Google Is Begging Apple to Make Life Better for Green Bubbles
Lately, Google and Apple are openly at war about iMessage versus not-iMessage.
‘Aquariumgate’ Is New Child Trafficking 4chan Conspiracy That Relies on Very Basic Google Maps Trolling
Someone made fake aquariums on Google Maps, which are now being used as a convoluted conspiracy about child trafficking, satanic rituals, etc.
I Tried the Privacy Phone Network Intended to Mask Your Identity
Pretty Good Phone Privacy, or PGPP, is a novel new system that attempts to separate your phone usage from your identity.
Google’s ‘Democratic AI’ Is Better at Redistributing Wealth Than America
Researchers built an AI that gives out money based on who started with less resources—and humans preferred it.
Juul Is an Easy Target—Let's Ban More Tech Products That Harm Us
Many tech solutions are offered to problems created by those responsible. Instead of entertaining them, let's ban them.
Google's AI Isn’t Sentient, But It Is Biased and Terrible
The question of sentient chatbots is fascinating but ultimately a distraction from the big tech companies creating them.
Google Bans Deepfakes from Its Machine Learning Platform
Deepfakes are no longer allowed on Google Colab.
Google Will Pay Massive Damages for Hosting YouTuber’s ‘Racist’ Anti-Italian ‘Abuse’
An Australian judge has ordered the tech giant to pay $715,000 in damages for failing to take down two videos.
The ‘Capital of Silicon Valley’ Is Ignoring Its Privacy Experts
San José created a privacy taskforce to keep ‘smart city’ technology in check. Then its members started resigning.
Over 40 Members of Congress Urge Google to Limit Location Data Collection for a Post-Roe America
Google regularly gives law enforcement agencies access to swaths of location data. Lawmakers now want Google to curtail that data collection to stop it landing in the hands of right-wing prosecutors.
Microsoft’s Chinese Bing Censorship Impacts United States Too, Researchers Say
Researchers at Citizen Lab found that Bing censors Chinese politically sensitive names to users in the United States.
The Data Broker Tracking Abortion Clinic Visits Is Also Selling to the CDC
There’s a robust market for your data and SafeGraph will sell to anyone who asks.