Mon 18 May 2026: Nearly 1 in 5 users aged 13 to 15 told Meta that they saw “nudity or sexual images on Instagram” that they didn’t want to view, according to a court filing. The document, made public on Friday as part of a federal lawsuit in California and reviewed by Reuters, includes portions […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Microsoft has dismissed the head of its Israeli subsidiary and several senior managers following an internal investigation into allegations that its cloud infrastructure was used to surveil Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, marking one of the most serious accountability crises to hit Big Tech in years. Alon Haimovich, […]
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Sat 16 May 2026: Pope Leo XIV has approved the creation of a new Vatican commission on artificial intelligence, according to a report by Vatican News on Saturday. Cardinal Michael Czerny confirmed the decision in a text after meeting with the pope on May 3. It says the decision was made because of “the development in recent decades […]
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Thu 14 May 2026: When players arrive in the US this year for their World Cup pre-tournament media shoot, they will each step into a scanning chamber to capture their precise body-part dimensions and create 3D, AI avatars. Why? Because even when you’re the biggest sport in the world, you can’t afford to stand still. […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: As of May 8 end-to-end encryption is no longer available on direct messages on Instagram. Meta, in announcing the policy reversal, said it had done so because few people used the feature. But this has raised questions about its impact on user privacy and whether it will improve child safety on the platform. Instagram […]
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Sun 10 May 2026: An educational platform used by thousands of schools and universities has been partially restored following an international cyberattack that caused major chaos as students prepare for end-of-year exams. ShinyHunters, a hacking group, claimed responsibility for crashing the web-based educational platform Canvas, created by tech firm Instructure. The group said it had […]
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Fri 08 May 2026: You have probably never heard the term “crimefluencer”. These are members of decentralised online crime networks who take crime content and amplify it to build notoriety and status in their online communities. They also recruit content creators to film themselves or others committing crimes, with the vision shared across social media, […]
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Fri 08 May 2026: Report finds 89% of digital disruptions stem from cascading effects, with impacts reaching up to 10 times more people than initial shocks ITU deputy secretary general warns ‘quiet’ disruptions can spread across systems, affecting services far beyond their point of origin It’s not that there’s no knowledge of these risks, Tomas […]
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Thu 07 May 2026: Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with extraordinary minds who glance once at a page, a room or a face – and later recreate every detail with surgical precision. […]
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Wed 06 May 2026: Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI have signed agreements with the US government to allow early testing of advanced artificial intelligence models for national security risks, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. The department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation said the partnerships will allow pre-deployment testing and research to better assess advanced […]
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