The case brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against Meta, accusing the tech company of being a social media monopoly, was dismissed by Federal Judge James Boasberg, granting the company the victory.

As you may recall, in 2020 the Commission sued Meta, “accusing it of violating antitrust law by acquiring potential emerging rivals such as Instagram and WhatsApp to avoid having to compete with them.”

Judge Boasberg dismissed the case after a seven-week trial, where Mark Zuckerberg, owner of the brand, argued that Meta faces strong competition from YouTube and TikTok.

The argument was accepted by the legal expert, who stated that “TikTok and YouTube prevent Meta from monopolizing the social media market.” He also referred to the changes that have occurred in the social media sector since the Commission filed the case, mentioning the generation of content with AI, which weakened the agency’s arguments.

The ruling in favor of Meta is also a victory for Silicon Valley, “as US regulators increasingly seek to curb the power of Big Tech” such as Google, Apple, and Amazon.

M.Pino

Source: CNN

(Reference image source: Mariia Shalabaieva on Unsplash)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on X/Twitter and Instagram

La entrada Meta wins social media monopoly case apareció primero en Bitfinance.

The revamped version of Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri, is in testing. According to details published by Bloomberg, the tool can control third-party apps such as Uber, AllTrails, Threads, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp without touching the device’s screen.

With this move, the virtual assistant could go from “being a limited resource to becoming a true voice control tool, both in its own apps and in external services.”

How will Siri be able to help users? It is known that “it will be able to request an Uber ride, edit and send a photo, or add a product to the cart in an online store” using spoken commands.

The company relies on two fundamental pillars: Apple Intelligence and the improved App Intents system, aiming for Siri to “not only understand what the user wants, but also who is asking for it and under what circumstances.”

This change will not only affect the iPhone; customers with iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro will also be able to enjoy the functionality. Regarding security, “the company is considering restricting certain functions in banking or health apps to avoid errors that could have critical consequences.”

Furthermore, Apple has said that the rollout of the new version “will be gradual, and not all countries will receive the update at the same time. In the United States, the release is planned for spring 2026, possibly alongside iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, and VisionOS 26.4. This means that most users will have to wait more than a year to experience this transformation.”

M.Pino

Source: enter.co

(Reference image: omid armin on Unsplash)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on X/Twitter and Instagram

La entrada Apple tests its new Siri version apareció primero en Bitfinance.

YouTube will implement an update to its monetization policy on July 15, which provides for the removal from the Partner Program (YPP) of channels that upload content to the platform that is “repetitive, mass-produced, or lacks clear original value.”

The company will implement this measure as part of an effort “to prioritize creativity, authenticity, and quality of monetized content, amid the growing use of artificial intelligence and automated templates that generate videos in batches without significant transformation.”

In short, YouTube will take action against channels that “publish multiple videos with the same format, structure, or message; use third-party content without adding substantial input; mass-produce videos using automated tools, without human creative intervention,” among other things.

If channels violate these parameters, they will be removed from the Partner Program, resulting in the loss of ad revenue, channel memberships, Super Chat, and other monetization tools.

It is important to clarify that YouTube will send a notification “in advance to the affected creators, who will have the opportunity to appeal or adjust their content.”

The central objective of the update, which will take effect on the 15th of this month, is to reduce the platform’s saturation of duplicate content that adds no value, and to ensure the equitable distribution of economic opportunities to “creators who truly offer original and useful content for the audience.”

M.Pino

Source: deultimominuto

(Reference image source: Souvik Banerjee on Unsplash)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on X/Twitter and Instagram

La entrada YouTube to block repetitive content to prioritize creativity apareció primero en Bitfinance.

Cardinal José Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, was no stranger to new technologies. In fact, he welcomed social media, approving profiles not only for himself but also for the Vatican. He had a presence on YouTube and created an online prayer app.

His interaction with the faithful was consolidated thanks to a favorable stance toward the digital environment. A documentary was even produced, broadcast on Disney+ in 2023, showcasing the Pope’s interaction with young people.

