TransUnion Says Hackers Stole 4.4 Million Customers’ Personal Information Summary TransUnion disclosed a data breach that affected more than 4.4 million customers. In filings with state authorities, the credit-reporting firm…
US To Publish Economic Data On Blockchain, Commerce Chief Says Summary U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a White House cabinet meeting the Department of Commerce will begin publishing GDP…
Japanese Town Proposes Two-Hour Daily Limit on Smartphones Summary Toyoake, a municipality in Aichi prefecture, has proposed advising residents (about 69,000 people) to limit smartphone use to two hours a…
Imgur’s Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner Summary Imgur users have flooded the image-hosting site’s front page with images mocking owner MediaLab AI after a wave of abrupt…
Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland Summary Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) are pressing ahead with a Microsoft Office 365 rollout even though Microsoft…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors Summary Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is being added to Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. The integration lets…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8 (codenamed “Huffman”) is out. The release brings Vulkan GPU-accelerated encoding and, notably, integrated speech recognition via whisper.cpp…
Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations Summary Microsoft AI (MAI) has announced two in-house machine learning models: MAI-Voice-1, a very fast text-to-speech system, and MAI-1-preview, a mixture-of-experts foundation…
Apple Pulls iPhone Torrent App From AltStore PAL in Europe Summary Apple has removed the iPhone torrent client iTorrent from AltStore PAL — an alternative iOS marketplace operating in the…
Apple Warns UK Against Introducing Tougher Tech Regulation Summary Apple has warned the UK and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) against adopting EU-style rules that force greater interoperability on…
