You Can Get Some of Your Nudes Removed From the Internet Under a New Law
Starting May 19, tech platforms in the US will have to comply with the Take It Down Act. Here’s how more than a dozen major platforms are handling takedown demands for…
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How to Watch Google I/O
…XR platform, which it is positioning to power smart glasses from companies like Samsung, Xreal, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker. Google already said last week that I/O will feature a sneak…
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
…Most generative AI platforms now offer some type of “incognito mode,” but these features are usually designed to separate users from the questions they ask and the answers they receive rather than…
Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription
…The question now is whether Apple executive John Ternus, who will soon take the helm as CEO, can extend Apple’s platform into the generative AI era. So far, Apple’s approach…
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
…Encrypted Spaces is, in some sense, the next generation of the Signal protocol, but for more complex and fully featured tools that go beyond messaging and calls, says Matt Green, a cryptography…
The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
…The Create My Widget feature lets you build custom widgets just by speaking to Gemini in natural language. You can resize these on the home screen and craft them on multiple platforms…
Enclayve Is a Drab Black Box for Your Private Group Chats
…Instead of having to post everything publicly and tacitly allow a company to suck up all data about your interactions on its platform, Enclayve stores all that information on a physical device…
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
…social media platform for violating its rules. Carrie Goldberg, St. Clair’s attorney and a prominent advocate against nonconsensual sexualized imagery, says the creation of sexual abuse material featuring celebrities is nothing…
Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
…on that platform. Other Silicon Valley companies are also looking for ways to transform creators’ outputs using generative AI. For example, last year, Meta rolled out an AI feature that can seamlessly…
The Pro-Iran Meme Machine Trolling Trump With AI Lego Cartoons
…The video features a Trump mini-figure colluding with leaders from Gulf states, Iranian officials pressing a big red button labeled “back to the stone age,” and Trump throwing a chair at…