Technology

Facebook owner Meta said on Wednesday it had uncovered malware purveyors leveraging public interest in ChatGPT to lure users into downloading malicious apps and browser extensions, likening the phenomenon to cryptocurrency scams. Since March, the social media giant has found around 10 malware families and more than 1,000 malicious links that were promoted as tools featuring the popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, it said in …

Elon Musk has outraged social media’s elite by letting anyone get Twitter verification for $8 — and Jack Dorsey is looking to capitalize on the situation. Bluesky Social, which Twitter co-founder Dorsey founded in 2021, has since amassed just 50,000 monthly users versus Twitter’s nearly 400 million and Instagram’s 2.3 billion. But unlike Twitter and Instagram, users on Bluesky have …

A famed theoretical physicist has issued a stark warning about the dangers of software like ChatGPT. Michio Kaku said AI chatbots appear to be intelligent but are only actually capable of spitting out what humans have already written. The technology, which is free, is unable to detect whether something is false and can therefore be “tricked” into giving the wrong …

Apple on Thursday reported quarterly revenue and profit above Wall Street’s expectations, with iPhone sales rising and wearables sales slipping less than analysts had feared despite a continuing slump in the consumer electronics market and a cloudy economic outlook. Apple said sales for its fiscal second quarter ended April 1 fell 2.5% to $94.84 billion, better than analyst expectations of a 4.4% …

A growing social media platform that’s being billed as “TikTok for adults” is garnering applause from new users. Clapper, a Texas-based company founded by Edison Chen, aims to provide a place where the parents of TikTok users can express themselves, D Magazine reports. “We want to create a space for the older generations to feel more comfortable,” Chen told the …

In a surprise move last week, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority moved to block Activision Blizzard’s $68.7 billion merger with Microsoft. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick – whose company is behind blockbusters like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush – declined to comment on the merger’s future specifically. But Kotick did share his thoughts on the …

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel confirmed that he is signed up to be cryogenically frozen when he dies so that he can potentially be revived in the future – even though he is skeptical that the technology actually works. Thiel, who has an estimated net worth of $8.13 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, spoke candidly about the life-preserving …

Amazon quietly acquired a small audio-focused artificial intelligence firm called Snackable.AI last year to bolster user features for its podcasts, The Post has learned. Amazon closed the deal for Snackable last December, the company confirmed to The Post. Mari Joller, the founder and CEO of Snackable, now serves as an artificial intelligence and machine learning product leader at Amazon. Snackable …

Returning items to Amazon is easy, but there are always exceptions. Here are four things the retail giant will not take back. Then again, there’s likely some stuff around your house that Amazon, Target, and Walmart are interested in. Trade in your old tech devices for credit. Have you ever received a package that wasn’t intended for you? How about …

TikTok reportedly compiled a list of users who were being monitored after they watched gay content on the app, according to former employees who protested the policy. The popular video-sharing service kept tabs on users who frequented clips that were tagged under headings including LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), according to The Wall Street Journal. Former TikTok employees told The …