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Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part.
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban...
How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me)
This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had...
In Silicon Valley, You Can Be Worth Billions and It’s Not Enough
Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled...
Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can...
Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes
Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.-generated...
Welcome to Scam World
To own a computer or smartphone — indeed, to engage with the digital world to any...
Apple Says It Was Ordered to Pull WhatsApp From China App Store
Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads from its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders,...
A.I. Has a Measurement Problem
Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image? Right now,...
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law...
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?
A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He...
Tesla’s Sales Drop, a Sign That Its Grip on the E.V. Market Is Slipping
Sales of the company’s electric cars dropped in the first three months of the year, even...
Sticks. And the People Who Love Them.
Those who appreciate “something as basic as a stick” are sharing their enthusiasm through a newly...
China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms
China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016...
Daniel C. Lynch, Founder of Major Computer Exhibition, Dies at 82
After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a...
Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
The answer involves a remarkable — and lucrative, and ridiculous — scheme to game the way...
AT&T Resets Millions of Passcodes After Customer Records Are Leaked
Nearly eight million customers and 65.4 million former account holders were affected by the data breach,...
Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Mr. Bankman-Fried, who was convicted of stealing $8 billion from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange,...
Amazon Adds $2.75 Billion to Its Stake in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic
The latest investment brings Amazon’s total stake in the San Francisco company to $4 billion.
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms...
In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent
China has produced a huge number of top A.I. engineers in recent years. New research shows...
U.S. Justice Dept. Sues Apple, Claiming iPhone Monopoly in Antitrust Case
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services,...
Reddit Said to Price IPO at $34 a Share, in a Positive Sign for Tech
The social media company raised $748 million in the offering. Its shares begin trading on the...
Why Tech Companies Are Not Your Friends: Lessons From Roku
Roku recently changed its policy to make it even harder for customers to take legal action....
Intel to Receive $8.5 Billion in Grants to Build Chip Plants
The award, to be announced by President Biden at a plant in Arizona, is the biggest...