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As Silicon Valley sours on diversity, women in tech suffer
Women Who Code and Girls Who Tech are no more.
Apple gets FDA green light on AirPods Pro hearing aid mode
Approval comes mere days after Apple announces the first of its kind software.
Facebook flagged and removed emergency wildfire information as 'spam'
Wildfire season is still raging in the West.
Microsoft Bing amps up its ability to stop explicit deepfake images from appearing in Search results
It's the first search engine to join StopNCII, an international tool for detecting revenge porn.
X beefs up safety staff, a few dozen people at a time
Content moderation gets a jolt at the social media site.
Meta Horizon Worlds is letting preteens back into the world of virtual hangouts
Parent approval needed.
How Big Tech is approaching explicit, nonconsensual deepfakes
With the question of responsibility up in the air, policies vary.
Apple started paying out its $50 million settlement over MacBook's defective butterfly keyboards
Checks of up to $395 started arriving.
Europe now has a huge AI gap, for better or for worse
Artificial intelligence features will be trickling into the EU very, very slowly.
Google announces new tactics to curb explicit deepfakes
Changes to Google Search aim to limit results for nonconsensual imagery.
By Rebecca Ruiz
Carmakers are still selling drivers' data. U.S. officials demand the FTC investigate.
GM, Honda, and Hyundai collected personal data from internet-connected cars.
TikTok is collecting, sharing user views on issues like abortion, DOJ fires back in ban lawsuit
ByteDance maintains it's never shared American TikTok data abroad.
Apple adopts Biden administration's AI safeguards
The company joined OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and others.
Anti-deepfake legislation just took a major step toward becoming law
The Defiance Act provides a civil path for victims of nonconsensual deepfakes.
Like Microsoft, Massive AT&T outage also happened because of a bad update
What is it with the bad updates lately?
Online child sex abuse material, boosted by AI, is outpacing Big Tech's regulation
Watchdogs say its a "stark vision of the future."
Donald Trump has full reign of his Facebook and Instagram again
Meta drops "penalty box" account restrictions ahead of election.
Proposed new law would make it illegal to remove AI watermarks from content
The COPIED Act would lead to federal watermarking standards and a legal pathway for creatives.
Blue checks on X are bad now, EU says
What a tangled web Elon weaves, now his blue checks can deceive.
By Chris Taylor
A sand battery in Finland is transforming sustainable heating
From housing to businesses and a municipal swimming pool, this battery is slowly changing the game for Finland's district heating.
ChatGPT is ableist toward applicants with disabilities, new study finds
A university study found inherent disability biases in the AI chatbot when tasked with resume screening.
Snap will pay $15 million settlement following sex-based discrimination investigation
A California civil rights agency spent three years probing the company.
Instagram teens are regularly recommended sexual and explicit videos, new report finds
The Reels algorithm may be stronger than the platform can handle.
OpenAI's former chief scientist has a new startup, and it's all about superintelligence
"One focus, one goal, one product."
