A U.S. senator has called for mysterious drones spotted flying over sensitive areas in New Jersey and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region to be “shot down, if necessary,” as it remains unclear who owns them. “We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they’re…
Character.AI, the artificial intelligence company that has been the subject of two lawsuits alleging its chatbots inappropriately interacted with underage users, said teenagers will now have a different experience than adults when using the platform. Character.AI users can create original chatbots or interact with existing bots. The bots, powered by large language models (LLMs), can…
Legislation was introduced in the Texas House of Representatives Thursday to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve, which could serve as a proving ground for the U.S. Treasury. The proposed bill would enable the state to start building a strategic bitcoin reserve by accepting taxes, fees and donations in bitcoin that would be held for a minimum of five…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The global chemical weapons watchdog opened an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria over concerns about the country’s stockpile of toxic chemicals in the wake of the overthrow of President Bashar Assad. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told Syria on Monday the country is…
Meta has donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund amid CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s push to curry favor with the president-elect more than a month before he takes office. The $1.6-trillion owner of Facebook and Instagram confirmed the donation to The Post following a report late on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal indicating that…
Across the world, companies rely on Microsoft and Google to administer email accounts for employees. Keeping all those mailboxes secure, however, is a business opportunity. Proofpoint went public in 2012, and as enterprises migrated to the cloud, many adopted the company’s secure email gateway software as a precautionary measure. But private equity firm Thoma Bravo…
Chatbot platform Character.ai is overhauling the way it works for teenagers, promising it will become a “safe” space with added controls for parents. The site is facing two lawsuits in the US – one over the death of a teenager – and has been branded a “clear and present danger” to young people. It says…
DoorDash will require its drivers to verify their identity more often as part of a larger effort to crack down on unauthorized account sharing. DoorDash has been under pressure to ensure its drivers are operating legally. Over the summer, it pledged to do a better job identifying and removing dangerous drivers after a flood of…
Meta has donated $1m to a inauguration fund for Donald Trump, in another sign of tech giant’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg, attempting to build bridges with the president-elect. Trump has previously been highly critical of Mr Zuckerberg and Facebook – calling the platform “anti-Trump” in 2017. But the pair dined at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in November,…
It is just past 10 p.m. and Aaliyah Arnold, the 20-year-old founder of BossUp Cosmetics, is selling to the TikTok universe. As she livestreams from a Culver City filming location, about 750 people around the world watch her announce a flash sale for a mystery box containing six to eight BossUp products. Typically priced at…
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