People’s views are becoming more and more polarized, with “echo chambers”—social bubbles that reinforce existing beliefs—exacerbating differences in opinion. This divergence doesn’t just apply to ...

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The thought that Taylor Swift would “break the internet” by sitting down for her much hyped appearance on New Heights was NOT an understatement. An incredible 1.2 million people were tuned in ...

Circle Internet went public in June. The stablecoin issuer reported its first financial result today -- a $4.48-per-share loss. Circle's guidance for the rest of the year isn't particularly helpful to ...

WTF?! An event will take place on September 30 that most people assume happened years ago: AOL will discontinue its dial-up internet service. If you're wondering just how many dial-up users are still ...

AI "answer engines" are an "existential threat to the internet," Cloudflare's CEO tells BI. He puts most of the blame on Google, and says the search giant will have to pay for content soon. The CEO's ...

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In July, the United Kingdom began implementing major parts of the Online Safety Act, a law that, in the government’s words, “protects children and adults online” by putting “a range of new duties on ...

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results. Fast ...

After the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act went into effect on Friday, requiring porn platforms and other adult content sites to implement user age verification mechanisms, use of virtual private ...

Festo Ivaibi couldn’t escape. He was on what was supposed to be a quick drive to clear his head near the waterside in Kampala, Uganda, when three cars suddenly surrounded him. Five armed people came ...