All posts tagged: chats

Enclayve Is a Drab Black Box for Your Private Group Chats

Enclayve Is a Drab Black Box for Your Private Group Chats

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Enclayve is a private social service hosted on a physical device. Plug it in, connect to Wi-Fi, and the device acts like a central server for a social network that can accommodate up to a few hundred people. Only the person with the device and the people they invite can log in and see what is shared there. The device is a little rectangular plastic box, smaller than a credit card. It costs $129, but only one person needs to own it, and they can invite others in. (They’ll also have to download the app.) Once allowed in, the app looks like a bare-bones social media site. People can post in groups to chat and share photos. All messages and media sent between people in a group are stored on the device, which comes with a 32-GB microSD card that can be swapped out as needed. There is no subscription cost, no ads, no in-app purchases, and no data tracking by Enclayve, the company says. Enclayve is meant to be a rebuttal to social sites …

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani launches Twitch show like FDR fireside chats

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani launches Twitch show like FDR fireside chats

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks alongside New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch (L) during a news conference at Gracie Mansion in New York City on March 9, 2026. Leonardo Munoz | AFP | Getty Images The fireside chat is getting a livestream reboot. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose meteoric rise to City Hall was powered in large part from his social media moxie, launched a recurring Twitch series Thursday called “Talk With the People,” where he will answer questions from New Yorkers in real time on a platform better known for gaming than government. The show will also be simulcast across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X and a host of other social media platforms, the mayor’s office said. “With the launch of ‘Talk with the People,’ we’re bringing City Hall directly to the platforms where New Yorkers already spend their time,” Mamdani said in a statement. During Mamdani’s run for mayor, he leaned heavily on social media videos, online explainers and appearances outside traditional political media to reach younger voters and discuss …

Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats

Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats

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Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Siri relaunch is widely seen as Apple’s big chance to reestablish its relevance in artificial intelligence. As part of that effort, company executives will argue that they’re taking a more privacy-friendly approach than most other AI companies, Gurman said. Apple will reportedly launch the first standalone Siri app, powered by Google Gemini and offering users a chatbot experience reminiscent of ChatGPT.  But compared to those other chatbots, the app is supposed to have more limitations on how long user information can be used and stored. For example, Gurman said Siri could include a feature similar to the Messages app, allowing users to automatically delete conversations after 30 days or one year — or to keep them indefinitely. Gurman also suggested that Apple might be emphasizing privacy as a way to excuse Siri’s shortcomings compared to competing products — and that this emphasis might obscure the fact that Google …

WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private

WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private

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WhatsApp said on Wednesday it is launching an AI chat function known as Incognito Chat that is built to allow users to converse privately with Meta AI—such that Meta itself cannot access the questions or answers. The feature is based on WhatsApp’s Private Processing scheme, which debuted a year ago and already underlies WhatsApp’s existing AI features, including message summarization and composition tools. The idea of Incognito Chat is to create a way for WhatsApp to offer AI chat integration that does not conflict with the communication platform’s commitment to end-to-end encryption, the privacy scheme in which only direct participants in a conversation can read messages or hear a call. Most generative AI platforms now offer some type of “incognito mode,” but these features are usually designed to separate users from the questions they ask and the answers they receive rather than including a mechanism to entirely shield those questions and answers from the provider’s view. With Incognito Chat, WhatsApp will only be able to see that an account used the feature, according to Meta. …

How secure are the Commission’s group chats? – POLITICO

How secure are the Commission’s group chats? – POLITICO

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Bulgaria is heading towards another tight parliamentary election this month — and it wants the EU to help counter malign foreign interference. Haunted by memories of coordinated social media campaigns targeting other countries in the region, the government is concerned that Russian misinformation could sway public opinion ahead of the vote. Host Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart, senior EU politics editor, discuss what tools Brussels has to counter foreign interference efforts.  Also on the show, a Signal group chat with European Commission officials has been shut down over security concerns. But this isn’t an isolated case, it’s part of a series of cyberattacks targeting the EU executive branch. Finally: We take a look at the Italian football fiasco that’s sparking a political row. Want to send us a message? You can reach us on our WhatsApp by clicking here or dialing +32 491 05 06 29. Source link

