Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, is still a hub for non‑consensual sexual images of famous women. Months after Musk’s company xAI announced it would stop such content, researchers found new links on Grok. com that show women in explicit poses without their permission. The system can make both car
Europe is slowly swapping popular American tools for locally made options, starting with France’s shift from Zoom and Microsoft Teams to domestic software. Other nations are following the lead, eager to reduce reliance on U. S. platforms. SpaceX’s recent filing with U. S. regulators unveiled a siza
A robbery at a San Francisco yoga studio last January ended with the thief slipping away in a white driver‑less Jaguar, sparking police curiosity. The suspect stole several pieces of merchandise from the Hot 8 Yoga Studio in Marina, then vanished in a Waymo autonomous vehicle parked outside. P
Apple has been promising a new Siri for more than 18 months, and many users are tired of the wait. The company has said that this delay is intentional because it wants to make sure privacy stays strong in the new AI features. Unlike Google, which uses all user data to train its models, Apple p
The U. S. Supreme Court recently sided with the Federal Communications Commission in a case about how the agency punishes companies that mishandle customer data. By an 8-1 vote, the court rejected arguments from AT&T and Verizon that the FCC’s penalty system violates their constitutional right to a
A man in Virginia says Amazon’s Ring doorbell cameras violated his privacy by using facial recognition to capture and keep photos of people who simply passed by. He filed a federal suit in Seattle, hoping the case could become a class action that would award at least $5 million to those affected. Th
A Chinese company is building AI systems that track people’s behavior to guess who might criticize the government later. Internal documents reviewed by a university team show Geedge Networks combines phone location, internet use, and movement data to create "future behavior" profiles. Instead of jus
The story begins when a popular grocery chain was found using cameras that can read faces. The company did not say what software it used, raising questions about how much personal data is being stored. Some lawmakers even demanded the chain tell shoppers exactly what it collects. The first time peo
In a chilly March night near the Rio Grande Gorge, two teens were saved by a buzzing machine instead of a helicopter. The drone’s infrared camera spotted them before the cold set in, and rescuers acted fast from a command center. The success shows how drones can cut down wait times for help, giving
A major player in home DNA testing found itself in legal trouble last month when California took action against it for a large-scale data breach from 2023. Officials say the company failed to act quickly enough on early warnings about unauthorized access to its systems. Around 6. 9 million people ac
