Category: News
Apple will reportedly face a $539 million fine over Spotify’s antitrust complaint
Sources tell the Financial Times that Spotify’s complaint in the EU against Apple’s App Store policies will result in a 500 million euro fine…
House cleaners find two of the world’s first desktop PCs in random boxes — Intel 8008-powered Q1 PC has 16KB of memory, 800 kHz CPU
The discovery was made by house-clearing waste firm Just Clear, based in London…
Windows 10 Installed in possible record 104 seconds – witness the fast and furious speedrun with Tiny10
Time even included an installer system restart…
Microsoft fixes problem that let Edge replicate Chrome tabs without permission
Edge update is first proof that this was definitely a glitch…
Wyze cameras let some owners see into a stranger’s home — again
A Wyze exec confirmed a security issue that showed users thumbnails taken from other users’ cameras…
Microsoft fixes two zero-days with Patch Tuesday release
Microsoft pushed out 73 updates in February’s Patch Tuesday release, including fixes for two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange…
Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount
Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions…
Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready
The next version of Google’s model is better and faster, sure, but it also has one pretty remarkable new party trick…
FTC May Punish AI Firms if Their Tools Are Used for Impersonation Fraud
The US Federal Trade Commission is proposing new rules to outlaw impersonating an individual for fraud purposes, and may punish AI firms if their tools are aiding impersonation fraudsters…
Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox
Memo details layoffs, “strategic corrections,” and a desire for “trustworthy” AI…
This iOS Trojan Is Harvesting Facial-Recognition Data
‘GoldPickaxe’ malware circulating in Southeast Asia is designed to steal facial recognition data, likely because banks and government agencies there are adopting biometric scans…
Comcast Talks Up Network Resiliency, But What About Those Data Caps?
At a Philadelphia event, the cable provider unwraps a new Wi-Fi 7 router and a ‘High Fidelity Video’ option, but what does that mean for Comcast’s 1.2TB data cap?…