As students prepare to go back to school, finding reliable online homework help services can be a challenge. Websites touting “homework help,” for example, are often obscuring dicey services that simply complete assignments for you (done both by human and robot hands), while self-proclaimed “tutors” peddle possible money-grabbing scams. Educators …

The 2024 Paris Olympics is making a historic bid among a long lineage of international games, from its Seine cleaning efforts and integration of AI, to the first time the competition has achieved gender parity among athletes. Its leaders are also making claims for international camaraderie amid global turmoil, including …

Generative AI is exacerbating the problem of online child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), as watchdogs report a proliferation of deepfake content featuring real victims’ imagery. Published by the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the report documents a significant increase in digitally altered or completely synthetic images featuring children in explicit …

No surprise here: ChatGPT is still not a reliable replacement for human hiring officers and recruiters. In a newly published study from the University of Washington, the intelligent AI chatbot repeatedly ranked applications that included disability-related honors and credentials lower than those with similar merits but did not mention disabilities. …

Following in the footsteps of civil groups taking a legal stance against social media and tech giants, a group of families have filed a class action lawsuit against gaming platform Roblox. The lawsuit accuses the Roblox Corporation of “negligent misrepresentation and false advertising” of the platform, marketing the mini game …

Snapchat is releasing new app safeguards to protect teen users (aged 13-17) from unknown users and age-inappropriate content — a responsive step from a social media platform that’s been under fire for allegedly exposing its younger users to explicit content, despite its 13+ age rating. Developed in collaboration with the …

Google is officially releasing its new SafeSearch setting to all users this month, a feature that can filter explicit images (including gore and violence, or graphic adult content) that populate in Search results. Now, Google Search will automatically flag and blur such content for everyone, as a default setting for …