Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Elon Musk-run X (formerly Twitter) is now seeking permission from users to start collecting their biometric data and employment history.

Garena Free Fire, a popular battle royale game that was banned by the Indian government in February 2022, will be making a comeback on September 5, 2023.

Musk announced that the micro-blogging platform will soon add a video and audio call feature, which will be supported on iOS, Android, Mac, and PC.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has been accused of data protection breaches in a complaint filed by a privacy researcher as per the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulation in the European Union.

Federal prosecutors in the US are probing personal benefits Tesla allegedly paid to its CEO Elon Musk in order to build a lavish “glass house” for him.

Instagram is reportedly working on a longer version of Reels, which will let users record up to 10 minutes of videos.

Sony has announced that it will be increasing the prices of its PlayStation Plus subscription service. The new prices will go into effect on September 6th, 2023.

Meta-owned American photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram is testing a new feature that will allow creators to share notable fan comments to their Stories, such as comments on their posts or Reels.

YouTube removed more than 1.9 million videos from its platform in India between January and March 2023 for violating 'YouTube's Community Guidelines'.

Meta has launched a new WhatsApp application for Mac users with a group calling feature that will connect with up to eight people on video calls and 32 people on audio calls.

X has announced that it will allow US political candidates and parties to advertise on the platform ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Meta has removed thousands of Facebook and several Instagram accounts in an effort to disrupt a Chinese propaganda campaign.

WordPress.com has introduced a 100-year plan for those who want to secure their online legacy for a lifetime.

Global data roaming fraud is expected to exceed $8 billion by 2028; driven by the increase in bilateral roaming agreements for data-intensive use cases over 5G networks, a new report said on Tuesday.

A number of users have taken to X (formerly Twitter) to complain their phone numbers have been banned from the encrypted messaging app Telegram, despite never using it.

Microsoft has said that it will be removing some of the features from its web browser Edge in the latest update.

Twitter’s renaming as X by Elon Musk saw its weekly active users drop 4 percent over the following weeks after the exercise.

Microsoft-owned OpenAI has launched a business-focused edition of the company’s AI-powered chatbot app, ChatGPT Enterprise, which will offer enterprise-grade security and privacy, unlimited higher-speed GPT-4 access, longer context windows for processing longer inputs, advanced data analysis capabilities, customization options, and much more.

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is back online after an outage that affected users in the United States on Monday.

Researchers have found that members of local Facebook groups have been exposed to hundreds of fake posts, including false reports of missing children or deadly snakes on the loose, a new study has shown.