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September 20, 2024
During a Senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the issue of children being exploited, bullied, or driven to self-harm through social media, bringing back a familiar topic. “I apologize for all that you have experienced,” stated the CEO of Meta on Wednesday. “No one should have to endure the same hardships that you and your loved
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Messenger, an ambitious online news site that billed itself as a nonpartisan digital outlet and spent some $50 million ratcheting up its business effort, abruptly shut down Wednesday after only eight months in operation. The New York Times reported that Founder Jimmy Finkelstein informed surprised employees through an
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A disturbing video from a man in Pennsylvania who is charged with decapitating his father has gone viral on YouTube, bringing attention to the ongoing issue of social media companies’ limitations in stopping violent content from being shared online. On Wednesday, authorities announced that Justin Mohn, 32, had been arrested and charged with first-degree murder
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A judge in Delaware has ruled that Elon Musk is not eligible for the significant compensation package given to him by Tesla’s board of directors, which could be valued at over $55 billion. Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick’s decision was made over five years after a lawsuit was filed by shareholders against Tesla CEO Musk
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s corporate parent returned to double-digit revenue growth during last year’s final quarter, signaling the internet powerhouse has regained its footing even as it grapples with regulatory and competitive threats to its digital empire. Alphabet Inc. reported on Tuesday that their revenue has been steadily increasing for the third quarter in
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Italian authorities have informed OpenAI that their ChatGPT chatbot, which uses artificial intelligence, has breached the strict data privacy regulations of the European Union. On Monday, the data protection authority of the country, Garante, informed OpenAI, a company based in San Francisco, of violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Last year, the watchdog
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Elon Musk’s X, a social media platform, has now re-enabled searches for Taylor Swift after previously blocking users from accessing certain results due to the spread of pornographic deepfake images of the singer on the internet. Typing the singer’s name into the website’s search bar on Tuesday yielded a typical list of tweets. The previous
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The Biden administration plans to enforce a new rule that will require creators of significant artificial intelligence systems to reveal their safety test outcomes to the government. The White House AI Council has a scheduled meeting on Monday to assess the advancements made on the executive order signed by President Joe Biden three months ago,
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The U.S. government agency responsible for overseeing foreign aid and development funding in Colombia has announced that its Facebook page was hacked. They are urging the public to disregard any posts or links from the account. On Saturday, the United States Agency for International Development and the U.S. Embassy in Bogota released a statement stating
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The rumors about vote fraud started swirling as the ballots in Taiwan’s closely watched presidential election were tallied on Jan. 13. There were baseless claims that people had fabricated votes and that officials had miscounted and skewed the results. A video that has been widely circulated shows a woman incorrectly recording votes
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