FTC and eight states sue Toast over hidden fees and hard-to-cancel plans
FTC and eight states sue Toast over hidden fees and hard-to-cancel plans

The US Federal Trade Commission and eight states have sued Toast, the restaurant software and payments company. They accuse it of hidden fees, unwanted add-ons and a cancellation process that traps customers. Toast said it will fight the case in court….

Alphabet Just Lost $500 Billion in One Day — Here’s Why Wall Street Is Spooked

Slowing search growth and soaring AI costs have investors asking whether the payoff is coming fast enough.

AO3 Suffers Major Outage: Possibly No Fanfic for 2 Weeks or Longer

Archive of Our Own, one of the world’s biggest fanfiction sites, went down hard as a response to a “security incident.”

Intel shares sink as memory shortage drags its PC chip outlook
Intel shares sink as memory shortage drags its PC chip outlook

Intel forecast fourth-quarter revenue of $15B to $16B, below the $17B analysts expected, as a memory chip shortage hits PC demand and supply problems slow its data centre unit. Shares fell more than 20% in late trading. Third-quarter revenue rose 21% t…

A Brief-ish History of METI. Part II: From Interplanetary to Interstellar
A Brief-ish History of METI. Part II: From Interplanetary to Interstellar

The latter half of the 20th century saw a major expansion of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), accompanied by corresponding advances in Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI). A key development was the first interstellar SETI…

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Report claims AI is recommending risky security moves — so maybe you shouldn’t hand over full control of your systems just yet

Accessing sensitive data and making important decisions, AI agents are acting beyond their authority and putting organizations at risk.

Your search engine could be hijacked by a Chrome extension that barely does anything

A simple Chrome setting is all some extensions need to hijack your searches. Learn how the scheme works and how to check your browser.

How To Fight Back Against AI Powered Sextortion

Learn how AI is changing sextortion and how policy, technology and law enforcement can help combat increasingly sophisticated schemes.

Anthropic is SpaceX’s biggest customer, bringing in a third of revenue
Anthropic is SpaceX’s biggest customer, bringing in a third of revenue

Anthropic is the “Customer B” that made up 34.5% of SpaceX’s third-quarter revenue, Bloomberg reports, overtaking the US government as its biggest client. Anthropic could spend up to $120.5B on SpaceX computing through 2029, but can cancel after early …

Patrick Stewart has died at age 86
Patrick Stewart has died at age 86

Patrick Stewart, best known for his roles in Star Trek and X-Men, has died at age 86. A message posted to Stewart’s Instagram account says the actor died in his Los Angeles home on Wednesday “following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.” Born in 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, […]