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Meta launches new teen safety features, removes 635,000 accounts that sexualize children

July 24, 2025 Tech Xplore

Instagram parent company Meta has introduced new safety features aimed at protecting teens who use its platforms, including information about accounts that message them and an option to block and report accounts with one tap.This […]

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Hard labor conditions of online moderators directly affect how well the internet is policed—new study

July 23, 2025 Tech Xplore

Big tech platforms often present content moderation as a seamless, tech‑driven system. But human labor, often outsourced to countries such as India and the Philippines, plays a pivotal role in making judgments that involve understanding […]

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Extreme weather misinformation ‘putting lives at risk,’ study warns

July 22, 2025 Tech Xplore

Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and impeding emergency response efforts, a research group said Tuesday.This article was originally published on this website.

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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 […]

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.

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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 […]

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 […]

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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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