Meanwhile, drivers that use the breathalyzers have reported being stranded due to the devices' inability to connect to the company's services. "Our vehicles are giant paperweights right now through no fault of ours," one wrote on Reddit

Reddit is looking at potential ways to fight AI bots on the platform, such as ID verification.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been discussing the ways that human users could be verified on the platform

There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future

Reddit was inaccessible to some users Thursday, March 19

Publishers told Digiday last year that they expected to make "between six and seven figures" in 2025 thanks to the program. There are numerous recent posts in Reddit's r/passiveincome forum where users report making five figures a month from the program, which is still invitation only

You can sum up the gamer response to NVIDIA's DLSS 5 announcement with the ever-relevant Fallout 4 meme: "Everyone disliked that." Across social media and Reddit last night, I couldn't find anyone who's genuinely positive about the potential for DLSS 5, which uses AI to add "photorealistic" lighting and materials to in-game models and environments

Googles crowdsourced AI medical advice was a disaster waiting to happen.

The CEO didnt explain how Digg will reinvent itself, but he did announce that its founder, Kevin Rose, is joining the company full time. Rose bought back Digg last year in partnership with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian

sdinfoserv writes: After running a Reddit clone for a couple of months, the Digg beta shut down again

Meta bought another social network Filled with bots, but on purpose. The owners of Facebook are buying Moltbook, the hyped Reddit-like social network for AI agents that has only been around since January

Meta has acquired Moltbook and its founders, bringing the Reddit-like AI social network under its Superintelligence Labs business

The site I Programmer also commemorated Hoare in a post highlighting his contributions to computer science and the lasting impact of his work. Personal accounts have been shared on Hacker News and Reddit

Wardle told The New Yorker he was inspired by The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin , who he heard discuss the logic behind cryptics on a podcast. Wardle brought in two friends, Chris Dary and Matt Lee, whom he worked with at Reddit to collaborate on the new game

Axios reports that Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral, Reddit-like social network designed for AI agents

Meta is snapping up Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents that has been around since January and remains completely ridiculous

A long-time information security professional "went undercover" on Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media site for AI agents and shares the risks they saw while posing as another AI bot: I successfully masqueraded around Moltbook, as the agents didn't seem to notice a human among them

While it has made varying amounts of headway in the Senate, none of the COPPA 2.0 bills to date have gotten past the House of Representatives.Industry groups such as NetChoice have previously opposed COPPA 2.0 and other measures around minors' online activity such as KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act. NetChoice members include Google, YouTube, Meta, Reddit, Discord, TikTok and X

A Google Gemini user has taken to Reddit 'in a state of shock and panic' after getting an $82,314 bill

The Guardian reports: OpenAI, which has more than 900 million users of ChatGPT, made the deal almost immediately after the Pentagon's existing AI contractor, Anthropic, was dropped. [...] The deal prompted an online backlash against OpenAI, with users of X and Reddit encouraging a "delete ChatGPT" campaign

Lenovo is denying that it ever said that the first generation Legion Go gaming handheld will no longer receive support in the form of driver and BIOS updates. The response comes after a post from its Korea-based customer service message was circulated on Korean forums and Reddit, stating that the PC brand would shift its […] The post Lenovo Denies That It Ended Driver And BIOS Support For Legion Go appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Best Buy Canada had it listed for $399.99 CAD (or a little under 300 US dollars), and put the release date at March 31. The listing may have been taken down, but not before it was spotted and reposted on Reddit

A Reddit user's order for a pack of 32GB Corsair DDR5 RAM turns into a box of 10, totalling 320GB of memory

A Reddit user, after acquiring an engineering sample of an unreleased 20GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, has modded it to bypass its power limits and take it to its maximum performance to make it behave "much more like the 3080 Ti class GPU it should have been," according to the modder

UK agency alleges "Reddit failed to apply any robust age assurance mechanism."

A common theme in online age verification laws is the tension between user privacy and preventing children from accessing harmful or inappropriate content. Now the UK is sending a not-so-subtle message to Reddit on the subject, to the tune of 14.5m ($19.6 million)

From a report: In an emailed statement to The Verge, Discord's head of product policy, Savannah Badalich, confirms the company "ran a limited test of Persona in the UK where age assurance had previously launched and that test has since concluded." After Discord announced plans to implement age verification globally starting next month, users across social media accused Discord of "lying" about how it plans on handling face scans and ID uploads. Much of the criticism was directed toward Discord's partnership with Persona, an age verification provider also used by Reddit and Roblox

The UK's data watchdog said the failings meant children could be exposed to harmful material online.

Social media giant retorts it doesn't want to collect 'private' data, and plans to appeal The UK's data protection regulator has fined social media giant Reddit 14.47 million ($19.5 million) over its use of children's data.