Social media addiction trial: Mark Zuckerberg says increasing engagement on Instagram is not a company goal and that Meta removes underage users it identifies
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against the notion that the social media company made increasing time spent on Instagram a company goal.
A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations
A yearlong effort to build an AI probate assistant reveals the limits of government chatbot development. X: @napoleonmedia . LinkedIn: Georg Zoeller . Bluesky: @ianmoody and @wowba...
Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent, rather than a supplier, of taxi services outside London, to avoid the UK's new 20% “taxi tax” on fares
www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2... Forums: r/technology : Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK's new ‘taxi tax’— Hailing app will now act as agent rather than ...
xAI's Grok says “lapses in safeguards” led it to create sexualized images of people, including minors, in response to X user prompts; X took some images down
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has created sexualized images of people including minors …
The top 10 US tech billionaires collectively added $550B+ to their combined net worth in 2025, reaching $2.5T by December 24, up from $1.9T at the year's start
NVIDIA's revenue exploded from ~$61B in FY2024 to ~$120B run-rate exiting 2025, roughly ~95% YoY growth at the peak. … Bluesky: @thebluenami.is.democrat : m@ga been trained to obey...
Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android
In the coming weeks, parent company Meta will offer paid … Nicola Mendelsohn Cbe : Meta is introducing a new subscription option in the UK for Facebook and Instagram users, allowin...
The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom net...
The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
Federal agents dismantled a network of devices in the New York area that was used to threaten senior US government officials …
An Interpol-led law enforcement action in 26 countries disrupted infostealer operations, leading to takedowns of 20K+ malicious IPs and domains and 32 arrests
An international law enforcement action codenamed “Operation Secure” targeted infostealer malware infrastructure …