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Musk claims of Ukraine DDoS attack derided by cyber community

/ 4 minutes of reading / All, Computer, social media, Tech, Twitter

Tech oligarch Elon Musk has drawn criticism from cyber security experts following unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine was behind an apparent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on his social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter. Musk, who currently heads the US government’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) that has fired thousands of federal workers,…

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iPhone 16e reportedly has a Bluetooth audio problem that can’t be fixed

/ 4 minutes of reading / 5G, AirPods, All, Apple, Apple Watch, iPhone, social media, Tech

New iPhone hardware might launch with functionality issues that need to be ironed out via subsequent software updates, assuming software can provide fixes. The same goes for Android products. Hearing that the iPhone 16e has a Bluetooth issue where the audio cuts out briefly while music is playing should not be that surprising. However, the…

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AI-driven personalisation appealing to UK shoppers, says research

/ 3 minutes of reading / AI, All, social media

Almost a third of shoppers in the UK have said that personalisation assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) increases their loyalty to brands, according to research from Bazaarvoice. The content generation platform’s Shopper experience index report found that 31% of shoppers in the UK believe AI-driven loyalty rewards increase their brand loyalty, and 28% claimed tailored…

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Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation

/ 3 minutes of reading / AI, All, Facebook, Meta, social media

Meta has announced its plan for a subsea cable that will span the globe, connecting emerging economies such as India, South Africa and Brazil to the US. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp’s parent company announced what is known as Project Waterworth in a blog post. The social media giant’s vice-president of network engineering, Gaya Nagarajan, and…

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ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity

/ 4 minutes of reading / AI, All, Facebook, Meta, social media

News that ARM is embarking on developing its own datacentre processors for Meta, as reported in the Financial Times, is indicative of the chip designer’s move to capitalise on the tech industry’s appetite for affordable, energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI). Hyperscalers and social media giants such as Meta use vast arrays of expensive graphics processing units…

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Is ChatGPT ‘the best search product on the web’ with new GPT-4o update?

/ 3 minutes of reading / AI, All, chatbot, ChatGPT, Google, social media, Tech

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently addressed the future of ChatGPT, confirming that a GPT-5 upgrade is coming later this year. Before that, we’ll get GPT-4.5, an upgraded model expected to arrive in the coming weeks. Before any of those big upgrades arrive, OpenAI gave GPT-4o an unexpected upgrade that should improve the entire ChatGPT experience.…

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Apple Invites and Sports apps could hint at major iOS 19 redesign

/ 2 minutes of reading / All, Apple, iPhone, Samsung, social media, Tech

This past year, Apple released two new apps: Apple Invites and Apple Sports. Besides that, with iOS 18, the company unveiled two unique UIs for the Action Button and the iMessage menu. With all that in mind, some iPhone users think Apple might be preparing a big iOS 19 redesign, and they might be correct.Before…

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North Korean hackers created new macOS malware disguised as popular app installers

/ 2 minutes of reading / All, Apple, Git, Google, social media, Tech

Another day, another macOS malware is trying to actively exploit your Mac. This time, North Korean hackers are using fake job offers hidden in updates to popular apps like Zoom and Google Chrome to invade your Mac.As security researchers from SentinelLabs (via AppleInsider) reported, North Korean hackers are pushing the macOS Ferret family of malware.…

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DeepSeek: Welcome to US artificial intelligence’s Sputnik moment

/ 5 minutes of reading / AI, All, Alphabet, Apple, ChatGPT, Git, GitHub, iPhone, machine learning, Microsoft, open source, social media

Following last weekend’s introduction of the latest large language model (LLM) from DeepSeek, ChatGPT’s new artificial intelligence (AI) rival has topped the Apple App Store for iPhone downloads.The DeepSeek R1 LLM is open source and uses reasoning combined with what the company calls “cold start data”, which means that rather than trawling the internet and…

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EU law could usher in transformative change to digital ecosystems

/ 7 minutes of reading / All, Alphabet, Apple, compliance, Computer, digital advertising, Google, Meta, social media, Tech

In October 2024, the European Commission (EC) published its Digital fairness fitness check report as part of a continued effort to evaluate the effectiveness of European Union (EU) legislation with consumer protection laws. Specifically, it evaluated the efficacy of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Consumer Rights Directive, and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive. The…

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