After months of conversations with ChatGPT, a 53-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur became convinced he’d discovered a cure for sleep apnea and that powerful people were coming after him, according to a new lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County. He then allegedly used the tool to stalk and harass his ex-girlfriend. Now…
YouTube is raising subscription prices for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music in the U.S., the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The YouTube Premium individual plan is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month, while the family plan is increasing from $22.99 to $26.99 per month. YouTube Premium Lite, which offers ad-free viewing for most…
France is moving on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move its government computers currently running Windows to the open-source operating system Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. technology. Linux is an open-source operating system that is free to download and use, with various customized distributions that are tailored and…
Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Samsung is rolling out AirDrop capability to older phone models. It can be tested via the OneUI 8.5 beta, available now for free. It will officially roll out at a later time, likely this summer. After Samsung announced in March…
Snap has announced a new partnership between its AR-glasses focused subsidiary, Specs, and chipmaker Qualcomm, as the company revs up for the release of its wearable later this year. The Snapchat creator has been teasing the release of the glasses—dubbed Spectacles, or merely Specs—for a long time and, earlier this year, it spun off a…
If you’ve ever looked yourself up online and found public records you did not expect, or you suddenly experience an influx of cold callers, but you aren’t sure of the source, you’re not alone. So much of our information is in the hands of data brokers. The problem of public records that may list your…
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British oil and gas company Zephyr Energy says someone stole £700,000 (close to $1 million) from one of its U.S.-based subsidiaries by redirecting a payment meant for a contractor into a hacker-controlled account. In a regulatory filing with the London Stock Exchange on Thursday, the company said it is “working with the corresponding banks and…
Posting Voice Notes publicly on X may no longer be possible, but you can now share audio messages within X’s direct messaging system, X Chat, once again. The social network announced late on Wednesday that support for Voice Notes is now available within its private messaging service. The feature, which works in both one-on-one messages…
Instagram just introduced a small but useful update that people have been asking for forever: You can finally edit your comments. The platform announced on Thursday that users now have the option to edit comments, which is a long-awaited fix for anyone who’s ever had to delete and re-post a comment just to fix a…