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Scammers Using AI Voice Generation to Mimic The Voices of Loved Ones.
AI is the hot topic this year with ChatGPT, Google Bard and AI image generation, all of this is interesting and cool tech but AI has some major problems mostly down to its lack of regulation. To be specific scammers are using AI to mimic the voice of loved ones…
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WhatsApp Set To Receive Edit Message Feature
Last month Apple rolled out an iPhone 14 ad showing off the new feature of being able to edit and undo messages and now in a beta update for WhatsApp, it has been discovered that WhatsApp is also trialling out this feature for iOS. A site named WABetaInfo, which is…
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Mikes Rant – Social Media Needs Regulation Before It’s Too Late!
Mikes Rant 16 I am what you might call a ‘light’ user of social media. By that, I mean that I have a Facebook account, a Twitter account that I use on exceptionally rare occasions and absolutely nothing else. Nope, I have no Instagram, no WhatsApp and before the ladies…
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Warning Issued For Peppa Pig WhatsApp Scam
Warning Issued For Peppa Pig WhatsApp Scam If you’re anything like me, with the Summer Holiday’s upon us, you’re struggling to think of things you can do with your children. Well, presuming you have children. Part of this is maybe a trip to the zoo or maybe even a theme…
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WhatsApp CEO Wants to Leave the Company
Jan Koum to leave Facebook’s board of directors. The scandal with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica is still going strong, and it looks like it is affecting some key positions within the company. We already saw Mark Zuckerberg answering for the breach before Congress, but now, it appears that WhatsApp was also…
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WhatsApp To Raise Minimum Age of Users to 16
WhatsApp To Increase Minimum Age to 16 In the last year, there has been increasing concerns over children and their activities on social media. This ranges from bullying to in extreme instances grooming. Such criticism has made social media sites have to answer a lot of difficult questions. Ones which…
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Blackberry Sue Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram
Blackberry It’s certainly been a rough 10 years for Blackberry. For a time their market share rivaled that of Nokia, then Apple came along and destroyed them. I must admit, I have always been a closet fan of their products, particularly their tablets which were admittedly bulky, but had some excellent…
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WhatsApp Removes Pornographic GIFS After Threat of Ban
WhatsApp Removes Pornographic GIFS After Threat of Ban from Country WhatsApp is a great way for friends and groups to communicate. The ability to share messages, photos, short videos and GIF animations mean that the social media program has become one of the most popular and download items on the…
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Fake WhatsApp Application Downloaded a Million Times
Fake WhatsApp Downloaded Over a Million Times WhatsApp is a highly popular social media app. Allowing friends and groups to share messages and photographs it is one of the most popular and downloaded applications. Used on both Android and Apple a quick search of the download list would generally tend…
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Facebook Hires 3000 Staff To Tackle Hate Speech!
Facebook is set to hire 3,000 staff members specifically to tackle hate speech, child abuse and self harm being broadcast on their site. Following substantial recent criticism of social medias failure to address the hosting of hateful or illegal material, the hiring of this substantial number of staff is a welcome…
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Tinder Investigating After 40,000 Pictures Taken From Site
Tinder is investigating an incident in which over 40,000 user facial pictures were downloaded by a programmer and shared on the internet. The data obtained by the programmer is now offline, however, it was mostly thought to have affected users based in the California region (although activity outside this area is…
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Social Medias Failure to Deal with Illegal Content is “Shameful”
A UK government committee has ruled that the social media giants are “shamefully far” from addressing illegal, dangerous and hateful content. Evidence was found on Facebook, Twitter and Google of such a nature that the committee has said that it found: “repeated examples of social media companies failing to remove illegal content…
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YouTube to Start ‘Fake News’ Workshops
YouTube has announced plans to start ‘workshops’ to help promote the understanding and identification of fake news. The company has revealed plans to open workshops around the UK for 13 to 18 year old as part of the Internet Citizens Day promotion. The announcement comes after recent high-profile criticisms of how internet companies…
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British Prime Minister Issues Warning to Internet Giants Over Extremist Material
British Prime Minister Theresa May has issued a warning to internet giants such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter that “action” will be taken if they are found to host any extremist materials. Mrs May has said in an interview that “We continue to talk to the companies…” “We think that…
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Open Whisper Systems Denies WhatsApp Backdoor
Earlier this week, The Guardian reported that Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp included a backdoor that allowed its employees to read users’ messages. The accusation, based on research by Tobias Belter, alleged that offline users could have their messages accessed through a newly-generated authentication key. Now, Open Whisper Systems, designer…
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