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Instagram users are warning about a new location sharing feature, fearing that the hugely popular app could be putting people in danger by revealing their whereabouts without their knowledge.... Read more

OpenAI released a keenly awaited new generation of its hallmark ChatGPT on Thursday, touting "significant" advancements in artificial intelligence capabilities as a global race over the technology accelerates.... Read more

Quick: Think of "folklore." Did images of witches, trolls, goblins or other fairytale creatures and stories populate your mind?... Read more

ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked, according to new research from a watchdog group.... Read more

Meta on Tuesday said it shut nearly seven million WhatsApp accounts linked to scammers in the first half of this year and is ramping up safeguards against such schemes.... Read more

Internet security is a major concern, but cryptographic protocol analysis tools often require a long time due to their computational complexity. Professor Kazuhiro Ogata and Assistant Professor Canh Minh Do of the Department of Computing Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have successfully parallelized two key... Read more

With quantum computing on the horizon, cryptographers are working to secure digital communications against a new generation of potential threats.... Read more

Generative artificial intelligence assistants like ChatGPT are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the advertising revenue they desperately need, in a crushing blow to an industry already fighting for survival.... Read more

A US federal court ruled Thursday that Google must open its Android operating system to rival app stores, after the internet giant lost an appeal in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite maker Epic Games.... Read more

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter declared a state of local emergency on July 29 following a days-long cyber attack on the city's Internet-based computer networks that led the city to call in the FBI and Gov. Tim Walz to enlist the aid of the Minnesota National Guard's cybersecurity experts.... Read more

Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children under 16 from video-streaming site YouTube, a top minister said Wednesday stressing the need to shield them from "predatory algorithms."... Read more

If you're a Microsoft Authenticator user, like me, you've probably received at least one notice that the app's password management features are no longer usable and that your stored passwords will be inaccessible starting Aug. 1 unless you have the Edge browser.... Read more

New UK age verification measures to prevent children accessing harmful online content came into force on Friday, with campaigners hailing them a "milestone" in their years-long battle for stronger regulations.... Read more

Instagram parent company Meta has introduced new safety features aimed at protecting teens who use its platforms, including information about accounts that message them and an option to block and report accounts with one tap.... Read more

Big tech platforms often present content moderation as a seamless, tech‑driven system. But human labor, often outsourced to countries such as India and the Philippines, plays a pivotal role in making judgments that involve understanding context. Technology alone can't do this.... Read more