Youth activists have gathered outside Meta’s London offices to protest how the company allegedly exploits younger users for profit at the expense of their mental health, as part of a wider series of actions against the corporate and structural drivers of mental illness. On 4 February 2025, around 20 youth activists with experience of…
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Labour has published its AI Opportunities Action Plan (The Plan). The Prime Minister is very bullish about The Plan, and peppers his foreword with muscular terms like growth, revolution, ambition, strength and innovation. In itself, The Plan is full of claims that AI is essential and inevitable, and urges the government to pour public money…
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Facebook parent company Meta kicked off the new year by announcing it would be ditching its third-party fact-checkers in favor of Community Notes. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t show us what they would look like, but thanks to mobile developer and leaker Alessandro Paluzzi, we can give you a sneak peek at Community Notes on…
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Apple is working on a key iPhone update that will enable an important Apple Intelligence feature on supported devices. iOS 18.4 will bring the more advanced Siri assistant to the iPhone 15 Pros and all iPhone 16 models in the coming months.Siri will have access to more contextual information from iPhone apps to better respond…
Here’s an idea for my colleagues in the media business that run news properties with declining readerships: You could always take a page from Meta, and just … pad your customer base with AI-generated users. I kid, sort of, but that’s literally what Facebook and Instagram are about to do — specifically, they’re reportedly launching…
As a longtime iPhone user directly affected, I’ve followed the rollout of the European Union’s big Digital Markets Act (DMA) over the past few years, wondering how it might impact not only the Apple products I use all the time but also other devices and services from tech companies that are deemed gatekeepers in the region.I’ve also…
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As the festive season approaches, it brings not only joy and celebrations but also a surge in cyber threats. Alarmingly, 84% of businesses have suffered a phishing attack, making cyber crime the world’s third-largest economy after the US and China. This isn’t set to slow down any time soon, with the estimated cost of global…
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Following a federal appeals court decision on Friday, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has until January 19 to sell the popular video-sharing app or face a ban in the US. Three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld an act signed into law by President Biden on April…
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There are few disasters as unifying as an internet outage. Whether it’s a popular website, social network, or online service, everyone collectively freaks out when it goes offline, as was the case when all three major US cell carriers suffered outages on the same day earlier this year.With that in mind, the network intelligence firm…
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has reported a 19% increase in revenue to $40.6bn for the third quarter of 2024, driven in part by what founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “good progress with AI [artificial intelligence]”. “We had a good quarter driven by AI progress across our apps and business,”…
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