Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

A new investigation by The Wall Street Journal has found that Meta’s AI chatbots — including those voiced by celebrities like John Cena — could engage in sexually explicit conversations with minors on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

Infamous imageboard 4chan is partially back online after being taken down by a major hack that left the site inaccessible for nearly two weeks.

The science ministry said on Sunday that US space firm SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service is expected to be available in South Korea this year, following a recent revision to the Radio Waves Act.

Meta’s newly launched video creation app, Instagram Edits, is off to a flying start, outperforming ByteDance’s popular CapCut by a huge margin during its debut.

Ed Martin, a temporary attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation—the group behind Wikipedia—questioning whether it should still be considered a nonprofit organization.

OpenAI has introduced a new “lightweight” version of its ChatGPT deep research tool, designed to be more cost-effective while still delivering high-quality insights.

Legacy internet brand Yahoo has expressed interest in acquiring Google Chrome, should a court mandate its divestiture, as part of the ongoing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust trial against Google.

Meta’s Threads platform has a new home on the web — Threads.com.

Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that displays only spoken dialogue, removing additional audio cues like “[phone buzzing]” or “[dramatic music swells]” commonly found in its Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC).

LinkedIn is taking its verification system beyond its platform, making it available to external websites and apps.

Adobe has introduced two new versions of its Firefly text-to-image AI model, along with several updates to its Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop and Illustrator.

OpenAI is expanding the reach of its upgraded image generation model, “gpt-image-1,” bringing its creative power to external platforms via API access.

WhatsApp is introducing a powerful new “Advanced Chat Privacy” feature designed to stop conversations from being taken outside the app.

xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk, has rolled out a powerful new feature called Grok Vision, giving its chatbot Grok the ability to “see” the world through your smartphone camera, similar to visual tools available in Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Max (formerly HBO Max) is the latest streaming service to crack down on password sharing.

Instagram has released a brand-new app called Edits, which is specially designed for creators who want to make professional-looking videos.

OpenAI has introduced three new reasoning models—o3, o4-mini, and o4-mini-high—for ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers.

Bluesky is reportedly preparing to launch a new blue checkmark verification system that differs significantly from the one popularized by Twitter (now X).

Apple’s smartphone shipments in China dropped by 9 percent in the first quarter of 2025 to 9.8 million iPhones, down from over 10.7 million a year earlier, according to the latest data from global market research firm IDC.

Nvidia announced Tuesday it will take a $5.5 billion charge after the U.S. government restricted exports of its H20 AI chip to China — a major blow to the chipmaker’s operations in one of its largest markets.