Published on: 2025-04-21 23:36:44
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A federal judge has struck down an Ohio law that would’ve required children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media platforms. In a decision on Wednesday, US District Court Judge Algenon Marbley ruled that the law is unconstitutional, saying it violates the First Amendment. Signed in 2023, Ohio’s Social Media Parental Notification Act
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 07:02:02
A Florida draft bill that would require social media companies to provide encryption backdoors for law enforcement officials to access user accounts has cleared a key legislative hurdle and will now advance to the state’s Senate floor for a vote. Florida lawmakers unanimously approved pushing the bill through committee, per Florida Politics. The “Social Media Use by Minors” (SB 868) bill, if passed into law, would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end enc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 18:25:33
Picture this: a social network populated mainly by AI bros. Sound like the place to hang? We ask because OpenAI has been secretly building its own social media platform, which The Verge reports is intended to resemble X-formerly-Twitter — the social media middleweight owned by CEO Sam Altman's arch-nemesis, Elon Musk. The project is still getting off the ground, but an internal prototype with a social media feed revolves around ChatGPT's new image generation capabilities, which you may be fami
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 11:30:00
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office told 404 Media that Massive Blue has not thus far been used for any arrests. “Our investigations are still underway. Massive Blue is one component of support in these investigations, which are still active and ongoing. No arrests have been made yet,” Sam Salzwedel, Pinal County Sheriff's Office public information officer, told 404 Media. “It takes a multifaceted approach to disrupting human traffickers, narcotics traffickers, and other criminals. Massive Blue h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 11:07:03
Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Wednesday that it had partnered with Kaggle — a Google-owned data science community platform that hosts machine learning data — to publish a beta dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French.” Wikimedia says the dataset hosted by Kaggle has been “designed with machine
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 10:07:00
The AI company behind ChatGPT is considering building a social media platform, according to reporting from The Verge this week citing multiple anonymous sources. Yes, you read that right: a social media company. Right now, the concept is only an internal project -- meaning there's no guarantee it will ever see the light of day. But the idea raises a lot of questions: What would an OpenAI social feed look like? Who would post on it? Would the company develop special AI features for it? Does Altm
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 15:07:56
The AI company behind ChatGPT is considering building a social media platform, according to reporting from The Verge this week citing multiple anonymous sources. Yes, you read that right: a social media company. Right now, the concept is only an internal project -- meaning there's no guarantee it will ever see the light of day. But the idea raises a lot of questions: What would an OpenAI social feed look like? Who would post on it? Would the company develop special AI features for it? Does Altm
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 15:32:48
In Brief Zoom says its platform is back online after suffering an outage for much of Wednesday afternoon. “Service has now been restored after the earlier outage, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding,” Zoom said in a post on X at around 2 p.m. Pacific. The trouble began around 11:40 a.m., according to The Verge, citing data from Cisco’s ThousandEyes platform. Users on social media reported having trouble logging in, and getting an “Unable to Connect” error message when
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:10:18
Why is an AI company pretending that we’re living in 2022 and working on a new social media platform? OpenAI has money, everyone’s attention, and its iOS app is still the number one download on Apple’s App Store. It doesn’t really need to get into the social media business for cash (most platforms struggle to turn a profit) or prestige. Sure Sam Altman has beefed with both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and cockily threatened to make a social media platform, but why divert the company’s resources
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 03:45:15
As the United States' biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, readers remain unimpressed. In a new poll conducted by Poynter and the University of Minnesota, nearly half of the survey's respondents said they don't want AI reporting the news to them — and 20 percent say that news publishers shouldn't be using the technology at all. For the early March poll, the institutions recruited 1,128 demographically diverse people to form a representative sample of Am
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 20:30:00
Our moods are affected by everything around us. Small things like food we eat and how often we move around can impact our mental health. Convincing yourself to be happier or look on the bright side can be easier said than done, but building up good daily habits can make your mental health journey a bit easier. These habits don't have to be major either: Simple things like giving yourself a break from social media or journaling can help to shift your mood. The best part about the following menta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 10:00:01
Supplied by MediaTek TL;DR MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 9400 Plus flagship processor. This brings a few performance, AI, and connectivity upgrades over the standard chip. The first phones with the Dimensity 9400 Plus chip will launch later this month. MediaTek launched its Dimensity 9400 flagship processor late last year, and it’s a compelling alternative to the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. Now, the Taiwanese brand has revealed the Dimensity 9400 Plus. This chip is identical to the s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 20:00:01
Supplied by MediaTek TL;DR MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 9400 Plus flagship processor. This brings a few performance, AI, and connectivity upgrades over the standard chip. The first phones with the Dimensity 9400 Plus chip will launch later this month. MediaTek launched its Dimensity 9400 flagship processor late last year, and it’s a compelling alternative to the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. Now, the Taiwanese brand has revealed the Dimensity 9400 Plus. This chip is identical to the s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 23:45:45
Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 19:46:00
What just happened? A coalition of publishers, including The New York Times and The Guardian, has launched a campaign demanding the US government to hold Big Tech accountable for using creative content to develop artificial intelligence products. Organized by the News/Media Alliance, the "Support Responsible AI" campaign accuses tech giants of exploiting copyrighted material without compensating the creators. The campaign's website frames this practice as a direct threat to content creators' li
