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Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

Futurism

I t's a platform where millions of monthly users the company has declined to say how many are children and teens, but it's clearly a dominant portion of its audience engage in immersive conversations with AI chatbots designed to act like real-life celebrities, beloved fandom characters, and original personas. is striking. collected data.

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How Gen Z uses the internet to self diagnose and get help

Mashable Tech

SEE ALSO: Why teens are telling strangers their secrets online In fact, of the 970 people between ages of 13 and 28 surveyed for the Made of Millions report, 431 of them were in some phase of what the researchers described as a mental health "journey." Chatterjee is a volunteer advocate for International OCD Foundation.)

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Teen hacker arrested in Spain following daring cyberattacks

TechSpot

Policia Nacional said Huertas is one of the most dangerous hackers in the country, and is responsible for creating a search engine called 'Udyat' ('The Eye of the Horus') to facilitate the selling of stolen data. In an online interview, he also claimed to have access to the personal data. Read Entire Article

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A teen is reportedly the mastermind behind the Lapsus$ hacking group

The Verge

According to cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs , a core member of Lapsus$, who may have used the aliases “Oklaqq” and “WhiteDoxbin,” also purchased Doxbin, a website where people can post or search for the personal information of others for the purposes of doxing.

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With so many new top level domains launching, what should your strategy be?

The Next Web

The process of choosing a domain name is not unlike that moment in your teens or early 20s when you decided to get a tattoo. Right off the bat, business owners have two potential payoffs by optimizing and customizing domains: optimizing your business for search, and branding your business. What best defines you?

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

Pinterest and Visual Search. Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. As search engines get smarter and start working in more relevant social influence paramaters (+1′s, Facebook Likes, Klout , etc.), Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen.

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14 predictions for 2014 that media experts find unlikely

The Next Web

Also Google, at heart, has never been a social company: they make no money to speak of there other than leveraging what they do best, search, and they just don’t have the real incentive to “get” it. - Ted Rubin , Social Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker, Brand Evangelist, and Acting CMO of Brand Innovators. Facebook is so 2013.

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