After more than a decade of leaving Big Tech largely to itself, US antitrust enforcers have cranked up the heat, with several high-profile cases underway that could radically change the way the industry's giants do business.Launched under both the Trump and Biden administrations, five major cases from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are moving forward against major US technology companies -- including two against Google that could see the company split...
Tech companies are quietly paying for content locked behind paywalls and login screens, giving rise to a hidden trade in everything from chat logs to long forgotten personal photos from faded social media apps
At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world's top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly half of the U.S. online photo market. Today only 2 million people still use Photobucket, according to analytics tracker Similarweb. But the generative AI revolution may give it a new lease of life. CEO Ted Leonard, who runs the 40-strong company out of Edwards, Colorado, told Reuters he is in...
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania recently analyzed 100 non-federal acute care hospitals (those with an emergency room) across the country and found that a whopping 96 percent transmitted user information to third parties. If that weren't bad enough, the team was only able to find publicly accessible privacy policiesRead Entire Article
Psychometrics assessments boosted by AI aim to quantify seemingly intangible qualities like personality and emotional intelligence.
T-Mobile has silently introduced a new profiling toggle which is spotted to be turned on by default. It allows the carrier to collect personal data to better predict user behavior.
In late 2021, OpenAI faced a supply problem. The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest AI system. It needed more data to train the next version of its technology -- lots more. So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper. It could transcribe the audio from YouTube videos, yielding new conversational text that would make an AI system smarter. Some OpenAI employees discussed...
The UK’s competition regulator has warned that a small number of powerful tech firms have the potential to use their size to dominate the AI market. Speaking at a conference in Washington DC, Sarah Cardell, chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), noted the growing presence in the AI foundation model market of […]
It's increasingly clear we're not allowed to share select thoughts in public. We saw that with Hunter Biden's laptop and contrarian views about the pandemic. The Twitter Files exposed how both topics got censored beyond a reasonable doubt. https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1775251012481134787 https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1591059661439975424 In each case, Big Tech made sure the truth couldn't dent The Narrative. Now, two separate film projects may be facing Big Tech censorship. And,...
Ultimately, at stake is the right to communicate openly, which translates into your right to build community without state interference.
Melissa Stark, Andrew Siciliano, Will Selva and James Palmer are out at the NFL Network, following "Good Morning Football" move from New York to LA.
Samsung sold 60.1 million units in Q1 - more than any other manufacturer. Apple took the top spot for the first time last year with strong iPhone sales. Now competition with Android makers like Xiaomi is heating up