‘Scary’ Apple Vision Pro bug allows hackers to fill room with spiders, bats
Talk about a software bug. A tech expert has discovered an “unusually terrifying vulnerability” in Apple Vision Pro headsets that could allow hackers to flood your virtual reality with spiders, bats, and other creepy horrors. This means that while you’re sitting quietly in your living room with your headgear on, swarms of spiders could emerge […]
Apple becomes first tech giant charged under Europe’s new antitrust law
Apple has become the first US tech giant to be indicted under the European Union’s tough new tech antitrust law and could face multi-billion-dollar fines for throttling developers on its App Store. The European Commission said on Monday that the iPhone maker may have violated EU digital markets law by banning app developers from easily […]
Sony, Universal, Warner sue AI startups Suno, Udio for infringement
Major record companies Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records on Monday filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence companies Snow and Vudio, accusing the companies of using their recordings to train their music-generating AI systems, committing mass copyright infringement. A federal lawsuit filed against Udio of New York and Suno of Massachusetts alleges that […]
Car dealerships forced to process orders by hand after cyberattacks
A cyber attack this week took down computer management systems, forcing more than 15,000 car dealerships across North America to scramble to process orders manually. Auto dealers across the US and Canada, including those selling BMW, were having difficulty fulfilling orders due to issues with the software they use to manage their operations and workflow. […]
Amazon plans revamp of Alexa with monthly fee, AI features
Amazon plans to overhaul its decade-old, money-losing Alexa service by introducing a generative conversational AI with a two-tiered service, with access to the higher version costing around $5 a month, according to people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans. The project, known internally as “Banyan” after the sprawling fig tree, marks the first major […]
Ferrari’s first electric car to cost whopping $500K: report
Luxury car maker Ferrari’s first electric car will cost at least 500,000 euros ($535,000) as it prepares to open a factory to make the model, potentially increasing group output by up to a third, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Italian brand known for its thunderous gasoline engines has said it will launch […]
Instagram recommends sexual videos to users as young as 13: report
The startling findings of a seven-month analysis released on Thursday found that Instagram’s algorithms regularly serve sexually provocative videos featuring revealing sex content creators to teen users as young as 13 years old. The Wall Street Journal Northeastern University researchers investigated the Mark Zuckerberg-led app’s filters by creating an account posing as a fictitious 13-year-old […]
Red state sues tech giant IBM over diversity ‘quotas’
The state of Missouri has filed a lawsuit against technology giant International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) for allegedly illegally mandating race and gender quotas in its employee hiring and promotion processes. Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against the company on Thursday, alleging that the practice violates the Missouri Human Rights Act. […]
The surprising ways Clear is expanding beyond airports
Clear is designed to help customers speed through airport security check-in by getting to the front of the line, but the tech company now sees much broader uses for it, including in retail, online and even in the healthcare industry. “It just didn’t make sense to me to take a card out of my wallet […]
Russia’s first manned space flight was basically a PR stunt
The “space race” of the 1950s and ’60s conjures up images of gleaming Sputnik satellites, Soviet scientists in crisp lab coats, and blazing rockets soaring into the sky. But the reality of the Soviet space program, which narrowly beat out the United States in delivering the first human spaceflight, was much more down-to-earth, writes John […]