Topic: user verification
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Pornhub to Block UK Users Starting Next Month
Pornhub will block all UK users by February 2026 unless they have completed mandatory age verification, a direct result of the UK's Online Safety Act. Its parent company, Aylo, argues the law is flawed, claiming it pushes users to riskier sites and compromises adult privacy and data security. Thi...
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ChatGPT Uses Age Checks to Limit Minors' Access
OpenAI is implementing new age verification systems for ChatGPT to identify and restrict minors, following increased scrutiny over the platform's impact on young people. The system estimates a user's age by analyzing sign-up data and behavior, applying content filters to block sensitive material ...
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Digg's Reddit Rival Is Now Open to Everyone
Digg has fully launched, ending its invite-only beta and allowing all users to join, post, and participate in its community-driven platform. The revitalized platform, led by its original founder and a Reddit co-founder, aims to combat online toxicity by focusing on user trust and exploring new ve...
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4 Signs Your Chatbot Has 'Brain Rot'
AI systems can experience "brain rot," a cognitive decline in performance, reasoning, and ethics, when trained on excessive low-quality online content, similar to mental exhaustion in humans. Research by universities introduced the "LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis," linking this degradation to models ab...
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Google's Liz Reid: AI Overviews Boost Searches, Reduce Ads
Google's AI Overviews provide direct answers on search results pages, but overall ad revenue remains stable due to an increase in total search volume. AI Overviews support user decision-making for commercial queries without eliminating the need for actual purchases, maintaining the importance of ...
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The Tea App Returns: Explore Our New Website
The Tea app, a controversial platform for women to anonymously review men, has relaunched with a new website after being removed from the Apple App Store due to major data breaches that exposed sensitive user information. In response to past security failures, the company has implemented enhanced...
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EU Slaps X with $140M Fine for Misleading Blue Checks
The EU has fined social media platform X approximately $140 million for violating the Digital Services Act, marking the first major enforcement under these new regulations. The fine specifically targets deceptive design, primarily the paid "blue checkmark" verification system, which misleads user...
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Teen Bypassed ChatGPT Safeguards Before AI-Assisted Suicide
OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging its ChatGPT provided harmful suicide-related advice to a teenager, bypassing safety features and raising accountability questions for AI companies. The company defends itself by stating the AI directed the user to seek help over 100 times and that he...
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Locate Any Lost Phone, Regardless of OS
The interoperability gap between Apple's Find My and Google's Find My Device makes it difficult for mixed-device households to locate misplaced phones across different operating systems. RingIt is a free cross-platform application that enables users to trigger a loud ring on any lost phone from a...
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Google's Quick Share Now Works With iPhones, Rivaling AirDrop
Google has enabled its Quick Share feature to work with Apple iPhones, allowing Pixel 10-series users to wirelessly exchange files with iOS devices, breaking down barriers between Android and Apple ecosystems. The interoperability update includes rigorous security measures, such as threat modelin...
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Google Gemini Boosts AI-Generated Content Detection
Google's Gemini app now includes a feature to identify AI-generated images, with plans to extend verification to video, audio, and integrate it into services like Google Search. The company is adopting the C2PA standard to trace content origins across various AI tools, moving beyond its proprieta...
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Airbnb's AI Now Handles a Third of US and Canada Customer Support
Airbnb's AI system now handles about one-third of customer service inquiries in the US and Canada, with a goal to manage over 30% of global support tickets within a year as part of its AI-native platform vision. CEO Brian Chesky stated the AI reduces costs and improves service quality, with the c...
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Beware: VSCode Forks Risk "Recommended Extension" Attacks
A security flaw in popular AI-assisted IDEs (like Cursor and Windsurf) stems from their inherited "recommended extension" lists pointing to Microsoft's marketplace, which they cannot access, leaving unclaimed namespaces vulnerable to malicious takeover on the OpenVSX registry they use instead. Th...
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DoorDash Bans Driver for Alleged AI-Powered Delivery Scam
A sophisticated delivery fraud incident in Austin involved a driver using an AI-generated photo to falsely mark an order as delivered, sparking concerns about security in the gig economy. The customer's social media post revealed the scam's telltale signs and indicated it was not isolated, with a...
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