Italy bans ChatGPT for 'unlawful collection of personal data'
Perché siamo il Garante, e tu sei pazzo
AI + ML31 Mar 2023 | 23
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Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records
Except maybe in America, where life expectancy keeps dropping
Science31 Mar 2023 | 93
Microsoft wants to stick adverts in Bing chat responses
Hey Bing, help me find a new browser, er, AI chatbot
Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 39
Lockheed Martin launches biz to build lunar satellite network
Crescent Space will be 'well positioned' to get a piece of NASA's cash pie, no contract yet
Networks29 Mar 2023 | 1
Judge grants subpoena to ID Twitter source code leaker
Unmasking also in store for anyone who's 'posted, uploaded, downloaded or modified' tweet biz code
Software29 Mar 2023 | 30
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid
Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here
Science29 Mar 2023 | 27
Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now
Issue identified in February but owners of older kit weren't warned
Patches28 Mar 2023 | 11
US police have run nearly 1M Clearview AI searches, says founder
Crimes Clearview has helped solve include murder and the devastating scourge of ... shoplifting
AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 15
Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life
JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan
Science22 Mar 2023 | 13
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years
Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 127
SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut
Stop the presses: Billionaires think sharing is a great idea, until a rival billionaire wants to share
Off-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 31
NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess
13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm
Science21 Mar 2023 | 8
Privacy fail: Pictures cropped, redacted by Google Pixel phones can be recovered
Updated aCropalypse Now, starring any 2018-or-later device
Security20 Mar 2023 | 36
Amazon lays off another 9,000, because why not?
Add another zero or so and soon we're talking real numbers
Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 10
Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped
You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 27
Police pounce on 'pompompurin' – alleged mastermind of BreachForums
In Brief Crypto laundering service gets cleaned up by police and SVB mess draws in more criminals
Security20 Mar 2023 | 3
Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices
Aggrieved investors claim tech giant fibbed to inflate stock prices... and it backfired
Personal Tech17 Mar 2023 | 15
FTX inner circle helped itself to $3.2B, liquidators say
SBF alone pocketed $2.2B, or so this bankruptcy paperwork goes
Cyber-crime16 Mar 2023 | 20
Dual Tesla lawsuits pull Elon Musk into right-to-repair war
The nearly identical class action suits claim Tesla unlawfully restricted access to third party repairs and parts
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 40
Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite
Clippy 2.0 to help us 'reconnect with the soul of our work' ... just don't mention that lawsuit
AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 36
T-Mobile US buys Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for $1.35B
Video However, those Ryan Reynolds commercials aren't going anywhere
Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 9
Fewer bonuses for Apple staff in latest cost-cutting measure
Don't worry about Tim – executive's rewards are reportedly unaffected. Phew
Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 7
Firefly gets nod from NASA to deliver Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon
LuSEE in the sky with ... data
Science15 Mar 2023 | 14
Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals
Perfect timing – we could use another bank run
Legal15 Mar 2023 | 51
MIT researchers propose modular, multi-mission Moon robots
Fancy playing with some space Lego?
Science14 Mar 2023 | 1
Rivian wants out of Amazon electric van lock-in
10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and upstart really needs the cash
Personal Tech13 Mar 2023 | 12
'Robot lawyer' DoNotPay not fit for purpose, alleges complaint
Human lawyers: 'DoNotPay is not actually a robot, a lawyer, nor a law firm'
AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 15
CISA joins forces with Women in CyberSecurity to break up the boy's club
in brief Also, the FBI just admitted to bypassing warrants by buying cellphone location data, and this week's actionable items
Security13 Mar 2023 | 17
Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works
Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit
Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 28
Boffins find 'missing link' between interstellar ice and what comes out of the tap
Now drink your space juice
Science10 Mar 2023 | 26
US officials probe Tesla's incredible detaching steering wheel
