Study breaches 'The Great Firewall' to look at Chinese censorship
People have nicknamed the security system that monitors and controls internet traffic entering and leaving China "The Great Firewall of China."
Jul 15, 2025
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Five EU states to test age-check app to protect children online
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.
Jul 14, 2025
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How Eurostack could offer Canada a route to digital independence from the United States
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 ...
Jul 14, 2025
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xAI apologizes for Grok's offensive posts
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.
Jul 13, 2025
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Musk's latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul's views before answering questions
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 up an opinion.
Jul 11, 2025
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Microsoft Outlook users experience hourslong outage impacting email access
After Outlook users ran into issues accessing their email accounts late Wednesday and into Thursday, Microsoft says that affected systems are back online.
Jul 10, 2025
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'Stuck in limbo': Over 90% of X's Community Notes unpublished, study says
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 ...
Jul 10, 2025
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Ad blockers may be showing users more problematic ads, study finds
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 ...
Jul 9, 2025
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Musk's AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments
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.
Jul 9, 2025
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Open-source engine enables high-performance data processing for Internet of Things devices
The Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) announces the open-source release of NebulaStream, a next-generation stream processing engine built for the unique challenges faced in IoT environments.
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