Canada has ordered TikTok to shut down its operations in the country, citing unspecified “national security risks” posed by the company and its parent ByteDance. With the move, TikTok will be forced to “wind up” all business in the country, though the …
Continue reading "Canada orders TikTok to shut down its business operations in the country due to ‘national security risks’"New details are continuing to surface about the hacking of US telecom companies by a China-linked group that targeted US officials and campaign staffers. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports that the hackers’ access was even greater than what’s been pr…
Continue reading "New report details ‘vast spying’ by China-linked telecom hackers"Meta is opening up its Llama AI models to government agencies and contractors working on national security, the company said in an update. The group includes more than a dozen private sector companies that partner with the US government, including Amaz…
Continue reading "Meta opens its Llama AI models to government agencies for national security"If you’re excited, or even just a little curious, about the future of augmented reality, Meta’s Orion prototype makes the most compelling case yet for the technology.
For Meta, Orion is about more than finally making AR glasses a reality. It’s also the…
Last month at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta AI was “on track” to become the most-used generative AI assistant in the world. The company has now passed a significant milestone toward that goal, with Meta AI passing the 500 million user ma…
Continue reading "Meta AI has more than 500 million users"Late last week, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed they were investigating “the unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by actors affiliated with the People’s Republic of China.” At…
Continue reading "FBI suspects China-linked hackers accessed officials’ call logs and SMS messages, report says"X is trying to speed up its crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes. In an update, the company says it has “re-architected” the scoring system that powers the feature so that the user-generated notes can now appear less than 20 minutes after…
Continue reading "X is trying to make Community Notes faster with ‘lightning notes’"Two weeks before the US presidential election, the Oversight Board says it has “serious concerns” about Meta’s content moderation systems in “electoral contexts,” and that the company risks the “excessive removal of political speech” when it over-enfor…
Continue reading "Oversight Board says Meta’s handling of a satirical image of Harris and Walz raises ‘serious concerns’"Meta is bringing facial recognition tech back to its apps more than three years after it shut down Facebook’s “face recognition” system amid a broader backlash against the technology. Now, the social network will begin to deploy facial recognition tool…
Continue reading "Meta is bringing back facial recognition with new safety features for Facebook and Instagram"It’s the end of an era for one of the App Store’s earliest success stories. Foursquare is shutting down its signature city guide app in order to “focus our efforts on building an even better experience in Swarm,” the company said in an update. The app …
Continue reading "Foursquare is killing its city guide app to focus on the check-in app Swarm"