In an unprecedented display of diplomatic aggression, French authorities publicly accused Russia of sponsoring several high-profile cyber attacks on French entities for over a decade to gather intelligence and destabilize the country. The incidents include everything from a faked Islamic State takeover of a French television broadcast signal in 2015 …
Read More »Lyft’s AI ‘Earnings Assistant’ offers ideas about how drivers can make more money
Lyft has launched “Earnings Assistant,” an AI chatbot tool for drivers seeking to “optimize their time on the road.” With it, drivers can create plans based on information about things like airport arrivals or local events, announced Jeremy Bird, EVP of driver experience at Lyft in an email to The …
Read More »Netflix is streaming a showcase of Hitchcock’s greatest films this June
It’s always a good time to lock in for a marathon watch of Alfred Hitchcock films, and Netflix is getting ready to make a bunch of the legendary director’s features a lot easier to watch in one place. Today, Netflix announced that it plans to stream a number of Hitchcock’s …
Read More »Snapchat scraps ‘simple’ redesign as it loses users in North America
Snap is backing away from plans to simplify the design of Snapchat as it reports losing 1 million users in North America. As part of its Q1 2025 earnings report on Tuesday, Snap revealed that it’s instead going to start testing a “refined” layout that keeps the app’s five existing …
Read More »Tesla won’t have to report as many Level 2 crashes after Trump’s rule change
Last week, the US Department of Transportation announced a major change to the Biden-era rule that requires automakers and tech companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles. Under the revised rules, companies will no longer have to report certain crashes, such as those involving a vehicle …
Read More »AirPlay security flaws could help hackers spread malware on your network
Cybersecurity firm Oligo has detailed a set of vulnerabilities its researchers found in Apple’s AirPlay protocol and software development kit that could serve as a point of entry to infect other devices on your network, Wired reports. Oligo’s researchers refer to the vulnerabilities and attacks they enable as “AirBorne.” According …
Read More »Trump reportedly complained to Bezos about Amazon’s tariff plan
President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to complain after a Punchbowl News report suggested the online marketplace planned on displaying the cost of tariffs next to product prices. White House officials told CNN that Trump called Bezos “shortly after” receiving information about the report. Amazon spokesperson Tim Doyle …
Read More »Google’s AI podcast maker is now available in over 50 languages
Audio Overviews, the AI tool that turns your research into podcast-like conversations in Google’s NotebookLM app, is expanding beyond English. Now you can generate and listen to Audio Overviews in more than 50 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi, Turkish, Korean, and Chinese. You switch to a different language by …
Read More »Is it safe to unsubscribe from spam you didn’t sign up for?
We’ve all been there: Trying to clean out our inbox only to find that the same sketchy emails keep showing up, even after clicking “unsubscribe.” Robert from Danville, Virginia, wrote in with a question that many of us can relate to. “When you unsubscribe to a junk email that you …
Read More »Bird Buddy’s new Petal backyard nature cameras attract and document more than just birds
The company has once again opted for a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to bring its new products to consumers, with delivery expected sometime in mid-2026. The 12-megapixel Petal camera, which captures videos at 4K and uses a “proprietary AI model trained to recognize over 2,000 species of birds, bees, butterflies, insects, …
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