Information Security

One Tech Tip: Escape the AI junk crowding your social m...

AI slop seems to be everywhere. Low-quality digital content made with artificial...

Snapchat blocks 415,000 underage accounts in Australia

Snapchat has blocked 415,000 accounts under Australia's social media ban for und...

Spain considers social media ban for under-16s, joining...

Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Spanish Prime Mini...

How the web is learning to better protect itself

More than 35 years after the first website went online, the web has evolved from...

Whack-a-mole: US academic fights to purge his AI deepfakes

As deepfake videos of John Mearsheimer multiplied across YouTube, the American a...

Countries using internet blackouts to boost censorship:...

As countries step up their use of internet shutdowns to muzzle dissent, some are...

Discord adopts facial recognition in child safety crack...

Messaging platform Discord announced Monday it will implement enhanced safety fe...

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at l...

Meta and Google-owned YouTube were accused Monday of pushing highly addictive ap...

OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI has begun placing ads in the basic versions of its ChatGPT chatbot, a bet...

YouTube rejects addiction claims in landmark social med...

YouTube's legal team insisted Tuesday that the Google-owned video platform was n...

Instagram boss to testify at social media addiction trial

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri is to be called to testify Wednesday in a Los Angel...

A new wave of romance scams is washing across the inter...

Romance scams are among the most emotionally damaging forms of cyber crime becau...

YouTube says brief outage fixed

YouTube said late Tuesday it had fixed a widespread outage that hit hundreds of ...

Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media addictio...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday at a groundbreaking social ...

Social media can be addictive even for adults, but ther...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes.

Age verification online can be done safely and privatel...

Online chat service Discord has announced it will begin testing age verification...