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Nextdoor social site, looking for a revival, pins hopes on partnership with local news providers

July 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

Nextdoor, the social media site that aims to create connections among neighbors, is trying to shake off an uneven past and a nagging sense it is being underutilized. How? It is turning to professional journalists […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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‘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 […]

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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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Musk’s AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments

July 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said Wednesday that it’s taking down “inappropriate posts” made by its Grok chatbot, which appeared to include antisemitic comments that praised Adolf Hitler.This article was originally published on this website.

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