Tips to protect yourself from a data breach Tips to protect yourself from a data breach 02:48 AT&T has agreed to pay $13 million to settle a federal investigation into whether the mobile phone service provider failed to protect customer information in connection with a data breach last year, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. … Read more
Instagram rolling out protected accounts for people under 18 – CBS News Watch CBS News Instagram announced Tuesday that it will be rolling out new protected accounts for people under 18. The accounts will automatically be private and can only receive messages from people they follow. Jo Ling Kent spoke with parents and Meta’s safety … Read more
Electric vehicles raise safety concerns as to whether guardrails can handle car’s excess weight – CBS News Watch CBS News Guardrails on U.S. roads are typically tested against vehicles weighing up to 5,000 lbs. However, many electric vehicles weigh up to 30% more than that, raising safety concerns on whether guardrails would hold up in … Read more
Craig Newmark, the founder of online classified-ads site Craigslist, thinks the U.S. has a cybersecurity problem. The entrepreneur turned philanthropist has pledged to donate $100 million to help safeguard the country from potential future cyberattacks, the Wall Street Journal first reported. Newmark will allocate $50 million to protect infrastructure, like power grids, from cyberattacks, including … Read more
Large social media companies and streaming platforms — including Amazon, Alphabet-owned YouTube, Meta’s Facebook and TikTok — engage in a “vast surveillance of users” to profit off their personal information, endangering privacy and failing to adequately protect children, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. In a 129-page report, the agency examined how some of the … Read more
FTC report shows “staggering” amount of personal data collected on social media sites – CBS News Watch CBS News The FTC ordered nine companies to provide information on their data collection practices. According to the report, through targeted ads on and off these platforms, they gather information like marital status, annual income, health conditions and … Read more
Apple’s iPhone 16 lineup hit stores in some 60 countries Friday, but the new phones have not exactly been flying off the shelves. Some analysts attribute tepid demand for the new phones to the fact that they were missing a key attribute out of the box: the tech giant’s much-hyped artificial intelligence features. “One … Read more
Plan would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power Microsoft data centers – CBS News Watch CBS News The owner of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the site of the worst commercial nuclear disaster in U.S. history, announced this week that it plans to spend $1.6 billion to restart its remaining functional reactor … Read more
Massive artificial intelligence models built by the likes of OpenAI will eventually become commoditized with the next wave of value in the technology coming from the applications that are built on top of the models, the co-founder and chair of Infosys told CNBC on Tuesday. Large language models are the AI models trained on amounts … Read more
For years, Amazon has set the bar for package delivery. When Prime launched in 2005, two-day shipping was unheard of. By 2019, one-day shipping was standard for millions of items. Now, the retail giant is turning to generative AI to drive more same-day shipping. Amazon is using the technology to optimize delivery routes, make more intelligent … Read more