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Are queer women the future of tech?
With the advancement of Chat GPT and other AI technologies, Lesbians Who Tech founder Leanne Pittsford says workforce diversity is critical.
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School computer tech is harming LGBTQ+ students
The software is supposed to protect and help students, but it’s blocking LGBTQ+ web content and outing queer kids.
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The gay man behind Chat GPT says AI could revolutionize the world but could also destroy it
He said his greatest concern is the ability of AI to provide “one-on-one interactive disinformation.”
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Apple will implement new tech to fight child porn. It’s cause for genuine privacy concerns.
By implementing their new technology to prevent the transmission of child sexual abuse material, Apple could be opening the back door to governments more interested in censoring political speech and LGBTQ people.
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Inventor of the world wide web: the internet isn’t working for LGBTQ women
The person that made most of the internet possible specifically wrote that “women and girls from LGBTQ+ communities” are constantly harmed online.
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Yelp adding feature to help customers find gender-neutral bathrooms
Yelp was among 53 U.S. companies filing a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting transgender teen Gavin Grimm.
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Far right bill would ban adult content on cell phones in South Carolina
Those who want to access the content on a laptop or cell phone would have to pay the state $20.
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Can’t put your phone down? Blame dating apps.
“Your phone is an addiction machine. It’s like having a casino in your pocket with lots of little slot machines (apps) that continually beg for your attention.”
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Facebook apologizes to drag performers, LGBT community over ‘real names’ flap
NEW YORK — Facebook is apologizing to drag performers and the transgender community for deleting accounts that used drag names like Lil Miss Hot Mess rather than legal names such as Bob Smith. The world’s biggest online social network caught heat recently when it deleted several hundred accounts belonging to self-described drag queens…
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In many countries, hook-up apps expose gay men to blackmail, arrest, violence
For gay men in the dozens of countries that criminalize their sex lives, social networking can be a blessing or a curse. High-tech dating apps and social media have enabled countless men to expand their circles of friends and lovers in settings that are hostile to any overt trace of homosexuality. Yet the same technology that they gratefully embrace can expose…
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Online web filter ending longtime block on mainstream gay websites
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A popular online safe-search filter is ending its practice of blocking links to mainstream gay and lesbian advocacy groups for users hoping to avoid obscene sites. For several years, top Web-filtering services have been resolving a security over-reach that conflated gay rights websites with adult content, blocking both from web surfers using …
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Apple reveals long-anticipated ‘smartwatch’ and new, larger iPhones
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled its long-anticipated smartwatch Tuesday, introducing a device that aims to put many of the functions of a smartphone onto a smaller screen that’s never more than an arm’s length from the wearer’s eyes. The Apple Watch, the company’s first completely new product in four years and its first wearable device, is also Apple’s…
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Former PlanetOut CEO, Google exec to be U.S. Chief Technology Officer
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has named Megan Smith, a Google executive and former CEO of the online LGBT community site PlanetOut, as chief technology officer in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Smith, who is openly gay, will “lead Administration-wide efforts to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation to help meet our nation’s …
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In light of celebrity hacks, how to protect data when its stored in the ‘cloud’
NEW YORK — The theft of nude photographs from celebrities’ online accounts has thrown a spotlight on the security of cloud computing, a system used by a growing number of Americans to store personal information over the Internet. On Tuesday, Apple acknowledged the security breakdown and blamed it on intruders who were able to figure out usernames and passwords and bypass…
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L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center systems compromised by cyber-thieves
LOS ANGELES — The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center said Tuesday it was recently the victim of a sophisticated cyber-attack that, according to data security and technology experts, was designed to collect credit card, social security numbers and other financial information.
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New Android App purports to help parents wondering: ‘Is My Son Gay?’
There’s a new app available in the Android marketplace that’s likely to amuse some, and annoy others — “Is My Son Gay?” According to the apps developers, “After this test you’ll have the proven answer to a question you might have since maybe a long time.”
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Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook, could be the world’s most powerful gay executive
The sudden resignation on Wednesday of Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs paves the way for the ascension of Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who, upon being named Apple’s new CEO, was hailed by many in the LGBT community as possibly the world’s most powerful gay executive.
