Category: Tech
Massive breach of Elon Musk’s X allegedly leaks over 200 million users’ email addresses
Billions of X accounts could be affected overall There’s allegedly been a significant data breach at Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter. Over the weekend, the cybersecurity team at SafetyDetectives discovered a post on the prominent hacking message board BreachForums from a poster named ThinkingOne. The post included a 34 GB .CSV file …
Here’s what to do if you give your information to a scammer
What to do next. Scams on the Internet are big business. Consumers reportedly lose more than $10 billion annually to them, and every year there is a new wave of scams to bilk people out of their hard-earned money. You may be a victim of such a scam and …
6 popular scams and the warning signs for each
Be careful who you trust and what you click on. Online scams aren’t just becoming more common, they’re changing in approach, and getting harder to spot. These days, there are scams all over the internet, and while some are relatively easy to spot, others are highly sophisticated – and you might not notice them until […]
Meet the creators who bait scammers for fun and profit
Online scams are exploding — but so are the YouTube channels of creators who set out to expose them. A call from someone pretending to be an IRS agent is, for most of us, just part of the furniture of modern digital life. We hang up, we block the number, we move on. But for […]
Yahoo’s Vidya Nayak wants more women in tech
The head of product design for Yahoo Search talks about how her industry views female leaders. Vidya Nayak, Head of Product Design at Yahoo Search, is aware it’s not easy to be a visible female tech executive. She also knows talking about her experiences as a woman in the industry makes a difference. “Sharing my […]
Former White House AI chief: Here’s how to protect kids from harm
Bruce Reed joins Common Sense Media to help prevent another tech-fueled youth mental health crisis. When Bruce Reed served in the Biden administration as the president’s deputy chief of staff, he led the effort on working with leading AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI on voluntary comittments to ensure the safety of their products. Reed […]
Exactly how Nintendo can avoid Joy-Con drift in Switch 2
The problems that plagued the original Switch don’t have to be repeated. On November 22, 2022, Nintendo of America scored a major legal victory. The company had been facing down a potential class-action lawsuit in California over a defect with the Nintendo Switch and its Joy-Con controllers, until a judge threw out the case thanks […]
X is sold. But Musk is still in control.
The billionaire’s AI company is the new owner of the legendary, if diminished, social media site. X owner Elon Musk announced late Friday that the social media site had been sold … to xAI, Musk’s own Artificial Intelligence company. “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,” Musk posted on X. “Today, we officially take the step […]
Google’s Pixel 9a finally gets a release date
Pixel users don’t have to wait much longer for the Pixel 9a. The Pixel 9a now has an official release date. According to Google, the Pixel 9a will finally hit store shelves in the U.S., Canada, and UK on April 10. Google officially announced the Pixel 9a, the latest member of its Pixel 9a smartphone […]
OpenAI responds to criticism of ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli-style images
There’s a very specific reason why OpenAI says it’s okay. After ChatGPT-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli drew criticism online, OpenAI has shared a response addressing the backlash. OpenAI released native image generation in GPT-4o earlier this week, with a live demo showing CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI staffers using ChatGPT to turn […]
