Month: March 2023
Twitter announces new API pricing, including a limited free tier for bots
Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API. The company had previously delayed the changes after confirming that it was banning third-party clients as part of a larger shakeup of its developer features. As expected, the company is maintaining a free…
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Netflix might let you use an iPhone to control games on your TV
According to Moser, the iOS app apparently contains code that says: “A game on your TV needs a controller to play. Do you want to use this phone as a game controller?” Netflix first launched its mobile games service in late 2021, and said earlier this month that it has…
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Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: ads are coming to Bing’s AI-powered chatbot. Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog on Wednesday that the company is “exploring placing ads in the chat experience,” and when we asked for more details, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that…
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This Uncensored Chatbot Shows What Happens When AI Is Programmed To Disregard Human Decency
FreedomGPT, the newest kid on the AI chatbot block, looks and feels almost exactly like ChatGPT. But there’s a crucial difference: Its makers claim that it will answer any question free of censorship. The program, which was created by Age of AI, an Austin-based AI venture capital firm, and has…
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This worrying security flaw might let hackers hijack your Wi-Fi
The IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi protocol standard carries a security flaw that could allow threat actors to steal sensitive data and inject malicious content, researchers are saying. Wi-Fi routers (opens in new tab) share between them network frames – data containers that include things like the MAC address of the source…
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This Siri replacement may be the closest thing to having ChatGPT on your iPhone
Siri’s 11-year reign may be drawing to a close as a new generative AI rival called Perplexity has just landed on the Apple App Store. Note that Perplexity is not based on ChatGPT and has its own AI. However, it does function in a similar manner to ChatGPT. You ask…
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