Google defends failing AI search, while promising improvements
AI Overviews struggle with satire, lack of information, and confusing queries
FCC ends high-speed internet subsidies as funds expire
Millions of low-income Americans could see rising internet costs
TikTok denies report it is cloning its algorithm, potentially for a US-only version of the app
Is ByteDance just playing its cards close to its chest?
Google discloses how they mistakenly erased $135 billion cloud customer account
Facepalm: One of Google Cloud's worst nightmares came true in early May, when an embarrassing snafu completely erased a customer's account and data backups. The unlucky victim was Australian pension fund UniSuper, which manages a staggering $135 billion in assets for over 600,000 members. The pension fund was essentially frozen for two weeks, unable to fully operate while it scrambled to recover from third-party backups.
Meta deleted over 2,000 accounts last quarter for posting fake content, Israel identified as major source
Not surprisingly, generative AI was used in the propaganda campaigns
Microsoft aims to make Edge faster with the WebUI 2.0 project
Faster, better, but with a five-percent marketshare, does it matter?
Leaked documentation uncovers some of Google's secret recipe for website ranking in search results
No actual source code is included, but SEO specialists are going crazy nonetheless
Multi-day DDoS attack targets Internet Archive and Wayback Machine
The IA's collection is safe, for now
Facebook will soon use your posted content to train its AI, and opting out isn't easy
Meta likely made the process arduous for a reason
Hackers exploited free VPN services to build a massive botnet, used home PCs to commit fraud
The "free" service enabled billions of dollars in fraud, now hit with US sanctions
Opera adds Google Gemini to its browser for image generation and voice features
Opera's Developer Edition has integrated Google Gemini into its Aria browser AI, enhancing image generation capabilities and adding voice output for reading text answers.
Ad blocker users say YouTube videos are skipping to the end, playing without audio
Another punishment by YouTube or a bug?
Accounts that track celebrity jets could struggle following privacy changes to FAA bill
Giving jet-owning celebs more anonymity
Google is building the first fiber optic cable connecting Africa and Australia
Called the Umoja cable route, it includes access points that give other countries entry to the network
Google search AI Overviews uses terrible information sourcing to give you terrible answers
Google downplays the bad answers, saying they "aren't representative of most people's experiences"
US Department of Justice files antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster owner Live Nation
"It is time to break up Live Nation"
DEA busts the head of $100M drug-selling platform Incognito Market
Narcotics marketplace dealt everything you can think of, including fentanyl
Mozilla is adding vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI to Firefox
Giving Firefox users what they most want, according to Mozilla
Microsoft Edge will use AI to translate and dub YouTube and other videos in real time
The tool will initially support English and Spanish translations of YouTube, LinkedIn, and Coursera videos
Vanishing act: A quarter of all web pages that existed between 2013 and 2023 are gone
Father Time is undefeated
Fake OS update screens let procrastinators buy extra break time
Careful not to get yourself fired
Dangerous nostalgia: Taking Windows XP online will result in auto-installed viruses in a matter of minutes
Using Windows XP in 2024? You should read this before going online
Six ways to eliminate the unhelpful "AI Overviews" in Google search results
"Instead of results, give me an AI summary that plagiarizes articles," said nobody ever
OpenAI partners with Reddit to put users' posts in ChatGPT
First Google, now OpenAI
TikTok is testing a new option to upload 60-minute videos, YouTube style
Is ByteDance ready to go against YouTube? (and the US government)