Claude’s chatbot may ask to verify your age and identity “in certain circumstances,” such as with a passport or driver’s license, according to a privacy policy change.
Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes proposals to curb Europe’s reliance on American tech, simplify the bloc’s digital rulebook, decide whether to ban children from…
Instacart’s Caper Carts bring fast checkout, coupons, and loyalty perks to Weis stores, but their cameras, location tracking, and in-aisle ads make the grocery cart feel like a data machine.
Bulgaria’s export control authority licensed a Sofia-based surveillance firm to sell phone-tracking tools, interception systems, and monitoring infrastructure to intelligence agencies in countries with documented records of suppressing dissent. The lic…
Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising $100 million in a Series A at a valuation of at least $500 million. The company expects to close the round in the third quarter. CEO and…
One of the largest open-source package repositories just spent a weekend cleaning up after a malware campaign that did not break into anything. It did not need to. Attackers seized control of more than 1,500 packages in the Arch User Repository, or AUR…
Commodore, the computer brand that defined the 1980s, is back with a flip phone, and its main selling point is everything it will not let you do. The Callback 8020, announced on Tuesday, is a clamshell that runs modern apps but blocks web browsers and …
Roblox’s vice president of safety product policy, Eliza Jacobs, told NBC News that Roblox is “optimistic” that its new facial age estimation tech will “continue to get better,” saying, “Ticking a box to say you’re 13 or older, it’s not enough anymore.” NBC invited a group of kids to try out Roblox’s new video selfie […]
The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra found a leaked, still-active …
A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s attorney general served the company with a subpoena on Friday demanding documents on advertisin…