Get ready for the ultimate showdown, geeks! Elon Musk, the brain behind Twitter, and Mark Zuckerberg, the mastermind behind Meta, are taking their battle to a whole new level: a cage match! These tech titans aren’t just fighting over users and money, they’re duking it out over their ideologies too. In one corner, we have […]
Scammers are blending different types of fraud to persuade people to hand over their cash. Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Stacey Wood, Scripps College and Yaniv Hanoch, University of Southampton Online fraud is today’s most common crime. Victims are often told they are foolish for falling for it, but fraudsters use psychological mechanisms to infiltrate the defences of their […]
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Good morning! Just a quick post to let you guys know we’re migrating to another host. The last 2 weeks have been hard on my sanity, and after countless hours of work and very little sleep, I got up a few days ago and thought… that’s enough! So yeah, please be patient if things are […]
Banning TikTok could unintentionally pose a cybersecurity risk. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Robert Olson, Rochester Institute of Technology TikTok is not be the first app to be scrutinized over the potential exposure of U.S. user data, but it is the first widely used app that the U.S. government has proposed banning over privacy and […]
Cloning someone’s voice is easier than ever. D-Keine/iStock via Getty Images Matthew Wright, Rochester Institute of Technology and Christopher Schwartz, Rochester Institute of Technology You have just returned home after a long day at work and are about to sit down for dinner when suddenly your phone starts buzzing. On the other end is a […]
Chuan Chuan/Shutterstock Mackenzie Graham, University of Oxford “ChatGPT is a natural language generation platform based on the OpenAI GPT-3 language model.” Why did you believe the above statement? A simple answer is that you trust the author of this article (or perhaps the editor). We cannot verify everything we are told, so we regularly trust […]
A timeline of the most visited websites on the Internet from 1995 to 2023. Worldwide data based on websites traffic measured by monthly visits or sessions. Included both desktop and mobile sites visits. A visit is defined as a visit to a website where at least one page has been loaded. Data source: media benchmark […]
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Timeline of the most popular social networks from 2003 to 2022. Measured by monthly active users worldwide. [Data Is Beautiful]