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Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing the way for it go into effect within weeks. The conclusion on what is illegal will be made by judges case by case. The 8-3 vote in Brazil’s top court also orders tech giants like Google, Meta and TikTok to actively monitor content that involves hate speech, racism and incitation to violence and act to remove it. The case has stirred the relationship between the South American nation and members of the U.S. administration.

Cybercriminals and fraudsters are using fake texts, this time from UPS, to gain access to iPhone users' personal information. Here's how to stay safe and keep your data from falling into the wrong hands.

Apple might use AI models from OpenAI or Anthropic to change the perception that it's behind on AI.

Apple's motion to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit has been rejected, which means a trial that could result in upending more of Apple's businesses will soon begin.

Google today released guidance for all software engineers on how to best adopt AI for coding. Back in April, Sundar Pichai...

Apple is in talks with artificial intelligence leaders Anthropic and OpenAI to boost Siri, Apple’s languishing AI assistant, according to Bloomberg. Apple was caught off guard with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022 and has been trying to catch up. Last year, it promised an improved Siri capable of complex tasks inside apps, but the company has struggled to meet deadlines and has

HP is developing a "PCFax" system similar to CarFax for used cars that securely collects and stores detailed device usage and health data at the firmware level to extend the life of PCs and reduce e-waste. A team of HP experts outlines the system in a recent IEEE Spectrum report: The secure telemet...

Automattic has put its plan to migrate Tumblr's backend to WordPress on hold, with CEO Matt Mullenweg citing a shift in focus toward features users are actively requesting. "I still want to do it," Mullenweg says. "It's just cleaner. But right now, we're not working on it." The Verge reports: The d...

Apple is surveying Vision Pro owners, including questions about rival products in categories it doesn’t compete in (yet).

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 bi...

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine’s placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.

Google is launching a new experimental app called Doppl that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you.

A top Meta exec just called Sam Altman “dishonest.”

I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

A group opposing the fund called its set-up “taxation without representation.”

Atlantic Council research says market for zero days is bloated, leaving the US behind rivals such as China.

There's still room for improvement, but don't underestimate this technology.

Exaggeration, conflation, a game of Telephone, directional accuracy, brinksmanship, or all of the above?

First, they came for the currency market. Then, the money market. Now, crypto’s big disruptors are targeting the multi-trillion-dollar heart of global capitalism: the stock market.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.

Sending this ad is completely destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, *to get users to believe that it’s private*.

US companies are reportedly preparing to pay around $2.7 billion to cover a three percent tax on revenue generated from Canadian users.

The Senate version of the bill forces the FCC to sell off as much as half of the unlicensed spectrum used by the 6GHz Wi-Fi band.

5th Circuit ruling reversed; FCC can continue programs that boost Internet access.

But it requires specific hardware support that is missing on current phones.

Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla could face fines exceeding $58,000 a day until it complies with demands to stop "deceptive practices."

Germany just became the latest country to move against DeepSeek over mounting data privacy concerns. Here’s why this keeps happening.

Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities.

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has served as something of a Grim Reaper for Windows users since the 1980s.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice. The Danish government said on Thurs...