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A Tesla influencer randomly caught his odometer double-counting mileage on video. Wild.

At the beginning of the year, a spate of very similar mails appeared in my spam-box. Although originating from different addresses (and sent to different recipients), they all appeared to be the opener for the same romance scam campaign.

Adrian Basar did not want to become a distant-water fisherman. With 22-hour workdays and pay of around 450 dollars per month, it’s not the most glamorous—or fulfilling, or generally safe—job.

Other third-party Bluesky apps, which make up the larger open social web known as the ATmosphere, don’t have to follow these same rules. At least, not for now.

RealPage and the landlords (collectively “defendants”) allegedly agreed to set rents for multifamily housing properties statewide based on RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software and to exchange sensitive, non-public information to align their prices and avoid competition that would otherwise keep rent prices down.

In an unexpected and deeply concerning move, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has begun issuing Requests for Evidence (RFEs) in H-1B and employment-based immigrant petitions that ask the petitioner for biometric data and detailed residential histories.

On February 11, 2025, Blue Shield discovered that, between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was configured in a way that allowed certain member data to be shared with Google’s advertising product, Google Ads, that likely included protected health information. Google may have used this data to conduct focused ad campaigns back to those individual members.

In the same week the UK Prime Minister said shoplifting has ‘wreaked havoc’ on neighbourhoods for years, the first UK supermarket announced a trial of facial recognition technology (FRT). With the government’s focus on prevention and shoplifting stories continuing to make the front pages, it was probably inevitable. But this is uncharted territory for the big high street retailers who will need to tick off a few essentials before heading to the checkout.

Today, the European Commission found that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and that Meta breached the DMA obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data. Therefore, the Commission has fined Apple and Meta with €500 million and €200 million respectively.

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.

I’ve been trying to figure out a solution for managing photos and videos from iPhones and this tiny thing might just be the ticket. I’ll let you know how it goes

engineers developed ultrathin electronic films that sense heat and other signals, and could reduce the bulk of conventional goggles and scopes.

Data collection is ubiquitous. Data are useful for a variety of purposes, from supporting research to helping allocate political representation. It benefits society to enable data use for such purposes, but it’s also important to protect people’s privacy in the process. Organizations across industry and government are increasingly turning to differential privacy (DP), an approach to privacy-preserving data analysis that limits how much information about an individual is learned from an analysis. Chances are DP has been used to provide a privacy guarantee for an analysis of your data: Companies like Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Uber, as well as government agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau have all used it in the past several years.

Intel Corp. is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20% of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

The Transformation of Light into Matter: Groundbreaking Experiment Published in Nature and the Scientific Realities Behind It

With regard to Generative Artificial Intelligence and other digital tools used in the making of the film, the tools neither help nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination. The Academy and each branch will judge the achievement, taking into account the degree to which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award.

Can't run Windows 11? Don't want to? There are surprisingly legal options

Nearly a year ago, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly on the search engine market.

There are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI slop, low-quality content with minimal human input. Some of it is banal and pointless – cartoonish images of celebrities, fantasy landscapes, anthropomorphised animals. And some is a sort of pornified display of women just simply … being, like a virtual girlfriend you cannot truly interact with. The range and scale of the content is staggering, and infiltrates everything from social media timelines to messages circulated on WhatsApp. The result is not just a blurring of reality, but a distortion of it.

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The chip maker is using AI throughout the software development lifecycle

We present the Virology Capabilities Test (VCT), a large language model (LLM) benchmark that measures the capability to troubleshoot complex virology laboratory protocols. VCT is difficult: expert virologists with access to the internet score an average of 22.1% on questions specifically in their sub-areas of expertise. However, the most performant LLM, OpenAI's o3, reaches 43.8% accuracy and even outperforms 94% of expert virologists when compared directly on question subsets specifically tailored to the experts' specialites.

In the world of digital advertising, where billions shift hands daily, a new breed of performance marketers is quietly shaping the rules from the shadows. In this rare and unfiltered conversation, Stan Sadokov — co-founder of Multilogin and a recognized expert in online anonymity and anti-detection tools — sits down with Blagoy Nikushev, the founder of Zmatic, a company providing the underground infrastructure behind many of today’s most aggressive Meta ad campaigns.

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They remade the blue checkmark. Enshitification

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At a time when Europeans are eagerly awaiting the European Commission’s rigorous enforcement of the new tech rules designed to tackle digital platform power, this week’s developments across the Atlantic reminded us that big tech scrutiny has not only been on the European agenda in recent years. On Monday, 14 April 2025, a trial began at the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia that is expected to last a while. The court will hear the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) complaint against Meta, alleging that the social media titan has violated U.S. antitrust laws by acquiring WhatsApp and Instagram. The case is a landmark for more reasons than just the novel legal issues at stake, dealing with mergers that were reviewed and cleared a decade ago. It also demonstrates that the U.S. enforcers are still determined to break big tech power. And, evidently, the trial is taking place in turbulent times, when it is difficult to draw a clear line between politics and law enforcement – especially because the same judge has to rule on both anti-monopoly cases against U.S. tech companies and cases against the US administration regarding the deportation of Venezuelan migrants under wartime statutes – as the New York Times reports.

When you’re looking for research on four-day school weeks or how to teach fractions, or trying to locate an historical document, such as the landmark Coleman Report of 1966, you might begin with Google. But the reason that high-quality research results pop up from your Google search is because something called ERIC exists behind the scenes.

Leading supplier says Shenxing cells can achieve 520km range compared with BYD’s 470km https://archive.is/bAJGG

New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly.

Advanced AI threatens to increase inequality and concentrate power, but we can proactively distribute AI’s benefits to foster a just and inclusive economy before it’s too late.

Prelude to a Machine-Governed World

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Directors of the Hope Florida Foundation cut a Zoom board meeting short Thursday morning after online trolls began spewing racial slurs, Nazi symbols and pornographic imagery on the open call, derailing the foundation’s first public comment since its executive director stepped down Wednesday amid a slew of ongoing legislative controversy.

If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least.

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