Twitter suspends spoiler account for 'Wordle' answer reveal
Twitter suspended a bot account on Wednesday for spoiling the solution to the next day's Wordle, the wildly popular internet word puzzle.
Jan 27, 2022
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Five things to know about the EU's landmark digital act
EU lawmakers and officials have agreed the main points of a landmark piece of legislation, known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), that aims to loosen the grip held by Big Tech on life online.
Mar 25, 2022
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Facebook takes mobile games into the cloud
Facebook on Monday put its spin on cloud gaming by letting players instantly hop into an array of mobile games at the social network without downloading apps—but won't be offering the service for Apple iOS devices.
Oct 26, 2020
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Gay dating app Grindr disappears from China app stores
Gay dating app Grindr has disappeared from multiple app stores in China as authorities tighten control of the country's already heavily policed internet and purge online behaviour the ruling Communist Party dislikes.
Feb 1, 2022
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Privacy in the AI era: How do we protect our personal information?
The AI boom, including the advent of large language models (LLMs) and their associated chatbots, poses new challenges for privacy. Is our personal information part of a model's training data? Are our prompts being shared ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Spotify, Discord and Snapchat partially fixed after a Google Cloud outage took the apps down
Spotify, Discord and Snapchat went down on Tuesday afternoon after a Google Cloud outage, causing many users to be unable to access those apps.
Nov 17, 2021
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Deleting your period tracker won't keep your health data private
As soon as news leaked in May of the possible reversal of Roe v. Wade, a drumbeat began on social media: Delete your period trackers. With abortion rights under threat, new fears arose that the health data stored on such ...
Jul 11, 2022
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Mark Zuckerberg says a web version of Threads will be available in the next few days
Threads users, get happy—you will finally be able to use the social media platform without an app.
Aug 22, 2023
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UK probes Apple, Google over cloud gaming, browsers
Britain launched Tuesday an in-depth competition probe into the domination of US tech giants Apple and Google of cloud gaming and mobile internet browsers.
Nov 22, 2022
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Apple pulls WhatsApp and Threads from App Store on Beijing's orders
Apple said it had removed Meta's WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from the App Store in China to comply with orders from Chinese authorities.
Apr 19, 2024
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