In detail, during his term, Francis sought to create a strong digital environment for the Catholic Church. The @Pontifex account, launched by his predecessor Benedict XVI, had already existed on X (Twitter at the time) since 2012. Under Francis, the papal presence on the social network accelerated.

In November 2014, the iOS and Android app, Cick to Pray, was launched, “which allows you to follow the prayer requests the Pope proposes each month and share your intentions and prayers with the rest of the community.”

Another example of the strengthening of the connection between the Church and the faithful was the documentary “Amen. The Pope Responds,” released on April 5, 2023, on Disney+. It was produced by Producciones del Barrio and directed by Jordi Évole and Màrius Sánchez. The documentary showcases an “intimate and unfiltered conversation between Pope Francis and a group of 10 young people between the ages of 20 and 25.”

In March 2016, the Pope’s Instagram profile, @franciscus, was launched, where it reached almost 10 million followers, with feeds in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, and German.

 

Ver esta publicación en Instagram

 

Una publicación compartida por Pope Francis (@franciscus)

This has been Pope Francis’s effort to become increasingly closer to the faithful, relying on technological tools as a step forward in the digitalization of the Holy See in response to the challenges of modern times.

M.Pino

Source: marketing4ecommerce

(Reference image: Arnold Straub on Unsplash)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on X/Twitter and Instagram

La entrada Pope Francis achieved greater outreach to the faithful through technology apareció primero en Bitfinance.

The Australian government will study a bill to regulate access by minors to social media such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X and YouTube, as a measure to protect the health of children and adolescents.

The proposal contemplates an age limit, starting at 16 years of age, for access by minors to social media. Although no sanctions are contemplated, platforms will have to ensure compliance with this requirement.

According to the country’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, an announcement was made last September of a possible regulation to limit access by minors to social networks. “Now, the age proposed by the Government is 16 years old; that decision was made on Monday in the Council of Ministers,” the official recently indicated at a press conference in Canberra.

It is estimated that this bill will be brought to Parliament in the next few weeks and will come into force 12 months after its approval. It should be stressed that this law “will not exclude minors under 16 years of age who already have accounts on social networks or those who have parental consent.”

The entity that will be in charge of “publishing regulations so that digital platforms and social networks establish reasonable measures to restrict access to minors” will be the Australian Electronic Safety Commission.

M.Pino

Source: rtve

(Reference image source: Getty Images for Unsplash+)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on X/Twitter and Instagram

La entrada Australia to limit access to social media for minors apareció primero en Bitfinance.

YouTube continues in the battle to position itself in the video segment, extending the duration of shorts to three minutes as a strategy against giants like TikTok and Instagram.

According to information released on Friday, October 4, YouTube will increase the duration of its shorts to three minutes from the 15th, adding two minutes to the current duration.

The platform is committed to offering a better experience to creators of audiovisual content. In addition, it will now “have resources such as templates and the Veo video generator.”

The tools that YouTube will make available to users and creators will allow them to “generate a more immersive narrative.”

Another new feature planned for Veo users at the end of this year is “the generative artificial intelligence model developed by Google DeepMind.”

YouTube is aiming to gain a position in the market, for which it had already redesigned the player, so that “the creators’ content occupies a central place, and also introduced a new ‘Trends’ page, similar to that of WhatsApp, in its mobile app.”

But the changes do not stop there, as the platform will allow content creators to access content from the shorts’ camera to use it in their remixes.

M.Pino

Source: iproup

(Reference image source: Alexander Shatov in Unsplash)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on Twitter and Instagram

La entrada YouTube short videos will soon be up to three minutes long apareció primero en Bitfinance.

YouTube will implement a series of technological measures, among which a function stands out to detect voices and faces generated with artificial intelligence and that seek to simulate the original artist.

The company has been working on the development of the new “image management technology, taking advantage of AI tools to benefit creators, while protecting their rights and increasing control over their content,” according to a statement.

With the measure, the company reaffirms its commitment to “develop technologies that allow its users to manage the use of their image, voice and other elements, especially with the growing presence of artificial intelligence.”

