Month: July 2024

A global Microsoft Azure outage that impacted a range of services for consumers Tuesday—from reports of stalling Outlook emails to trouble ordering on Starbucks’ mobile app—was triggered by a distributed denial of service cyberattack, according […]

Researchers from Leiden University have developed a method to predict which sellers will be successful in illegal online marketplaces. This could help the police track down big players on the dark web, the hidden part […]

The US Senate passed a sweeping social media safety package Tuesday that would force tech companies to do more to protect children—the first major legislation targeting Silicon Valley in a generation.This post was originally published […]

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, just took its most direct shot at Google yet.This post was originally published on this site

UN member states opened a two-week meeting Monday seeking to finalize an international treaty on the fight against cybercrime, a text strongly opposed by an unlikely alliance of human rights groups and big technology companies.This […]

OpenAI on Thursday said it was putting its artificial intelligence engine to work in a challenge to Google’s market-dominating search engine.This post was originally published on this site

If you use Google—and chances are you do—then you’re used to seeing ads when searching online. But how do those ads get on Google search and, more importantly, who is paying for them? It’s easy […]

Meta’s oversight board on Thursday called on the tech titan to bring its rules regarding porn deepfakes out of the “photoshop” days and into the era of artificial intelligence.This post was originally published on this […]

On the move and looking for an internet connection to check email or post a video to TikTok? It’s tempting to jump onto the free Wi-Fi at the coffee shop or the shopping mall. But […]