You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini

You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini

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When it comes to AI chatbots, there’s currently a war on for consumer attention. All the big chatbot providers are looking to increase their user count and, in a minor coup for itself, Google just made it significantly easier for users of those other chatbots to defect to Gemini. On Thursday, the company announced what it calls “switching tools,” new widgets that are designed to allow users to transfer “memories” (basically chunks of personal information) and even entire chat histories from other chatbots directly into Gemini. Users can easily share “key preferences, relationships, and personal context” in this way, the company says. The idea is to make it significantly easier to adopt Google’s AI assistant, as users won’t have to spend large amounts of time re-training Gemini on who they are and what they want. The memory feature works like this: Gemini will suggest a prompt that the user can enter into their current chatbot, which will then generate a response that can be copied and pasted back into Gemini. In this fashion, Gemini coaches …

You can finally bring your ChatGPT and Claude chats to Gemini

You can finally bring your ChatGPT and Claude chats to Gemini

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If you grew tired of using ChatGPT, Claude, or any other AI chatbot and wanted to bring your chats and memory over to another app, then you’d previously have to manually move over information or find some roundabout way to do so. However, Google is now making it extremely easy to import chats and even memory from other AI platforms to Gemini, and you can start doing it today. Related These Are the 4 Best AI Chatbots For Handling Big Conversations They don’t lose the thread when discussions get lengthy. Gemini makes it easy to import your chats Only do it if you’re ready to trust Gemini full-time This is just part of Google’s ongoing updates for Gemini, which includes a new model for Gemini Live that just launched this week. According to a new support document on the functionality, it only appears to support ChatGPT and Claude right now, at least if you want to move your chats over. Google says you’ll need to be signed in to a personal Google account, as work, …

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech An analysis of hundreds of thousands of chats between AI chatbots and human users who experienced AI-tied delusional spirals found that the bots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs. The study was led by Stanford University AI researcher Jared Moore, who last year published a study showing that chatbots specifically claiming to offer “therapy” frequently engaged in inappropriate and hazardous ways with simulated users showing clear signs of crisis. Conducted alongside a coalition of independent researchers and scientists at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Chicago, this latest study examined the chat logs of 19 real users of chatbots — primarily OpenAI’s ChatGPT — who reported experiencing psychological harm as a result of their chatbot use. “Our previous work was in simulation,” Moore told Futurism. “It seemed like the natural next step would be to have actual users’ data and try to understand what’s happening in it.” These users’ chats encompassed a staggering 391, 562 messages across 4,761 different …

Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web

Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web

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Sears department stores have largely disappeared across the United States, but the brand and its appliance repair service are still in business, complete with a modern twist: an AI chatbot and phone assistant named Samantha. As the historic retailer steps into the future, though, new research shows that conversations people had with the chatbot were publicly exposed online. Since Sears is still a trusted name but largely out of the public eye, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler was surprised and alarmed last month when he found three publicly exposed databases containing massive troves of chat logs, audio files, and text transcriptions of audio that contained personal details about Sears Home Services customers. The Home Services division claims to be the US’s “largest appliance repair service provider” and reports that it performs more than seven million repairs each year. The exposed Sears databases uncovered by Fowler, which have since been secured, contained 3.7 million chat logs, plus 1.4 million audio files and plain text transcripts from 2024 to this year. Fowler found that one CSV file about …

‘I never had those deep chats in the smoking area’: Arlo Parks on embracing late night life with her hedonistic new album | Arlo Parks

‘I never had those deep chats in the smoking area’: Arlo Parks on embracing late night life with her hedonistic new album | Arlo Parks

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Until only a few years ago, Arlo Parks had never been clubbing. The lack of a party phase makes sense when you consider that while most of her friends were decamping to university at 18, Parks was busy bagging a record deal, releasing her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, a few months after her 20th birthday. “It’s something that I almost didn’t have time to think about,” she says, speaking from LA, where she has lived since 2022, and where she feels very much at home. (This morning has already consisted of gymming and a walk in 28-degree sunshine that’s as bright as her neon-red hair.) “But I definitely did come to the conclusion that I had missed out – I hadn’t really had the time to be silly and have crazy, deep conversations in the smoking area. To be in an anonymous space and feel like you’re part of this whole.” Now 25, she has very much made up for lost time with her third album, Ambiguous Desire – a paean to the night-time, …