Apple appears to be ramping up its Siri efforts to secure a spot as a key player in the AI arms race.The company is reportedly working on a more conversational version of its voice assistant Siri that'll be powered by advanced large language models, Bloomberg reports. Employees are internally calling the project "Siri LLM."The goal is to make Siri interactions more natural, intuitive and capable of handling complex requests faster. This effort is part of Apple's larger push to catch up with OpenAI's ChatGPT ...

Meta says it's taken down more than 2 million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that human rights activists say forced hundreds of thousands of people to work as scammers and cost victims worldwide billions of dollars. In a Thursday blog post, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp says the pig butchering scam operations — based in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines — use platforms like Facebook and Instagram; dating, messa ...

Core Insights - Reddit is experiencing technical issues leading to service outages, which began on Wednesday and continued into Thursday morning [1][2] - Downdetector reported over 45,000 complaints on Wednesday afternoon and nearly 70,000 reports by Thursday morning [1] - Reddit acknowledged the issues via social media, attributing them to a bug in a recent update and stated that a fix is being implemented [2] Performance Issues - The degraded performance was still being reported on Redditstatus as of 11 a.m. ET on Thursday [3] - Users experienced intermittent outages on the web, while the app appeared to function normally during some tests [1]

Apple is recommending Mac users update their systems after revealing that hackers exploited two vulnerabilities in its software.The company issued two bug fixes on Tuesday addressing issues in WebKit and JavaScriptCore, which power Safari and other web content. WebKit, in particular, is a major target for hackers aiming to exploit the engine to infiltrate devices and gain access to private data.In the first instance, Apple said one issue stemmed from "processing maliciously crafted web content," which can l ...

The Department of Justice will recommend to a federal judge that Google sell its Chrome browser business as part of its ongoing search monopoly case, Bloomberg reports..This comes months after a judge ruled that Google, owned by Alphabet, violated antitrust law by illegally maintaining a monopoly in search. By ensuring its own search engine is the default choice on devices, Google is denying rival search engines the opportunity to compete, and therefore denying people the ability to experience alternatives, ...

Meta is in hot water in Europe once again. The European Competition Commission issued the Facebook and Instagram parent company with a fine on Thursday to the tune of 798 million euros ($843 million) over "abusive practices." At the heart of the issue is Meta's Facebook Marketplace classified ads platform, which is embedded within the social network. The Commission claims that this creates an uneven playing field for other service providers of classified ads, which don't have the advantage of being tied so ...

Hailing a Waymo robotaxi in Los Angeles just got easier. On Tuesday, the self-driving company scrapped its waitlist for the area and opened up rides for anyone with the Waymo One app. Now, any interested passengers can hop in a Waymo 24/7 and ride across nearly 80 square miles of LA County, including Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Downtown LA -- with plans to expand into more areas soon. This comes after Waymo rolled out commercial operations in LA earlier this year, with nearly 300,000 people joining a wa ...

The speculation surrounding Apple's potential move into smart glasses is growing. The company reportedly is working with employees internally to learn more about smart glasses currently on the market, according to Bloomberg. Apple is expected to develop smart glasses that are designed with broader mass-market appeal than its Vision Pro headset.The effort, which is code-named Atlas, involves recruiting Apple employees to learn about current smart glasses and gather their feedback, the report said. The progra ...

Apple has committed to investing about $1.5 billion in Globalstar, the company whose network of satellites provide communications services to owners of the latest iPhones.Apple wants more services and capabilities from Globalstar, which will extend its lead as one of only two providers of satellite services to phone users. Google partnered with Skylo to offer emergency satellite messages to Pixel 9 series owners back in August. Other efforts in the phones industry to offer satellite services have foundered, ...

Owners of shiny Scandinavian electric cars and SUVs will soon have access to more than 17,800 new charging stations across North America. After adopting the North American Charging System standard last summer, Swedish automaker Volvo and its performance EV spin-off Polestar announced today that they've both flipped the switch, granting their battery electric vehicles access to Tesla's Supercharger network via a CCS-to-NACS hardware adapter. Volvo will include the NACS adapter with 2025 model year full-elect ...