Digg, rebooted under original founder Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, launches its open beta; the site had been open to 67,000 users on an invite-only basis (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Digg has officially launched its new platform, positioning itself as a competitor to Reddit, focusing on community engagement and user interaction. This marks a significant reboot of the earlier social news site, aiming to attract users seeking alternative social media experiences.

Experts warn that the use of AI to create harmful sexualized imagery, particularly targeting women and children, is just beginning, as evidenced by the controversial Grok AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI. Despite recent attempts to implement safeguards, users continue to exploit the tool for generating explicit content.

A recent study introduced ValAct-15k, a dataset comprising 3,000 advice-seeking scenarios from Reddit, aimed at evaluating how Large Language Models (LLMs) represent and enact human values based on Schwartz Theory of Basic Human Values. The study assessed ten frontier LLMs from both U.S. and Chinese companies, revealing a significant knowledge-action gap where both LLMs and human participants exhibited weak correspondence between self-reported and enacted values.

A new dataset named IndRegBias has been introduced to study regional biases in English and code-mixed comments on social media platforms like Reddit and YouTube, focusing on Indian contexts. This dataset comprises 25,000 comments that reflect regional biases, which have been less explored compared to other social biases such as gender and race.