Technology

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: A lawsuit to hold Yahoo responsible for "willfully turning a blind eye" to the mismanagement of a human rights fund for Chinese dissidents was settled for $5.425 million...

Tony Smith and Angus CrawfordBBC News InvestigationsGetty ImagesYoung Instagram users could still be exposed to "serious risks" even if they use new Teen Accounts brought in to provide more protection and control, research by campaigners suggests.Researchers behind a new...

Earlier this year, Musk told investors that Tesla would launch autonomous driving technology in Austin and California this year, with a robotaxi service launching in the Texas city in June. (The service is slated to launch with Model Y’s...

Accidents happen, but not all of them are inevitable. Drunk driving is one of the deadliest and most preventable causes of roadway fatalities. In 2022 alone, more than 13,000 people died in alcohol-related vehicular crashes in the United States,...

Coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Codeium are already changing software engineering. Based on existing code and an engineer’s prompts, these assistants can suggest new lines or whole chunks of code, serving as a kind of advanced autocomplete.At...

Marks and Spencer (M&S) says it has been dealing with a "cyber incident" affecting some of its services over the last few days.The UK retailer said its Click and Collect service had been impacted by technical issues along with...

We know that social media can be harmful to teens. Meta has found in its own research that Instagram makes body image worse for one in three teen girls, and Snapchat has been sued several times for not doing...

Researchers have uncovered a new supply chain attack called Slopsquatting, where threat actors exploit hallucinated, non-existent package names generated by AI coding tools like GPT-4 and CodeLlama. These believable yet fake packages, representing almost 20% of the samples...

A hearing kicked off today in Washington, D.C., that could determine whether Google remains in its current form, or if it could face penalties such as selling off its popular Chrome web browser. The so-called remedy...

Henry Samueli, cofounder of Broadcom and the 2025 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor, has this advice for engineering students and recent graduates just starting on their careers:“Don’t do engineering for the money. Do it because it can...