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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 […]

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 is brought to you by this site.

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 […]

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 is […]

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 […]

Several thousand Microsoft Outlook users ran into issues with the email platform Wednesday night and Thursday morning, with some reporting problems like loading their inboxes or signing in.This article is brought to you by this […]

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 is brought […]

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 […]

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 is brought to you by this […]