things like "the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of t

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Reddit wants to be a search engine now

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-19 11:01:14

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit knows that it has valuable data from actual people — it’s already reached deals with big AI companies like OpenAI and Google to share its data with them. But Reddit is also investing in improving its own search capabilities, and in its latest note to investors, CEO Steve Huffman says that the company is “concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results f

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Meta faces antitrust investigation over AI chatbot integration in WhatsApp

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-20 00:31:00

In brief: Meta began integrating its AI chatbot into WhatsApp in 2024, offering users easy access to its large language model service. This move may have breached Europe's antitrust laws, and Italian authorities are now weighing whether to impose a substantial fine on the US company. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) recently launched an antitrust investigation into Meta AI's integration within WhatsApp. In March 2025, Meta began pre-installing its AI chatbot in the messaging app, which

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Latest Tech News

WhatsApp Adds Tools to Save You From Scams

Google’s NotebookLM is now available to younger users as competition in the AI education space intensifies

What happens to your files when you stop paying your cloud storage subscription?

After a Deluge of Mental Health Concerns, ChatGPT Will Now Nudge Users to Take ‘Breaks’

Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

xAI’s new Grok image and video generator has a ‘spicy’ mode

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Is It FOSS?

ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers

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ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns

CTM360 spots Malicious ‘ClickTok’ Campaign Targeting TikTok Shop users

OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users

My Ideal Array Language

Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app

Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap

Hardening mode for the compiler

Truecaller’s call-recording feature won’t work on iPhones from September 30

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

Pi-hole discloses data breach triggered by WordPress plugin flaw

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Instagram now requires users to have at least 1,000 followers to go live

Truecaller’s call recording feature won’t work on iPhones from Sept. 30

Samsung TV glitch locks users out of apps worldwide

Samsung TVs are coming back online after apps stopped working

OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

Reddit wants to be a search engine now

Meta faces antitrust investigation over AI chatbot integration in WhatsApp

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