Technology

YouTube is introducing new parental controls on youth accounts that it says could limit how long kinds spend scrolling. The latest parental controls will focus on YouTube Shorts, which utilizes a continuous scrolling video feed featuring videos three minutes and shorter. Parents of kid and teen account users are now able to enact time restrictions…

Verizon on Thursday said it’s offering a $20 credit to customers affected by a widespread service outage on Wednesday.  Verizon subscribers complained that the outage limited their ability to use their mobile devices, preventing them from making calls or completing online transactions that require a wireless network. To appease frustrated subscribers, the wireless provider said it’s…

The Chinese mobile app “Are You Dead?” which sounds an alarm if a user doesn’t check in every 48 hours, has announced it will drop its catchy name, after it drew international media attention. It rose to the top of paid app rankings on Apple’s App Store in China, prompting widespread media coverage among Chinese…

A coalition of nearly 30 advocacy groups is calling on Google and Apple to remove access to social media platform X and its AI app, Grok, from their app stores after Grok allowed users to generate sexualized images of minors and women.  The organizations, which focus on child safety, women’s rights and privacy, expressed their…

A new lawsuit filed against OpenAI alleges that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence app encouraged a 40-year-old Colorado man to commit suicide. The complaint filed in California state court by Stephanie Gray, the mother of Austin Gordon, accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of building a defective and dangerous product that led to Gordon’s death. Gordon,…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing intense criticism, accused of allowing X users to generate sexually explicit images of real women and children. One of the alleged victims is Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children. She said she discovered people used Grok to generate and publish sexualized deepfake images without…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok faces intense criticism – accused of allowing users on the Musk-owned social media platform X to generate fake, sexually explicit images of real women and children. Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children, is one of the alleged victims. She said in an interview with “CBS Mornings”…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology. “Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models…

Thirteen-year-old Audree loved to play Nirvana on guitar, draw anime characters and read the series “Spy School,” her mother, Jaimee Seitz said. “She had her own personality, her own hobbies, her own everything,” said Seitz, who lives in Kentucky. “Audree was one of a kind.” A week after her 13th birthday, Audree died by suicide….

Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as president and vice chairman of the tech giant. Powell McCormick previously served on Meta’s board of directors — where, the company notes, she was “deeply engaged” in accelerating its artificial intelligence push across platforms. In her new…