Among the highlights are Meta Motivo, a foundation model for controlling virtual embodied agents, and Meta Video Seal, a video watermarking model designed to enhance content traceability. Meta FAIR introduces research artifacts to enhance machine intelligence and improve AI development. Innovations include Meta Motivo for controlling virtual agents and Meta Video Seal for watermarking. Meta emphasizes democratizing access to advanced technologies for real-world interaction improvements. Meta Video Seal builds on previous research in audio watermarking and enables the embedding of imperceptible watermarks in video content....

“This feature is designed not only to protect people from seeing unwanted nudity in their DMs, but also to protect them from scammers who may send nude images to trick people into sending their own images in return,” Meta said. Meta stated that the nudity protection feature would utilize on-device machine learning and operate within end-to-end encrypted chats to ascertain whether an image contains nudity. Moreover, through warnings, it will also give users an option whether or not to view the image, block the sender, or report the chat....

Aimed at teachers, trainers, and administrators, it will enable seamless management of multiple Quest devices in any educational setting, eliminating the need for individual device preparation and updates. Additionally, educators would have the ability to access “education-specific apps and features,” wrote Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, in a blog post dated April 15. While the company still hasn’t revealed the product name or its list of features, Clegg said that the product will help teachers save time and make it “easier for students to learn, apply, and practice new skills”....

The video game company shared a video as part of the announcement that demonstrated the five games and provided more details about each of these classic sidescrolling action platformers. Nintendo also reminded users that they can find other classics, like Super Mario Bros 3, Kirby’s Dream Land, The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past, and Super Mario World on the Nintendo Switch Online service. Users Thrilled With These New Additions After sharing the update on X, hundreds of users commented and shared their enthusiasm....

Premium users will have access to the Advanced Voice feature by the end of the week The audio feature is not available in certain European countries. It’s not an unlimited service, there’s a daily limit for its use “Advanced Voice is rolling out to all Plus and Team users in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week,” shared the company in its X account—recently hacked for a cryptocurrency scam— this Tuesday....

The deal between OpenAI and Google Cloud was finalized in May, after OpenAI shifted away from Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud infrastructure, as noted by Reuters. Deal reduces OpenAI’s reliance on Microsoft Azure. ChatGPT threatens Google’s core search business. Google Cloud gains a major client despite competition with OpenAI. The partnership comes at a time when OpenAI’s ChatGPT is considered one of the biggest threats to Google’s search dominance....

“As we said last July, we’re committed to allocating at least 20% of the computing resources to safety efforts across the entire company,” wrote Altman, “Our team has been working with the US AI Safety Institute on an agreement where we would provide early access to our next foundation model so that we can work together to push forward the science of AI evaluations.” Altman said he was excited about this decision and added that they want current and former employees to express their concerns about the AI technologies the company is developing....

The network breach incident is said to have occurred earlier this month, the Fortune 500 company said in a Form 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The insurance giant disclosed that the breach was detected on February 5, one day after an unknown threat actor gained access to some of its systems. Upon detection, Prudential. with assistance from external cybersecurity experts, immediately deployed cybersecurity measures to ‘’investigate, contain, and remediate’’ the breach....

The complaint, filed Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court, calls Anthropic “a late-blooming AI company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,” and alleges that “it is anything but.” Reddit argues that Anthropic’s public image of ethical AI development doesn’t match its actions. Reddit says scraped content is essential for training AI like Claude. Anthropic faces multiple lawsuits over alleged copyright infringement. Reddit previously licensed data to Google for $60 million annually....

In a post on Reddit, Huffman reflected on the company’s recent Q1 earnings and included a section addressing AI usage, its involvement on the platform, and Reddit’s response. Reddit’s CEO announced that they will introduce new user verification systems provided by third-party services. The platform will require more data from users to prove they are not AI bots. The decision comes just a few days after researchers deployed AI bots without permission and raised concerns among users....

According to the Independent, the speed hit by the scientists is about 5 million times faster than the average Internet speed in the United Kingdom. With such a speed, a Netflix user could download every movie available within a second. The document shared states that the research team obtained that speed “by constructing the first optical transmission system covering all the transmission bands (OESCLU) of the low-loss window of standard optical fibers....

In today’s technologically advanced age, internet security and privacy have become areas of concern. The number of cybercrimes has increased exponentially and ransomware attacks are commonplace. Not only will a VPN give you added security and anonymity online, but it will also allow you to bypass geo-restrictions. VPNs are the best shot you have at securing your data online and restoring internet privacy. However, protecting the whole family is not so easy, and for that, it would be best to use your VPN at the router level....

By limiting screen exposure, especially for young children, parents can help create a healthier digital environment for their kids to grow and develop. The guidelines recommendations suggest that screens should not be used before bedtime, and devices like mobile phones and tablets should be kept out of the bedroom during the night. It also suggests to ensure that digital media doesn’t take the place of essential activities such as sleep, physical exercise, relationships, meals, and schoolwork....

Installing bloatware or other software that you didn’t intend to install. It might be allowing the company to collect and sell your personal data to a third party. Or even worse, the file could include a virus, malware, or spyware. It could be getting such a limited product that you’ll have to buy the “Premium Package”. I’m not saying that all free software is bad, the truth is there are a lot of great free programs for Windows, you just have to be careful....

According to SentinelLabs researchers, the group used these tools to deploy Cobalt Strike malware on targeted machines. The attacks use malware loaders (agentupdate_plugins.exe and AdventureQuest.exe) to deploy .NET executables on targeted machines, which download data stored in password-protected zip archives from Alibaba buckets. The malicious DLLs are stored in the zip archives. It was observed that the malware loaders employ a geofencing feature meant to stop execution if they find machines with IPs in the US, Germany, France, Russia, India, the UK, and Canada....

On 3 December, ALPHV in a post on its leak website claimed to have breached Tipalti’s network since 8 September. The gang stated that by staying undetected in ‘’multiple Tipali systems’’, it had managed to exfiltrate 256GB of confidential business data including Twitch and Roblox information. In the same post, it announced to extort these two companies separately. “We remain committed to this exfiltration operation, so we plan to reach out to both these companies once the market opens on Monday as we believe we will have an even greater amount of data by then,’’ the post read....

There are just 14 casinos in The Netherlands and they are the only places it is legal to play poker in all of Holland. Online gambling does exist, but poker is not offered by any of the Dutch overseers of said gambling websites, meaning those wishing to play the game online need to seek greener pastures. Editor’s Note: We value our relationship with our readers, and we strive to earn your trust through transparency and integrity....

Last Updated: Aug 7, 2025 After my testing, I found Witopia to be a decent VPN service. The VPN does an excellent job with military-grade security, has great unblocking abilities, and provides a substantial server network. That said, the speeds are slow, and you won’t get access to most features if you’re not using the pro option. Luckily, Witopia personal VPN offers a 30-day money back guarantee that allows you to test its features for yourself and get a refund if you’re not satisfied with it....

Women and girls are both the targets and scapegoats of online harassment; we’re singled out and then victim-blamed as though we asked to be persecuted. The cycle has been vicious and endless, but not anymore. It’s time for us to take control and put an end to the attacks on women online. Online, women are subjected to harassment, violence, oppression, and just generally uncomfortable situations that few (if any) men have to deal with....

However, a VPN can technically change your real IP address to one in the US even if you’re physically located elsewhere. However, my team and I don’t condone this because it could be considered copyright infringement and goes against Hulu’s terms of service. But if you want to watch Hulu safely with a VPN, only a few work because Hulu tries hard to protect its licensing by blocking VPN IP addresses....