OpenAI estimates ~0.07% of ChatGPT's weekly active users “indicate possible signs of mental health emergencies” like mania, and details its safety improvements
Millions use ChatGPT like a therapist, but that's about to change Viktor Eriksson / PCWorld : Over 1 million ChatGPT users mention suicidal intent every week BBC : ChatGPT shares data on how many user...
Adam Mosseri says Threads “recently rolled out” its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network for a few months
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Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxxing, and says the company blocked 8.2M+ accounts in 2023, mostly using AI
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Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix, Talon, and other third-party Twitter apps are broken; Twitter has given no explanation and developers say they haven't heard back
Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started … Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Tweetbot and other Twitter apps still broken as Elon Musk stays silent Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Twitter a...
Yik Yak, the app that creates anonymous message boards for users within a five mile radius, returns to the US iOS App Store after its 2017 shutdown
Find Your Herd — iPhone Screenshots — YIK YAK IS BACK! Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge : Local and anonymous social media app Yik Yak is back José Adorno / 9to5Mac : Yik Yak for iOS is back after a f...
Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse
The increasingly popular social media app is allowing conspiracy theories … Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : What is Clubhouse and why is Facebook cloning the voice chat app? The Economic Times : ETtech ...
Google will end its free unlimited Photos storage on June 1, 2021, imposing a 15GB cap, but photos and documents uploaded before then will not count against cap
but Pixel owners get an exemption Babu Mohan / Android Central : Google's future Pixel phones won't offer unlimited Google Photos backups Mehreen Kasana / Input : Google Photos won't be free and unlim...
Zoom apologizes for security failures, says it has 200M+ DAUs vs. 10M in Dec., and plans to freeze development of new features to focus on security and privacy
And An FBI Warning Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : ‘War Dialing’ Tool Exposes Zoom's Password Problems Kari Paul / The Guardian : ‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing pl...
Report: attackers are exploiting an Android zero-day vulnerability, giving them control of ~18 phone models, including four Pixel models, via a malicious app
and hackers are already using it Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Zero-Day Used in the Wild Impacts Pixel 2, Other Android Phones Ed Targett / Computer Business Review : Samsung S8, S9, Pixel, Huawei Ph...
A look at the proliferation of fake business listings and con artists on Google Maps, which experts estimate carries ~11M false listings on any given day
Data Sheet Joseph Zappa / Street Fight : Report: Fake Google Maps Listings Ensnare Consumers, Harm Legitimate Businesses Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Are there really millions of f...