YouTube has launched within Content ID a tool that “identifies synthetic voices generated by AI, helping creators to automatically detect and manage these contents.” In this way, it continues to work on protecting the image of YouTubers, actors, musicians and other professionals to protect their images.

The company has warned about “the risks of unauthorized access to its content through scraping, a technique that can be used to use the content on the platform to train AI models.”

In this sense, the measures have been reinforced, but it has recognized that creators “need greater control over the use of their content by third parties for the development of AI tools.”

M.Pino

Source: marketing4ecommerce

(Reference image source: Unsplash, in collaboration with Getty Images)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on Twitter and Instagram

La entrada YouTube will track voices and faces generated by AI apareció primero en Bitfinance.

The YouTube video platform will include a new functionality that consists of a timer to pause videos after a certain time. Although for some it arrives late compared to other services, it will be useful for those who fall asleep watching a very long movie.

The “sleep timer that is able to pause the video after a certain period of time” is now available for Premium users. You can activate it from the “Settings” option and then “Try new experimental functions”.

There the option for the sleep timer function will be displayed so that the user can configure the video pause after, for example, “10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes or until the video ends.”

Once configured, you will see a pop-up window asking you to extend the timer if you wish.

YouTube’s experimental functionality for Premium users will be available in testing until September 2, from which date it is expected to be available for all users, including the free segment.

M.Pino

Source: computerhoy

(Reference image source: NordWood Themes in Unsplash)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on Twitter and Instagram

La entrada YouTube is testing a sleep timer apareció primero en Bitfinance.

Facebook, YouTube and Instagram have become platforms that literally catapulted certain people to stardom, granting them the accolade or recognition of “Influencers.” The number of followers they garner and the money that moves around them is such that cybercriminals have focused their sights on them, implementing strategies and deceptions that allow them to obtain their own financial gain. ESET, a leading company in proactive threat detection, warns that it analyzes the most frequent tactics used by cyberattackers to access money and how influencers can be better protected.

The global influencer marketing market, which in 2022 was valued at $33.2 billion, will continue to grow exponentially. In fact, it is expected that by 2032 it will reach 200 billion dollars. In turn, according to the HubSpot site, there are several categories of influencers depending on the number of followers and depending on this (among other factors) “a nano influencer earns between 10 and 100 USD, a micro between 100 and 500 USD, and a macro between 5000 and 10,000 USD per publication.” These figures served as bait for cybercriminals to begin looking for (and implementing) strategies to obtain financial gain. In practice, they were tempted and motivated to do so.

Social engineering is one of the favorite tools of cyberattackers to harm influencers, who often do not have the resources or knowledge with which companies usually protect themselves.

ESET shares some examples of related scams, thefts and deceptions

The Fake Podcast: Hannah Shaw is popularly known on social media as the “Cat Lady”; His pseudonym is due to the fact that in his videos he teaches people what proper care for newborn cats is. Thanks to his followers (more than one million), he raised significant amounts to help rescue these animals and shelters. Seeing Shaw’s popularity as a source of financial gain and thanks to a social engineering technique, cybercriminals managed to take over his Meta business account.

They did this by pretending to be hosts of a podcast. In advance and to coordinate the details of the interview, the malicious actors invited the victim to a Zoom call. There, they asked Shaw for access to the Facebook Live settings with the excuse of generating income and she agreed, thinking it was a normal part of the process. At that time, the cyber attackers took control of the account as Administrator, leaving the page clean to replace them with fake links that actually directed to sites to generate quick and easy income with advertising.

Ambassadors, but of the scam: The “Finfluencers” are a subgroup of influencers dedicated especially to the finance industry. In their accounts, they provide economic advice, advice and tips to their large number of followers so that they can get rich quickly, invest in stocks or cryptocurrencies and implement financial planning. In this case, cybercriminals (and also using social engineering to achieve their goal), offered a false job opportunity for finfluencers to become ambassadors of a brand and promote the brand’s products.

The truth is that the final objective of the attackers was to obtain the personal and financial information of their victims. With the excuse of needing this data to make payment for the supposed work, what they did once they obtained that information was to empty their bank accounts until they took control of their social networks.

