Meta’s Safety Advisory Council has claimed that many of Meta’s recent changes risk “prioritizing political ideologies over global safety imperatives” in an official letter. The council added that: “As one of the world’s most influential companies, Meta’s policies set a powerful signal – not just for online behavior, but also for societal norms.” As PCMag reports, […]
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek is making headlines with its low-cost and high-performance chatbot, but it may just have an AI safety problem. As PCMag reports, Cisco’s research team used algorithmic jailbreaking techniques to test DeepSeek R1 “against 50 random prompts from the HarmBench dataset,” covering six categories of harmful behaviors including cybercrime, misinformation, illegal activities, and general […]
Google is bringing smart home controls in Gemini to everyone. The Google Home extension in the Gemini app is adding a few new features, in addition to letting you adjust your smart lighting, thermostat, speakers, and other compatible devices as long as they’re connected to your Google account. As The Verge reports, Google first previewed the […]
A Chinese AI company called DeepSeek is grabbing America’s attention — and sending a shock wave through Wall Street — due to its new tech, which some experts say rivals that of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As CBS News reports, DeepSeek is also catching investors off guard because of the low development costs for its AI app, […]
Epic Games has added nearly 20 third-party games onto its mobile app store worldwide on Android and in the European Union on iOS and launching its free games program on mobile beginning with Bloons TD 6 and Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee. As The Verge reports, it’s also promising to paysome iOS fees for developers that are part of the […]
Samsung’s Unpacked 2025 event is a wrap, and this year the company announced its latest Galaxy phones, including the Galaxy S25, the Galaxy S25 Plus, and the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Samsung also teased the Galaxy S25 Edge, the rumored “slim” phone, but didn’t provide any details other than it’s… slim. But as The Verge reports, hardware […]
SpaceX’s Starlink is trying to exempt itself from a New York law requiring ISPs to offer internet plans starting at $15 per month for low-income residents. As PCMag reports, New York’s Affordable Broadband Act (ABA) went into effect last week, forcing broadband providers to offer low-income consumers internet plans at $15 for download speeds no lower than 25Mbps and $20 […]
Samsung typically unveils a new flagship Galaxy smartphone at the start of each year, so in what should be no surprise to anyone, the Korean tech giant is unveiling their S25 Unpacked event this week – January 22, to be exact. And, as PCMag reports, the rumor mill has been abuzz for weeks with speculation […]
It’s been a long time coming, but the Nintendo Switch’s successor is finally revealed. Nintendo officially confirmed the Nintendo Switch 2 via a teaser trailer that reveals the hybrid console, a plan for a Nintendo Direct in April to give more details, and very little else. But as PCMag reports, that leaves plenty we still don’t know […]
TikTok began restoring service to users in the United States following a temporary and voluntary shutdown that lasted less than a day. As CBS News reports, on Sunday the company said that it was in the process of reinstating access after President-elect Donald Trump vowed to try to pause the ban by executive order on […]