A Crowd Attacked a Self-Driving Car and Set It on Fire. It's Unlikely to Be the Last Time.
The incident in San Francisco is the latest in a years-long trend of people lashing out at driverless vehicles as controversies pile up.
An AI-Generated Content Empire Is Spreading Fake Celebrity Images on Google
A ring of websites using AI and run by an aspiring movie star are behind fake celebrity images featured in Google results, Motherboard found.
Israel Defends Itself Against Hague Genocide Allegations with Google Ads
Searching for information on the International Court of Justice hearings yielded an Israel-sponsored ad calling the ongoing genocide hearing against it “meaningless.”
Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications
A U.S. senator warned that governments are spying on push notification data in a letter, which Apple confirmed.
Google Agrees To Pay Canadian News Outlets $100M Annually in Rare Win for Media Industry
The agreement is the result of months of negotiations related to the Online News Act, which aims to make “dominant platforms compensate news businesses" for their work.
China-U.S. AI Arms Race Heats Up as Chinese Startup Unveils Powerful New AI
A months-old Chinese startup released an open-source large language model this weekend that already bests Meta’s Llama 2, according to one analysis.
Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike
In an email obtained by Motherboard, Google tells YouTube Music workers it will "not be participating in collective bargaining."
Google Extends Chromebook Life by 2 Years After Right-to-Repair Campaign
Chromebooks have an expiration date, contributing to e-waste. Now, Google has extended their shelf life from 8 years to 10.
Andrew Tate’s ‘The Real World’ App Banned by Google Amid Claims It's a Pyramid Scheme
The move follows questions from VICE News over a campaign for tech giants to remove the app from their stores, on the basis that it’s a harmful pyramid scheme targeting teen boys.
Google Is Making Millions of Dollars From Ads for Fake Abortion Clinics: Report
A report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate said Google had profited from adverts placed for so-called “crisis pregnancy centres” alongside searches for terms like “abortion clinic near me.”
Google’s Plan to Delete Inactive Accounts Shows the Internet Isn't Forever
The company’s strategy of killing inactive accounts after two years shows the real risk of having one account for everything if the goal is to keep your content online forever.
YouTube Music Workers Just Unanimously Won A Union Vote
This is the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA’s second election victory, though the union is not yet recognized by the National Labor Relations Board.