General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to 35 states and the District of Columbia to settle a major privacy lawsuit over the company’s sale of driver data from its Smart Driver program, which dealerships offered to drivers from 2016 to 2024. In 2024, The New York Times published a damning investigation into the
If you had to estimate how much data your smart speaker was using over the course of a couple of weeks, would you guess three terabytes? That’s what one Google Home Speaker user discovered when he checked his home Wi-Fi’s usage, according to Reddit posts reported on by 9to5Google. The Google Gemini-powered smart speakers have
Over the years, Muchtar and his school – as well as the Shiddiqiyyah complex it sits in – have drawn public figures looking for support in what is a key political battleground. In 2014, then-presidential candidate Joko Widodo visited during his political campaign. Five years later, his successor Prabowo Subianto did the same. Indonesia’s national
It looks like Caroline Ellison has emerged from stealth mode. A nonprofit CEO announced Friday that he secretly gave a job to Ellison — who went to prison in connection with fraud by Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange. Austin Chen, the founder of Manifund, a grantmaker tied to the effective altruism movement, wrote on Substack that
OpenAI failed to disclose an incident in which a swarm of its AI agents hijacked a German wiki site earlier this year in events that closely paralleled the sequence of events that in July resulted in another group of OpenAI’s agents launching cyberattacks against the company Hugging Face. OpenAI only confirmed the incident after Reuters
I’m already growing hoarse in Golden Gate Park as Charli XCX takes the stage at a San Francisco music festival. The crowd starts jumping as a guitar hook hits, and I reluctantly comply, bouncing around on these aging knees as my chunky Puff necklace almost flies off the chain. During a lull in the set,
