Thursday, February 29, 2024

Disney+ and Hulu are cracking down on passwords. What you need to know.

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Talking Tech

Thu Feb 29 2024

Disney+ and Hulu bundling up, be careful while waiting for the AT&T outage credit and Microsoft investigates claims of chatbot Copilot producing harmful responses. Here's the week's latest tech news:

Are you watching? Starting next month, a version of Disney+ combined with its sister streamer, Hulu, will be widely available. A test version of the service launched in December. In addition to the bundled service, Disney+ will be cracking down on password sharing, similar to Netflix's crackdown last year.

Read more about the bundled service, the password crackdown and what all of this means for subscribers of one or both platforms.

Credit coming. AT&T is giving a $5 credit to customers affected by last week's nationwide outage, the company announced Saturday. And if you're an affected customer looking for the credit, you may also want to look out for potential scammers.

The outage lasted several hours on Feb. 22, and the company said it was caused by a technical error due to "the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyberattack."

Read more on the AT&T outage and the customer credit.

Bad robot. Microsoft has investigated social media claims that its artificial intelligence chatbot, Copilot, produced potentially harmful responses, the company said Wednesday.

Users on social media shared images of Copilot conversations where the bot appeared to taunt users.

See more on the chatbot investigation.

Read on for more of the tech news this week.