Fri 24 March 2023: Utah became the first US state on Thursday to require social media companies to obtain parental approval for accounts held by minors, placing additional responsibility on services like Instagram and TikTok to confirm the age of their users. The law, which becomes operative in March 2024, was introduced in response to […]
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Fri 24 March 2023: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has announced two updates for WhatsApp “groups”: new admin controls and easily see groups in common. The new features, which will be available globally in the coming weeks, arrive just a few months after WhatsApp launched Communities, a feature that provides larger, more structured discussion groups. […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: The Chinese video-sharing app TikTok will be blocked from all parliamentary devices and internet servers, the British parliament declared on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The action was taken a week after the UK banned the use of the app on all electronic devices used by the government. Oliver Dowden, minister for […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: Instagram, which is owned by Meta, has announced it will include advertisements in the platform’s search results to reach users who are actively looking for companies, goods, and content. Advertisements will show up in the feed that people can scroll when they tap into a post from search results. “We plan […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: As it continues on its gradual path to catch up with the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, Google has invited users in the UK and the US to test out its AI chatbot, Bard. Bard, ChatGPT, and other similar artificial intelligence apps churn out essays, poems, or computer code on command and have taken […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: Twitter is reportedly testing a new verification process for its Blue subscribers that will require the submission of a government ID. The method for submitting a photo of the users’ ID, both front and back, combined with a selfie photo, to authenticate their Twitter account is revealed through code-level insights uncovered […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari has revealed that it received a ransom demand related to customer contact details that may have been compromised in a ransomware attack. In a statement released on March 20, Ferrari said that it immediately began an investigation in collaboration with a leading cybersecurity firm upon […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Do you learn from mistakes? This is especially true when it comes to learning from other people’s mistakes. Your own, on the other hand, are often ignored. But why? You learn less from your own mistakes than from your own successes. Only when it comes to other people’s victories and defeats you do […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Because of concerns that the devices are vulnerable to Western intelligence agencies, Russia’s presidential administration has instructed officials to stop using Apple iPhones, according to a report in the Kommersant newspaper on Monday. Sergei Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, instructed officials to change their phones by April […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: For iOS and Android users, Meta-owned WhatsApp has rolled out new updates to the community feature by making some changes to the interface of the “announcement group”. The company has renamed the announcement group to “Home” on WhatsApp beta for Android, and its new name is “Updates” on WhatsApp beta for […]
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