Facebook parent company Meta announced plans to enable children as young as 10 years old to enter virtual reality through its Meta Quest headset later this year, despite a recent advisory warning social media can negatively impact the mental health and well-being of children. “Today we’re announcing changes to give families even more ways to…
Meta Lowers Minimum Age of Quest Headsets in Bid to Lure Children Into VR
June 17, 2023
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Musk Aims for Twitter to Be a ‘Positive Force for Civilization’
Twitter owner Elon Musk has plans for his social media platform that extend far beyond social networking. In recent months, Musk has been outspoken about his intention to turn Twitter into “X,” an “everything app” that offers a variety of services—like messaging, networking, shopping, financial services, and more—in just one interface. His goal? Advancing civilization,…
Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Meets With Bill Gates Ahead of Blinken Visit
June 16, 2023
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BEIJING—Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday met with Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates in Beijing ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a time of strained relations. The state broadcaster CCTV showed Xi saying he was happy to see Gates, who he called an “old friend,” after three years without…
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram Down for Thousands of Users, Says Downdetector
Meta Platforms on Friday said it was aware of issues with its Ads Manager, its advertising tool that lets brands buy and create Facebook ads. “Our engineering teams are aware and are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible,” Meta said on its status page. The status update came just after thousands…
TikTok Reveals Everything About Users and Those Around Them: Expert
June 16, 2023
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TikTok is under scrutiny by the U.S. government in light of national security concerns. An expert pointed out that the content hidden in TikTok’s terms of use and privacy policy is very concerning, that users who install the app voluntarily reveal everything about themselves and the information of those around them. “The cyber system in…
TikTok to Invest Billions of Dollars in Southeast Asia to Boost E-Commerce Business
June 16, 2023
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JAKARTA—Short video app TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, said on Thursday it would invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia over the next few years, as it doubles down on the region amid intensifying global scrutiny over its data security. Southeast Asia, a region with a collective population of 630 million—half of them under 30—is…
Chinese Hackers Breached Hundreds of Public and Private Networks, Investigation Concludes
June 15, 2023
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Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies, including foreign ministries, cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday. “This is the broadest cyber espionage campaign known to be conducted by…
IN-DEPTH: AI Revolution Takes Aim at Religion by Rewriting Bible and Leading Sermon
June 15, 2023
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Artificial intelligence is set to change the modern world in a variety of ways—generating art, assisting writers, and even emulating people’s voices. But few would have expected it to be tasked with writing religious services and even rewriting one of the most read and revered books in history, the Bible. Yet, in Germany, hundreds of Protestants…
IN-DEPTH: How Religion Is Becoming the Latest Target of AI Revolution
June 15, 2023
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Artificial intelligence is set to change the modern world in a variety of ways—generating art, assisting writers, and even emulating people’s voices. But few would have expected it to be tasked with writing religious services and even rewriting one of the most read and revered books in history, the Bible. Yet, in Germany, hundreds of Protestants…
Georgia Attorney Wins Lawsuit Against Meta Platforms Over Banned Account
A Georgia attorney has won a lawsuit against Facebook after the big tech giant shut down his account and banned him off the platform, alleging that he had violated its standards on child sexual exploitation. Jason Crawford in Hamilton, Georgia, told Fox 5 Atlanta that he had logged on to Facebook in August 2022 only…
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