Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for “Best CBD Gummies“ google.search internet Article 328 words 16 votes
Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked | "Every passing car is captured," says 4th Amendment lawsuit against Norfolk, VA privacy Article 1708 words 52 votes
Libgen must pay publishers $30M [following a US court ruling], but no one knows who runs it Article 745 words 64 votes
US Department of Justice attorneys claim Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on day one of ad tech trial google Article 699 words 30 votes
After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship internet Article 978 words 63 votes
Court: Section 230 doesn’t shield TikTok from blackout challenge death suit social media Article 690 words 25 votes
Microsoft to host security summit after CrowdStrike disaster microsoft security.cyber Article 783 words 16 votes
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update linux security.cyber microsoft Article 918 words 43 votes
Google halts its four-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome privacy browsers google Article 743 words 36 votes
Intel has finally tracked down the problem making 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs crash Article 359 words 23 votes
US FCC closes “final loopholes” that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high Article 488 words 44 votes
Thirty years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive Article 697 words 18 votes
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims security.cyber Article 940 words 45 votes
Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win internet Article 654 words 59 votes
MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15 as Intel support fades apple Article 676 words 17 votes
TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough apple Article 665 words 29 votes
Watch a six-axis motor solve a Rubik’s Cube in less than a third of a second Article 537 words 19 votes
Spotify won’t open-source to-be-bricked Car Thing, but starts refund process amid lawsuit Article 736 words 21 votes
Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition internet Article 576 words, published May 24 2024 22 votes
‘TunnelVision’ attack leaves nearly all VPNs vulnerable to spying security.cyber privacy Article 918 words, published May 6 2024 40 votes
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed social media Article 506 words 61 votes
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy facebook Article 506 words 37 votes
Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say Article 509 words 32 votes
Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted security.cyber Article 639 words, published Mar 14 2024 20 votes
Hewlett-Packard wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors Article 492 words 60 votes
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of Canadian college students Article 831 words 72 votes
ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says privacy security.cyber Article 586 words 17 votes
Dave Mills, inventor and longtime coordinator of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died at age 85 internet Article 474 words 34 votes
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” but concealed from lawyers and judges Article 756 words 104 votes
In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges security.cyber microsoft Article 432 words 28 votes
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware, researchers say security.cyber Article 493 words 28 votes
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994. The Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet. Article 549 words 45 votes
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used Article 533 words 49 votes
Unproven 'winter break' hypothesis seeks to explain ChatGPT's seemingly new reluctance to do hard work Article 896 words, published Dec 11 2023 37 votes
A West Virginia judge largely denied Amazon's motion to dismiss lawsuit over selling a spycam disguised as a bathroom hook amazon Article 814 words 22 votes
Accused of violating kids' privacy, Meta sues US Federal Trade Commission, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ data social media facebook privacy Article 405 words 40 votes
Nothing’s iMessage app was a security catastrophe, taken down in twenty-four hours security.cyber Article 542 words 65 votes
US Ninth Circuit judge allows social media lawsuit to proceed. Section 230 doesn't automatically protect against liability for platform design defects. social media Article 576 words 16 votes
US cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination internet Article 507 words 43 votes