Google will tell European Union antitrust regulators Tuesday that the bloc’s Digital Markets Act is stifling innovation and harming European users and businesses. The tech giant faces charges under the DMA for allegedly favoring its own services like G…
Tech enthusiast Matt Cole has created a comprehensive MicroSD card testing database, writing over 18 petabytes of data across nearly 200 cards since July 2023. Cole’s “Great MicroSD Card Survey” uses eight machines running 70 card readers around the cl…
AT&T has launched a new Account Lock feature designed to protect customers from SIM swapping attacks. The security tool, available through the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized changes to customer accounts including phone number transfers, SIM …
An anonymous reader shares a report: A judge has sentenced a disgruntled IT worker to more than seven months in prison after he wreaked havoc on his employer’s network following his suspension, according to West Yorkshire Police.
According to the pol…
AI agents are now conducting first-round job interviews to screen candidates before human recruiters review them, according to WashingtonPost, which cites job seekers who report being contacted by virtual recruiters from different staffing companies. T…
Cloudflare today announced a “Pay Per Crawl” program that allows website owners to charge AI companies for accessing their content, a potential revenue stream for publishers whose work is increasingly being scraped to train AI models. The system uses H…
Tech companies are paying AI engineers unprecedented salaries as competition for talent intensifies, with some top engineers earning more than $10 million annually and typical packages ranging from $3 million to $7 million. OpenAI told staff this week …
An anonymous reader shares a report: Summer started barely a week ago, and already the United States has been smothered in a record-breaking “heat dome.” Alaska saw its first-ever heat advisory this month. And all of this comes on the heels of 2024, th…
The FCC will suspend enforcement of rules that would lower prison phone and video call prices until April 1st, 2027. Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr said that prisons won’t have to comply with the pricing regulations [PDF], reversing plans to im…
Encrypted communications provider Proton has joined an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, filing a legal complaint that claims the company’s App Store practices harm developers, consumers, and privacy. The Switzerland-based firm joined a group of Korean …