Australia plans to force social media firms to enforce an "opt-out" feature for algorithm-based feeds. The proposed legislation will let users over the age of16 choose to see content only from people ...

Social media platforms could be forced to give users in Australia an option to turn off “powerful” algorithms under draft laws to be unveiled by the government this week, Communications Minister Anika ...

Social media users could switch off recommender algorithms in their social media feeds, under new draft laws the Australian government plans to unveil this week. The proposed digital duty of care ...

Jason is a general assignment reporter, with particular focus on genetic medicine and rare disease. Confidential tips can be sent on Signal at JasonMast.77. Angus reports on the basic research, ...

X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts ...

We’re kickstarting a brand new series here at SEW, where we will do our best to watch and report in search engines’ updates. As you are probably aware, not all of them are announced, only the bigger ...

A quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm that was under consideration as an official US standard has been taken out of the running after an Anthropic security model helped find a flaw that rendered ...

As social media companies face scrutiny over addictive design features, mental health experts cite a stream of breakup content as an example of the failure to protect users. As social media companies ...

Elementary school students might memorize their times tables for single-digit numbers, but memorization won’t cut it when the teacher asks for three-digit multiplication. This requires an algorithm: ...

Faceless channels have existed for years, but YouTube's algorithm now favours on-camera hosts, and a new viewer survey asking people to rate AI slop on a five-point scale is raising concerns about ...

Instagram is expanding its Your Algorithm feature to the main feed, enabling users to view and modify the topics that drive their content recommendations The update utilizes large language models to ...

Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...