The US Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to reinstate tougher rules to guarantee open access to the internet, reversing a decision made during the Trump administration.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-reinstates-internet-rescinded-trump.html
US far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit is filing for bankruptcy, its founder said Wednesday, as it battles a string of lawsuits alleging it promoted misinformation related to the 2020 ele...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-conspiracy-website-gateway-pundit-declares.html
TikTok's swift ascension to the upper echelons of social media is often attributed to its recommendation algorithm, which predicts viewer preferences so acutely it's spawned a maxim: "The TikTok ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-qa-tiktok-black-algorithm-user.html
Application data requirements vs. available network bandwidth have been the ongoing Battle of the Information Age, but now it appears that a truce is within reach, based on new research from NJIT...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-neural-networks-download-size-quality.html
Connectivity has become paramount in modern societies over the past two decades. With the immense rise in the number of laptops, tablets, and smartphones, most people nowadays expect to have acce...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-approach-maximizing-wi-fi-game.html
Japan's antitrust watchdog said Monday that U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-japan-anti-monopoly-body-google.html
Have you ever felt reluctant to share ideas during a meeting because you feared judgment from senior colleagues? You're not alone. Research has shown this pervasive issue can lead to a lack of di...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-equitable-discussions-social-media-meronymity.html
Facebook owner Meta and other online platforms must not force users to pay for the right to data protection enshrined in EU law when offering ad-free subscriptions, the European data regulator sa...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-meta-shouldnt-users-pay-eu.html
Websites sometimes hide how widely they share our personal information, and can go to great lengths to pull the wool over our eyes. This deception is intended to prevent full disclosure to consum...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-websites-users-deliberately-extent.html
From asking our smart speakers for the weather to receiving personalized advice from smartwatches, devices powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly streamlining our routines and d...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ai-smart-devices-easier-hack.html
Social media allows users to express themselves through words, pictures, videos and emojis, but some marginalized groups say social media platforms restrict the visibility of their online posts, ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-shadowbanning-marginalized-social-media-users.html
Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) have advanced online security by integrating an AI-based metasurface with oblique helicoidal cholesteric liquid crystals.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-safeguarding-future-online-ai-metasurfaces.html
Modern websites place ever greater demands on the computing power of computers. For this reason, web browsers have also had access to the computing capacities of the graphics card (Graphics Proce...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-vulnerability-browser-interface-access-graphics.html
Google Maps is launching new updates that are intended to make finding travel inspiration and local recommendations in your destination easier. Users will start seeing these lists of suggestions ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-google-unveils-easier.html
Facebook owner Meta said Monday it would "temporarily" shut down its Threads short-messaging service in Turkey after an order from Ankara's competition watchdog over data-sharing.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-meta-temporarily-threads-network-turkey.html
The US House of Representatives voted Friday to reauthorize an electronic surveillance program targeting foreigners, a practice officials say is critical to national security but criticized by op...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-house-okays-renewal-controversial-surveillance.html
Google on Friday said it is testing removing links to California news sites for some users in the western US state as legislators mull making the online search giant pay for connecting people to ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-google-yanks-california-news-sites.html
Meta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has been accused by US politicians of damaging the mental healt...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-meta-ai-minors-sextortion-instagram.html
Google's legal troubles over whether the search giant duped users into believing its "Incognito" browsing mode was truly private aren't over yet: A week after settling a federal class-action suit...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-google-deluge-incognito-mode-lawsuits.html
Social media influencers have embraced artificial intelligence to spice up their content but they are also facing growing competition from AI-generated Instagramers, TikTokers and YouTubers.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ai-humans-competition-virtual.html
China is ramping up use of AI-generated content and fake social media accounts to inflame division in the United States and elsewhere, according to the latest report from Microsoft's threat cente...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-microsoft-china-ai-division.html
Facebook and Instagram giant Meta on Friday said it will begin labeling AI-generated media beginning in May, as it tries to reassure users and governments over the risks of deepfakes.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-meta-ai-generated-content.html
Users with big followings will receive a free subscription to X, formerly Twitter—and the platform's famous blue check, the company said in another policy U-turn.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-free-blue-big-accounts.html
Outside the world of open-source software, it's likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems. But late last week, security...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-anonymous-coder-hacked-big-chunk.html
Elon Musk's X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has named a new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-elon-musk-safety-leader-months.html
Although a private browsing mode known as "Incognito" in Google's widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it works has cast new att...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-browsing-incognito-mode-doesnt.html
Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-undersea-cables-unseen-backbone-global.html
Google has agreed to delete a vast trove of search data to settle a suit that it tracked millions of US users who thought they were browsing the internet privately.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-google-delete-incognito-privacy.html
A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to d...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-grave-meta-tool-election-year.html
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-gmail-revolutionized-email-years-people.html