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Several hacktivist groups have flooded Israeli websites with malicious traffic after Hamas’ surprise land, sea, and air attack on Saturday, which prompted Israel to declare war and retaliate. The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that its website was down since Saturday morning “due to a series of cyberattacks initiated against us.” …

X, formerly Twitter, has redefined its “Public interest expectations” policy to define newsworthy posts that can be kept up despite platform rules. The company no longer requires 100,000 followers for newsworthy posts. The previous policy limited newsworthy posts to verified accounts. Since Elon Musk’s X allows people to get verified …

Canopy is a new peer-to-peer social networking app for content creators to connect, crowdsource, and “spill the tea.” The company announced its 1,000-influencer pilot program today. Founder and CEO Ayomi Samaraweera told that Canopy hopes the program will “build critical mass on the platform in our core content niches: beauty, …

Spotify is restricting free features in India to attract paid users. Years after the streaming service launched in India in 2019, these limits will prevent users from playing songs manually or rewinding, skipping, or repeating them. The Swedish company has offered a generous free tier in India to let users …

In order to compete with X (formerly Twitter), Instagram’s Threads will launch Trends, a popular feature. A Threads user noticed the update in a screenshot posted accidentally by a Threads employee over the weekend, which showed a numbered list of trending topics and how many “threads” were discussing each item. …

2023 will likely be a turning point for AR and VR. Apple unveiled the Vision Pro at WWDC in June after years of waiting for the iPhone moment. This was the company’s usual big, boisterous, polished presentation with lofty promises and a high price. From my conversations with most of …

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating whether big cloud infrastructure companies make it hard for businesses to switch or use multiple providers, putting the U.K. cloud market in the regulatory crosshairs. A year ago, Ofcom announced it was starting a market study of the £7.5 billion U.K. cloud …

The resource demands of generative AI models have driven demand for Nvidia GPU chips to an all-time high, but what if there was a cheaper chip with similar power? Google, Intel, and Nvidia alumni’s early-stage startup Lemurian Labs aims to build that. It’s a moonshot idea, and it takes a …

The news aggregator turned X competitor Artifact is adding generative AI. The app, created by Instagram’s co-founders, announced last week that users could post updates without links. Users can now use generative AI to create images for their posts. An appealing image can help tell a story, so the company …

Google Photos will have generative AI with the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones. The feature, announced at the company’s I/O developer conference in May, allows more complex edits like filling gaps, repositioning the subject, and other foreground or background edits. Google showed how Magic Editor could easily combine …