Australia officially introduces a bill that would ban social media for minors under 16. The bill requires social media firms to take ‘reasonable steps’ to comply with the ban.
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Social Media Platforms That Violate Australia's Ban Bill May Face $32M Fine
Australia officially introduces a bill that would ban social media for minors under 16. The bill requires social media firms to take ‘reasonable ...
Mastodon says that its official app downloads are up 47% on iOS amid an apparent exodus of Twitter/X.
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Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus
Mastodon and its fellow X rivals Bluesky and Threads are all making big gains following Elon Musk’s recent foray into politics.
GOG.com has long been known as a marketplace for classic PC games. But now the company is taking things a step further with a "Preservation Program" that pledges to maintain the compatibility of select PC games for years to come.
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GOG.com Preservation Program Aims to Keep Old PC Games Playable
The program, announced as GOG.com celebrates its 16th anniversary, is launching for 100 games, including favorites such as System Shock 2, the orig...
Apple's new MacBook Pro 16-Inch remains a formidable content-creation laptop, with all-day battery life, a fantastic new display option, and Thunderbolt 5 connectivity complementing the powerful M4 Pro chip. Here's our review:
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Apple MacBook Pro 16-Inch (2024, M4 Pro) Review
In Apple’s 2024 edition, the 16-inch MacBook Pro remains a formidable content-creation laptop, with all-day battery life, a fantastic new display...
Netflix is going all in on using generative AI to build games, weeks after the company shut down an internal studio focused on creating "AAA" games.
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Netflix Focuses on AI-Generated Gaming After Shutting Down Internal Studio
'Many view this technology with fear, but I am a game-maker at heart, and I see its potential to unlock all of us,' says Mike Verdu, who ...
In an exclusive interview, security consultant Chelsea Manning explains how mixnets can be used to get around VPN bans in countries plagued by internet censorship.
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Worried About Digital Privacy? VPNs and Tor Aren't Enough Anymore
In an exclusive interview, security consultant Chelsea Manning explains how mixnets can be used to get around VPN bans in countries plagued by inte...
Hackers are leaking users' credit card data on Threads—and Meta is helping it spread by promoting the posts on Instagram and Facebook.
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Cybercriminals Are Leaking Stolen Credit Card Data on Threads
Malicious accounts are publicizing victims' data including full names, credit card numbers, birth dates, physical addresses, and passwords—a...
OpenAI’s new AI audio transcription tool Whisper is having frequent “AI hallucinations”, despite its rapid adoption in “high-risk industries” like healthcare.
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OpenAI’s Whisper Experiencing ‘AI Hallucinations’ Despite High-Risk Applications
The transcription tool is being deployed in hospitals across America, but some commentators feel it may pose dangers for patients.
If you're still on X when the new Terms of Service drop on Nov. 15, you should probably leave. That's because your posts can officially serve as food for X’s Grok chatbot and any other AI systems that X might create in the future.
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X Just Gave Us Another Good Reason to Delete the App
The social network updates its terms of service to officially say it uses public tweets to train its AI. Here's how to block it from scraping ...
The Windows 11 24H2 Update apparently arrives with 8.6GB junk file that you can't delete.
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Windows 11 24H2 Update Comes With 8.6GB Junk File You Can't Delete
24H2 spawns an unusable 'Windows Update Cleanup' cache file on PCs—with no easy way to remove it.