• The end of unsolicited d pics? Instagram makes a major change to protect users from receiving unwanted nude photos in their direct messages

    Meta-owned app will give protection for users against unsolicited nudes. READ MORE: Instagram users bypass nudity rules

  • Instagram Begins Blurring Nudity in Messages

    LONDON (AP) — Instagram said it’s deploying new new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages. Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email The social media platform said in a blog post Thursday that it’s testing out the features

  • ChatGPT is down, and users are getting this weird message

    If you planned to use ChatGPT today to help you write code, come up with an

  • WhatsApp chat filters separate unread messages, and groups

    WhatsApp chat filters are the latest feature to be added to the popular messaging app, a few weeks after allowing users to pin multiple chats. You can now separate out only chats with unread messages, as well as separate group chats from individual ones more

  • Instagram to blur nudity in messages in bid to protect teens

    Company says it is testing features as part of campaign to fight sexual scams and forms of ‘image abuse’Instagram says it is deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages.The social media company said in a blogpost on Thursday that it was testing the features as part of its campaign to fight sexual scams and other forms of “image abuse”, and to make it tougher for criminals to contact teens....

  • Instagram's status update feature is coming to user profiles

    Instagram’s status update feature, Notes, will soon be more prominent in the app. Up until now, Notes have only been visible from Instagram’s inbox, but the brief updates will soon also be visible directly on users’ profiles. The change should increase the visibility of the feature and give people a new place to interact with their friends’ updates. (Instagram added reply functionality to Notes back in December.) The app is also experimenting with “prompts” for Notes, which will allow users to...

  • Instagram begins blurring nudity in messages to protect teens

    LONDON >> Instagram said it’s deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages.

  • Instagram will test nudity protection in messages to fight sextortion

    Instagram is far from a gleaming example of protecting young people online, having failed to prevent its algorithm from promoting child sexual abuse material. But new features bring some (at least a little?) hope that the platform could become a bit safer. Meta announced it's rolling out new tools meant to protect users against intimate image abuse and sextortion — when a person is digitally blackmailed under threat of sharing intimate media. One of the most significant updates is that nudity...

  • Fortnite Festival lets users play on virtual Coachella stages

    Coachella is bringing a virtual Sahara Island, where users can try playing the stages, to Fortnite Festival this year.

  • WhatsApp's new chat filters make it easier to find unread messages

    WhatsApp is making it a bit easier to find specific conversations by introducing Chat Filters. The new update will let you sort messages by All (as it currently is), Groups or Unread. They're all pretty self-explanatory, with Unread showing any, well, unread messages and Groups showing only your group chats. Groups will also show you any subgroups from Communities.  You could already use WhatsApp's search bar to find a particular conversation, so if you know who you're looking for, this update...

  • Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI

    In the generative AI boom, data is the new oil. So why shouldn’t you be able to sell your own? From big tech firms to startups, AI makers are licensing e-books, images, videos, audio and more from data brokers, all in the pursuit of training up more capable (and more legally defensible) AI-powered products. Shutterstock […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Spotify is developing tools that would let users remix songs, screenshots show

    Spotify is working on mixing tools that would allow users to remix songs on the streaming service, according to screenshots captured by tech veteran and app researcher Chris Messina. While music aficionados use software like Adobe Audition or Ableton Live to create mixes of their favorite songs, the new capabilities would allow people to do […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.