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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discord will soon be expanding teen safety protections worldwide including teen-by-default settings and age assurance designed to ...

Discord is rolling out “teen-by-default” settings for all users globally. A release from the messaging platform says “all new and existing users worldwide will have a teen-appropriate experience by ...

Discord servers can be pretty crowded, and it’s easy for your messages to not get attention. Hence, many Discord users use text formatting options to make their messages stand out from the crowd. If ...

Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it. The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI ...

A prolific initial access broker tracked as TA584 has been observed using the Tsundere Bot alongside XWorm remote access trojan to gain network access that could lead to ransomware attacks. Proofpoint ...

Agentic AI is driving innovation in Generative AI, and Microsoft 365 Copilot's Agents feature offers a hands-on way to explore it. Prompt Coach helps users craft structured, effective prompts using ...

Grok's image generation restricted to paid subscribers after backlash Standalone Grok app and tab on X still allow image generation without subscription European lawmakers have urged legal action over ...

Elon Musk’s controversial Grok artificial intelligence model appears to have been restricted in part on one app, while remaining largely unchanged on another. On Musk’s social media app X, the Grok AI ...

Many people think that getting someone to say "yes" is about persuasion, making the perfect argument, choosing the right words, or asking nicely. But decades of research suggest something ...

When the U.S. gambling laws loosened in 2018, the many and various ways it would destroy people’s lives were widely predicted. It wasn’t hard to guess: you just had to look at every other country ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to help bionic limbs act more like natural ones. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on an experimental hand that shares control with the user to carry out tricky ...