Category: Apps & Software
A federal judge in the United States has ordered tech giant Google to open its Android smartphones to rival app stores. The order comes after an antitrust case where a jury decided Google had illegal monopoly power with the way…
Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, became accessible to many Brazilian users after an update bypassed a block imposed by Brazil’s supreme court last month. The update utilized third-party cloud services, including Cloudflare, allowing users to access X…
Brasília (AFP) – A Brazilian Supreme Court judge threatened Wednesday to suspend X, formerly Twitter, if CEO Elon Musk doesn’t name a new legal representative for the social media site’s operations in the country. Brazil Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes…
San Francisco (AFP) – The United States sued TikTok on Friday, saying it had placed the safety of millions of children in jeopardy by collecting their personal data without parental permission. US justice officials say TikTok often failed to honor requests…
Washington (AFP) – The United States unveiled sanctions Friday against 12 top leaders of the Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, a day after banning the sale of its popular antivirus software on national security grounds. The US Treasury Department slapped sanctions…
OpenAI suggested that the significant outages on November 8, experienced by users across ChatGPT and the application programming interface, were caused by a suspected distributed denial-of-service attack, and a group calling itself Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility In a Telegram channel…
Geneva (AFP) – The mind-blowing growth of artificial intelligence poses many questions that have no answers yet, the United Nations admitted Thursday at its AI summit, attended by some exceptionally life-like humanoid robots. Humanoid AI robot Ameca, by Engineered…
(Reuters) – Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT are complicating governments’ efforts to agree laws governing the use of the technology. Here are the latest steps national and international governing bodies are taking to regulate…
The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems. “As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it…
Paris (AFP) – The European Union’s central data regulator said Thursday that it was forming a task force to help countries deal with wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, ramping up the pressure on its US maker OpenAI. Italy temporarily banned the…
