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Investigation: AI-powered student monitoring tool Gaggle, used to track ~6M US student, isn't always secure, and there's no research showing it increases safety (apnews.com)
22 days ago AI

Resignation letter: 21 DOGE staffers, who previously worked at the USDS, say they won't use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services” (apnews.com)
2025-2-26

Huawei launches Mate XT, the industry's first tri-foldable, globally for €3,499, after its China launch in September 2024; the Mate XT has a 10.2-inch display (apnews.com)
2025-2-18 China

A US judge says Elon Musk's claims of harm from OpenAI are a “stretch”, but she wouldn't stop the case from moving to trial as soon as next year (apnews.com)
2025-2-5 Elon Musk

Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who was one of the few remaining holdovers from the Biden administration (apnews.com)
2025-2-2 Trump

Trump signs an EO to develop AI systems “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas”, revoking Biden policies that “act as barriers” to innovation (apnews.com)
2025-1-24 Trump AI

Pakistan's parliament passes a controversial bill giving the government sweeping controls on social media, including prison terms for spreading “disinformation” (apnews.com)
2025-1-24

Bitcoin passes $108K ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, after hitting $100K in December 2024 before dropping to around $90K (apnews.com)
2025-1-20 Trump Bitcoin

During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Texas law requiring age checks to view online porn, but could send the case back to a lower court (apnews.com)
2025-1-16 Texas

Under new Biden rules, countries with caps on compute power are restricted to 50,000 advanced GPUs, which could grow to 100K in deals with the US government (apnews.com)
2025-1-14

As Amazon Prime Video wraps up its third season streaming NFL games, a look at its use of AI and “Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats” during broadcasts (apnews.com)
2025-1-12 Amazon AI

Japan says Chinese hacking group MirrorFace is linked to 200+ cyberattacks from 2019 to 2024 targeting the country's national security and advanced tech data (apnews.com)
2025-1-9 China Japan

Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets (apnews.com)
2025-1-8 Trump Vegas

Apple to pay $95 million to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping (apnews.com)
2025-1-4 Apple

The EU sends TikTok an urgent request for information on Russia's role in Romanian election turmoil, a day after ordering it to retain all election-related data (apnews.com)
2024-12-7 Russia Romania

Delivery Hero's food delivery app Glovo says it will move to an employment-based model for its drivers in Spain, and anticipates a €100M earnings hit in 2025 (apnews.com)
2024-12-3 Spain

Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in 19 African countries from September 2 to October 31 to clamp down on cybercrime that left 35,000 victims with $193M losses (apnews.com)
2024-11-27 Africa

SCOTUS agrees to hear a challenge against the FCC's $8B per year program to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries, and rural areas (apnews.com)
2024-11-23

Filing: the US DOJ asks a federal judge to force Google to sell Chrome and impose restrictions designed to prevent Android from favoring its search engine (apnews.com)
2024-11-21 Android Google Chrome

Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations (apnews.com)
2024-11-21 Australia Ban

Source: Elon Musk's America PAC spent ~$200M to help elect Trump; Musk says the PAC is gearing up for midterms as well as judicial and DA elections (apnews.com)
2024-11-13 Trump U.S. Elon Musk

US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP “probably will” try to repeal the CHIPS Act, but then walks it back, saying the GOP may “further streamline” the bill (apnews.com)
2024-11-3 Republican

Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary (apnews.com)
2024-10-26

Tech consultant Nima Momeni, charged in Cash App founder Bob Lee's stabbing death in April 2023, goes on trial; the judge says it is set to last two months (apnews.com)
2024-10-15

A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity firm led by ex-NSA director Keith Alexander and whose valuation crossed $3B after it went public in 2021 (apnews.com)
2024-10-5

A look at the prevalence of deepfake porn in South Korea, where its parliament has revised a law to make watching or possessing deepfake porn content illegal (apnews.com)
2024-10-3 Korea

The US DOJ charges three hackers employed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard for allegedly hacking Trump's presidential campaign and disseminating stolen info (apnews.com)
2024-9-28 Trump Iran

Australian police say they infiltrated Ghost, a global encrypted communications app developed for criminals, arresting dozens, including the app's alleged admin (apnews.com)
2024-9-18 Australia

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country (apnews.com)
2024-8-31 Elon Musk Brazil

French prosecutors say Telegram CEO Pavel Durov will be brought to court for a first appearance and a possible indictment and that his police custody has ended (apnews.com)
2024-8-29 France

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