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Month: July 2025

Internet

Study breaches ‘The Great Firewall’ to look at Chinese censorship

July 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

People have nicknamed the security system that monitors and controls internet traffic entering and leaving China “The Great Firewall of China.”This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

Five EU states to test age-check app to protect children online

July 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

Five EU countries including France will test an app aimed at preventing children from accessing harmful content online by checking users’ ages, the European Commission said Monday.This article was originally published on this website.

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How Eurostack could offer Canada a route to digital independence from the United States

July 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

The contemporary internet has been with us since roughly 1995. Its current underlying economic model—surveillance capitalism—began in the early 2000s, when Google and then Facebook realized how much our personal information and online behavior revealed […]

Internet

xAI apologizes for Grok’s offensive posts

July 13, 2025 Tech Xplore

Elon Musk’s startup xAI apologized Saturday for offensive posts published by its artificial intelligence assistant Grok this week, blaming them on a software update meant to make it function more like a human.This article was […]

Internet

Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions

July 11, 2025 Tech Xplore

The latest version of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok is echoing the views of its billionaire creator, so much so that it will sometimes search online for Musk’s stance on an issue before offering […]

Internet

Microsoft Outlook users experience hourslong outage impacting email access

July 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

After Outlook users ran into issues accessing their email accounts late Wednesday and into Thursday, Microsoft says that affected systems are back online.This article was originally published on this website.

Math

Mathematicians reveal factors driving gun sales in America

July 10, 2025 Phys Org

As gun sales in the United States continue to soar, researchers at Georgia State University have uncovered insights into what drives Americans to buy firearms. A new study published in PNAS Nexus journal reveals the […]

Internet

‘Stuck in limbo’: Over 90% of X’s Community Notes unpublished, study says

July 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

More than 90 percent of X’s Community Notes—a crowd-sourced verification system popularized by Elon Musk’s platform—are never published, a study said Wednesday, highlighting major limits in its effectiveness as a debunking tool.This article was originally […]

Math

Mathematical model clarifies scaling regimes in Lagrangian turbulence evolution

July 10, 2025 Phys Org

A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They’re instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, uneven fluid flows of fluctuating velocity and pressure. Though ubiquitous in nature, these flows remain somewhat of a […]

Internet

Ad blockers may be showing users more problematic ads, study finds

July 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

Ad blockers, the digital shields that nearly one billion internet users deploy to protect themselves from intrusive advertising, may be inadvertently exposing their users to more problematic content, according to a new study from NYU […]

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