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Unskippable ads may soon make Instagram a nightmare just like YouTube

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Instagram has been testing one of its most controversial features yet: unskippable ads. The new feature, called Ad Breaks, will interrupt the user’s browsing experience for 3-5 seconds before they can continue scrolling the feed.This function was spotted by Android Authority after several users started complaining about it on social media. Meta’s new take on…

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ChatGPT is down again, and it’s not a good look ahead of iOS 18 AI integration

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It’s not just you. ChatGPT is currently down after an outage began affecting users early on Tuesday. According to OpenAI’s system status pages, the chatbot went offline at around 00:21 PDT “for some users.” It’s morning over in Europe, and I can confirm that ChatGPT is down. I am one of those users. I’m also…

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Google says it fixed the AI Overviews everyone has been roasting for weeks

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At I/O 2024 a few weeks ago, Google announced that AI Overviews will appear at the top of Google Search results in the US, telling users that it wants AI to do the googling for them. But AI Overviews turned out to be a huge misfire from the company that so many people trust for…

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Google should cancel AI Overviews in Search and end this nightmare

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Google “upgraded” the Google Search experience at I/O 2024, bringing AI Overviews to the top of search results. This seemed like a good idea, at least from Google’s perspective, since there’s no hotter trend in tech right now than AI. Google wants users to let Google do the googling for them and speed up the…

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The iPhone has a hidden display feature that every single person should be using

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The iPhone has a hidden display feature introduced in iOS 17 that everyone with an iPhone should start using. Screen Distance is designed to help reduce eye strain caused by holding your phone too close to your face.Apple made a pretty big deal about Screen Distance last year, but if you didn’t start using it…

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How the next government could rewire the state

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The delivery of government services is fundamentally an information processing challenge. Consider the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which administers benefits for millions of UK citizens. To determine eligibility and process payments, the DWP needs numerous bits of personal information and documents from applicants, many of which were issued by other parts of the…

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Parliamentarians warn of UK election threat from Russia, China and North Korea

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MPs and peers have warned the government that Russia, China, North Korea and other hostile states could attempt interfere in the 4 July general election. A joint parliamentary committee of MPs and peers has warned the prime minister Rishi Sunak that the general election is an “attractive target” for malicious actors trying to destabilise the…

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BlueSky DMs might be here, but you probably shouldn’t use them yet

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Bluesky DMs are here, further proof that every social media app eventually morphs into each other. However, after reading into the company’s announcement, I’d really take caution in using the company’s new direct messages feature to send a message to your crush like Bluesky recommends.So, who can message you? The company says that by default,…

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Knowledge24: ‘You can’t go it alone’ in life, says actress Viola Davis

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During the ServiceNow Knowledge24 user conference in Vegas, actress, author and producer Viola Davis said: “I did not start with a leap, but rather with a series of staggers where I went from one little safe place to the next.” Sharing career advice, Davis talked about how important it is to share the series of smaller…

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Parliamentary committee criticises big tech response to election threats

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Big tech and social media companies have come under fire for their failure to adequately address the risks posed by disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes to the integrity of elections in the UK. A joint Parliamentary committee said today that big tech companies, including X, TikTok, Snap, Meta, Microsoft and Google, had taken an…

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