It could be worse, at least Autopilot is ... oh
Offbeat09 Mar 2023 | 43
Sony won't budge on Microsoft-Activision merger objection
Ten-year deal to put Call of Duty on PlayStation shot down
Personal Tech09 Mar 2023 | 30
Europe, America fear Twitter job cuts mean it can't protect users
How will Elon conform to FTC decrees and EU laws? He probably doesn't know, either
Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 15
US Air Force scares up $75.5M for ad-hoc missile silo network
At a planned 25k square miles, it's said to be largest net of its kind yet
Networks07 Mar 2023 | 7
Ex-Tweep mocked by Musk for asking if he'd actually been fired
Updated This internet soap opera continues
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 130
Where are the women in cyber security? On the dark side, study suggests
In Brief Also, Royal ransomware metastasizes to other critical sectors, and this week's critical vulnerabilities
Security06 Mar 2023 | 44
Zoom chops president it hired less than a year ago
Vid-chat-biz ditches Greg Tomb as head-rolling continues
Off-Prem03 Mar 2023 | 28
To explore caves on Mars and the Moon, take a hint from Hansel & Gretel, say boffins
Robot adventurers drop mesh network 'breadcrumbs' to stay connected
Science03 Mar 2023 | 31
Funnily enough, FDA forbids Elon Musk's Neuralink human experiments
It's still coming soon ... just like it was in 2019, and 2020, and 2021, and 2022
Science02 Mar 2023 | 25
If Tesla Investor Day was about exciting investors then boy did it fail
No new cars, unanswered questions, and FSD goals still looming in distance may be why stock is tanking
AI + ML02 Mar 2023 | 45
Find pushes back birth of Europe's steel hardware to about 3,000 years ago
Iberians were using heavy metal on hard rock way before it was cool
Science02 Mar 2023 | 47
Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy
No more dog whistles or empty threats for caustic tweeps, but what does it matter if no one can post?
Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 34
If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone
For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems
Science01 Mar 2023 | 136
Dish: Someone snatched our data, if you're wondering why our IT systems went down
Outage-hit telco still won't confirm ransomware infection, or if it's paying up
Cyber-crime28 Feb 2023 | 4
Shareholders accuse Tesla of overegging Autopilot, Full Self-Driving capabilities
This is starting to become a common theme
AI + ML28 Feb 2023 | 17
SpaceX lobs second-gen Starlink satellites into orbit
But not the giant ones Musk previewed last year – those still can't get to space without Starship
Systems28 Feb 2023 | 18
Ground equipment failure scrubs latest ISS SpaceX launch
Crew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in orbit will have to wait that much longer to come home
Science27 Feb 2023 |
To the Moon? Emojis can be financial advice, says judge
QED, NFTs are securities
Offbeat27 Feb 2023 | 36
Russian charged with smuggling US counterintel tech to Motherland
In brief Also, don't download that 'ChatGPT Windows client,' and this week's critical vulnerabilities to keep an eye on
Cyber-crime27 Feb 2023 | 8
Bitcoin mining rig found stashed in school crawlspace
Pics Don't blame the kids! Ex-city employee charged with $17k power theft
Cyber-crime24 Feb 2023 | 84
CEO Elon Musk wants out of Tesla tweet jail. Lol, no, says SEC
Uncle Sam still wants lawyer to vet EV tycoon's meme emissions
Offbeat24 Feb 2023 | 27
It's getting crowded on the ISS: SpaceX Crew-6 to launch Monday
NASA is used to dealing with extra guests: just sleep on the ceiling
Science24 Feb 2023 | 4
FTX fiasco founder SBF faces further fraud charges
Fake donors allegedly padded politicians' pockets, both Republican and Democrat
Cyber-crime23 Feb 2023 | 21
Sensitive DoD emails exposed by unsecured Azure server
AWS, Google and Oracle may benefit as Microsoft blames the Pentagon and the Pentagon blames Microsoft
Security23 Feb 2023 | 19
The clock is ticking on a possible US import ban for Apple Watch
What's the time? It's time to go to court to see if the iGiant crushed a rival's heart-watching apps
Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 21
This won't hurt a bit: Amazon now a US healthcare provider
Updated Closes takeover of One Medical, has your shopping habits and medical info
Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 36
Twitter algorithm to be open sourced 'next week,' says Musk
Pay no attention to that Supreme Court case about Twitter's algorithmic liability
Software22 Feb 2023 | 39
Who needs sailors? US Navy's latest robo-ship can run itself for 30 days
Maybe one day war will just be machines fighting machines
AI + ML22 Feb 2023 | 41
Apple: No more sneak-peek previews of iOS unless you pay for the privilege
iGiant shuts dev beta loophole
Software21 Feb 2023 | 10
ISS rescue Soyuz launches this week, won't return crew until September
Leaving another Russian craft in orbit for months ... what could go wrong?
Science21 Feb 2023 | 5
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