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Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Moz...

Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Mozilla on February 14, 2024 by Thomas Germain

The Biden Administration is moving forward with a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence executive order aimed at creating new “consensus industry standards” for developing safe and trustworthy and setting up new guardrails to prevent potentially di...

Biden Issues Nation’s First AI Executive Order. Here’s What You ...

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Emerging-Technologies Mozilla and tagged google on October 30, 2023 by Mack DeGeurin

According to a recent story by MSPowerUser, Mozilla Firefox has recently been testing an experimental feature called Review Checker. This feature is powered by Fakespot, which Firefox acquired earlier this year.Read more...

Firefox Is Testing a New Feature to Weed Out Fake ...

This entry was posted in Firefox google-chrome Mozilla on October 11, 2023 by Dua Rashid

Tuesday saw the opening of a major antitrust case against Google, marking the government’s first big tech monopoly trial since Microsoft. As the Department of Justice and Google lay out their arguments, two remarkable issues are at stake. First is the ...

Google’s Trials Will Reshape the Internet Whether It Wins or ...

This entry was posted in Alphabet IBM Microsoft Mozilla and tagged apple google iphone samsung on September 12, 2023 by Thomas Germain

Virtual Private Networks, better known as VPNs, are services that route your traffic through a sort of encrypted tunnel, hiding your online activities from your internet service provider and anyone else who manages your network. That makes VPNs a tool ...

The 5 Best VPNs for the Back to School 2023 ...

This entry was posted in Firefox Mozilla Netflix on August 9, 2023 by Thomas Germain

Dear users of aging hardware, even Firefox is ready to stop supporting your out-of-date tech. On Tuesday, the Mozilla-owned browser released its latest update, claiming it was the last one that users of aging Mac and Windows users will see outside of a...

Firefox Plans to Stop Supporting MacOS Sierra and Mojave

This entry was posted in Firefox google-chrome Microsoft Mozilla Windows 10 and tagged iphone on July 5, 2023 by Kyle Barr

For years YouTube’s video-recommending algorithm has stood accused of fuelling a grab-bag of societal ills by feeding users an AI-amplified diet of hate speech, political extremism and/or conspiracy junk/disinformation for the profiteering motive of trying to keep billions of eyeballs stuck to its ad inventory. And while YouTube’s tech giant parent Google has, sporadically, responded […]

YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study

This entry was posted in Advertising Tech artificial intelligence hate speech machine learning Mozilla Policy Social TC YouTube and tagged google social media on July 7, 2021 by Natasha Lomas

TikTok announced a ban on political advertising all the way back in 2019. So you’d be forgiven for thinking the ugly problem of democracy-denting political disinformation doesn’t apply inside its walled garden of dancing Gen Zers. But you’d be wrong. New research by Mozilla suggests that policy loopholes and lax oversight, especially around influencer marketing, […]

TikTok called out for lack of ads transparency and for ...

This entry was posted in Advertising Tech Mozilla Policy Social and tagged social media on June 3, 2021 by Natasha Lomas

Automattic, Mozilla, Twitter and Vimeo have penned an open letter to EU lawmakers urging them to ensure that a major reboot of the bloc’s digital regulations doesn’t end up bludgeoning freedom of expression online. The draft Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act are due to be unveiled by the Commission next week, though the […]