2025-01-08

Looking for a new job? How about becoming an EV teledriver?

German startup Vay plans to expand its “teledriving” fleet in Las Vegas to 100 electric vehicles — and you could get a job steering the cars.    Vay first launched the service last year, with [...]

2025-01-07

Linda Yaccarino on Meta ending fact-checking: ‘Welcome to the party’

You probably didn’t have X CEO Linda Yaccarino praising Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on your CES 2025 bingo card, yet here we are. Speaking during a keynote address in Las Vegas, Yaccarino described Met [...]

2025-01-07

Meta is ditching third-party fact checkers

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a major shift in the company's approach to moderation and speech. Meta is ditching its fact-checking program and moving to an X-style Community Notes model [...]

2025-01-07

Meta is ditching third-party fact checkers on Facebook, Instagram

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a big shift in the company's approach to moderation and speech. Meta will be suspending its fact-checking program and will move to an X-style Community Notes mo [...]

2025-01-07

Instagram blocked LGBTQ hashtags and treated them as ‘sexually suggestive content’

Meta’s Instagram has been blocking LGBTQ-related hashtags for months, according to reporting by User Mag. This was done under the company’s “sensitive content” policy as an attempt to restrict [...]

2025-01-07

Beware, that Social Security email could be hiding dangerous malware

Researchers spot Social Security-themed campaign timed alongside the US presidential elections. [...]

2025-01-07

NHTSA opens investigation into Tesla remote parking features

The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the remote parking features in some Tesla vehicles. The tools in question are Smart Summon and the unfortunately acronymed Actua [...]

2025-01-07

'Frankenstein Fraud' Is Quickly Becoming the Most Dangerous Form of Identity Theft

Criminals combine a real person's Social Security number with other real or made-up details to trick credit issuers. [...]

2025-01-07

Circular seeks redemption with new smart ring that could outshine Oura

French upstart Circular has unveiled a fresh challenge to Oura — the current lord of the smart rings. Circular has just released a new smart ring that offers two key advantages over Oura, which curr [...]