🌐 ChatGPT’s Internet Upgrade, X’s New Fee, Media’s Truth Crisis

Zachary Paul
3 min readOct 19, 2023

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ChatGPT is now online: here’s a look at how it browses and reports the latest news. On 27 September, OpenAI announced that an internet-browsing version of its popular chatbot ChatGPT would be available for paying subscribers. Before then, users were unable to access up-to-date information through the chatbot, which had been limited to data available online up to September 2021. By Marina Adami via Reuters Institute

Last month, OpenAI announced an online version of ChatGPT. @Marina__Adami asked a range of questions to understand how it could work as a tool to access the news, seeing how it fared when asked about news stories. — Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford)

X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet. X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, quote, repost, like, bookmark, and create a list, according to a source familiar with the matter and later confirmed by the company. By Kylie Robison via Fortune

X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet — Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes)

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The Israel-Hamas war shows how social media has given up on facts. The Israel-Hamas war shows how social media platforms no longer want to deal with the news. When you give up on news, you give up on verified facts. A cybersecurity expert said journalists should stop correcting bad information on social media. Business Insider International

The Israel-Hamas war shows how social media has given up on facts — Alec Chivalry (@ArtVandelay2021)

Amazon Pharmacy launches its first drone deliveries. Amazon, on the route to expanding new product categories and delivery routes, is today launching a new service that combines those two strategies into one: Amazon Pharmacy — the company’s online storefront for prescription medication — is going to start delivering products to customers by drones operated by Prime Air, Amazon’s drone delivery service. By Ingrid Lunden via TechCrunch

Amazon Pharmacy launches its first drone deliveries — Infosec Alevski (@Alevskey)

The top 9 mobile security threats and how you can avoid them. Today’s smartphones hold all the keys to our communications, finances, data, and social lives, which makes these ubiquitous devices lucrative targets for cybercriminals. By Charlie Osborne via ZDNET

The top 9 mobile security threats and how you can avoid them — Mrs. Y. (@MrsYisWhy)

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