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Consumer Technology
Your Smartphone’s Biggest Data Drains Are Hiding in Plain Sight
Your smartphone can burn through gigabytes before you realize where they went. Video streaming leads the charge, but social feeds,…
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AI Ethics & Policy
Europe’s New Child Safety Rules Put Social Platforms Under Pressure
Europe is moving to put a hard boundary around children’s digital lives. The European Union has proposed strict age limits…
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Data & Digital Privacy
AI’s Data Race Is Turning Internet Access Into a Privacy Battleground
Frontier AI models need a steady supply of current internet data, but access to that data is becoming harder to…
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AI Ethics & Policy
Manhattan Takes Down 12 Deepfake Sites Targeting Public Figures
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 websites that hosted sexually explicit deepfake content featuring the likenesses of about…
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AI Ethics & Policy
California’s New AI Rules Put Children’s Safety First
California has drawn a hard line around how children use social media and AI chatbots. Governor Gavin Newsom signed a…
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AI Ethics & Policy
Meta AI Privacy Scandal Deepens as Child Abuse Ads Slip Through
Meta’s artificial intelligence tools raised fresh questions about privacy and child safety after the system gathered invasive details about a…
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AI Ethics & Policy
China’s AI Companion Crackdown Turns Chatbots Into Lost Relationships
China has put emotional AI under regulatory control. New rules from China’s Cyberspace Administration and other government agencies target “anthropomorphic…
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AI News & Trends
The Data Center Backlash Has a China Problem
America’s data center backlash is growing, and China has become part of the explanation. The problem is that the evidence…
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AI News & Trends
A Fake 49ers Identity Fueled a $1.3 Million Investment Scheme
The online identity did the heavy lifting. The FBI says Daejon Love posed as a San Francisco 49ers player or…
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Cybersecurity
How Two Suspects Allegedly Turned Romance Into a $1.3 Million Scam
Two men are accused of scamming at least 26 women out of roughly $1.3 million by combining fake romance, invented…
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