TikTok Lite, a low-bandwidth version of the video platform popular across Africa, Asia and Latin America, is exposing users to harmful content because of its lack of safety features compared to the flagship version of the app, according to a new report from Mozilla. The researchers said that TikTok Lite Save Data lacked “proactive user […]
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Content creators are busy people. Most spend more than 20 hours a week creating new content for their respective corners of the web. That doesn’t leave much time for audience engagement. But Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, thinks that AI could solve this problem. In an interview with internet personality Rowan Cheung, Zuckerberg laid out his
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“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” says Vice President Kamala Harris in a now infamous clip. An overlay of the lime green album art for Charli XCX’s “Brat” flashes on the screen, while a remix of “Von Dutch” scores increasingly frenetic clips of Harris hysterically laughing and confessing her love of
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Google’s incubator subsidiary Jigsaw has open-sourced a counterterrorism tool designed to help smaller companies address extremist content shared through their online platforms. While most of the big tech companies including Meta, X and Google itself are well-versed in moderating content to weed out illegal or toxic content, the resources required to do this are beyond
This week saw one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years linked to a faulty software update from popular cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Businesses across the world reported IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, impacting airlines, banks, retailers, brokerage houses, media companies and railway networks. OpenAI released GPT-4o
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It seemed too good to be true. On Friday morning, as the East Coast woke up to one the most widespread IT disruptions ever due to a faulty CrowdStrike update, a priceless image circulated across X, accumulating millions of views. It appeared that the Sphere — the ostentatious new addition to the Las Vegas skyline,
Olivia DeRamus is flipping the script: What if scrolling through social media didn’t make us miserable? What if, especially for women, social media could actually make us feel more supported? “It’s certainly not what mainstream social platforms have been built for,” DeRamus told TechCrunch. But with her social platform Communia, DeRamus is daring to try
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WhatsApp has announced the release of a filter called “Favorites” to let you quickly find chats from the people and groups that matter most and directly connect with them over a call from the top of the calls tab. The “Favorites” filter started rolling out on Tuesday and will be available to all WhatsApp users
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Hank Green has had a while to think about how social media has changed us. He started making YouTube videos in 2007 with his brother, novelist John Green, at a time when the first iPhone was in development, MySpace was still relevant and Instagram didn’t exist. Seventeen years later, posting videos on the internet is
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This week, AT&T confirmed it will begin notifying around 110 million AT&T customers about a data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers. The stolen data contains phone numbers and AT&T records of calls and text messages during a six-month period in 2022, the company says. If
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