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Moxie Marlinspike, the privacy advocate who created the secure communication app Signal and its widely used open source encryption protocol, said this week that his privacy-focused AI platform, Confer, will start incorporating its technology into Meta’s AI systems.Every day, billions of chat messages sent through Signal, Meta’s WhatsApp, and Apple’s Messages are protected by end-to-end encryption. The feature, which makes it impossible for tech companies and anyone other than the sender and recipient to snoop on your messages, has become mainstream over the past decade. As generative AI platforms explode in popularity, though, people are now also exchanging billions of…

It took ChatGPT two and a half years to go from “meme of the month” to one of the most popular services on the Internet.When it was first released, in November 2022, as a front-end for large language models, nobody could have predicted that by mid-2025 it would be something that nearly every profession and almost every internet user would be using on a daily basis.In this article, we will be looking at the most recent ChatGPT statistics as well as general data on the platform’s audience, traffic, revenue, and demographics.We will also be discussing the latest data on ChatGPT…

UK’s Ofcom has fined 4chan a total of £520,000 ($690,000) over the website’s failure to comply with the rules of Online Safety Act 2023. The biggest chunk of the amount came from 4chan’s failure to ensure children cannot encounter pornographic content on its website by implementing an effective age check mechanism. For that violation, the website has received a penalty of £450,000 ($598,000) and an order to apply an age check system by April 2. It carries a daily rate penalty of £500 ($664) until the website is compliant or until June 1, whichever comes sooner.Ofcom also found that 4chan…

Security teams have spent years building identity and access controls for human users and service accounts. But a new category of actor has quietly entered most enterprise environments, and it operates entirely outside those controls. Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent, is now running across engineering organizations at scale. It reads files, executes shell commands, calls external APIs, and connects to third-party integrations called MCP servers. It does all of this autonomously, with the full permissions of the developer who launched it, on the developer’s local machine, before any network-layer security tool can see it. It leaves no audit trail…

Andromeda AI Inc., a startup that helps companies rent artificial intelligence infrastructure, has closed a new funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. Upstarts Media reported today that the capital was provided by Paradigm, a venture capital firm focused on the crypto sector and emerging technologies. The exact dollar value of the deal is unclear. Paradigm, which earlier backed a seed round for Andromeda, has reportedly invested a total of $60 million in the startup to date. Many cloud providers offer access to instances equipped with graphics processing units. However, securing the most favorable pricing often requires signing multiyear contracts, which…

Large language models (LLMs) can generate credible but inaccurate responses, so researchers have developed uncertainty quantification methods to check the reliability of predictions. One popular method involves submitting the same prompt multiple times to see if the model generates the same answer.But this method measures self-confidence, and even the most impressive LLM might be confidently wrong. Overconfidence can mislead users about the accuracy of a prediction, which might result in devastating consequences in high-stakes settings like health care or finance.   To address this shortcoming, MIT researchers introduced a new method for measuring a different type of uncertainty that more reliably…

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s a pretty easy one today, but we’ve got all the answers in case you’re stumped. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New…

On Monday, Apple  acquired MotionVFX, a Polish software company founded in 2009 by Szymon Masiak. No financial terms were disclosed. Apple did not issue a statement. It rarely does for acquisitions. The 70 employees in Warsaw are now Apple employees, and the plugin catalog remains available for now, which is the kind of detail that sounds reassuring until you remember that Pixelmator’s catalog was also available, right up until it wasn’t. So what is MotionVFX, for anyone who has not spent time in a video editing suite. If you have watched a YouTube video with clean cinematic color grading, a…

Microsoft has stopped automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows PCs with M365 apps, after initially planning to roll it out to users by default. The app was supposed to act as a central hub for Copilot, consolidating AI features across tools like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single location. However, instead of letting users choose, Microsoft had planned to push it directly onto devices, something many users have opposed in the past. What changed with Microsoft’s Copilot rollout Microsoft Microsoft has now temporarily disabled the automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible devices.…

Most Singaporeans still tune in weekly In an era dominated by Spotify, podcasts, and YouTube, radio can feel like a relic of the past. So it might seem surprising that millions—yes, millions—still tune in every week to catch up on news or listen to music. It’s far from dead, but what makes radio stick around when we have endless audio options at our fingertips? Why it still has our attention In 2025, Mediacorp—the dominant player in Singapore’s radio market with 84.2% market share—reached 3.94 million weekly listeners, showing that radio still commands a sizeable audience. This strong listenership is reflected…