Privacy for Sale: The Marketing of Your Personal Data
It’s extremely difficult for individuals to protect their privacy online, and Big Tech is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure it stays that way.
technology
California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53
SB 53 requires large AI labs – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind – to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures whistleblower protections for employees at those companies.
Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
Critics worry Anthropic is endangering its “ethical” AI stance due to defense associations.
A Researcher Hijacked the CIA’s Secure Contact Link for Informants Due to a Flaw in X
Kevin McSheehan discovered that the CIA’s link for informants was bugged on X, leaving the door open for a malicious actor to impersonate the agency.
Earth’s Core Appears to Be Leaking In the Arctic and Scientists Don’t Know Why
“We know very little about Earth’s core, other than that it exists.”
Scientists Unveil ‘Missing Law’ of Nature That Explains How Everything In the Universe Evolved, Including Us
The universe contains “many evolving systems, and yet we don’t seem to have a law of nature that adequately describes why those systems exist.”
45,000 USPS Workers Aren’t Getting Paid This Week Amidst Union Decertification Push
Instead of their pay, workers are being offered a money order that must be paid back due to what USPS called a “programming issue.”
Amazon Delivery Drivers Walk Out in First-Ever Driver Strike
The drivers unionized with the Teamsters in late April, and are on strike to demand that Amazon come to the bargaining table.
FTC: Amazon/Ring workers illegally spied on users of home security cameras
Amazon agrees to Ring and Alexa settlements but didn’t admit violating any laws.
What Noise Pollution Is Doing To Us
Noise levels have pervasive and insidious effects on the health of our bodies as well as our communities.
A Structure In Deep Space Is So Giant It’s Challenging Standard Physics
The Giant Arc is a newly-discovered structure spanning 3.3 billion light years, and it’s challenging our understanding of the universe.
A Mob Boss’s YouTube Channel Is Causing Political Havoc in Turkey
Turkish mob boss Sedat Peker is posting YouTube videos accusing officials of everything from covering murders to tipping off criminals.
Watch the Trippy, First-Ever Footage of a Time Crystal (VIDEO)
In a breakthrough, eerie oscillations from this bizarre new phase of matter was filmed by a special microscope.
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors App Exposed Users’ Precise Locations and Home Addresses
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
Zoom Executive Allegedly Doctored Child Porn to Smear Tiananmen Square Memorial Activists
American prosecutors have charged a Zoom executive in an elaborate scheme to disrupt video meetings of activists who planned to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Read More…