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Thursday September 25, 2025. 10:20 PM
Amazon will pay both the Federal Trade Commission and consumers directly to settle a lawsuit alleging that it used manipulative and deceptive tactics to encourage sign-ups for Prime.
Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5 Qualcomm revealed the second act in its bid to overtake Intel and AMD as the leading laptop CPU maker this week with the paper launch of its Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors. The company seeks to bring the kind of battery...
This previous-generation machine still chugs along, and you’ll save a bunch of cash.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Senators are demanding answers from Big Tech companies accused of 'filing thousands of H-1B skilled labor visa petitions after conducting mass layoffs of American employees.' In letters sent to Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google, and Microsoft...
Keeping Pyongyang's coffers full North Korean-linked crews connected to the pervasive IT worker scams have upped their malware game, using more advanced tools, including a backdoor that has much of the same code as Pyongyang's infamous Lazarus Group deploys.…
Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net Amazon has settled the Federal Trade Commission's case against it for making it too hard to quit Prime, and while it naturally didn't admit to any wrongdoing, it's...
Microsoft has disabled the Israeli Defense Ministry's access to certain services and subscriptions, after finding evidence that the ministry used the tech company's cloud services to surveil Gaza citizens. WSJ adds: The software company made the move after an internal...
Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors Despite protest letters, concerns that it's biased and untrustworthy, model tweaks to appease its billionaire boss, and even a past incident where it called itself 'MechaHitler,' xAI's Grok is still being made...
Cloudflare announced plans Thursday to launch NET Dollar, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin designed to enable autonomous AI agents to conduct instant financial transactions. The company says the stablecoin will support microtransactions and pay-per-use models as AI agents...
An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs. The test, GDPval, is an early attempt at understanding how close OpenAI's systems ...
Despite AI models outperforming radiologists on benchmark tests since 2017, demand for human radiologists has reached record highs. American diagnostic radiology residency programs offered 1,208 positions this year, up 4% from 2024, while average salaries hit $520,000 -- 48% ...
Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack A cyber criminal crew has targeted Kido International, a preschool and daycare organization, leaking sensitive details about its pupils and their parents.…
Productivity gains promised, but humans still expected to audit the bots At its Unscripted event in London, DevOps company Harness presented its latest AI-driven modules, including an AI pipeline builder, AI test automation, autonomous code fixing when builds fail, AI AppSec ...
Circle, the world's second-biggest issuer of stablecoins, is examining ways to make it possible to reverse transactions involving its tokens [non-paywalled source], in a rare admission by a major crypto firm that it needs to take lessons from the traditional financial...
New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw It's notoriously difficult to consistently measure the energy usage of AI models, but DARPA wants to put an end to that uncertainty with new 'energy-aware' machine learning...
Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it duped users into paying for Prime memberships, the regulatory agency announced Thursday. CNBC: The surprise settlement comes as Amazon and the FTC were just three days into the trial in a...
While EC suspects vendor's practices stifle competition, it argues it is in line with industry standards The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into SAP's behavior in the aftermarket for maintenance and support services in Europe.…
Accenture has reduced its global workforce by more than 11,000 in the past three months and warned staff that more would be asked to leave if they cannot be retrained for the age of AI. From a report: The IT consulting group on Thursday detailed an $865 million restructuring ...
Ruby Central is accused of ousting maintainers from core gems under pressure from Shopify Ruby Central is said to have quietly snatched control of several flagship Ruby open source projects from their long-time maintainers without their consent, following pressure from...
Lumafield's CT scan analysis of 1,054 lithium-ion 18650 batteries found 33 cells from low-cost and counterfeit brands contained a serious manufacturing defect called negative anode overhang, which increases risks of internal short-circuiting and battery fires. All defective...
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