Video streaming giant YouTube on Wednesday criticized Australia’s impending ban on social media for under-16s, calling the world-first laws “rushed” and dangerous for children. “Most importantly, this law will fail to deliver on its promise to make children safer online and, in fact, will make Australian children less safe on YouTube,” the US company said … Read more
Every Wednesday, our journalist answers your questions related to digital technology and new technologies. This week, we’re discussing the usefulness of cleaning your PC, restoring the factory settings of an old device, and trying to contact the internet police. It’s tempting to believe in miracle software that will do your digital cleanup for you. Your … Read more
It would be great if the government encouraged technologies like ours more; I think we’re part of the solution.” In healthcare, if we haven’t heard this wish dozens of times, we haven’t heard it at all. In any case, in artificial intelligence, we’re creating all sorts of solutions that promise to make public health more … Read more
A breakdown affected several websites on Friday, including the social network of the US president Truth Social, and the sites Canva and Doctolib, due to a problem identified by the American online service provider Cloudflare. “We are aware of the issue affecting the availability of Cloudflare’s network,” said the company’s chief technology officer, Dane Knecht, … Read more
Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Meta AI, will integrate, in real time, content published by several news media, including CNN, Fox News and Le Monde , under an agreement announced Friday. The latter, which comes amid concerns about the future of the press in the age of generative AI, predicts that, in its responses to current affairs … Read more
Some women experimented by making specific changes to their LinkedIn profiles: they added a mustache to their profile picture and changed the gender from female to male. The result: the social network reportedly gave them a boost in visibility. Is its algorithm sexist? This story began on LinkedIn a few weeks ago. A user posted … Read more
Donald Trump announced Monday that he would sign an executive order this week to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) at their level, many having already legislated in the absence of a federal framework. In theory, a decree cannot supersede a text passed by Congress or by the Legislature of an American state. … Read more
(Sydney) Under-16s in Australia have been officially banned from accessing many social networks since Wednesday morning, a pioneering move globally aimed at protecting young people from the addictive algorithms of Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. Hundreds of thousands of teenagers are preparing to wake up disconnected from the apps on which they used to spend several … Read more
The megabyte, gigabyte, and terabyte are well known. They are volumes of one million, one billion, and one trillion bytes, the basic unit of storage in computing. According to an old popular belief, all the words spoken by human beings since the dawn of time would fit into 5 exabytes, or 5 million terabytes. In … Read more
This expression is often used briefly, without really explaining it. The adjective “obscure” doesn’t refer to any particularly sinister atmosphere, but rather to the technical invisibility of the sites encompassed by this term. Imagine the internet as a large iceberg. The tip that’s visible is made up of all the websites you know (Google, Facebook, La … Read more