Internet Controls

Australia is trialing an age-verification system to assist in blocking children from accessing social media platforms, as part of a range of measures that include some of the toughest controls imposed by any country to date.

India's ED has raided offices of some sellers operating Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart. One senior government source said raids were being carried out in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, but did not give names of sellers whose offices were being raided.

Wikipedia was reportedly issued a notice by the Indian government on Tuesday over concerns of bias and inaccuracy on the website. The notice was reportedly served by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and it has also raised questions about why the platform should be treated as an intermediary and not as a publisher.

Runway, the video-focused artificial intelligence (AI) firm released a new feature on Friday. The feature, dubbed advanced camera control, will allow users to get granular control over the camera movement in an AI-generated video. The capability is being added to the AI firm’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo model, which was released in June.

Telegram has been updated with new video and chat editing features. Users will get access to new video speed controls and enhanced video quality. Additionally, Telegram will indicate the most recent edit time of a message within a chat. Developers have access to new monetisation options on the platform.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has appealed to the public to stop donating to the internet 'encyclopaedia' Wikipedia for allegedly letting itself be misused as a platform "controlled by far-Left activists."

The remarkable expressions displayed by the bots result from 32 actuators, 27 of which are dedicated to facial control, allowing them to convey emotions ranging from excitement to disgust.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Saturday announced a 15-member T20I squad for the upcoming series against Bangladesh.

Cloudflare announced a new suite of tools dubbed AI Audit which will offer website owners and bloggers more control over their content. The security tool will enable users to block or allow artificial intelligence (AI) bots which often crawl websites to scape data. The company is offering this tool to all of its existing users without any extra cha...

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating artificial intelligence, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a report released on Thursday.

The viral video has amassed over 2.5 million views. The viewers find it "accurate". Do you?

OpenAI announced new changes to its File Search system last week, allowing more control to developers when asking the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to pick responses. The improvement has been made to the ChatGPT’s application programming interface (API) and will let developers not only check the behaviour of the chatbot’s response retri...

Microsoft has announced that it will soon deprecate an application that has been included in every version of Windows since the introduction of the operating system decades ago. The app in question is Control Panel. It joins an exhaustive list of apps and features that have been deprecated by the Redmon-based technology giants in recent years, incl...

Google Pixel phones shipped since 2017 included an application with a security vulnerability that could be used by attackers to inject malicious code or run spyware on Pixel phones, according to security firm. The Showcase app, which was found on Pixel smartphones sold globally, will soon be removed by the company in the coming days.

Google has violated antitrust law, spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly and become the world's default search engine, a US District Judge said in a ruling. Alphabet has said it plans to appeal the ruling.

Australia is trialing an age-verification system to assist in blocking children from accessing social media platforms, as part of a range of measures that include some of the toughest controls imposed by any country to date.

India's ED has raided offices of some sellers operating Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart. One senior government source said raids were being carried out in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, but did not give names of sellers whose offices were being raided.

Wikipedia was reportedly issued a notice by the Indian government on Tuesday over concerns of bias and inaccuracy on the website. The notice was reportedly served by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and it has also raised questions about why the platform should be treated as an intermediary and not as a publisher.

Runway, the video-focused artificial intelligence (AI) firm released a new feature on Friday. The feature, dubbed advanced camera control, will allow users to get granular control over the camera movement in an AI-generated video. The capability is being added to the AI firm’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo model, which was released in June.

Telegram has been updated with new video and chat editing features. Users will get access to new video speed controls and enhanced video quality. Additionally, Telegram will indicate the most recent edit time of a message within a chat. Developers have access to new monetisation options on the platform.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has appealed to the public to stop donating to the internet 'encyclopaedia' Wikipedia for allegedly letting itself be misused as a platform "controlled by far-Left activists."

The remarkable expressions displayed by the bots result from 32 actuators, 27 of which are dedicated to facial control, allowing them to convey emotions ranging from excitement to disgust.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Saturday announced a 15-member T20I squad for the upcoming series against Bangladesh.

Cloudflare announced a new suite of tools dubbed AI Audit which will offer website owners and bloggers more control over their content. The security tool will enable users to block or allow artificial intelligence (AI) bots which often crawl websites to scape data. The company is offering this tool to all of its existing users without any extra cha...

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating artificial intelligence, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a report released on Thursday.

The viral video has amassed over 2.5 million views. The viewers find it "accurate". Do you?

OpenAI announced new changes to its File Search system last week, allowing more control to developers when asking the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to pick responses. The improvement has been made to the ChatGPT’s application programming interface (API) and will let developers not only check the behaviour of the chatbot’s response retri...

Microsoft has announced that it will soon deprecate an application that has been included in every version of Windows since the introduction of the operating system decades ago. The app in question is Control Panel. It joins an exhaustive list of apps and features that have been deprecated by the Redmon-based technology giants in recent years, incl...

Google Pixel phones shipped since 2017 included an application with a security vulnerability that could be used by attackers to inject malicious code or run spyware on Pixel phones, according to security firm. The Showcase app, which was found on Pixel smartphones sold globally, will soon be removed by the company in the coming days.

Google has violated antitrust law, spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly and become the world's default search engine, a US District Judge said in a ruling. Alphabet has said it plans to appeal the ruling.