Gen Z cancels LOL in favor of new acronym: IJBOL
This is no laughing matter. Gen Z has canceled the fan-favorite acronym LOL. Instead, the slang-savvy generation has coined a more complicated term in lieu of laugh out loud: IJBOL....
Why ‘white noise’ podcasts are costing Spotify $38M per year in profits
Spotify is reportedly missing out on $38 million in annual profits because its users can’t stop listening to “white noise” podcasts that are less lucrative for the company. “White noise”...
SpaceX and Blue Origin targeted by spies from China, Russia, feds say
Chinese and Russian spies are looking to steal sensitive technology and data from US space companies including SpaceX and Blue Origin, according to a federal government communique. The National Counterintelligence...
Elon Musk says X users will no longer be able to block unwanted followers
Elon Musk says he plans to do away with the “block” feature on the X social media platform. The app formerly known as Twitter will instead offer users the option...
Artificial intelligence for augmentation and productivity
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has awarded seed grants to seven projects that are exploring how artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction can be leveraged to enhance modern...
Autonomous visual information seeking with large language models
Posted by Ziniu Hu, Student Researcher, and Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team There has been great progress towards adapting large language models (LLMs) to accommodate multimodal inputs...
Half of parents have ‘no idea’ how to raise kids without smartphone: study
It’s a smartphone generation — of parents. A study has found that nearly half of all parents — 43% — have “no idea” how people raised children before everyone had...
Snapchat’s AI bot posts photo on its own, causes privacy scare
Snapchat’s artificial intelligence feature, My AI, freaked users out when it went rogue on Tuesday, automatically posting a photo to users’ stories who thought the techy tool was only a...
Meta pivots away from news
News sites have seen traffic plummet in recent months due to a lack of referral clicks from Facebook, whose pivot away from hard news has taken a toll on media...
Meta warns employees could be fired for ignoring 3-day-per-week office rule
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta delivered a fresh warning to employees Thursday about their office attendance – cautioning that workers who fall short of a looming three-day-per-week requirement could lose their jobs....
How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books
For bookworms, reading a headline like “School District Uses ChatGPT to Help Remove Library Books” can be blood boiling. As Vulture put it earlier this week, it creates the sense...
Tech tycoon Bryan Johnson touts ‘penis rejuvenation therapy’
Bryan Johnson, the 45-year-old tech bro known for his obsessive anti-aging regimen, revealed this week that he has “started penis rejuvenation therapy” as part of a $2 million-per-year effort to...
How tech billionaires with property in Hawaii are responding to Maui wildfires
The devastating wildfires that have ravaged Maui have prompted billionaire tech moguls who have bought wide swaths of property in Hawaii to pitch in with charitable donations to help rebuild...
X suspends pro-Hitler account after brands paused ads
At least two major organizations paused advertising on X after their ads appeared on an avowedly pro-Hitler account, according to a report. Gilead Sciences, the California-based pharmaceutical giant, and NCTA...
Pornhub parent MindGeek changing its name under new owners
Pornhub’s shadowy parent company MindGeek said it is changing its name as its new owners seek a “fresh start” for the scandal-ridden smut empire. MindGeek — which has faced scrutiny...