Malware always present: Other influencers have been attacked with malware, either by downloading a malicious file or clicking on an apocryphal link. Thus, cyberattackers can very easily take control of accounts and manage them. They achieve this by publishing content that has nothing to do with what the influencer normally shares, deleting all the content that was available, and even changing the logo and name of the accounts. It is also common for malicious actors to ask for exorbitant sums of money so that the victim can recover their social networks.

Identity theft with suspension included: Another technique that became known through complaints and investigation, specifically on Instagram, consists of cyberattackers duplicating the influencer’s original account and requesting its suspension. To do this, they either acquire a verified account, change the user’s biography and image, and then file a report alleging that the victim is actually impersonating them. Another option is to carry out a “spam attack” against the account, reporting it, either for showing nudity images or violating copyright. When the attacker manages to have the account suspended, he contacts the victim to offer to unlock the account as long as he pays an amount of money for said ransom.

Followers, also in the crosshairs: Identity theft is another of the techniques used in the field of social networks, but in this case the victims are the followers. It is normal for influencers to launch giveaways, which generate a high level of interaction. This is where cybercriminals come into play, creating a duplicate account that pretends to be the original, and from there contacts users informing them that they have been winners of a raffle. The goal is to access the personal and financial information of their victims.

Influencers can protect themselves by taking actions to avoid being another victim of the deceptions of cyberattackers

ESET shares some good practices to keep in mind:

• Be distrustful as a first measure, if a job offer or business possibility seems too good to be true, it probably is.
• Do not provide personal or financial information without confirming that there is a real and true possibility on the other side. Good research is your best ally, as is contacting the company to confirm the offer.
• Do not let any person, company or application post on your social networks.
• Use unique, strong, long and secure passwords (with capital letters, special characters and numbers) on all accounts, and change them periodically.
• Pay attention and analyze carefully and carefully before clicking on any link that arrives unexpectedly.
• Lastly and always very important, have a security solution that provides comprehensive protection while consuming fewer resources.

In summary, ESET recommends, for everything mentioned above, that it is necessary to adopt good security practices, pay attention to signs that an offer may be a scam, and inform yourself about the methodologies that cybercriminals use to perpetrate their attacks. As well as listening to Conexión Segura, your podcast with timely verified information to know what is happening in the world of computer security, at: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Q32tisjNy7eCYwUNHphcw.

With information and image provided by ESET Latin America and Comstat Rowland Comprehensive Strategic Communications

(Reference image: ESET Latin America and Comstat Rowland)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on Twitter and Instagram

La entrada Influencers under cyberattack: Ways to protect themselves and good practices to consider apareció primero en Bitfinance.

In a strategic partnership, Binance and Gulf Energy Development plan to launch a cryptocurrency exchange in Thailand in early 2024. The joint venture, Gulf Binance, received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC) on November 10, as announced by Gulf Energy on November 15.

Gulf Binance will initially operate as an invitation-only platform, with opening to the public scheduled for early 2024, a Binance spokesperson told Cointelegraph. The company obtained the digital asset operator license from the Thai Ministry of Finance on May 26, with initial plans to launch the Thai subsidiary in the fourth quarter of 2023.

The strategic alliance seeks to leverage Gulf Energy’s established local network and infrastructure. Richard Teng, Binance Regional Director for Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, highlighted that Gulf Binance aims to demonstrate the potential of blockchain technology to the local audience.

Gulf Energy Development, headed by Thai billionaire Sarath Ratanavadi, is a prominent natural gas distribution company in Thailand. In addition to this joint project, the company has previously invested in Binance’s US division, Binance.US.

Notably, last month, the exchange collaborated with the Royal Thai Police to seize $277 million linked to scammers, prompting more than 3,200 victims to seek compensation from authorities.

K. Tovar

Source: Cointelegraph

(Referential image source: Kanchanara, Unsplash)

Visit our news channel on Google News and follow us to get accurate, interesting information and stay up to date with everything. You can also see our daily content on Twitter and Instagram

La entrada Binance will work on a cryptocurrency for Thailand in 2024 apareció primero en Bitfinance.