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On Monday Apple released iOS 17.3, which brought some bug fixes and a few new features, like the long-awaited collaborative playlist feature in Apple Music, to your iPhone. The update also introduces a new security feature called Stolen Device Protection, which aims to protect your data if your iPhone is stolen or falls into nefarious […]

As artificial intelligence evolves, faculty members and school officials are creating new guidelines and curriculums to adapt. A study sponsored by Turnitin shows that 75% of the students surveyed would continue using AI tools even if their professors or schools banned the technology. As artificial intelligence evolves, faculty members and school officials are creating new guidelines and

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg jumped into the fight over Harvard University’s future on Friday, the latest prominent business leader to do so at a moment of turmoil for the elite university. Zuckerberg hosted a virtual event in support of Sam Lessin, a Silicon Valley investor and former Harvard classmate of Zuckerberg’s who became an early

Security experts expect many more companies to disclose that they’ve been hacked by Russian intelligence agents who stole emails from executives following disclosures by Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the past week. Microsoft said late Thursday that it had found more victims and was in the process of notifying them. A spokesperson declined to

Taylor Swift’s online army descended onto X to fight against fake nude images of the global pop star, the latest in the avalanche of deep fake porn buoyed by advances in generative artificial intelligence. The images, likely created by AI, spread rapidly across X and other social media platforms this week, with one image amassing

This article is a preview of The Tech Friend newsletter. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Tuesday and Friday. As you’re playing that Carrie Underwood song again in Spotify’s app, imagine seeing a half-price promotion for a digital music subscription. It doesn’t yet exist on your iPhone. So far, Apple hasn’t

David L. Mills, a computer scientist who invented the system that allows connected computers to sync their clocks, a bedrock technology relied on by the entire modern internet, died Jan. 17 at his home in Newark, Del. He was 85. His daughter, Eileen “Leigh” Schnitzler, confirmed the death but did not provide a specific cause.

Sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift that were generated by artificial intelligence spread quickly on social media this week, some of which were seen millions of times before platforms like X took them down, according to several news reports. The images, known as deepfakes, reignited debate over regulating AI. Here’s what to know about the