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TikTok, YouTube lag on UK child safety as rivals act, regulator says

LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) – TikTok and Alphabet’s YouTube lag have failed to set out meaningful steps to protect British children from harmful online content, media regulator Ofcom said on Thursday, citing data showing widespread exposure on their platforms. Ofcom said neither company had made significant new commitments to make recommendation feeds safer, despite evidence that these feeds are the main route […]

AI Companions Are Easy to Trust, Hard to Leave

AI companions and mental health are becoming closely connected, not inside clinics, but late at night through phones, in private chats where people ask machines for comfort, advice, reassurance, and the kind of emotional attention they may not get from anyone else. The concern is not that people are talking to machines. The concern is […]

Google courts coders and consumers at I/O, touts cheaper AI model for enterprises

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, May 19 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday put AI agents directly into its search box and rolled out a faster, cheaper version of its Gemini model, aiming to blunt gains by rivals Anthropic and OpenAI among enterprise customers. Alphabet, which recently came within striking distance of Nvidia as the world’s most valuable company, also reinforced its core consumer products including Search and YouTube by announcing a […]

FastNetMon launches LiveView to strengthen real-time DDoS visibility, telecom traffic analytics, and network mitigation workflows

FastNetMon, a high-performance DDoS detection and network telemetry platform, has launched FastNetMon LiveView, a new browser-based interface designed to improve real-time visibility into network traffic, DDoS attacks, and operational mitigation workflows for telecom operators, ISPs, hosting providers, and enterprise networks. The release expands FastNetMon’s core strength in ultra-fast traffic analysis and DDoS detection by adding […]

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