As always, Super Bowl LVII was among the biggest U.S. sporting events of the year, with a sold-out crowd of more than 70,000 fans and an estimated 113 million people watching across the country. While it was a massive event with billions of dollars in economic activity, and a championship at stake, it was also…
Meta, Instagram’s parent company, is introducing PG-13-style content limits for all teen accounts. Under the new policy, users under 18 will have mature or sensitive material hidden or restricted, with parents able to add further controls. Tara Hopkins, Instagram’s global director of public policy, joins “CBS Mornings Plus” to discuss the changes. Source link
The massive Amazon cloud computing outage on Monday took down websites and disrupted internet service for hours globally. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger breaks down how people can protect themselves for incidents like the outage in the digital age. Source link
Warner Bros. Discovery has signaled that it may be open to a sale of its business just months after announcing plans to split into two companies. In an announcement Tuesday, the entertainment giant said it had initiated a review of “strategic alternatives” in light of “unsolicited interest” it had received from “multiple parties” for both…
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have joined prominent computer scientists, economists, artists, evangelical Christian leaders and American conservative commentators Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck to call for a ban on AI “superintelligence” they say could threaten humanity. The letter, released Wednesday by a politically and geographically diverse group of public figures, is squarely aimed…
OpenAI said Tuesday it is launching an artificial intelligence-powered website browser, heightening the company’s competition with Google, the Alphabet-owned unit that has long dominated online search. The new browser, called ChatGPT Atlas, is for now only available on Apple laptops that run the company’s Mac operating system. Access will soon expand to Apple’s iOS, Microsoft…
Internet users on Monday afternoon continued to report issues with platforms that rely on Amazon Web Services, hours after Amazon’s cloud computing unit said it was recovering from an outage that started earlier in the day. The Amazon division provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies. Early Monday, users reported…
The popular online gaming platform Roblox, which hosts millions of user-created games, is being sued by families and state attorneys general who claim online predators can groom, extort and exploit kids they meet on the platform. Steven, a father of two, is among those who have filed lawsuits as his family tries to rebuild their…
Georgia Tech uses drones to enhance campus security – CBS News Watch CBS News Georgia Institute of Technology recently became one of the first colleges in the U.S. to roll out a drone program that enhances campus security. Source link
OpenAI is temporarily blocking users of its Sora 2 AI video app from making content that includes Martin Luther King Jr.’s likeness after some people created what the technology company called “disrespectful depictions” of the civil rights activist. OpenAI, the company behind generative-AI platform ChatGPT, said late Thursday on social media that it made the…
