Chrome Autofill Now Supports Passport, Driver's License and Vehicle Info
Imad Khan / cnet - Soon, you'll never need to remember anything ever again.
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Bluesky Hits 40 Million Users, Introduces 'Dislikes' Beta
BeauHD / slashdot - Bluesky has surpassed 40 million users and is launching a "dislikes" beta to improve its personalization algorithms and reduce toxic content. TechCrunch reports: With the "dislikes" beta rolling out soon, Bluesky will take into account the new signal to i…
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After teen death lawsuits, Character.AI will restrict chats for under-18 users
Benj Edwards / arstechnica - AI companion app faces legal and regulatory pressure over child safety concerns.
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia to Take On ‘Propaganda’ Wikipedia
Jon Swartz / techstrong - Is the world ready for Grokipedia? Elon Musk, xAI's billionaire founder, thinks so. This week, he unveiled Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia amid ongoing conservative criticism of the established plat…
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Character.AI to block romantic AI chats for minors a year after teen's suicide
cnbc - Character.AI said it will phase out open-ended chats for minors, including romantic dialogues with AI chatbots, by Nov. 25.
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Clearview AI sued in Europe over alleged privacy violations
therecord - The complaint follows several enforcement actions and bans from European data protection authorities which the advocacy group, noyb, alleges Clearview AI has ignored.
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Threads introduces 'ghost' posts that disappear after 24 hours
engadget - Meta's Threads is getting its own version of ephemeral posting with a new feature the company is calling "ghost posts." The temporary posts will be published within Threads' main feed like any other post, but will disappear after 24 hours. And while other…
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Researchers exploit OpenAI's Atlas by disguising prompts as URLs
Richard Speed / theregister - NeutralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands Researchers have found more attack vectors for OpenAI's new Atlas web browser – this time by disguising a potentially malicious prompt as an apparently harmless URL.…
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Studies Reveal AI Models’ Troubling Sycophancy Trends
New research shows that large language models have a disconcerting habit of echoing users instead of challenging them. Benchmark tests reveal consistently high rates of agreement, raising pressing questions on the reliability and impartiality of these systems when deployed for critical decision-making and creative tasks.
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Apple Claims to be Pressured to Disable App Tracking Transparency in Europe
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Apple is threatening to disable its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature in Europe due to pressure from the advertising industry and local regulators.The post Apple Claims to be Pressured to Disable App Tracking Transparency in Europe appeared first on…
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OpenAI reportedly asked for memorial guest list in teen suicide case
Will Shanklin / engadget - The family of Adam Raine has filed an amended lawsuit against OpenAI. Raine died by suicide in April, and his family claims ChatGPT enabled the tragedy. The updated lawsuit accuses the company of weakening self-harm safeguards in the period leading up to …
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Reddit sues Perplexity over alleged large-scale data scraping
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Reddit has filed a lawsuit against the answer-engine company Perplexity and three data-scraping service providers, SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy. The legal action seeks to halt what Reddit’s complaint describes as the unlawful, industrial-scale circumven…
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No Tea party: Apple pulls women's dating safety app over privacy concerns
appleinsider - Apple has pulled the embattled women's dating safety app Tea from the App Store, because it continued to fail to meet requirements that mandate content moderation and user privacy.No Tea in the App StoreThe viral dating safety app Tea, designed to help pr…
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YouTube Expands AI Likeness Detection Tool Against Deepfakes
YouTube is rolling out an AI-powered tool designed to detect unauthorized uses of creators’ faces and voices, aiming to stem the tide of deepfakes. The new system, however, has sparked debates over its accuracy and potential loopholes in protecting digital identities.
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A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica / wired - The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.
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Spotify's managed accounts will help keep your kids from wrecking your music taste profile
Matt Tate / engadget - Spotify has introduced a new "managed accounts" feature aimed at younger listeners. Initially piloted last year and launching in seven new markets, including the US, today, it allows parents and guardians with a Spotify Premium Family plan to allocate the…
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Instagram is making all teen accounts ‘PG-13’
Emma Roth / theverge - Instagram is making a major update to teen accounts that will only allow them to view content similar to what you would see in a PG-13 movie. Under the new system, Instagram will continue to hide content containing nudity, sexual content, or suggestive po…
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California enacts age-gate law for app stores
engadget - California has become the latest state to age-gate app stores and operating systems. AB 1043 is one of several internet regulation bills that Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Monday, including ones related to social media warning labels, chatbots …
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Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users
Dan Goodin / arstechnica - As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.
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