FTC nominee Melissa Holyoak could face scrutiny amid Google settlement
Melissa Holyoak’s bid for a vacant GOP seat on the Federal Trade Commission could face a fresh hurdle as critics blast the weak terms of Google’s $700 million settlement over...
These phone apps are collecting the most data on you — how to protect yourself
The number of apps that collect detailed personal data might surprise you. That includes some of the top apps on the App Store and Google Play Store. What I love doing...
America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch
The lawmakers’ letter also claims that NIST is being rushed to define standards even though research into testing AI systems is at an early stage. As a result there is...
Journalists Had ‘No Idea’ About OpenAI’s Deal to Use Their Stories
Some writer advocacy groups have pushed for this kind of licensing as an alternative to data scraping. The Author’s Guild, for example, is currently agitating for collective licensing agreements to...
MIT in the media: 2023 in review
It was an eventful trip around the sun for MIT this year, from President Sally Kornbluth’s inauguration and Mark Rober’s Commencement address to Professor Moungi Bawendi winning the Nobel Prize...
Apple issues surprise iOS 17.2.1 update for iPhone bug fixes
Apple issued a surprise update for all iPhone users Tuesday promising to fix a plethora of bugs. What exactly those fixes are, however, remains a mystery. “This update provides important...
Thief stole $300K worth of iPhones — how to protect yourself
Let his advice sync in. A homeless-man-turned-tech-mastermind serving a 94-month sentence for a yearlong smartphone stealing spree has spilled his secrets of the criminal trade to the Wall Street Journal....
Woman claims Tesla technology allowed abusive husband to stalk her
San Francisco police Sergeant David Radford contacted Elon Musk’s Tesla in May 2020 with a request on a case: Could the automaker provide data on an alleged stalker’s remote access to a...
AI death calculator predicts when you’ll die — it’s ‘extremely’ accurate
This is a matter of life and death — no doubt a-bot-it. Although most folks aren’t in a massive rush to learn when they’ll bite the big one, a newly developed...