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 18:15:15
The cursed pattern continues: following a baffling and error-ridden turn to AI content, the once-acclaimed business publication Quartz has been sold off and its editorial team almost entirely axed — making it the latest media brand to see low-quality AI use precede mass layoffs. As the business publication's cofounder Zach Seward, who now leads editorial AI initiatives at The New York Times, explained in a blog post yesterday, Quartz has changed hands several times since its launch back in 2012
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 19:24:16
"It's impossible to kill a media brand," Jim Spanfeller told me on my first day working for him, as we sat in his corner office. He had just bought the business news organization, Quartz, that I had spent the past decade building and, most recently, trying desperately to save from oblivion. So I was inclined to believe him. But I knew it wasn't true. Jim and his private-equity-backed digital-media conglomerate G/O Media had already destroyed several of their properties, some all at once (Deadsp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 15:22:30
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Hundreds of publishers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Verge parent company Vox Media, are running an ad campaign this week urging the government to protect content from AI. The campaign, called Support Responsible AI, is run by the News/Media Alliance trade association and consists of several ads that will
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 11:10:10
The internet isn’t rotting your brain. Algorithm-driven doomscrolling is rotting your brain. To be online in 2025 is to be miserable. A lot of that is the current state of the world, to be fair, but some of it is also the way we all engage with stuff online. We’ve all sat down to browse Instagram and looked up to realize two hours have passed that we barely remember. And it seems as if the feed on every social media site is filled with AI slop, advertisements, and weird garbage we don’t want to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 10:42:14
Meta and Pinterest make secret donation to Molly Russell charity 4 hours ago Share Save Angus Crawford and Tony Smith BBC News Investigations Share Save RUSSELL FAMILY Instagram's owner Meta and Pinterest have made significant donations to a charity set up in the name of 14-year-old Molly Russell, the BBC understands. Molly, from Harrow in northwest London, took her own life in 2017 after being exposed to a stream of suicide and self-harm content on the two platforms. A coroner concluded the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 07:48:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? The race to integrate artificial intelligence into every facet of technology has reached the Chromebook market, with MediaTek unveiling its most advanced system-on-chip. Dubbed the Kompanio Ultra, this new SoC is designed to bring on-device AI capabilities to Chromebooks. At the heart of this product is MediaTek's 8th-generation neural processing unit, which delivers 50 TOPS (tr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 11:30:15
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 adds support for running media codecs outside of their usual sandboxed process and within the app’s process. Doing this reduces the amount of inter-process communication that needs to typically happen between the app and codec process, thereby reducing CPU usage and thus power consumption. However, this opens the door to security exploits, which is why codecs need to be written in a memory-safe language like Rust for this to be allowed. Whe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 11:18:00
Editor's take: AI bots have recently become the scourge of websites dealing with written content or other media types. From Wikipedia to the humble personal blog, no one is safe from the network sledgehammer wielded by OpenAI and other tech giants in search of fresh content to feed their AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns about AI scraper bots and their impact on the foundation's internet bandw
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 04:00:00
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. When you jump into a video on YouTube or Netflix, a lot happens very quickly behind the scenes. Video data is rapidly downloaded to your device, which then has to unpack and normalize that information into a smooth, hiccup-free stream. The process of encoding and decoding video data has changed greatly over the years, with H.264 (AVC) and its succes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 07:06:06
On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up terabytes of data, growing the foundation's bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content by 50 percent since January 2024. It’s a scenario familiar across the free and open source software (FOSS) community, as we've previously detailed. The Foundation hosts not only Wikipedia but also platforms lik
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 19:00:43
Supplied by MediaTek TL;DR MediaTek has announced the Kompanio Ultra chip for Chromebooks. The chip supports Gemini, but we’ll have to wait for more details from Google next month. Otherwise, the new processor is effectively the Dimensity 9400 flagship chip with a few changes. Windows and Mac computers have gained powerful AI silicon in the last few years, but what about Chromebooks? Fortunately, MediaTek has announced a new Chromebook chip with impressive AI capabilities and general perform
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 19:00:03
MediaTek has released chips to power Android phones for years and broken into the laptop PC space in recent times too. Now, it's got a new chip aimed at another market -- Chromebooks -- to empower those affordable machines to connect to the latest generative artificial intelligence agents. Previous MediaTek chips in the Kompanio line powered Chromebooks like the Lenovo Duet 11. Its new silicon, the Kompanio Ultra, brings faster speeds and better generative AI performance to affordable ChromeOS-
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 23:26:50
The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from Wikimedia Commons has surged by 50% since January 2024. The reason, the outfit wrote in a blog post Tuesday, isn’t due to growing demand from knowledge-thirsty humans, but from automated, data-hungry scrapers looking to train AI models. “Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes fr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 03:15:46
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and for watching videos or downloading files from Wikimedia Commons. No, the spike in usage came from AI crawlers, or automated programs scraping Wikimedia's openly licensed images, videos, articles and other files to train generative arti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 08:46:31
As it turns out, “thrift shopping” in Japan via the internet can be both very enjoyable as well as very dangerous. In this series of posts, I’ve been examining various optical media I’ve obtained from Japan, both in-person and online, and they just keep on coming as the listings are refreshed and more products get put up for sale. It’s been an amazing trip “back-in-time” but also an opportunity to share some of the fun and beauty of older optical discs. TDK DVD+R 4x UV-Guard The first disc in
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