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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Netflix’s Moments might be one of the best things to come out of the streamer lately, and it’s not even a movie or TV show. Instead, it’s a handy feature coming to the mobile app that will let you save scenes from your favorite titles and then share them on social media.You know all those…
Netflix’s Moments feature lets you save and share your favorite scenes Read More »
Several months ago, OpenAI stunned the world with an incredible text-to-video AI tool called Sora. The whole concept is very simple: tell the AI what video to make, and Sora will generate it for you. OpenAI still hasn’t released it to the general public because it’s currently in development. I expected to see Sora released…
Movie Gen is Meta’s new AI video maker, and it may change Instagram and Facebook forever Read More »
Remember when Facebook stored some 600 million Facebook account passwords in plaintext and then pretended like it was no big deal? It all went down at some point in 2019. Of note, the passwords were not hacked, though Facebook employees might have had access to them. Still, the EU investigated the security issues, going after…
Meta fined $101.8M for storing 600M Facebook passwords in plain text Read More »
Despite decades of digitisation of public services, governments have not been sharing the benefits of digitisation with the public. In 2020, the NHS ran a bus-stop poster campaign in England warning benefit claimants of a £100 fine for fraudulently claiming free dental care. It promoted an online questionnaire for people to manually verify if the…
Building the next generation of digital public services Read More »
The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the…
DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs Read More »
If you were surprised to find an odd-looking Facebook app icon on your iPhone this week, don’t worry—you haven’t been hacked. The black and blue icon you’ve likely seen on social media or on your own iPhone or iPad is not a new look that Facebook is rolling out. On Friday, the social media company…
Facebook’s new black and blue app icon is just a glitch Read More »
Today, Patreon announced important changes coming to its iPhone app. To comply with Apple’s App Store rule, the company will have to switch to the iOS in-app purchase system starting this November to avoid being removed from the App Store, which is what led to Fortnite being removed from the App Store a few years…
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Your Instagram app is about to get another healthy (or unhealthy, depending on how you look at it) dose of generative AI. Meta wants to let anyone create AI avatars that have the ability to chat with users. If the concept sounds familiar, it’s because we’re looking at Meta’s version of OpenAI’s custom GPTs. Also,…
Instagram users, get ready for an onslaught of AI avatars Read More »
Over the past few years, you might have noticed that an increasingly worrying number of social media users are actually bots imitating humans. They’re usually fairly easy to spot, but avoiding them altogether is virtually impossible. Well, a new social media app called Aspect takes all the guesswork out of the equation with a platform…
In this bizarre new social media app, every user other than you is AI Read More »
