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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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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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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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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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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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