Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial

As Meta heads to trial in the state of New Mexico for allegedly failing to protect minors from sexual exploitation, the company is making an aggressive push to have certain information excluded from ...

Judge orders stop to FBI search of devices seized from Washington Post reporter

A federal judge today ordered the US government to stop searching devices seized from the house of a Washington Post reporter ...

eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents

The previous version of the agreement contained a general prohibition on robots, spiders, scrapers, and automated data ...

Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS

Websites that authenticate users through links and codes sent in text messages are imperiling the privacy of millions of people, leaving them vulnerable to scams, identity theft, and other crimes, ...

Watch a robot swarm “bloom” like a garden

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published ...

Kioxia’s memory is “sold out” for 2026, prolonging a “high-end and expensive phase”

The companies that make RAM and flash memory chips are enjoying record profits because of the AI-induced memory crunch—and they’re also indicating that they don’t expect conditions to improve much if ...

Topic: sms messages

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Trump FCC threatens to enforce equal-time rule on late-night talk shows

The Federal Communications Commission today issued a warning to late-night and daytime talk shows, saying these shows may no longer qualify for an exemption to the FCC’s equal-time rule. Because the ...

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say

In a small clinical trial, customized mRNA vaccines against high-risk skin cancers appeared to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence and death by nearly 50 percent over five years when compared with ...

Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.

For this test, we’re comparing the default models that both OpenAI and Google present to users who don’t pay for a regular ...

Another Jeff Bezos company has announced plans to develop a megaconstellation

The space company founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, said it was developing a new megaconstellation named TeraWave to ...

Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain

When shadow library Anna’s Archive lost its .org domain in early January, the controversial site’s operator said the suspension didn’t appear to have anything to do with its recent mass scraping of ...