Technology

The deeper controversy stems from how easily Sora allows users to create hyperrealistic video renderings of deceased public figures without their consent, and often in contexts that are offensive or inconsistent with their legacy.

AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet service.  The company, originally known as America Online, announced the end of an era for a technology that once defined the early internet experience.  At its peak AOL had ten million customers, however, as technology advanced most users transitioned to faster broadband connections shrinking current usage down to […]

Instagram is marking a major milestone with three billion monthly active users.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the achievement in a post to his Instagram account on Wednesday and applauded the “incredible community” that has been built.  The photo-sharing app now joins the ranks of Facebook and WhatsApp which crossed the three billion user mark […]

President Trump is expected to sign a deal today that will allow a Chinese company to sell TikTok. That’s according to White House sources who told NBC News the deal will facilitate the sale of the popular social media app to a group of American investors. Under the deal, the app’s U.S. operations will be […]

The White House says American companies will now control TikTok’s algorithm in the U.S.  Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke on Fox News Saturday and said Chinese company ByteDance will get one of the seven board seats for TikTok’s U.S. operations, and Americans will hold the remaining seats.  Congress had voted to ban the video-sharing app […]

The newest TikTok trend is preparing for the End Times.  A South African pastor recently said that it should arrive either this Tuesday or Wednesday, noting he had a vision that the Rapture was coming.  That’s the belief that some Christians will leave this world behind.  While earlier predictions of the Rapture, or the end […]

OpenAI is announcing new teen safety features for ChatGPT.  Now the AI chatbot will include an age-prediction system and ID age verification in some countries.  The companies age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday extended a delay on enforcing a ban against TikTok until December 16, marking the fourth postponement of a law designed to force the app’s sale from its Chinese owner. The announcement, made through an executive order, came despite Trump telling reporters Tuesday that the United States and China had reached […]

OpenAI and Meta will adjust their chatbot features to better respond to teens in crisis.  According to an OpenAI blog post, the tech company “recently introduced a real-time router that can choose between efficient chat models and reasoning models based on the conversation context.”  The new measures come after a 16-year-old in California died by […]

AOL dial-up is ending on September 30th according to a post on the company’s website. It’s the end of the service that was synonymous with the internet for many years since its launch in 1991. AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet service after more than four decades.  The service which connected modems through phone lines […]

Judge Melodee Armstrong shed light on the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for society, law enforcement, and businesses.

The Los Angeles Times removed its new artificial intelligence feature from one of its articles because it downplayed the KKK.