Tech giant Meta today attacked Australia’s “grossly unfair” bid to make social media companies pay for news, saying it is vehemently opposed to the draft laws. Traditional media companies around the world are in a battle for survival as readers increasingly consume their news on social media, reports AFP. Australia wants big tech companies to ...
•Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple special event in Cupertino, California Apple has removed Russia’s state-backed Max messenger from its App Store, the app’s Russian developers said today. Moscow has for months been pushing Russians to install Max — a super-app that lacks encryption and that critics say could be used to track […]...
Meta secured a partial victory today over the EU’s powers to regulate tech giants, as a top court ruled the bloc was wrong to slap tough rules on its Facebook Marketplace platform — but threw out an appeal over Messenger. The US giant filed a challenge with the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg over both […]
•A 14-year-old boy poses at his home near Gosford in Australia as he looks at social media on his mobile phone Making the digital world safe for children is an urgent priority, the United Nations said today, adding that those those responsible for online harm must be held to account. UN rights chief Volker Turk […]
Meta yesterday launched paid subscription plans for its flagship apps, marking a major push by the tech giant to diversify beyond its long-time reliance on advertising revenue. Meta head of product Naomi Gleit announced the move in a video posted to Instagram, saying she was rolling out Facebook Plus, Instagram Plus and WhatsApp Plus globally,...
•Sam Altman and Elon Musk Deliberations begin today in the blockbuster trial pitting Elon Musk against AI giant OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, whom Musk accuses of abandoning the company’s founding mission. The three-week trial in Oakland, outside San Francisco, has seen a parade of Silicon Valley titans take the stand, with Musk arguing [&hel...
Meta Platforms has announced a new “incognito” mode for WhatsApp users designed to make conversations with its AI chatbot more private, as concerns continue to grow around how personal data is handled in generative AI systems. The company revealed in a blog post today that the feature allows users to engage in temporary, private chats [&hellip...
A US-based data marketplace that rewards users for uploading photos, videos, and other multimodal content, Kled AI, has withdrawn its services from Nigeria after detecting a “95 %” fraud rate by users. In a post today on X, Founder of the company, Avi Patel, said the app was removed from the Nigerian app store, with […]
Succour may have eventually come the way of telephone service subscribers in the country as telecom operators have started paying customers for poor network service. This development follows a directive from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), which ordered operators to compensate users for failing to meet quality standards between N...
•Phone users, NCC logo and telecom infrastructure The National Economic Council (NEC) has approved the adoption of 112 as the national emergency number at all levels and across relevant agencies. It is part of measures to strengthen Nigeria’s emergency lifeline and build a unified and coordinated national response to emergencies, reports Chann...
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