From CNET: TikTok CEO Shou Chew is in Washington, DC, today to try and convince Congress that TikTok can protect US users' data and maintain safety for the millions of Americans who use the popular video app.

Chew is scheduled to testify before the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce about...

From The Verge: WhatsApp has announced two new features coming to the Meta-owned messaging app that are designed to improve the privacy of community group chats while also making it easier to find groups users have in common. Both new features will roll out globally “over the coming weeks.”

The...

From PC Mag: Ubisoft this week unveiled its Ghostwriter AI, which the video game publisher/developer describers as a tool that "effectively generates first drafts of barks."

By barks, Ubisoft is referring to phrases and sounds a non-player character (NPC) utters during triggered events in a game...

From CNET: A bug appears to have exposed the titles of some users' past conversations with OpenAI's ChatGPT to other people using the AI chatbot, according to a report from Bloomberg. OpenAI temporarily disabled ChatGPT on Monday while it fixed the issue.

When someone is using ChatGPT, a chat...

From The Verge: Microsoft is adding an AI-powered image creator to its Bing search engine today. The Bing Image Creator will be powered by an “advanced version” of OpenAI’s DALL-E model and will let Bing users create images by simply writing what you want to generate.

“For those in the Bing preview...

From PC World: If you don’t like insecure people who demand attention, you’re going to hate the changes Microsoft has planned for Windows 11.

During the coming months, Microsoft plans to add two changes to Windows. First, it will give developers new API access to the default apps settings. Second...

From CNET: Amazon will cut 9,000 additional jobs in the next few weeks as part of an effort to streamline costs, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to employees on Monday.

This comes on top of more than 18,000 jobs Amazon said it would cut as part of a workforce reduction that began in November...

From Cooler Master Press Release: Cooler Master today announced it worked with D-BOX to produce its latest entry into the gaming chair market, The Motion-1 Haptic Gaming Chair. Cooler Master and D-BOX are currently present at the 2023 Game Developers Conference — GDC, taking place in San Francisco...

From Noctua Press Release: Following the resounding success of the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 Noctua Edition, the Noctua Edition of ASUS’ GeForce RTX 4080 is the third graphics card to feature Noctua fans and a heatsink that has been co-engineered by Noctua. By switching from the stock three...

From PC Mag: Counterfeit versions of Samsung's popular 980 Pro M.2 SSD have started appearing for sale, and it's difficult to tell they aren't the real thing.

As Tom's Hardware reports, a Chinese user posted images on the Baidu Tieba forums of a recently-purchased 2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSD. It...