Back in 2022, the Center for Countering Digital Hate released a blistering report finding that social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok all failed to remove 90 percent of Islamophobic content from their platforms. Facebook, in particular, had only stepped in to moderate seven out of 125 posts flagged by the Center, in […]

It’s not every day that attackers can force a frontier AI model to cough up user passwords and other sensitive data without user confirmation. That’s exactly what researchers recently did to Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise. Even more unusual is the source they tapped to discover the critical vulnerability that made their exploit possible. Rather than

X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper, titled Value misalignment of X’s feed algorithm is a reflection of value tensions in engagement, found that the site’s algorithm prioritized engagement above all

Robust.AI, a leader in AI-driven warehouse automation, today announced the appointment of Marin Tchakarov as its new CEO. Tchakarov takes over as Robust.AI marks the deployment of more than 100 Carter collaborative mobile robots and prepares to launch a transformative new platform for robotics, software, and services. Marin arrives at Robust.AI with more than 30 years of

Also: AI’s implications on cybersecurity in an era of private attacks Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Today in tech, we’re discussing Meta’s legal danger in the US and the implications of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity in an era of private cyberattacks. Why the US

The National Park Service (NPS), the agency tasked with managing the U.S. national parks and monuments, has purchased Flock cameras and had them installed at parks including in Yosemite. Current and former NPS rangers are not happy about it. “Flock protects property, not people or parks. People should be free to recreate in ways that

Reddit is testing AI-narrated versions of selected text posts, with Read/Play controls that keep the original thread intact. Here’s how the experiment works. The post Reddit Turns Text Posts Into AI Videos: How the Test Works appeared first on TechRepublic.

Dell’s ObjectScale configuration supports 40 KIOXIA 245.76TB SSDs in 2U, delivering 9.83PB of raw capacity for data-intensive AI workloads. The post Dell Targets AI Storage Growth With 9.83PB ObjectScale System appeared first on TechRepublic.

Normally, you’d imagine huge megacorporations having a personal army of the best lawyers in the world who can spin anything in their favor. You’d certainly think that would be the case for 3M, the industrial conglomerate that got away with permanently poisoning our planet with “forever chemicals.” But nobody’s perfect all the time. In a

Toronto patent research startup NLPatent rebranded as Clerq today and launched its first agentic workflows. The software runs a full patentability analysis in about 10 minutes. The company says every conclusion arrives with citations. That work normally takes days or weeks, and firms usually push it down to a junior associate or out to a search