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Meta is further tightening its grip on who messages young users on Facebook and Instagram. The social media company announced Thursday new tools and features that will limit teens’ ability to view potentially sensitive content on the two platforms. Chief among these is the new restriction on who can send direct messages. Effective now, users under 16 (or 18 in some unnamed countries) will no longer be able to receive messages from people they are not friends with on either platform, even if the sender is another teenager. The only exception would be people in their phone’s Contacts list. “We…

Autonomous vehicle operator Cruise said Thursday that federal regulators are reviewing action related to a pedestrian collision that occurred Oct. 2 in San Francisco. “We are fully cooperating with state and federal regulatory and enforcement agencies that have initiated investigations or investigations in connection with the incident, including the California DMV, California Public Utilities Commission, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,” said the company in a blog post. The post also includes the results of a third-party report ordered from law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan following the crash,…

US antitrust enforcers are launching an investigation into relationships between leading AI startups such as ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Anthropic and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars in them. “We are examining whether these ties allow dominant firms to exercise undue influence or gain privileged access in ways that undermine fair competition,” Lina Khan, head of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), said in her opening remarks at the AI meeting on Thursday. Forum. Khan said the market research will examine “investments and partnerships forming between AI developers and major cloud service providers.” The FTC said Thursday…

Less than a month into 2024, widespread layoffs continue to hit tech companies hard, especially gaming departments that have expanded to meet pandemic-era demand. Gaming giants are now scaling back to adapt to a slowing industry that is seeing an estimated 0.6% growth in 2023, compared to 8% growth in 2020. Layoffs have affected an estimated 3,770 gaming professionals so far this year, according to VideoGameLayoffs.com. Here are the latest developments: Microsoft plans to lay off 1,900 workers in its gaming division, the company confirmed to Fast Company on Thursday. The announcement comes on the heels of Microsoft’s $69 billion…

Apple has announced a comprehensive plan to eliminate some of the competitive hurdles it has created around its lucrative iPhone franchise. The announcement on Thursday comes as it moves to comply with European regulations aimed at giving consumers the option to use alternative app stores. The overhaul, scheduled to take effect in early March, will include concessions Apple has previously refused to make on its app store, including reducing the fees it collects from developers in Europe. Most importantly, for the first time, Apple will allow iPhone users in Europe to use app stores other than those operated by the…

Anyone who wants to understand how the internet works in 2024 need only take a look at the many excited conversations about Barbie’s Academy Award nominations. However, it may understandably be preferable for the person to look away. It probably would have seemed counterintuitive a year ago that a film based on the most famous doll of all time would manage to receive eight Oscar nominations, as well as become the highest-grossing film of the year and a critical hit. What was supposed to be a victory lap when those nominations were announced Tuesday turned into several simultaneous vectors of…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a plot in science fiction novels to something that touches our lives every day. Its nearly endless applications come with nearly equal risks and rewards, and much public debate. However, it is clear that artificial intelligence in healthcare is literally changing lives. Therefore, although it may seem impossible for artificial intelligence to be universally accepted and adopted in healthcare, it is very important that we do so, and this starts with regulating the sector. I was therefore pleased to see that, after years of debate, the European Union (EU) has finally agreed on…

Taylor Swift disdained record labels and fought to own her music. She garnered Grammy Awards and led the world’s first billion-dollar tour. But overnight, her power was punctured in a familiar way, in the crudest, most depressing way possible for a woman: through deepfake pornography. Degrading women by reducing them to mere sexual objects and creating explicit images has been happening for a long time. More than 100 years ago, the New York Evening Graphic used composite photographs that superimposed some people’s heads on other people’s torsos to present sexualized images of women. But the combination of a global megastar…

Amazon-owned Ring will no longer allow police departments to request doorbell camera footage from users, ending a feature that drew criticism from privacy advocates. In a blog post published Wednesday, Ring said it would discontinue its “Request for Assistance” tool that allows police departments and other public safety agencies to request and receive video captured by doorbell cameras through Ring’s Neighbors app. Eric Kuhn, president of Neighbors, said in his announcement that law enforcement can continue to make public posts on the Neighbors app. Police and other agencies can also use the app to “share helpful safety tips, updates and…

Shortly after ChatGPT was released to the public, a number of corporate giants, from Apple to Verizon, made headlines by announcing bans on the use of the technology in the workplace. But a new survey reveals that these companies are far from outliers. More than one in four companies has at some point banned the use of productive AI tools in the workplace, according to a new report from Cisco, which surveyed 2,600 privacy and security professionals last summer. 63% of survey respondents said they limit the data their employees can enter into these systems, and 61% said they restrict…