A newly released report alleges Big Tech’s ad transparency tools are failing across the board — with X scoring the worst at providing meaningful data that can help users, journalists, and advocates keep a watchful eye on scams and disinformation. If “ad transparency” isn’t a familiar term, that’s probably because it’s a somewhat counterintuitive concept….
A report from the website 38 North says that North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closelyRead More
ChatGPT vs. Gemini is the AI showdown I’ve been itching to stage – and now I’m finally pitting the most popular chatbots in a head-to-head, nail-biting match. ChatGPT, a brainchild of AI startup OpenAI, is far from the first AI chatbot to hit mainstream popularity, but I’d argue it was the first in recent years…
Oh, you thought the possibilities of generative AI were already terrifying enough? Well, we’ve got some bad news for you. Adobe has just released a video showcasing its Adobe Firefly video model, and it comes with a whole host of unnerving generative AI tricks. “Adobe is using the power of generative AI to deliver the…
Since returning to host The Daily Show on Monday, Jon Stewart has spent quite a bit of time discussing the ongoing war in Gaza. On Monday, with the situation having escalated over the weekend when Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel, Stewart returned to the topic — and during a direct address…
Shōgun Tuesday is a sacred day on my X timeline. Every week, viewers of FX’s staggering historical epic flock to the internet to post their thoughts about the show’s latest episode, whether it be shocked reactions to Toranaga’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) latest political plays, satisfaction at Mariko’s (Anna Sawai) poised verbal takedowns of her husband Buntaro…
There are volcanoes erupting hundreds of millions of miles beyond Earth. And a NASA spacecraft is watching it happen. The space agency’s Juno probe, which has orbited Jupiter since 2016, swooped by the gas giant’s volcanic moon Io last week, its last close planned flyby. The craft captured a world teeming with volcanoes, which you…
Harold Halibut — the debut game of Germany-based indie studio Slow Bros. — feels like a warm batch of cookies that grandma made on a nice, Sunday afternoon. There’s a labor of love that radiates within that made my 10+ hour playthrough more enjoyable than it should’ve been. Adventure games have fallen out of popularity,…
Andy Samberg pretty much makes any late night interview better, and that goes double when it involves gleefully roasting his old SNL pal Seth Meyers. In the clip above Samberg crashes Meyers’ appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to heckle Meyers’ new podcast, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, which features Samberg himself. “Here’s the…
Last October, X/Twitter started charging a $1 annual fee to new accounts before they could post on the platform, but only in New Zealand and the Philippines. The change was a part of a new program called Not a Bot, with the goal to bolster X’s efforts to “reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and…