A woman found her police officer ex-boyfriend cop had used Flock’s camera system 600 times to look up the location of her and her daughter. (She found out through Have I Been Flocked, described as “a website that aggregates police search logs made available through public records.”) But it turns Read more…
Companies including the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Microsoft Corp., Uber Technologies Inc. and Hyatt Hotels Corp. are using automated chat and phone systems to handle work that previously required humans. In some cases, they’ve already wiped out sizable chunks of their customer service operations, together representing thousands of workers. The Read more…
More than 81% of Australian children ages 10 to 15 were still using social media three months after the country’s under-16 ban took effect, with roughly half saying platforms never checked their age. In a study published on Friday, eSafety also found most children aged between 10 and 15 were Read more…
New York has sued prediction-market platform Kalshi, alleging it operates an “illegal gambling operation” without state authorization. “No matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James in a press release announcing the lawsuit. “By ignoring our Read more…
LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post “seems like AI slop,” according to 404 Media’s own tests. If you have been anywhere near LinkedIn in the past couple Read more…
Microsoft shares surged as much as 17% after reporting 43% growth in Azure revenue, putting the company on track to add a record $490 billion in market value in a single day. Bloomberg notes that it would eclipse Nvidia’s $440 billion addition, following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 90-day Read more…
NextEra and Brookfield plan to invest more than $100 billion to transform a former uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky into a data center campus with a generating plant. The privately funded effort will include construction of 2 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power at or near the site in Paducah in western Read more…