A phishing campaign that the FBI believes is linked to Iran has been targeting members of the Trump and Harris camps as they seek to be elected as the president of the United States later this year. While the bad actors have reportedly been trying to s…
Continue reading "FBI says Iranian hackers are targeting both presidential campaigns"Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s commissioner for competition, won’t be back for a third term and will be stepping down this year. According to the Financial Times, the Danish government will be nominating a different candidate as EU commission…
Continue reading "Margrethe Vestager, Big Tech’s European nemesis, reportedly steps down later this year"The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is looking to improve its facial recognition algorithms, is reportedly planning to use the facial data of migrant children entering the country for training. According to MIT Technology Review, the ag…
Continue reading "US Homeland Security will reportedly collect face scans of migrant kids"SAG-AFTRA has announced a new agreement that would allow actors to earn from AI copies of their voice with their informed consent. The union representing thousands of performers has struck a deal with Narrativ, which is an online platform where perform…
Continue reading "SAG-AFTRA deal will let advertisers replicate actors’ voices with AI"Spotify can now show its users in the European Union how much its plans cost within its iOS app after their trial period ends. The company has revealed that it's opting into Apple's "entitlement" for music streaming services in an upd…
Continue reading "Apple finally allows Spotify to display pricing in the EU"You can now get and use Proton VPN’s browser extension even if you’re not a paying user. The extension used to only be accessible if you’re on one of the service’s paid plans, but now you can install it as long as you’re on a Firefox- or a Chromium-bas…
Continue reading "Proton VPN’s browser extension is now free for all users"Opera One, the browser with a focus on generative AI features that Opera launched for desktop last year, is now available for iOS devices. It retains its desktop counterpart's cleaner look, but it comes with a full screen interface and features spe…
Continue reading "Opera’s AI-focused web browser One is now on iOS"Water exists on Mars, according to a team of geophysicists, and not just as ice on its poles or as vapor in its atmosphere. The scientists have found evidence of liquid water deep in its outer crust, based on their analysis of data provided by NASA'…
Continue reading "Scientists find evidence of liquid water deep underneath the Martian surface"If you want to find a specific tweet by Donald Trump, you may have to go through his timeline and look for it yourself. According to Mediaite, X has switched off the ability to search for Trump's tweets. As the publication explains, you can do a se…
Continue reading "X appears to be suppressing Trump-related searches"Susan Wojcicki, who served as YouTube’s CEO for almost a decade until she stepped down last year, has died. She was 56 years old. Her husband Dennis Troper has shared the news on Facebook, revealing that Wojcicki lived two years with non-small cell lun…
Continue reading "Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died"