X Restores Access After Thousands of Users Report X Website and App Not Working
X (formerly Twitter) is experiencing widespread outages, including in India, with users unable to load posts or videos on both the website and mobile apps this Saturday. Reports on a popular downtime tracking website confirm the inaccessibility. While the X developer platform indicated a site-wide outage was resolved days ago, some login-related functions are still suffering degraded performance.
Signals New Update Prohibits Microsofts AI-Powered Recall Feature From Taking Screenshots
Signal, the popular privacy-focused messaging platform, rolled out a security feature on Wednesday to counteract Microsofts Recall feature. The new feature, dubbed Screen Security, will prevent devices from capturing screenshots of the applications window. The San Francisco-based company said it was forced to take such drastic measures as Microsoft left it with limited options to protect the privacy of its users.
LinkedIn Introduces AI-Powered Job Search Tool That Supports Natural Language Search Queries
LinkedIn is rolling out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users look for ideal roles easily. The Sunnyvale, California-based professional networking platform released the AI job search tool in the US earlier this month. It is now expanding its access globally, including in India. The AI tool will let professionals type the desired role as a natural language query, and it will find and show relevant roles.
Instagram investigation finds sexual content is served to Teen acounts
In an investigation by Accountable Tech and Design It For Us, Instagram was found serving sexualized, racist, and harmful content to protected Teen accounts.
TikTok Adds Support for AI-Powered Alternative Text and Other Accessibility Features
TikTok announced three new accessibility-focused features on Thursday. The new features were announced on the occasion of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which falls on the third Thursday in May (this year, it is on May 15). One of the new features is an update to the alternative text (alt text) support, which now uses AI to generate automatic descriptive captions.
TikTok Introduces New AI Alive Tool to Create Videos From Photos in Stories
TikTok is introducing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to turn an image into an animated video. On Tuesday, the vertical video-based social media platform announced a new AI feature dubbed AI Alive that uses generative AI technology to create videos from photos. Currently, the tool can only be used to generate videos in TikTok Stories, ...
Trump says TikTok sale deal to come before April 5 deadline
US President Donald Trump anticipates a deal for TikTok's American operations will be finalized by the April 5 deadline, mitigating a potential US ban on the app. ByteDance has been seeking non-Chinese buyers, with private equity firm Blackstone among potential investors.
