Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG’s TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that “Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work.” LG released a […]
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has sued Netflix. He alleges that the company collected detailed data on subscribers and their children, then used it to build the advertising business it had said it would never run. The 66-page complaint wa…
“I personally am much more worried about a small number of labs or people having control of something that is so capable.” That was Mark Zuckerberg, speaking to Alex Heath on the Sources podcast, published on Wednesday. Heath recorded the interview at …
Sébastien Bubeck is the OpenAI researcher at the centre of the Navier-Stokes credit dispute. He has now given his account of the private talks with the two mathematicians who say OpenAI mistreated them. He denies trying to strip one of them of credit f…
The UK government will legislate to force Apple and Google to block nude images on children’s phones and tablets. The law would stop children taking, sharing or viewing them. Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, told the House of Commons on 8 September t…
At Wednesday’s iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI “ambient listening” and users’ privacy. It says the raw audio from the new […]
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
Apple’s new watches can replay the last 15 seconds of a conversation you just had. Press the Digital Crown twice and the words appear as text on your wrist. The feature is called Live Rewind. It arrives with the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Apple Watc…
Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. China’s smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacture…
A Gamers Nexus investigation says LG smart TVs scan local networks, record standby audio and use content recognition across inputs, feeding data to LG Ad Solutions. LG says the claims are not true, while confirming that its televisions scan local netwo…