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Spaces, the live audio feature for X, is now letting hosts turn on their video during chat sessions. The platform formerly known as Twitter announced the news on Wednesday as owner/CTO Elon Musk reposted a walkthrough from a user named “Dogedesigner”, The Verge reported. Spaces users will notice a new option to “enable video” when they first create a new
Electronic Arts announced Wednesday that it will cut 5% of its workforce, part of a plan that includes reducing office space and ending work on some video games, CNBC reported. EA employed 13,400 workers as of the end of March 2023, according to its most recent annual filing with the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission in May. That means the
President Joe Biden will issue an executive order that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans’ personal data to “countries of concern” including Russia and China. The order specifically targets the bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial, biometric, health and other personally identifying information, Engadget reported. During a briefing with reporters, a senior administration official said that the sale of
The bruising battle over royalties between Universal Music Group and TikTok entered a new and more severe stage in the early hours of Tuesday as songs published by UMG began to be removed from the platform, Variety reported. The standoff, which began earlier this month, initially saw recordings owned or distributed by UMG removed from the platform, but now is
Apple's recent decision to discontinue support for iPhone web apps in the European Union has sparked potential investigative action from the European Commission. Citing compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act, which mandates support for third-party browser engines, Apple plans to downgrade web apps to function similarly to bookmarks in iOS 17.4. The company attributes this shift to the impracticality
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared to have deep concerns of state laws enacted in Florida and Texas that would prohibit social media platforms from throttling certain political viewpoints, CNN reported. The high-stakes battle gives the nation’s highest court an enormous say in how millions of Americans get their news and information, as well as whether sites such as Facebook,
Reddit’s long-awaited IPO is nearing, promising to be the largest social media IPO since Pinterest. But in the company’s S-1 filing Reddit fails to fully address complications that arose from changes to its developer platform and API pricing, which late last year led to site-wide protests, communities going dark, site stability issues, and traffic declines as moderators and Reddit users
News publishers are worried — with good reason —about changes coming to Google Search. AI-generated content replacing links on some of the most valuable space on the internet, in particular, has left media types with a lot of questions, starting with “is this going to be a traffic-destroying nightmare?” NeimanLab reported. The News filter disappearing from Google search results for
OpenAI, in collaboration with Microsoft Threat Intelligence, has successfully disrupted the operations of five state-affiliated hacking groups using ChatGPT to identify system vulnerabilities for illicit activities. The crackdown targeted groups including China's Charcoal Typhoon and Salmon Typhoon, Iran's Crimson Sandstorm, Russia's Forest Blizzard, and North Korea's Emerald Sleet. These entities exploited OpenAI's technology to uncover coding flaws, translate documents, and
Social network Bluesky, a competitor to X, Threads, Mastodon and others, is opening up its doors with today’s news that the network is now opening up federation, following its public launch earlier this month, TechCrunch reported. The move will allow anyone to run their own server that connects to Bluesky’s network, so they can host their own data, their own
The US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Wednesday about the risks of using smartwatches and smart rings that claim to measure blood glucose levels without piercing the skin, CNN reported. According to CNN, the FDA notes that it has not authorized or approved any smartwatch or smart ring that is intended to measure blood glucose levels on its
Twitter employees prevented Elon Musk from violating the company’s privacy settlement with the US government, according to the Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, ArsTechnica reported. After Musk bought Twitter in late 2022, he gave Bari Weiss and other journalists access to company documents in the so-called “Twitter Files” incident. The access given to outside individuals raised concerns that Twitter
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