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Popular Shopping App Gives Chicoms Access To Americans’ Data, New Lawsuit Alleges

The widely popular Chinese shopping app Temu operates as “malware” designed to collect Americans’ data, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges.…

1 week ago

FCC Commissioner Warns Chinese Tech Is Still ‘Phoning Home’ To Beijing

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Nathan Simington said Chinese telecom giant Huawei turned America’s rural internet providers into “pain points”…

4 weeks ago

New AI Model Would Rather Ruin Your Life Than Be Turned Off, Researchers Say

Anthropic’s newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Opus 4, is willing to strong-arm the humans who keep it alive,…

4 weeks ago

NVIDIA’s New Robot Uses Fake Data To Learn Faster Than Humans Can Teach

NVIDIA says its latest general-purpose robot update can teach a humanoid machine using software entirely, bypassing the months of motion…

1 month ago

Feds Demand Answers From Tesla Over Austin ‘Robotaxi’ Launch

Federal safety regulators want Tesla to spell out precisely how it will keep riders safe when its camera-only “Robotaxis” hit…

1 month ago

Amazon Says New ‘Feeling’ Robot Is Augmenting — ‘Not Replacing’ — Human Workers

Amazon’s new “Vulcan” warehouse robot — capable of picking, stowing and rearranging three-quarters of the items Amazon stocks — could…

1 month ago

Feds Push to Dismantle Google’s Ad Empire After Landmark Antitrust Ruling

The Department of Justice formally asked a federal judge to break up Google’s ad-tech empire Friday after an April court…

2 months ago

Signal Clone Used By Trump Officials Reportedly Breached — Hacker Says It Took 20 Minutes

A hacker breached TeleMessage, a government-approved messaging app used by Trump administration officials, exposing archived communications from the platform’s modified…

2 months ago

Bessent Demands Europe Scrap ‘Unfair’ Regulatory Shakedown

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned European allies Tuesday that their digital services tax on American tech firms threatens broader trade relations and…

2 months ago

Meta Reinstates Romanian Christian Outlet After Conservative Legal Pressure

Meta reinstated the Romanian Tribune’s Facebook page, ending a six-month suspension that saw the Christian newspaper accusing the platform of…

2 months ago