Britain Is Weighing a Social Media Ban for Children. How Did It Get Here?
Months after Australia banned social media for everyone under 16, the British government is considering new policies to keep children safe online.
Category: Tech
Apple Silicon boosts the TCO benefit of Macs — report
Apple Silicon Macs fail at less than half the rate of Intel Macs, dramatically reducing the platform’s already industry-leading total cost of ownership (TCO), according to
DocLang aims to make documents readable by AI, not humans
AIs struggle to understand documents designed for humans; the DocLang working group seeks to flip that imbalance with its specification for machine-readable business documents “built
Researchers tricked an OpenClaw AI agent into leaking AWS keys and customer data with a phishing email
Security researchers at Varonis built an OpenClaw email agent, connected it to a Gmail inbox with fake company data, and then phished it. The agent
A Chinese state-linked botnet has grown to 1,500 hacked routers and is mapping vulnerable targets within hours of disclosure
A covert botnet linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers has more than doubled in size and is now scanning for newly disclosed vulnerabilities within hours of
They Tried To Catch a Child Predator on a Livestream. They Trapped Themselves Instead.
What happened when livestreaming vigilantes ambushed an innocent man.
Antonio Gracias, Elon Musk’s Friend, Is Set to Reap Billions From SpaceX’s IPO
Antonio Gracias, an investor who has built a $65 billion stake in the company, exemplifies the economic upside of being Mr. Musk’s ally.
KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s computer, then shared the files with its CEO
KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s work computer to extract documents detailing their allegations of data misuse, then shared the material with senior partners
A German court says Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words, and it’s liable when they’re false
A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims its AI Overviews make, treating the AI-written summaries as Google’s own speech
Why I’m leaving Copilot for Gemini
I’ve been using and writing about Microsoft Copilot since it was publicly released in 2023. I’ve reviewed it, written articles about using it more effectively
Welcome to AI’s creepy era
For the past few days, I’ve been immersed in Google’s latest vision of the future — an AI-infused dashboard that taps into info from all
Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules
Last year, Meta radically overhauled the rules around what content it would allow on its platforms. The company claimed that its own efforts policing speech
GM Energy introduces V2G support and new energy storage battery chemistry
Electric vehicle sales might be better now than the end of last year when demand fell off a cliff following the surge of purchases ahead
Snapchat walls under-16s off from public Spotlight, making their videos friends-only
Snapchat is restricting how its youngest users share video. From this week, Snapchatters aged 13 to 15 will get a dedicated profile where their Stories