Last year, we announced we’re dipping our toes into the world of Mastodon. Today, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. We’ve put a lot of work into getting to this stage, but there is a lot more to do before we open it up more broadly. We’re making a long-term investment because we think…
The majority of the sites appear to be content farms — low-quality websites run by anonymous sources that churn-out posts to bring in advertising. The websites are based all over the world and are published in several languages, including English, Portuguese, Tagalog and Thai, NewsGuard said in its report. A handful of sites generated some…
Saving this excellent response before it gets possibly taken down. Chatbots can simulate empathy through pre-programmed responses, they cannot truly understand the emotions. Ediriweera Desapriya, PhD | Department of Pediatrics, faculty of medicine, UBC-BC Children’s Hospital Empathy, which is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others, is a complex emotional and cognitive…
Hackers are hijacking online stores to display modern, realistic-looking fake payment forms to steal credit cards from unsuspecting customers.These payment forms are shown as a modal, HTML content overlayed on top of the main webpage, allowing the user to interact with login forms or notification content without leaving the page. When modals are active, the…
There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it. … The most pragmatic position is to think of A.I. as a tool, not a creature. My attitude doesn’t eliminate the possibility of peril: however we think about it, we can still design and operate our new tech badly, in…
“Starting on April 25, 2023, Smart Campaigns with Multi-platform will no longer support Twitter,” Microsoft said(opens in a new tab). A similar email has begun to go out to Microsoft Advertising users stating that “Digital Marketing Center (DMC) will no longer support Twitter starting on April 25, 2023.”From that date, users will no longer be…