… Jan Penfrat, a senior policy adviser for European Digital Rights EDRi , a network of NGOs, experts, and advocates campaigning for digital rights across Europe, sees Apple’s latest moves as a means of putting pressure on the EU Commission to allow it to break the DMA. “It’s very much a lobbying tact… …
Apple says draft measures proposed by the EU — which would force Google to give competing AI services more access to Android — would “create profound risks” for user privacy, security, device integrity, and performance. …
… Bypassing on-device systems is “relatively easy, which is why everything started moving toward servers,” Song says, despite the fact that on-device systems would be cheaper to run for companies like Persona. “If we could run on-device effectively on a phone, I would do it in a heartbeat, but it’s n… …
… Ciaran Hale, chief technology officer at another one of the platforms, Deputy, said in a statement that the company’s “third-party relationships are limited to trusted operational and infrastructure providers that support the delivery, security, and reliability of our platform.” Hale added that Dep… …
… It also cites a report from the Tech Transparency Project, which found that X allows users subject to US sanctions — including people affiliated with Hezbollah and Houthi officials — to pay for a Premium subscription. “This track record raises serious questions about the privacy, scams and frauds, … …
… It can look at your calendar and figure out when you should leave for the airport. Gemini won the race, fair and square. But there’s also a growing distrust of AI, particularly from young people, and the better Gemini gets, the creepier it is. …
… Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes — who’s been prepping for everything from AI-fueled phishing attacks to physical security risks — says four polling locations received “unsubstantiated bomb threats,” similar to Georgia . …
… How to Build a Rest Stop for Delivery Workers in a Hurry New York Times Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages Mia Sato Apr 8 Pinterest said he violated laid-off colleagues’ privacy. …
… Are you engaged with OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI or Meta? We’re not directly engaged with OpenAI or Anthropic. We certainly have done a fair amount of work with Meta through the years and most of the hyperscalers and more on the product side. …