The commercial use of prediction markets has skyrocketed in recent years, opening the door for people to wage their money on ...

Prediction markets let people wager on a basketball game or a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of Venezuela ...

Messaging app Freedom Chat has fixed a pair of security flaws: one that allowed a security researcher to guess registered users’ phone numbers, and another that exposed user-set PINs to others on the ...

Earlier this year, Microsoft officially yanked the cord on Windows 10, ending support for an operating system that had been superseded by Windows 11 four years earlier. But the tech giant’s ...

In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth? Credit...Julia Dufosse ...

According to a Forbes report published Nov. 7, Bluesky’s daily active user count dropped sharply after President Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, while his platform, Truth Social, saw modest ...

Gmail users have been warned they should opt out of a new feature on the platform if they do not want their personal data to be used "to train AI models." In a viral post on social media platform X ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

‘Largest Data Leak in History’: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed Billions of Users Your email has been sent It began as a small curiosity and ultimately exposed phone numbers for nearly half the planet. A team ...

Update, 7:11 p.m. ET: A Meta representative reached out to 9to5Mac and provided the following statement: “We are grateful to the University of Vienna researchers for their responsible partnership and ...

WhatsApp's mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone's phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they're on the service, and ...

Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted at "productive conversations" with unnamed AI companies that would protect IP but add new features to the studio's flagship streaming service. By Tony Maglio Don’t want to ...