Instagram users find AI images of themselves on their feeds: ‘Nightmarish situation’
Isn't this “meta”? An Instagram user was scrolling through his feed when he came across an AI-generated photo of himself being shared by Meta AI. People call this phenomenon a “nightmare.” According to an anonymous user who posted about his shock: reddit This week, these images were created after he “edited selfies using Meta AI.” […]
Online holiday sales rise nearly 9% on mobile shopping boom
U.S. online spending rose nearly 9% during the 2024 holiday season as shoppers increasingly bought products like TVs and Lego sets on their smartphones, Adobe Analytics data showed Tuesday. Online holiday spending from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31 rose 8.7% to about $241.4 billion, exceeding Adobe's initial forecast of $240.8 billion in September. In 2023, […]
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will end fact-checking
Facebook's parent company Meta said Tuesday it would end its fact-checking program in the United States and replace it with a “community notes” system similar to Elon Musk's X. Community notes model allows users of Meta's social media sites Facebook, Instagram, and Threads to report potentially misleading and need more context, rather than holding independent […]
Behind the billionaire-backed longevity business and the quest to live longer
Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel can buy anything they want — even eternal youth? Tech billionaires are plowing billions of their fortunes into a fierce battle to become the ultimate Benjamin Button, pushing the market for life-prolonging drugs into crisis mode. $25 billion work. OpenAI CEO Altman, 39, and Amazon founder Bezos, 60, […]
Elon Musk’s X boots reporter from site after she debunks bizarre conspiracy theory claiming mogul uses burner account
An investigative reporter who debunked a bizarre conspiracy theory about X owner Elon Musk has been banned from social media platforms, sparking an outcry over censorship by the self-proclaimed free speech absolutist. Jacqueline Sweet, a contributor to the conservative magazine Spectator World, delves into a long-percolating rumor that Musk uses a burner account under the […]
More robots and AI than ever before
CES 2025, the annual technology trade show showcasing the latest gadgets and gadgets, kicked off its media day in Las Vegas on Monday with driverless tractors, magical skin care mirrors, instant hormone tests, and more robots than ever before. has appeared. The multi-day event, hosted by the Consumer Technology Association, attracted more than 4,500 exhibitors […]
Gmail, Outlook and Apple users urged to watch out for this new email scam: Cybersecurity experts sound alarm
Artificial Intelligence: A real scam. AI tools are being exploited to send “hyper-personalized emails” that are so sophisticated that victims cannot tell they are fraudulent emails. According to financial timesThe AI bot collects information about email users by “analyzing their social media activity to determine what topics they are most likely to respond to” of […]
PayPal accused of racial bias against Asian Americans in funding program
PayPal restricts parts of its $535 million investment program to Black and Hispanic applicants, accusing the digital payments company of racial bias for causing millions of dollars in damages to Asian Americans A lawsuit has been filed by an American businessman. Thursday's complaint was Nisha Desai Her New York-based venture capital firm, Andav Capital, is […]
Apple agrees to pay $95M to settle Siri privacy lawsuit
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million in cash to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that its voice-activated Siri assistant violated users' privacy. The preliminary settlement was filed Tuesday night in federal court in Oakland, California, and must be approved by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White. Mobile device owners complained that Apple routinely recorded […]
Disgraced crypto exec Do Kwon pleads not guilty to US fraud charges
Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur who developed two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded not guilty to U.S. criminal fraud charges on Thursday. Extradited from Montenegro this week. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Kwon, co-founder of Singapore-based Terraform Labs and creator of the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, with […]