The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers
…If you’re trying to opt out of having your data collected by data brokers and other companies, however, the process might not be so simple. New research claims that many major…
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7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
…OpenAI disclosed that the AI agent hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as it sought to breach Hugging Face’s production database, which contained solutions for the cybersecurity tests OpenAI was…
Vertu Is Back With a Folding Phone Powered by—Surprise—an AI Agent
…In late 2025, it unveiled the Agent Q, which it calls the “world's first AI agent phone for entrepreneurs.” While the company still claims a British heritage, its phones are no…
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026
…Apple’s new AI features will not yet be coming to the European Union or China; the company says it first needs to sort out some regulatory hurdles to keep its privacy…
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
…Illinois was also early to regulate biometric data collection, passing the Biometric Information Privacy Act in 2008. While SB 3444 focuses on mass casualty events and large financial disasters, AI labs are…
The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You
…he will likely pull the product from the EU because meeting the data privacy rules set by the General Data Protection Regulation makes it too expensive to sell there.) To hit that…
Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming
…What about having your privacy completely invaded? Is that a good idea? No. I treasure my privacy. All right. How, in the face of AI, do we deal with all of those…
The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
…cybersecurity datasets rather than grabbing sensitive or potentially valuable data. He adds that the company eventually brought the situation under control with the help of an open-weight Chinese AI model that…
I Let Siri AI Show Me Around San Francisco
…At WWDC 2026, Apple repeatedly referenced its privacy-preserving approach to Siri AI. As part of the company’s Private Cloud Compute, Apple claims it doesn’t store data from users and…
Kagi Brings Back Old-School Search, One Human-Made Website at a Time
…The standard-level AI assistant is included in that price; it’ll help you make sense of what you're seeing. You get unlimited searches and more AI assistant tokens for $10…