A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users’ consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes. The plaintiffs, claiming to represent millions of Flo users, had accused Flo and Meta of …
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Read More »OpenAI quickly rolled back a new feature that allowed users to make private conversations with ChatGPT “discoverable” after the launch was marred by concerns of accidental oversharing. “We just removed a feature from @ChatGPTapp that allowed users to make their conversations discoverable by search engines, such as Google,” Dane Stuckey, OpenAI’s chief information security officer, announced via social media post …
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An app designed to help women spot the “red flags” of men they date has incidentally put its users at risk. 404 Media reported that Tea was hacked by 4chan users last week, resulting in the selfies and driver’s licenses of its mostly women users being posted to 4chan. An independent researcher for 404 Media has since discovered that messages …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🧠 Innovative e-tattoo developed at the University of Texas at Austin monitors brain activity in real time. ⚙️ Designed to be noninvasive and ultra-thin, the e-tattoo adheres to the forehead and uses sticker-like sensors. 📉 Machine learning models help predict mental fatigue, enabling timely interventions before performance declines. 🔒 Ethical considerations include data privacy, with plans for …
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The company behind encrypted email service Proton Mail has today launched a new freemium AI chatbot which promises that your chats will remain completely private. Proton Lumo offers five protections it says aren’t matched by any of the existing mainstream AI services like ChatGPT and Gemini, and has even thrown shade at Apple Intelligence privacy … Proton Lumo AI chatbot …
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IN A NUTSHELL 📱 Google uses Android phones’ accelerometers to detect seismic activity and provide timely earthquake alerts. 🌍 The system operates across 98 countries, detecting an average of 312 earthquakes monthly with magnitudes from 1.9 to 7.8. 🔔 Integrated into the Android Earthquake Alerts system, it automatically broadcasts warnings to affected regions. 🔄 Users can provide feedback to enhance …
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Artificial intelligence has obviously been the industry craze for the past couple years. While large language models are incredibly capable, they’ve always come with a bit of a compromise: privacy. Ultimately, you’re still using a model hosted in the cloud, and all of your conversations are stored on some server. Apple’s always had privacy at the core of its products …
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Former Meta board member and former White House Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients, left, exits the Leonard L. Williams Justice Center after testifying in a shareholders’ lawsuit against current and former Meta leaders on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Wilmington, Del. Mingson Lau/AP hide caption toggle caption Mingson Lau/AP A settlement was announced Thursday in court in a class action …
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Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to settle a multibillion dollar lawsuit with a group of shareholders over how top executives at Meta handled repeated privacy violations by Facebook. The shareholders were seeking $8bn (£6bn) in damages. It is unclear how much they agreed to settle for. The settlement was announced on Thursday by a lawyer for the shareholders, just before the …
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