TikTok introduces employee surveillance app
TikTok has launched a new employee surveillance app, MyRTO, in a bid to get employees back to the office. MyRTO tracks employee badge swipes and can even penalize them for “deviations.” The app is being rolled out as part of TikTok’s new return-to-office policy, which requires many employees to work in the office three days […]
Meta to offer ad-free Facebook, Instagram in Europe for a fee
Meta will offer users in Europe ad-free access to Facebook and Instagram for a subscription fee, starting in November. Users across the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland will have the option to subscribe to ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for €9.99 ($10.57) per month on the web or €12.99 per month on […]
Google CEO defends search deals
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has defended his company’s multibillion-dollar deals that lock in Google Search as the default on the vast majority of devices and web browsers. The Justice Department in a lawsuit argues that Google has unfairly maintained its top search position with such agreements, keeping rival search engines from gaining any significant foothold […]
Tech giants pledge to combat AI-generated child sex abuse images
Tech giants such as TikTok, Snapchat, Stability AI along with 24 other prominent entities, including the United States, Germany, and Australia, have come together to take a collective stand against the proliferation of child sex abuse images created by artificial intelligence. The announcement was made during a high-profile event organized by the United Kingdom in […]
Expensify closes free cocktail bar
Tech company Expensify is shutting down its free cocktail bar, which it opened earlier this year, after just six months. The bar was part of an experiment to make the workplace more like an adult playground, but CEO David Barrett says it wasn’t enough to lure people back to the office. In a blog post […]
Meta’s chief AI scientist says fear-mongering could do more harm than good
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, has accused some of the most prominent founders in AI of “fear-mongering” and “massive corporate lobbying” to serve their own interests. He named OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei as those who are attempting to perform a “regulatory capture” of the AI industry. LeCun […]
British software firm sues Meta over “Threads” trademark
A British software firm has sued Meta for allegedly infringing on its trademark “Threads.” Threads Software Limited says it has owned the trademark for its cloud-based messaging hub since 2012, but Meta launched its own social media platform called Threads in July 2023. Threads Software Limited has given Meta 30 days to stop using the […]
Biden signs executive order to reduce risks of artificial intelligence
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at reducing the risks that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to consumers, workers, minority groups, and national security. The order requires developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S. national security, the economy, public health, or safety to share the results of safety tests with […]
Nvidia’s AI chatbots speed up chip design
Nvidia has developed chatbots that can generate human-like responses to questions about chip design. These chatbots can help to speed up the chip design process by answering questions from junior engineers and generating code to test chips. The chatbots are trained on 30 years of data from the company’s archives of chip designs, making them […]
Microsoft axe Windows Insider MVP program
Microsoft has announced that it will be discontinuing the Windows Insider MVP program on December 31, 2023. The program was designed to reward and recognize the most passionate and knowledgeable Windows users, who volunteered their time and expertise to test pre-release versions of Windows and provide feedback to Microsoft. In a statement, a Microsoft spokesperson […]
