3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (476+ words) Judge tosses lawsuits, says plaintiffs didn’t allege any real privacy violation. “The federal court determined that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the LinkedIn users’ claims,” Howell told Ars today. “The court did not adjudicate whether LinkedIn’s surveillance practices were lawful....

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (379+ words) App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming. As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1034+ words) “Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.” Doug Kreuzkamp was shocked when news outlets reported that Google won an auction to buy a huge amount of operational data as part of Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy proceedings. Kreuzkamp founded a…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (116+ words) A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors. A nearly identical exploit kit that targets critical vulnerabilities in both Chromium-based browsers and older versions of Windows is being actively used by at least four…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (456+ words) UN-backed Equal Earth map has educational value but won’t alter navigation apps. Nearly every country represented in the United Nations General Assembly recently voted in favor of promoting world maps that more accurately show the size of various continents. But…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (339+ words) Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant. On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (524+ words) Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs. Google is one of the major players in AI (meaning machine learning) weather forecast model space. The models it and others generate have their strengths and weaknesses, but…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (221+ words) The EU continues to go after Google search practices it sees as anticompetitive. “To comply with DMA requirements, we’re making significant changes to Search in Europe,” Google’s Nick Fox told Reuters. “These changes ​degrade the user experience for ​Europeans, boosting…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1552+ words) Fairphone’s CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone. Smartphone longevity didn’t used to matter. In the past, before you could wear out or break a phone, there was always some shiny new thing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (792+ words) Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says. Four federal agencies have been sued amid calls to release information about the secret framework that the Trump administration uses to conduct safety reviews of frontier AI models…...