Hashtag Trending Feb.21- Meta to introduce paid verification badges, AI chatbot lashes out …

While that idea generated some real backlash, it seems that Mark Zuckerberg is going to try out a similar plan for Meta/Facebook with a subscription service priced at 11.99 per month.

Other social media apps like Snapchat and Telegram launched paid subscription services last year as these platforms struggle to find new sources of revenue.

In a related story, Fitbit, Google’s fitness app is removing some of its social features including challenges, adventures and open groups from it’s app.

Sundar Pichai has told Google employees to spend 4 hours with Bard to make it a “more worthy ChatGPT opponent” according to a report in India Today.

Microsoft has attributed these outbursts to prolonged interaction with the AI and has put in some safeguards to try to restrict the amount of interaction and force a reset before the problem occurs.

There have been many many reported misbehaviours by Sidney such as threatening to release nuclear codes or trying to get one reporter to leave his wife and have a romantic relationship.

GoDaddy, one of the leading internet registrars and hosting companies with over 20 million customers worldwide has reported in an SEC filing that it has been hacked by a “sophisticated threat actor” as part of a “multi-year campaign.

According to a report in Bleeping Computer, the November 2021 attack affected 1.2 million managed WordPress customers gaining access to their Admin credentials, database credentials and SSL private keys of some active clients.

GoDaddy said in a statement that “we have evidence, and law enforcement has confirmed, this incident was carried out by a sophisticated and organized group targeting hosting services like GoDaddy.

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