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The year isn’t halfway over, and already 2023 has seen teachers punched in the face, pepper sprayed and even beaten unconscious for attempting to confiscate students’ phones and devices. Experts say this uptick in violent outbursts is fueled by two causes: teens who are literally addicted to their smartphones, coupled with ineffective school policies about phone usage. “[Youth phone addiction] …

Struggling online learning platform Chegg disclosed plans to cut about 4% of its workforce — weeks after the company’s CEO admitted that OpenAI’s ChatGPT was crushing its business as more students use artificial intelligence for homework help. Chegg said the cuts would amount to “about 80 employees” and would “better position the company to executive against its AI strategy and …

European Union antitrust regulators may order Alphabet’s Google to sell a part of its advertising-technology business, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. Google’s dominance in online advertising has been increasingly questioned over the past few years. Complaints from rivals about its allegedly anti-competitive practices have led to antitrust investigations in multiple continents concerning its practices. The European …

Elon Musk said on Saturday that the Unabomber — despite his twisted, homicidal rampage that killed three people and injured two dozen more — “might not be wrong” in his belief that technology is detrimental to society. The billionaire tweeted the comment the same day the Unabomber, whose real name was Ted Kaczynski, died in his jail cell aged 81 …

As of Monday, nearly 8,000 subreddit forums are going dark for 48 hours in protest of Reddit’s new pricing policy. The new policy implements a paid model for Reddit’s third-party apps that allow monthly users to customize their Reddit experience — for example, by personalizing their display theme or changing how they upvote a post — and ensure that their …

European regulators are reportedly set to slap Google parent Alphabet with a fresh antitrust complaint targeting the tech giant’s lucrative digital advertising business. The latest formal charges against Google are expected to be unveiled on Wednesday by the European Commission, the European Union’s antitrust body, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The complaint will “target the core” of Google’s “ad tech business …

Billionaire Elon Musk appeared to poke fun at Megan Fox on Sunday after the actress referred to herself as a “witch” during a nasty social media spat with conservative influencer Robby Starbuck. Musk, the 51-year-old owner of Twitter, joked in a tweet that he was “looking to hire a VP of Witchcraft & Propaganda.” Later, Musk replied to a Twitter …

The Federal Trade Commission is expected to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video gaming giant Activision Blizzard with a preliminary injunction. The FTC is anticipated to file for the temporary order on Monday, according to MLex, a news service that tracks regulatory developments. The federal regulator has two closed-door meetings scheduled on Monday to discuss the move, according to …

The attorney behind a major class-action lawsuit against Google claims that advances in artificial intelligence give the digital monopoly almost unlimited power to control lives, influence thought and shape society. “When the average person interacts with the internet, Google monitors and controls everything,” John C. Herman, of Herman Jones LLP in Atlanta, told Fox News Digital.  “From the search results, to the advertisements, to …

ChatGPT creator OpenAI and other US tech giants are reportedly limiting access to their AI chatbots in Hong Kong – where pro-democracy protesters have faced harsh crackdowns and censorship from the Chinese Communist Party in the last few years. OpenAI, Microsoft and Google have all restricted access to their respective chatbot services for Hong-Kong-based users in recent months, the Wall …