For Elizabeth Cardner, a mother of two girls in Houston, Texas, Meta’s new limits on how teenagers can use its platforms are a welcome sign that more people are aware of social media’s potential dangers. But, she tells the BBC, they probably won’t help much in the long-term. “It will save a few arguments at
The fallout of an $18 billion lawsuit against Meta, announced on Wednesday, is already here. A new announcement from Meta is designed to meet the terms of the settled lawsuit while helping to prevent teen social media addiction. In its post, Meta outlined a series of changes to both Instagram and Facebook that will apply
People who used Grok Lite this week were no doubt surprised when the bot started sending long, large paragraphs of total gibberish. This is only slightly worse than its usual output, but it still had people in a tizzy, and understandably so. The trouble started earlier in the week, with multiple people posting on Reddit
An unusual glitch has resulted in the xAI’s Grok chatbot speaking gibberish to many users. After asking the model to generate a PDF, one user received the response: “match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese…” with similar nonsense continuing for several paragraphs. Checking source links, another user
Google is launching Gemini in Chrome for Android, the tech giant announced Tuesday. Originally teased back in May at the Google I/O conference, the AI features are now available on mobile, following their launch on the Chrome desktop browser earlier this year. Gemini in Chrome allows you to quickly summarize long web pages and ask
An unprecedented number of Apple customers have reported receiving a recent threat notification alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, according to experts who investigate these types of incidents. Several people publicly and privately reported receiving Apple’s spyware alerts over the weekend, after Apple sent out a new wave of notifications on Friday
