privacy

Pro-AI, pro-pollution, pro-surveillance: what to know about Trump’s budget
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that House Republicans narrowly passed early Thursday would strip state legislatures of AI oversight ...

Welcome to Sam Altman’s Orb Store
At the storefront event, a man waiting outside told me he’d booked an appointment for 11:30 but noted he was ...

DOGE is reportedly building a ‘master database’ of government information
The Committee has also received reports about troubling, fumbling efforts by DOGE to combine sensitive information held by SSA, the ...

Australian woman unknowingly gives birth to a stranger’s baby after IVF clinic error
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another patient’s ...

Google confirms it deleted Maps Timeline data for some
Google Maps users have recently been complaining on places like Reddit that their Timeline data — the app’s historical record ...

DeepSeek was downloaded by millions. Deleting it might come next
This week’s news that the DeepSeek Chatbot app, developed by China, was downloaded from the Apple app store significantly more ...

Amid Air Strikes and Rockets, an SMS From the Enemy
At the start of September, Nour was having an ordinary evening at home in Beirut—eating pumpkin seeds and watching Netflix—when ...

New privacy battle is underway as tech gadgets capture our brain waves
Nomadsoul1 | Istock | Getty Images The question “What is a thought?” is no longer strictly a philosophical one. Like ...